Thread:AbysmalShadows/@comment-1493741-20151117010054/@comment-24384232-20151117063738

Except a little piece of canon evidence proves otherwise. When Mayuri confronts Yamamoto about the disappearing souls, he remarks that 28,000 were necessary to restore the balance. That number was a very big indication. Because it got me thinking, why 28,000? Shouldnt it be bigger? So I did calculation of Japan's current population size, and compared that to average number of deaths per year. The population was recorded at 127.7 million in 2003. The average deaths per year in 2002 was 8 per 1000, or given a population like japan thats roughly 15,962. Thats the average number of souls that come to soul society per year. They just lost twice that in one go.

That's a fairly significant number, nearly two years of souls, snuffed out. If you assume that Soul Society has the world population which at that time was about 6.5 billion, 28,000 is roughly 0.00004 percent. Its such a small fraction that it would be like the cells in one person dying in a population of 1000.

Now if the Shinigami were truly worried about the balance of souls, their interference wouldnt even be necessary aside from keeping Hollows in check. The only reason that figure has any bearing is because if you get behind the idea that Soul Society only accounts for Japans population then it makes sense. Otherwise? That number? That conversation? Meaningless.

I dont make this assertion lightly, just because I to believe, I did it because it fits the facts that we know.

But I'll the answer real question as to why. Well there is one thing one aspect of the japanese creation myth that you are ignoring. See Izanagi and Izanami did not populate the "world" they populated "Japan". They used the heavenly jeweled spear to churn the seas and create the islands that would eventually become the islands of Japan. Not America, not China, not India, Japan. As the descendent of the being who created Japan and its people, who else would be responsible for their souls, their reincarnation? The Soul King makes even more sense to be Ninigi.​