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How do souls age in Soul Society?

> People cannot die of old age resulting in the Captain Commander keeping his
> position for a thousand years.

There are some souls who look like kids and some who are adults. In the manga,
the makers flashbacked into the past of the Captian Commander showing that he
had black hair instead of looking like what he was then. Also, when Ichigo
left the Precipice World he aged what looked like a couple years.

So how do souls age in Bleach?


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How do souls age in Soul Society?


The only explanation I can find is on bleach.wikia.com, which says:

> One never gets hungry (if she or he doesn't have spiritual powers) and aging
> is slowed to a great extent, with lifespans of 2000 or more years not being
> unheard of, though such ages are limited to Shinigami or other Soul Society
> dwellers with high spiritual power.

There is also an explanation on
<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/BleachSoulSociety> that
essentially says that it is really inconsistent within the show and that there
are a number of different theories, including that characters age inversely
proportional to the amount of spiritual power that they use and that at some
point aging just stops.

To summarize, there doesn't seem to be a clear explanation in-universe, but
the aging is slower than usual, with much longer life-spans than regular
humans.


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this is years late - but since it was the first google search result for my
questions - I figured this answer might help someone else.

[wikia
link](http://bleach.answers.wikia.com/wiki/If_you're_not_suppost_to_age_in_the_soul_society,_how_does_rukia_and_renji_grow_up_from_kids_in_%22hanging_dog%22)

> If you're not suppost to age in the soul society, how does rukia and renji
> grow up from kids in "hanging dog"?
>

>> Souls without spirit power do not age in soul society. They also don't
hunger and there is no evidence they are doing anything but waiting for the
allotted time they must spend in Soul Society to pass before they are reborn.

>>

>> In Chapter 0, the pilot chapter of Bleach that was later reprinted in Book
of SOULS, the "magic number" was 80 years. But Kubo has not stated how many
years a soul must spend in Soul Society in the proper Bleach storyline.

>>

>> Anyway, that aside, the point is that Rukia and Renji aged, because they
had spiritual power. It was also why they could become hungry and could become
Shinigami. "Shinigami" can and do age. They also give birth, die of old age
and basically do everything humans do. Except that their lifespan is usually
measured in hundreds of years and not decades.


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Souls without spirit power do not age in soul society. They also don't hunger
and there is no evidence they are doing anything but waiting for the allotted
time they must spend in Soul Society to pass before they are reborn.

In Chapter 0, the pilot chapter of Bleach that was later reprinted in Book of
SOULS, the "magic number" was 80 years. But Kubo has not stated how many years
a soul must spend in Soul Society in the proper Bleach storyline.

Anyway, that aside, the point is that Rukia and Renji aged, because they had
spiritual power. It was also why they could become hungry and could become
Shinigami. "Shinigami" can and do age. They also give birth, die of old age
and basically do everything humans do. Except that their lifespan is usually
measured in hundreds of years and not decades.


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