Recaps

Dōsan Hanyū fought off Hollows that had gathered to devour him after he lost his Spiritual Pressure, while Tatsuki Arisawa sensed the danger. Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryū Ishida arrived to help, leaving Dōsan face-to-face with people whose names stirred his memories.

• Tatsuki Arisawa accidentally used oil instead of vinegar, and Dōsan found her improvised dish surprisingly edible.
• A Hollow swarm sought Dōsan, and he punched one Hollow to annihilate it before leaping from the eighteenth-floor balcony to face the others.
• Dōsan used One-Sword Style: One-Thought Dragon-Subduing Flash to destroy Hollows, but the attack shattered his wooden sword as more Gargantas opened.
• Ichigo Kurosaki struck the swarm with Getsuga Tenshō, and Orihime Inoue joined Dōsan beside him.
• Dōsan learned the orange-haired Soul Reaper was Ichigo Kurosaki and watched him battle alongside the Quincy Uryū Ishida.

Dōsan Hanyū met Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryū Ishida, and Orihime Inoue after the Hollow fight, while Rukia tried to escape and learned that they thought Hanyū belonged to a ragtag outfit. Renji Abarai, meanwhile, enjoyed being treated like a lieutenant until Byakuya Kuchiki caught him patrolling the wrong division's territory.

• Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryū Ishida argued over how many Hollows they had killed, but Dōsan Hanyū's count showed they had each killed far fewer than they claimed.
• Ishida questioned Hanyū about his Soul Reaper affiliation, and Hanyū said he had served in the Second Division before taking a position with the Central 46 Chambers.
• Ishida stopped Ichigo from asking about Rukia, and Hanyū said he was staying with Tatsuki Arisawa before the groups parted ways.
• Rukia tried to sneak out of Ichigo's house but ran into Ichigo, who carried her back to his room, where Ishida and Inoue questioned her about the Second Division and Central 46.
• Rukia said she had never heard of Central 46, leading Ishida, Ichigo, and Inoue to conclude that Hanyū belonged to a ragtag outfit.
• Renji Abarai accepted greetings as Lieutenant Abarai while patrolling, until Byakuya Kuchiki pointed out that he was in the Eighth Division's defense zone.

Abarai, Tōshirō Hitsugaya, and Aizen found themselves dealing with unexpected consequences in a parallel world shaped by Dōsan Hanyū. Back in the present, Tatsuki Arisawa asked Dōsan to train her so she could fight alongside Ichigo and Inoue.

• Byakuya Kuchiki summoned Abarai for a mission, and Abarai eagerly followed him, thrilled to be a lieutenant.
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya recalled that Dōsan Hanyū had brought him to Rangiku, who got drunk and forced him to approve a towering stack of documents.
• Aizen told Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen that the Law of Causality had steered events in Dōsan Hanyū's favor, and he planned to investigate the parallel world's history.
• Gin Ichimaru returned to the Third Division barracks wary that he might still be trapped in an illusion created by Aizen.
• Tatsuki Arisawa asked Dōsan to train her so she could fight alongside Ichigo and Inoue, and he agreed, noting that training that night might disturb the neighbors.

Tatsuki trained in Hakuda with Dōsan while Renji Abarai led Sixth Division officers into the World of the Living to arrest Rukia. Their slow journey turned into a fight with Uryū Ishida, and Renji narrowly escaped being struck by an arrow.

• Tatsuki practiced controlling her spiritual pressure as Dōsan advised her to focus on Hakuda.
• Byakuya Kuchiki ordered Renji Abarai to arrest Rukia Kuchiki and sent Sixth Division officers with him.
• Renji led the group through the World of the Living on foot, refusing to use Shunpo.
• Uryū Ishida confronted the Soul Reapers and fought them after the Fifth Seat attacked him with a Kidō spell.
• Ishida aimed an arrow at Renji, but the Sixth Division's Third Seat caught it and turned it into Reishi.

Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryū Ishida confronted Renji Abarai and the Sixth Division Soul Reapers who had come to apprehend Rukia Kuchiki. After Ichigo defeated several officers, Tatsuki suddenly knocked Renji out with one punch.

• Uryū Ishida mistook Renji Abarai for a Captain until the Sixth Division officers identified him as their Vice-Captain.
• Ichigo Kurosaki revealed himself as a Substitute Soul Reaper after his Getsuga Tenshō swept the Soul Reapers aside.
• The Third Seat attacked Ichigo, but Ichigo defeated him with a single strike.
• Ichigo knocked three more officers away with punches and challenged Renji to fight.
• Renji released Zabimaru, but Tatsuki arrived and knocked him out with one punch.

Tatsuki defeated Renji with skills she learned from Dōsan Hanyū, while Ichigo and the others learned of her training. Rukia escaped her confinement, only to meet Byakuya, who took her to the Seireitei and revealed that Central 46 had sentenced her to death.

• Tatsuki knocked Renji down, and his Sixth Division comrades fled through a Senkaimon without him.
• Ichigo asked how Tatsuki had become so strong, and she credited Dōsan Hanyū with teaching her.
• Dōsan arrived, and Tatsuki struck Renji down again when he charged at him.
• Rukia escaped in her pajamas and walked past Byakuya Kuchiki without realizing who he was.
• Byakuya told Rukia he was taking her to the Seireitei dungeon and that Central 46 had sentenced her to death for transferring her Spiritual Pressure to a human without authorization.

As Soul Society ordered Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Rangiku Matsumoto to rescue Renji Abarai, Dōsan Hanyū trained Tatsuki Arisawa and Renji for the coming conflict. Dōsan then found Kisuke Urahara’s shop and asked to see Ichigo Kurosaki, leaving Urahara calling Ichigo over.

• Tōshirō Hitsugaya initially refused to meet Chōjirō Sasakibe, but Rangiku Matsumoto persuaded him to receive the order to rescue Renji Abarai.
• Rangiku realized she would have to handle the rescue mission and worried about working overtime alone.
• Tatsuki Arisawa asked Dōsan Hanyū to help her grow stronger so she could support Ichigo and Inoue, and Dōsan offered to teach her Shunkō despite its risks.
• Dōsan warned Renji Abarai that transferring Spiritual Pressure to a human was punishable by death and told him to focus on mastering Zankensōki.
• Dōsan visited Kisuke Urahara’s shop, explained that he wanted to see Ichigo Kurosaki, and said he had no intention of becoming Urahara’s enemy.
• Kisuke Urahara called Ichigo over to meet Dōsan.

Dōsan Hanyū challenged Ichigo Kurosaki to spar, but Kisuke Urahara intervened and was swiftly subdued by Dōsan’s terrifying killing intent. After the encounter, Dōsan noticed that some of his Spiritual Pressure had returned, while Gin Ichimaru watched Aizen practice calligraphy in the Seireitei.

• Dōsan offered to spar with Ichigo, but Kisuke Urahara stepped in and challenged him instead.
• Urahara awakened Benihime and attacked Dōsan, but his strike halted as Dōsan pointed a wooden sword at his throat.
• Dōsan’s killing intent frightened Urahara, who demanded to know who he was and then dismissed the confrontation as a joke.
• Dōsan discovered that his Spiritual Pressure had partly returned and wondered whether the fight had caused the change.
• Gin Ichimaru watched Aizen practice calligraphy and privately wondered what Aizen was writing.

Aizen speculated that his group had entered a world linked to their own by causality, while Dōsan Hanyū trained Ichigo Kurosaki in the kendō called Yachiru. Dōsan’s Spiritual Pressure grew as he taught, and the chapter ended with Yasutora Sado asking to train and Dōsan inviting Orihime Inoue to join them.

