Arisawa, Tatsuki

有沢竜貴

Tatsuki is Orihime's closest friend and acts very protectively toward her. She appears to possess unnatural strength for a girl and serves as the star of her karate team. She even placed second in a regional tournament, but only because her arm was injured after being hit by a car. Among all of Ichigo's friends, Tatsuki has known him the longest, having trained together at an after-school karate class when they were young. Although Tatsuki eventually gains the ability to see ghosts and sense hollows, she never develops any powers of her own. Even though everyone keeps the existence of hollows and their own powers a secret from her, she sometimes catches glimpses of Ichigo in his shinigami uniform or recalls fragments of memory from when she has encountered hollows. During the "Huecco Mundo" arc, her friendship with Ichigo becomes visibly strained when she aggressively presses him for answers regarding Orihime's disappearance and all the strange things she has witnessed, going so far as to punch him through a glass window when he refuses.

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