Needing supplies for her failing gigai, Rukia visits Kisuke Urahara's shop and leaves with a mislabeled, defective soul candy. When Ichigo swallows the pill, a mischievous modified soul named Kon seizes control of his body.
Summary
Running low on supplies and noticing her gigai weakening, Rukia sets out to shop. The next morning Ichigo finds her closet empty and wonders where she went. At the Urahara Shop, the squabbling child workers Jinta and Ururu bicker over chores until Rukia arrives asking for the manager. Tessai fetches Kisuke Urahara, who greets her with news of a fresh shipment from Soul Society.
Rukia buys a cheap power cell and sixty Soma Fixers, paying with the bounty earned from the Hollows Ichigo has purified; Urahara notes that Fishbone D, Hexapodus, and Acidwire were worth nothing, but Shrieker fetched five thousand kan. Ururu retrieves Rukia's other order, a wrapped item pulled from a box, which Urahara admits is a substitute for the sold-out product she wanted. At school, Sado's parakeet has lost most of its vocabulary, an aftereffect Ichigo privately recognizes as the memory device at work.
Rukia knocks Ichigo out and drags him off, then hands him a duck-headed dispenser holding a Gikongan, a pill that ejects a soul and installs a temporary caretaker in the body so Ichigo can fight Hollows in her absence. She confesses the product is branded Soul Candy at the whim of the Shinigami Women's Association and admits she had wanted the rabbit-themed Chappy. When Ichigo swallows the pill, his soul pops free and his body is claimed by Kon, who proclaims a wholesome personality that Ichigo insists will wreck his reputation. A Hollow alert cuts the argument short, and as the two leave, Kon drops the act, while Urahara realizes the box was labeled Defective Soul.
Key Events
Rukia acquires a Gikongan, revealing the soul reaper method of using temporary souls to animate a vacated body. Ichigo unknowingly ingests a defective modified soul, and Kon takes control of his body just as a Hollow appears.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is Kon introduced in Bleach?
In "BAD STANDARD," Kon is a mischievous modified soul who seizes control of Ichigo's body after Ichigo swallows a defective soul candy pill that Rukia unknowingly bought from the Urahara Shop.
What is a Gikongan in Bleach?
In "BAD STANDARD," a Gikongan is a pill that ejects a soul reaper's soul from the body and installs a temporary caretaker to animate it, branded Soul Candy at the whim of the Shinigami Women's Association.
What is the Urahara Shop in Bleach?
"BAD STANDARD" introduces the Urahara Shop, run by Kisuke Urahara and staffed by Tessai Tsukabishi and the bickering child workers Jinta and Ururu, where Rukia buys supplies for her weakening gigai.
How much were the Hollows worth that Ichigo defeated?
In "BAD STANDARD," Urahara notes that Fishbone D, Hexapodus, and Acidwire were worth nothing, while Shrieker fetched five thousand kan, the bounty Rukia uses to pay for her supplies.
Which episode adapts Bleach chapter 13?
"BAD STANDARD" was adapted into the sixth anime episode, "Fight to the Death! Ichigo vs. Ichigo," and it belongs to the second volume within the Agent of the Shinigami arc.
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