Crossovers that Should Be: Convergence of Secret Crisis Wars Across Infinite Fictions!

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edit: developed this a tiddly bit more for the SB Bleach ideas thread, so here's that version instead:

So I had an odd thought while poking around in dusty corners of the internets today - Bleach is actually a decent match for "Hollow Earth" adventure fiction like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar series or Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc. The rubber spirit-science of the former is a perfect match for the rubber natural science of the latter, and really it's right there in the open - Hollows are (ultra-terrestrial!) invaders from Hueco Mundo, literally just Spanish for "Hollow Earth." Also explains why it's so dark there, with the only light a dim, unrealistically-crescent "moon" in the sky - that's actually the reflected light of the sun on the rim of the polar opening to the outer surface that's tilted toward it.

Assuming the Aizen/Fullbringer/Quincy shenanigans were a severe, unusual spike in spirit world activity that then settles down again, pulp adventure traveling the world, finding lost civilizations, rescuing damsels and relieving at least one cause of their distress, etc., would also be something for Ichigo to do between graduating from High School and eventually dying permanently. His human friends are also a good fit for the collection of allies pulp heroes tend to be able to call on, between their personalities and range of skills.

And Tatsuki could finally get some focus time with adventures in the human world. Always a positive.