Recaps

Fujiwara Genshin awakened his dual Zanpakuto, survived a conspiracy-driven Hollow attack, and joined the 11th Division on an expedition to Hueco Mundo. After training with Yoruichi and Kuruyashiki, he sensed his Bankai was near and chose to face the cleanup mission alone.

• Fujiwara Genshin awakened Mumyō and Shingon after defeating his sword spirit, then demonstrated their power before Yamamoto and the gathered captains.
• Yamamoto sent Genshin to the World of the Living for a Soul Burial assessment, where a sabotaged Senkaimon trapped the graduates among attacking Hollows.
• Genshin led the survivors against a newborn Gillian and killed it with a strike learned from his sword spirit, before Kuruyashiki Kenpachi arrived to fight two more.
• After the attack, the Shihoin and Tsunayashiro Clans secretly clashed, and Genshin joined his companions in honoring the dead at the academy memorial.
• Genshin took on Second Division duties and continued training with Yamamoto and Retsu Unohana, who overwhelmed him in a sparring session.
• Genshin and Yoruichi joined Kuruyashiki’s 11th Division expedition to Hueco Mundo, where they fought Hollows and watched Kuruyashiki defeat an Adjuchas.
• Genshin and Yoruichi defeated a Gillian together, then trained with the 11th Division as they cleared more Gillians.
• Genshin sensed his Bankai was close, but after days without a breakthrough he asked Kuruyashiki to let him undertake the cleanup mission alone, and Yoruichi challenged his decision.

Xuanxin trained to master his Zanpakuto, joined the Shihoin Clan, and took up leadership of the 11th Division while guiding Aizen as a student. He exposed and helped dismantle the Tsunayashiro Clan’s illegal soul experiments, then learned the truth about the Soul King and the creation of the three realms, leaving Yamamoto awaiting his answer.

• Xuanxin faced Musashi’s trial in Hueco Mundo, defeated a white-leopard Adjuchas with Six Realms and Five Rings: Kurikara · Lesser Tenshō, and returned to Soul Society.
• After Kuruyashiki Kenpachi was killed by Sōya Azashiro, Xuanxin challenged Azashiro’s plan to turn wandering souls into weapons and resolved to gain the strength to protect those he cared about.
• Xuanxin became Shihoin Genshin in Yoruichi’s succession ceremony, then took command of the 11th Division and purged its bullying and corruption.
• Xuanxin began teaching Aizen at Shin'ō Academy and, with Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara, investigated the disappearance of wandering souls and the Tsunayashiro Clan’s staged Hollow attacks.
• Xuanxin and Yoruichi led an operation that exposed the Tsunayashiro Clan’s secret laboratory, where they found abducted souls being altered in experiments based on Sōya Azashiro’s work.
• Yamamoto sentenced the Tsunayashiro Clan head to Muken and imposed two hundred years of seclusion on the clan’s core members, while Xuanxin told Aizen he meant to reform Soul Society gradually.
• Unohana challenged Xuanxin during their training, and Yoruichi later questioned him about their fight before accompanying him to the Great Spirit Book Gallery.
• Xuanxin learned that the Five Great Noble Clans had mutilated the Soul King to establish the three realms, then paused when Yamamoto asked what he would do about the world’s original sin.

Xuanxin broke through his limits, uncovered Kisuke Urahara’s Hōgyoku, and led the 11th Division into Hueco Mundo as Aizen’s plans triggered the Hollowfication Incident. After returning to Seireitei, Xuanxin protected the Shihoin Clan and took command of security while Yoruichi and Urahara fled with the afflicted captains.

• Aizen entered the Great Spirit Book Gallery, learned the Soul King was a mutilated captive, and resolved to overthrow the existing order, while Xuanxin welcomed Sajin Komamura to Shin'ō Academy.
• Aizen hypnotized much of the Gotei 13’s upper ranks, recruited Kaname Tōsen, and arranged an attempt to extract the Soul King fragment from Rangiku Matsumoto, but Shihoin Genshin rescued her and Xuanxin seized the extractor.
• Xuanxin fought Musashi and then Retsu Unohana, defeated Unohana without killing her, and awakened a dense, liquid state of Reiatsu.
• Kisuke Urahara revealed the Hōgyoku to Xuanxin and Yoruichi, and Musashi began absorbing its energy to strengthen Xuanxin as he and Yoruichi advanced reforms for Rukongai.
• Xuanxin led the 11th Division into Hueco Mundo, where Aizen and Tōsen caused several captains and lieutenants to undergo Hollowfication, while Yoruichi rescued Urahara, Tessai Tsukabishi, and the afflicted Visored.
• Xuanxin annihilated the Hollow horde and returned to Seireitei, where he stopped Central 46 from seizing Shihoin property and helped Yoruichi use the Hōgyoku to stabilize the afflicted captains.
• Yamamoto placed Xuanxin in command of the 11th and Second Divisions under martial law, and Xuanxin’s patrols arrested noble clans while Aizen recruited new allies and captains.

Xuanxin tried to stop Aizen’s plans while protecting Rukia and confronting the dangers spreading between Soul Society and the World of the Living. After Aizen escaped to Hueco Mundo with the Hōgyoku, Xuanxin prepared an expedition there and summoned Ichigo and his friends to Soul Society.

• Yamamoto appointed Xuanxin to lead the 11th and Second Divisions and the Stealth Force, while Gin Ichimaru secretly told him that Kaname Tōsen had stabbed Captain Muguruma.
• Kenpachi Zaraki challenged Shihoin Genshin for the 11th Division captaincy, lost, and later took the position after Genshin invited him to grow stronger.
• Xuanxin helped Byakuya save Hisana and met Rukia, then learned of her execution sentence and began preparing for conflict as Ichigo and his friends entered Soul Society.
• Yoruichi revealed that Urahara had hidden an imitation Hōgyoku in Rukia, while Xuanxin suspected Aizen and took temporary command of the Gotei 13 with Shunsui.
• Aizen revealed himself during Rukia’s execution, but Xuanxin and his allies failed to stop him from escaping with the Hōgyoku after he defeated them and summoned Hollows across Seireitei.
• Xuanxin established a base in the World of the Living, where Kūgo Ginjō appeared with a Hōgyoku and Yammy later attacked, and Aizen ultimately escaped through the Garganta with the Hōgyoku.
• Xuanxin returned to Soul Society and proposed an early counterattack on Hueco Mundo, then summoned Ichigo and his friends after Kurotsuchi’s experiment delayed the expedition.