• Aizen proposed that the current world might be the cause to their original world's effect, and Gin Ichimaru considered how to recreate his lost poison using Aizen's blood.
• Dōsan Hanyū taught Ichigo Kurosaki the kendō technique Yachiru and told him to master it before entering Soul Society.
• Kisuke Urahara asked Yoruichi whether they recognized Dōsan, but she could not identify him and doubted he meant harm.
• Dōsan noticed his Spiritual Pressure rise again while he trained Ichigo, reaching the level of a Third Seat.
• Yasutora Sado asked Dōsan to train him, and Dōsan invited Orihime Inoue to train as well.

Dōsan Hanyū sent Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, and Yasutora Sado into Soul Society while he stayed behind to investigate why contact with Tatsuki could not restore his Spiritual Pressure. In Seireitei, Ichigo and Chad fought Ikkaku Madarame and Shunsui Kyōraku, who both became interested in the mysterious Dōsan.

• Dōsan saw Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Uryū Ishida off through the Senkaimon and told Urahara he had other matters to handle.
• Ichigo defeated Ikkaku, who asked about his swordsmanship and learned Dōsan had taught him.
• Ichigo said Dōsan was at least ten times stronger than he was, prompting Ikkaku to eagerly anticipate fighting him.
• Shunsui Kyōraku blocked Chad’s lightning-clad punch with Dankū and asked to hear more about Dōsan.
• Kyōraku appeared behind Chad, leaving him shocked by the captain’s speed.

Orihime Inoue encountered Tōshirō Hitsugaya in the Seireitei and tried to use her connection to Dōsan Hanyū to avoid a fight, but Hitsugaya attacked her and her shield reflected his ice dragon. In the World of the Living, Rangiku Matsumoto tricked Dōsan into drinking alcohol, prompting him to warn everyone that Karakura Town was in danger, though the feared crisis never came.

• Orihime Inoue told Tōshirō Hitsugaya that Dōsan Hanyū was her teacher, but Hitsugaya drew his sword and unleashed an ice dragon at her.
• Orihime used Santen Kesshun: Mirror Reversal to deflect Hitsugaya's attack, while his slash consumed most of his Spiritual Pressure.
• Rangiku Matsumoto found Dōsan Hanyū in the World of the Living, drank with him, and suddenly poured alcohol into his mouth.
• Dōsan ordered Renji Abarai and Tatsuki Arisawa to evacuate people and warn Kisuke Urahara that Karakura Town was in danger.
• Kisuke Urahara called Tatsuki to say he knew about the situation, and Renji urged everyone in the building to flee by claiming there was an earthquake.
• At the Arisawa home, Dōsan realized the expected frenzy had not happened and found that he liked the taste of alcohol.

After the Ryoka invaded Soul Society, Dōsan Hanyū drank in his room while Urahara prepared to help Ichigo and the others. Yamamoto considered the forces behind Central 46’s orders, and Mayuri sent the Twelfth Division to pursue the Ryoka and investigate Dōsan.

• Renji Abarai cleared civilians from Urahara’s shop as Urahara headed toward Dōsan Hanyū’s room.
• Dōsan opened the door, stopped Urahara from drawing his sword, and said he would wait for Rangiku Matsumoto to sober up before helping Ichigo and the others; Urahara offered to help.
• Yamamoto learned that Tōshirō Hitsugaya had been defeated and chose to let the chaos unfold while considering who might be manipulating events.
• Nemu reported the Ryoka’s identities and abilities to Mayuri Kurotsuchi, including Orihime Inoue’s victory over Hitsugaya and their connection to Dōsan Hanyū.
• Mayuri ordered Nemu to accompany him to investigate Dōsan, and the Twelfth Division joined the hunt.

Rangiku brought Dōsan, Renji, and Tatsuki to the Hakutōmon, where Jidanbō revealed that Ichigo and his allies had entered the Seireitei before Captain Soi Fon confronted them. Elsewhere, Orihime held Tōshirō Hitsugaya captive in a sewer and tried to force him to tell her where Rukia was being held.

