

In the season 4 of _Bleach_ anime, one of the main characters state that the
bounts are born or created in the soul society.

Are souls born in the soul society as soul reapers? Or if everyone was once a
human and died and came to the soul society? Or if everyone was somehow
created like the bounts?


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Are souls born or created as soul reapers, bounts, or humans?


**Bounts are non-canonical entities.**

We should begin with this information because it means your question isn't
actually relevant to Bleach's canon (although you didn't know that, obviously,
and it isn't your fault if you're an anime-only watcher).

Bleach's lore has only gotten more developed and complicated during the last
years, especially thanks to the Can't Fear Your Own World light novel (which
is generally accepted as --somewhat-- canonical since written with Tite
Kubo's, Bleach's creator, complete approval).

In short, before the three different dimensions were split apart, there only
existed "souls" -- shinigami-like souls made out of spirit particles. When the
worlds were split, the reincarnation cycle was created -- with a balanced
amount of souls between the three dimensions to maintain balance.

So, to answer your question, a third of all souls was transformed into
Hollows, a third was sent to the Spirit Realm and a last third became
humanity. But each and every soul stems from the "proto-souls" entities from
before.


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