Are the Hollows in the Anime Bleach?

Andrea: Could it be like something that somebody did, for example, the house that was near our house. It's recorded as haunted but every one in town knows that that house is haunted. Alex: Is it them coming from a, is it something coming from another reality or is it something that stems from our reality? Andrea: I think it's both. And then I remembered that thing that Duncan was talking about where you can reincarnate at will.