• Rangiku warned Dōsan, Renji, and Tatsuki that she would be their enemy once they entered the Seireitei.
• Jidanbō recognized Dōsan and let him pass, then told Tatsuki that Ichigo and his allies had entered the Seireitei with help from the Shiba Clan.
• Captain Soi Fon arrived as Jidanbō raised the Hakutōmon and ordered him to stop opening the gate for others.
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya's division searched for him after his disappearance, while Orihime kept him bound and gagged in a sewer.
• Orihime questioned Hitsugaya about Rukia's location and tickled his feet when he insisted he did not know.

Dōsan Hanyū confronted Soi Fon at Hakutōmon while Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryū Ishida, and other Ryoka faced captains who soon abandoned their fights. Aizen ordered Gin Ichimaru and Tōsen to pursue the targets anyway, while Gin secretly sought a way to obtain Aizen’s blood.

• Soi Fon’s Byakurai failed to harm Jidanbō, and she recognized Dōsan Hanyū’s technique as Hanki Sōsai before ordering Renji and Tatsuki to leave.
• Dōsan gave his name to Soi Fon, who sent his appearance to the First Division and released Suzumebachi to fight him.
• Ichigo faced Kenpachi Zaraki, endured their blade clash with a broken dominant hand, and watched Kenpachi leave after sensing Dōsan’s killing intent.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi attacked Uryū Ishida with a golden blade, then departed with Nemu without continuing the fight.
• Gin pointed out that events differed from Aizen’s script, so Aizen ordered Tōsen to deal with Dōsan and Gin to target Uryū.
• Gin agreed while privately planning how to obtain Aizen’s blood.

Dōsan Hanyū fought Soi Fon and Kenpachi Zaraki, using Mirror Reversal to hold off Zaraki before drawing a wooden sword. Elsewhere, Ichigo encountered Kaname Tōsen, and Gin Ichimaru wounded Ishida with Shinsō.

• Soi Fon attacked Dōsan, but he dodged her strikes and dispersed her wind-attribute Spiritual Pressure when she used her special ability.
• Dōsan told Soi Fon that Yoruichi Shihōin was following Ichigo Kurosaki, and Soi Fon rushed off after her.
• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Dōsan, who blocked his blade with Mirror Reversal and then drew a wooden sword.
• Ichigo encountered Kaname Tōsen, Captain of the Ninth Division, after worrying about Kenpachi and Dōsan.
• Gin Ichimaru attacked Ishida with Shinsō, wounding his lower leg, and greeted him.

Kenpachi Zaraki, Kaname Tōsen, and Gin Ichimaru fought Ichigo Kurosaki, Dōsan Hanyū, and Uryū Ishida as Aizen watched events unfold through the Law of Causality. Aizen wondered how changing the story’s protagonists would alter cause and effect, and resolved to lose once more.

• Yamamoto heard that Kenpachi Zaraki, Kaname Tōsen, and Gin Ichimaru’s Spiritual Pressure had surged, but ordered Rukia Kuchiki’s execution to proceed without sending support.
• Dōsan Hanyū fought Kenpachi Zaraki with a wooden sword, wounded him, and drew out his Hollowfication as Yachiru watched.
• Kaname Tōsen wounded Ichigo Kurosaki and trapped him inside his Bankai, Enma Kōrogi.
• Gin Ichimaru repeatedly struck Uryū Ishida with Shinsō and resented having to fight him instead of pursuing Aizen.
• Aizen saw Momo Hinamori off, considered how changing the story’s protagonists would affect causality, and decided he wanted to lose once more.

Dōsan Hanyū defeated Kenpachi Zaraki, and Ichigo Kurosaki knocked Kaname Tōsen unconscious after Tōsen hesitated at Zaraki’s defeat. Yoruichi Shihōin carried the exhausted Ichigo away, Gin Ichimaru withdrew from his fight with Uryū Ishida, and the Seireitei grew alarmed as the captains’ Spiritual Pressure faded.

