7 Costly Mistakes Soul Society Made in ‘Bleach’

Soul Society is the afterlife or spirit world in the popular shounen anime, Bleach. The arc that focuses majorly on the otherworldly location is widely considered to be one of the best in the genre. 

Soul Society functions as a normal city or town would, with a King, governments, militaries, and advanced technology striving to keep the peace and thwart off various enemies. People live together and go about daily business as regular living humans should. The benefits of the afterlife include lack of hunger, extremely slow aging, and reuniting with departed loved ones. However, while Soul Society is the land for departed souls and deities, there are attacks against it by other spiritual foes. Even though they constantly have to protect themselves, there are several mistakes made that could have led to the avoidance of some serious problems for the land of the living dead. 

Here are seven costly mistakes Soul Society made in Bleach. 

7. One Kenpachi rule

There can be only one Kenpachi in Soul Society. With Unohana still alive, Zaraki fought her to the death in a battle that brought out his innate abilities and left him much stronger than at the start. However, the Waldenreich that the Quincy is a part of were not weak, and it certainly would have been well worth it to have the strongest people alive and able to fight.

6. Genryuusai not suspecting Aizen

At the instance of Aizen releasing his Zanpaktou to everyone, it is difficult to believe the abilities of Kyoka Suigetsu would have an unnoticeable effect on someone as powerful as Yamamoto. In the world of Bleach, abilities and attacks are only as strong as their user. While Aizen is very powerful, he is not stronger than Yamamoto. It still comes as a shock that Yamamoto did not suspect Aizen at any point when he should have noticed something was off.