Kurosaki Isshin

Let's start with the basics: the following is Isshin's little character page, given to us by Kubo Tite. These facts can not be disputed. (And I really like these character pages, too, they're filled with fun and pointless facts!)

Height: 186cm
Weight: 80kg
Blood Type: AB
Date of Birth: December 10

• Head of Kurosaki household
• Local doctor. Can do anything except major surgery
• Likes potato bean paste cakes
• He was actually supposed to be a mortician instead of a doctor until the very last minute this manga was published, so he looks better in a black suit than a white lab coat
• Theme song is Don't Drag Me Down by Social Distortion, recorded in White Light, White Heat, White Trash. [download 3.45mb]

Isshin comes crashing into Bleach early on in the series, greeting his son with a kick to the face. And no, this is not the usual way of doing things in polite society. Of course, Isshin is hardly normal, and neither are his parenting techniques. Father to super saiyan Ichigo, and to the twins Yuzu and Karin, all of his children first appear to be more mature than their father. Both Ichigo and Karin regard him with derision at times. Sometimes they just skip the derision and go straight to kicking him. The Kurosaki family like to kick. Isshin's wife, Masaki, was killed some years previously. A large and slightly creepy memorial poster of her hangs in the Kurosaki household, to which Isshin asks advice when his children get too much for him.

The Kurosaki Clinic is headed by Isshin. Shockingly enough. It appears to get all manner of patients, and is attached to the family home. All the children seem to help out at the clinic, with Yuzu even having her own nurses outfit. As dorky as Isshin can be at times, being a doctor is Serious Business! And thus, Isshin in doctor mode is our first glimpse of his serious face. He's a good doctor too, and he wants to speak to the organ grinder, dammit, not the monkey!

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