• Dōsan Hanyū used the Law of Causality to make Kenpachi Zaraki’s accumulated wounds reopen, defeating him without killing him.
• Kaname Tōsen was shaken by Zaraki’s faint Spiritual Pressure, giving Ichigo Kurosaki an opening to land a Getsuga Tenshō and knock him unconscious.
• Yoruichi Shihōin caught the collapsing Ichigo and carried him toward her secret hideout, where Soi Fon confronted her.
• Gin Ichimaru noticed Zaraki and Tōsen’s Spiritual Pressure fading, then let Uryū Ishida go after declaring the fight his victory.
• The Soul Reapers of the Seireitei grew fearful and confused as Zaraki’s and Tōsen’s Spiritual Pressure nearly disappeared.

After Kenpachi Zaraki and Kaname Tōsen fell to Dōsan Hanyū, the Soul Society captains wondered whether the Ryoka could save Rukia, while Yamamoto ordered her execution to proceed. Mayuri Kurotsuchi tried to incapacitate Dōsan with a drug and an illusion, but Dōsan overcame them and wounded him.

• Byakuya Kuchiki, Shunsui Kyōraku, Nanao Ise, and Chōjirō Sasakibe reacted to the Spiritual Pressures of Kenpachi Zaraki and Kaname Tōsen vanishing, while Yamamoto ordered Chōjirō to continue Rukia's trial.
• Rukia cried for help from her cell in the Senzaikyū as she heard Spiritual Pressures rumbling outside.
• Dōsan Hanyū faced Mayuri Kurotsuchi after defeating Kenpachi Zaraki, and Mayuri mocked Zaraki for barely damaging Dōsan.
• Mayuri used an illusion and revealed that he had planted Superhuman Drug: Prototype 2.0 in Zaraki to interfere with Dōsan's senses.
• Dōsan sensed the illusion, slashed at Mayuri, and declared that poison could not poison causality before wounding him.
• Mayuri's Spiritual Pressure weakened after Zaraki's and Tōsen's.

After Kenpachi Zaraki and Mayuri Kurotsuchi were defeated, Yamamoto ordered Chōjirō Sasakibe to address the Gotei 13 through Tenteikūra. As captains and Soul Reapers reacted to the crisis, Chōjirō began announcing Yamamoto’s supreme order.

• Chōjirō Sasakibe reported the surging spiritual pressure to Yamamoto, who ordered him to use Tenteikūra to address the Thirteenth Division.
• Jūshirō Ukitake rose despite his illness and set out with Kiyone and Sentarō as he reflected on the crisis in Seireitei.
• Retsu Unohana calmly offered treatment to an injured 11th Division Soul Reaper, while Isane Kotetsu trembled at the captains’ fading spiritual pressures.
• Aizen and Gin Ichimaru met among the bodies in Central 46 Chambers, and Aizen assured Gin that everything was under control.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe cast Bakudō #77: Tenteikūra and began conveying the supreme order issued by Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.

Komamura and Iba went to meet the lost Ryoka Sado, while Byakuya confronted Rukia at Senzaikyū. Dōsan sensed that events were following a chain of causality leading to Ichigo rescuing Rukia and Aizen’s victory, as Soi Fon pursued Yoruichi.

• Komamura told Iba that justice mattered more than the process and led him to find a lost gentleman.
• Sado wandered into the Seventh Division while trying to reach Senzaikyū, and his concealed spiritual pressure drew attention.
• Byakuya told Rukia that her friends’ progress had reached its limit, and Rukia insisted she was an academy student who did not know Ichigo.
• Dōsan sensed that Ichigo would rescue Rukia but Aizen would emerge victorious, and he realized that following the flow of events could restore his power.
• Soi Fon ignored Yamamoto’s orders after finding a trace of Yoruichi Shihōin and prepared her Shikai.

Yoruichi escaped with the injured Ichigo while Dōsan Hanyū confronted Soi Fon and effortlessly stopped her attack. Soi Fon tried to protect the Tenth Division Soul Reapers as they fled, but Dōsan suddenly swept past them at high speed.

