Transformed into a Shinigami

Written in 2007, this was the first fanfic I ever wrote.

At the time, Bleach was a hugely popular anime, so I wrote this gender-bender based on my understanding of its plot, along with a few ideas of my own. As for why I made the protagonist change from a man into a woman, I've forgotten. I only vaguely remember that it had something to do with the changes happening in the story.

When I first started writing, Bleach had apparently only aired 60 episodes. After Rukia was rescued came the long, drawn-out Bount arc, an anime-original storyline. That was also when I switched from being an anime fan to a manga fan.

After I finished the story, even the manga hadn't yet reached Aizen's conclusion, but I couldn't keep putting off the ending until then, so I came up with one of my own. So if you get to the end and think the ending goes wildly off track, all I can say is that Tite Kubo hadn't drawn the rest of it back then, so how was I supposed to know? The last time I checked the Bleach plot, I had only gotten as far as the first three Espada facing off against the Soul Reapers. I hadn't even seen what Harribel's chin looked like.

One more thing: because Qidian cracked down on gender-bender stories and older books, many authors' works were deleted, including three of my five books. So you won't be able to find this one on Qidian.

In fact, before readers asked where they could find my other books, I had already been considering moving them all over to Shuke.

By the standards of the time, this story did pretty well. It had fewer than 300,000 characters, twice as many clicks as expected, and nearly 4,000 bookmarks. That was more than enough to make me proud for a while. You should know that Qidian's click system works differently from Shuke's: one click is one click. This book is also the second one, after the Young Lady I'm writing on Shuke now, whose stats look good on the dashboard.

Some of the plotlines feel pretty awkward by today's standards, but that's part of an author's growth, right? Setting aside my embarrassment and awkwardness, I'm still happy to share it with you.