I vote for Rukia. Hate big useless things.

She stopped being funny the moment she became the stereotypical whining crying little bitch of almost every anime. She's now very unfunny, very useless and crying all the time; she's weak and pathetic, and her incredibly over-the-top kindness gets on my nerves a lot. The fact that she reached the spotlight after taking the most incredibly stupid decission in the entire series doesn't help either. The only thing that I like is that, as much as she wishes to connect with Ichigo, she grows more and more appart from him and his feelings, as I hope her story is one of one-sided love and I really hope she matures or at least goes back to being funnyI do like the idea of Ichigo and Orihime. Rukia has a great bond with Ichigo, but I get more of a brother/sister vibe out of those 2. With Inoue, I could see a potential relationship startingThe point is I guess that, Rukia can take care of herself, while Orihime needs a knight. Yea that may seem sexist in retrospect. But I am not really into the whole manly girl thing. Call me a traditionalist. I mean, she intends to help, but doesn't notice she does no good with whatever she can do. Her attack and defense powers are useless and her healing power may not be equaled by 4th division, but is not as useful because she's not getting in the middle of the battle "hey wait bad guy!

I've always liked and enjoyed watching both I think I prefer Rukia more. Shes more of a badass character and IMO matches well with Ichigo. No offense to Orihime but she cries so much -___-

I agree with Nevel. Orihime is really a fluff character up to this point, she doesnt have a big role to play other then causing the invasion of Hueco Mundo. She cant fight that well, she does try to get closer to Ichigo, but in the end, him attempting to save her, always throws her farther from him.

The helpless heroine character waiting to be rescued from the dragon

I think Ichigo should be with Orihime.

Contrary to what many people did, just to see Orihime I already thought she and Ichigo would be a good couple. Gradually, I realized her love for him, which showed itself again, and started cheering for her.

When they went to Soul Society with Ishida and Chad, I realized how much she wanted to improve their skills to be useful to see the effort that Ichigo was doing to improve and save Rukia.

With the continuation of the anime, we see how Orihime is more mature, and her love for Ichigo grew and strengthened to the point of going to Hueco Mundo without talking to anyone just to protect him.

So with the current events of Bleach, I think Ichigo is in doubt between Rukia and Orihime, and I hope very much that he chooses to Orihime-chan, because she deserves! ^^

Ichihime 4 ever! ♥

o/

At some point in my life, I was a bleach fan (thus the domain name zabimaru.net) but as time passed and several chapters in, I began to just dislike every female character in the series. I mean, JUST after having "rescued" Rukia, Orihime got taken away and since, they've been trying to rescue her (or something to that degree). Therefore, I'm a fan of neither and because of the constant, "Oh save us, Ichigo!" feel I get from all of the female characters in Bleach, I've stopped reading and/or keeping up with the series too. However, I'm still a fan of certain male characters. =D

I don't particularly care who Ichigo ends up with (preferably a male, but hey, that's coming from a die-hard yaoi fan here) and quite frankly, I never really found Rukia or Orihime funny since the beginning. I did, however, quite dislike the fact that Rukia was completely worthless at the beginning of the series. However, after they brought her back from Soul Society, she magically became ever so powerful. What happened to all of that power beforehand? And well, Orihime is just...she's human so her weakness is understandable.

I like Orihime more.

She is what got me interested in Bleach over Naruto. I don't dislike Rukia. However, I feel like Rukia got a little too serious and boring after her capture. The whole- go away don't save me thing was just really annoying.

As for Orihime, she was a little more interesting once she was kidnapped. I liked her interaction with the arrancar, especially Ulquiorra. I'm afraid she will go back to not having much of a point after she is taken back though.

Really Kubo just needs new material besides the save me stuff.

I don't like either of them for Ichigo though. Ichigo/Nell *gets bricked*

Just forget about all pairings and watch the scene where Matsumoto molests Orihime after a bath..

I think that Orihime is the best choice for Ichigo and shes really cute!

ORIHIME!! well I think Renji loves Rukia and Orihime loves Ichigo so well...

RENJI X RUKIA ICHIGO X ORIHIME

I think Orihme should be with Ichigo even though Orihime is soo weak but Orihime cares a lot about Ichigo... (AND SHE LOVES HIM!!!)
and Renji cares a looooot about Rukia and it seems like Rukia feels something for Renjinji...

Orihime: I wish I could have 5 lives! Then I could have been born in 5 different towns, and esten 5 lifetimes worth of food, and had 5 different carreers...and...fallen in love with same person, five times...!

I think Orihime is better for Ichigo thougth Orihime is very weeeeaaakkk and Renji is like he loves Rukia and Rukia feels something for him...

ICHIHIME 4EVER !!!!

Orihime: I wish I could have 5 lives! Then I could have been born in 5 different towns, and esten 5 lifetimes worth of food, and had 5 different carreers...and...fallen in love with thw same person, five times...!

I'll go for Rukia.
Inoue's too 'soft'. Rukia's more of a 'bad ass', wich fits Ichigo, imo.

I don't like either :( orihime seems too ditzy and Rukia is too serious for Ichigo. I think that this series just needs more Zaraki!

I also loved Rukia more than Orihime at the beginning of the series. But now I just don't see Ichigo and Rukia together anymore. Now i'm a heavy OrixIchi fan! :D KUROSAKI-KUN