• Yoruichi sensed Soi Fon’s killing intent and hurried away with Ichigo, while Dōsan Hanyū appeared beside Soi Fon and gave Yoruichi time to escape.
• Soi Fon attacked Dōsan with Suzumebachi and Shunkō, but he stopped the strike with one finger and dispersed her spiritual pressure.
• Tenth Division Soul Reapers arrived and wrongly assumed Soi Fon was fighting without help because she refused to let them join in.
• Soi Fon prepared another Shunkō attack and ordered the Soul Reapers to retreat, then Dōsan rushed past them like a gust of wind.

Dōsan Hanyū escaped Soi Fon after altering the course of events and reaching barely Captain-level strength. In the Senzaikyū, Rukia Kuchiki met Captain-Commander Yamamoto and the mysterious Sanpaku Tōsetsu, who began an unknown procedure on her.

• Soi Fon stopped her subordinates from pursuing Dōsan, who had fled after noticing two possible causal outcomes involving her and Yoruichi Shihōin.
• Dōsan reflected that intercepting Soi Fon had increased his Spiritual Pressure to barely Captain-level and considered where to go next.
• Rukia, bored and resigned to her apparent execution, complained when Yamamoto arrived and called her the Seireitei's most heinous villain.
• Sanpaku Tōsetsu emerged beside Yamamoto, joked with him, and reminded him that he had been promised freedom after completing his task.
• Tōsetsu reached toward Rukia, left a burned hand pressed against her face, and told her she could call him Rukia Kuchiki for a while.

Dōsan Hanyū interrupted Sanpaku Tōsetsu’s attempt to take Rukia’s face and confronted Captain-Commander Yamamoto. The chapter ended with Yamamoto holding back while Dōsan insisted he was not there to take Rukia away.

• Yamamoto had released Sanpaku Tōsetsu from Muken so he could impersonate Rukia during her execution.
• Sanpaku began changing Rukia’s face until Dōsan Hanyū’s sword pressure cut off his hand.
• Dōsan plucked Sanpaku’s thread of causality, leaving him writhing as Hell’s corruption weakened him.
• Yamamoto questioned Dōsan about his identity and purpose, and Dōsan said he wanted to set a few things back on track.
• Yamamoto attacked, but Dōsan shielded Rukia and said he was neither Yamamoto’s enemy nor there to take Rukia away.

Yamamoto and Dōsan Hanyū avoided a battle that could destabilize the three realms, while Dōsan Hanyū refused to rescue Rukia and said Ichigo Kurosaki would save her. The chapter left Rukia in Senzaikyū and Ichigo training under Yoruichi Shihōin as Tenjirō Kirinji arrived.

• Gin Ichimaru questioned Aizen about Dōsan Hanyū meeting Yamamoto, and Aizen said the two would not fight.
• Yamamoto chose to leave rather than risk a battle with Dōsan Hanyū that could merge the three realms.
• Dōsan Hanyū told Rukia he had not come to save her and said Ichigo Kurosaki would do so.
• Yoruichi Shihōin pushed Ichigo through Bankai training and told him he was not yet strong enough to face Byakuya Yamamoto.
• Tenjirō Kirinji appeared during Ichigo's training and recognized Yoruichi Shihōin.

The Zero Division descended on the Seireitei and confronted Yoruichi Shihōin and Ichigo Kurosaki, disrupting Kisuke Urahara’s plans. Yoruichi chose to explain the situation to Tenjirō Kirinji while Captain-Commander Inoue faced the newcomers, and Ōetsu revealed that they had captured a young Quincy.

• Orihime Inoue tried to make Tōshirō Hitsugaya reveal where little Rukia was by tickling his feet with grass.
• Tenjirō Kirinji struck Ichigo Kurosaki and sent him flying, prompting Yoruichi Shihōin to warn Ichigo not to attack.
• The Zero Division descended, and Kirio Hikifune, Senjumaru Shutara, Tenjirō Kirinji, and Ōetsu identified themselves to the assembled Soul Reapers.
• Yoruichi Shihōin stood behind Ichigo and swore on her family’s honor that she would tell Tenjirō Kirinji the truth.
• Ōetsu told Inoue that the Zero Division had captured a young Quincy and was holding him at the First Division Barracks.