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Isshin Kurosaki is Ichigo's seemingly bumbling father who runs the family clinic and regularly launches surprise kicks at Ichigo as paternal greeting—and who is secretly a former Shinigami captain who sealed away his powers to save a young Masaki Kurosaki from a Hollow's infection, choosing love and a human life over his supernatural responsibilities. His identity as Isshin Shiba and his role in Ichigo's origin story—revealed in the Fullbring Arc—recontextualizes the entire series as the story of a family paying forward a miraculous sacrifice. His return to fight alongside Ichigo against Yhwach is one of Bleach's most cathartic father-son moments.
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