User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Point of View: Shinigami Edition/@comment-24384232-20150504221239/@comment-18812574-20150505042418

To be honest I've always personally treated the Rukongai, it's districts, customs, and inhabitants like I'm writing Edo-era Japan, there are striking similarities. But meh, sort of beside the point and personal preference.

I actually wanted to write an original short on this very subject, about a guy trying to track down a loved one in Soul Society after they both die. Is an interesting prospect.

And yes, you did forget two things: one, in Japanese culture like you pointed out, ghosts tend to be portrayed wearing a basic white kimono, (yukata, whatev) so we might be safely able to assume that that's how they arrive when reaching SS. Maybe not, we know they wear the clothes the die in as Pluses in Human World. But if that's the case they'd blend in pretty easily I'd say. (And when does everyone learn how to speak Japanese? Do they speak Japanese? Or some non-language, or a literally "dead"-language or something? Shinigami-ese?) Also, remember the thing on the Soul Tickets? No idea how that works, but it was mentioned. People being assigned to live here and there and to "families" or something, issued by the Seireitei itself I imagine. Maybe not. A subconcious drive that directs them and is attached to that ticket? Be damned if I know. I hated the Soul Ticket concept to begin with, ergh.