Recaps

Aizen explained that Dōsan Hanyū’s ability made his actions resolve into the optimal choice, then set his plan in motion. Soi Fon ordered Dōsan placed under surveillance and resolved to recruit him, while Dōsan returned to a teasing welcome at the Shiba residence.

• Aizen described Dōsan Hanyū’s ability to Gin and Kaname Tōsen, rejected the idea of recruiting him, and announced that the plan could begin.
• Soi Fon learned that Ichimonji Tokinada had asked Central 46 to remove the Stealth Force from the Thirteen Divisions and give the Second Division’s duties to the Artificial Soul Corps.
• Soi Fon ordered guards to investigate and watch Dōsan Hanyū in West District 1 of Rukongai, deciding she could not give up on his talent.
• Captain Unohana healed Dōsan Hanyū before he returned to the Shiba residence, where Kūkaku, Ganju, Koganehiko, and Shiroganehiko staged a noisy celebration.
• Kūkaku and Ganju teased Dōsan by asking whether he had a heart, and Dōsan decided to serve large intestine sashimi for dinner.

Dōsan Hanyū trained at the Shiba residence while his reputation spread through Soul Society, unaware that Soi Fon was searching for him. When he finally went out to buy vegetables, Soi Fon detected him, and Dōsan fled after sensing he was being watched.

• Dōsan made rapid progress in Hakuda, Shunpo, and Kidō while preparing for the Shin'ō Academy entrance exams.
• Soi Fon concluded that the Shiba Clan might be holding Dōsan and ordered a search for him.
• After hearing that Dōsan's Spiritual Pressure had been detected in Rukongai, Soi Fon set out to find him in person.
• Dōsan went out to buy vegetables and passed the alley where he had once been experimented on by the Twelfth Division.
• Dōsan sensed a Soul Reaper watching him, dropped his bags of ingredients, and escaped at full speed using Shunpo.

Dōsan Hanyū was pursued by Second Division members Ryō Genshi and Kudō, who changed their surveillance mission to an execution after he escaped their attempts to stop him. As Dōsan prepared to fight, Captain Soi Fon left the Seireitei and reflected on the noble clans’ role in a past injustice.

• Ryō Genshi spotted Dōsan Hanyū in Rukongai, but Dōsan vanished from his senses and fled using Shunpo.
• Dōsan unleashed his Spiritual Pressure and raced through Rukongai as Ryō Genshi pursued him.
• Dōsan bound Ryō Genshi with Bakudō #4: Hainawa, but Kudō arrived and slashed at Dōsan.
• Kudō declared a mission change to execution, and Ryō Genshi broke free as Dōsan’s eyes turned black and he prepared to fight.
• Soi Fon completed the procedures to leave the Seireitei and traveled toward Rukongai while receiving reports about Dōsan.
• Soi Fon recalled Central 46’s past death sentence against Soul Reaper captains and blamed the Five Great Noble Clans.

Dōsan Hanyū defeated the Second Division Soul Reapers who had followed him and confronted Ryō Genshi over his threats. He accepted Ryō Genshi’s challenge and struck him with Byakurai, leaving his fate unclear.

• Dōsan Hanyū left Kudō and Ryō Genshi badly injured, while Ryō Genshi lost his right arm.
• Dōsan questioned Ryō Genshi about why the Second Division Soul Reapers had been following him.
• Ryō Genshi threatened that Dōsan’s friends would be punished, then dared Dōsan to kill him.
• Dōsan clarified that he had meant to kill Ryō Genshi and raised a finger to his forehead.
• Dōsan cast Hadō #4: Byakurai at Ryō Genshi.

Soi Fon intervened when Dōsan Hanyū fought the Punishment Force, then struggled to introduce herself and recruit him into the Second Division. She finally ordered him to follow her, while a hidden Soul Reaper observed Dōsan and questioned Aizen's judgment of his ability.

• Soi Fon arrived in time to save Ryō Genshi from Dōsan's Byakurai and demanded that Ryō Genshi and Kudō explain their failed surveillance mission.
• Ryō Genshi attacked Soi Fon, and Dōsan killed him with Byakurai before the Punishment Force guards arrived and withdrew with Ryō Genshi and Kudō.
• Soi Fon considered apologizing to Dōsan and inviting him to join the Second Division, while Dōsan worried about explaining his actions.
• Soi Fon turned toward Dōsan but lost her prepared introduction and ordered him to follow her.
• A hidden Soul Reaper watched Dōsan leave and wondered whether Aizen took an ability called Correctness of Revision seriously.

Soi Fon took Dōsan to a sushi shop, where his cautious attempts to guess what she wanted led him to order two servings of every kind of sushi. She revealed she had brought him there to eat, but left him to consume the enormous spread as the shop turned it into an eating contest.

• Soi Fon questioned Dōsan about his diet and training, mistaking his answers for evidence that the Shiba Clan was mistreating him.
• Soi Fon led Dōsan into the Millennium Sushi Shop and told him to order sushi.
• Dōsan ordered more than a dozen dishes as Soi Fon repeatedly urged him to order more, then ordered two servings of every kind.
• Kūkaku and Ganju waited at home for Dōsan to return with groceries while Kūkaku insisted food would arrive soon.
• Soi Fon told Dōsan she was not hungry and made him eat the sushi, while the shop owner turned the meal into a contest.
• Dōsan ate hundreds of pieces and wondered whether he could resist Soi Fon.

Soi Fon made Dōsan Hanyū eat more than a thousand pieces of sushi, then arranged to meet him again the next day. Kūkaku and Ganju waited at home, convinced Dōsan would never return, until he came back.

• Soi Fon urged Dōsan to keep eating while Kūkaku and Ganju waited at home for him to return.
• Dōsan reached 1,760 pieces of sushi but stopped five short of the challenge when he gave the final pieces to Soi Fon.
• Soi Fon left money and told Dōsan to meet her at the same place at one o’clock the next afternoon.
• Kūkaku and Ganju lamented Dōsan’s absence and asked Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko to bury them with their favorite belongings.
• Koganehiko announced that Dōsan had returned, surprising Kūkaku and Ganju.

Dōsan returned home after eating with Soi Fon, leaving Kūkaku convinced he had a girlfriend and prompting her to prepare the Shiba Clan for a romantic battle. Soi Fon borrowed money to keep feeding him, while Ōmaeda claimed he had a plan to recruit him; three weeks later, Rangiku encountered Ōmaeda in Tenth Division territory.

• Dōsan told Kūkaku and Ganju that he had eaten with a girl, then hurried inside because his stomach was upset.
• Kūkaku and Ganju assumed Dōsan was courting someone, and Kūkaku ordered Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko to make him sushi.
• Soi Fon borrowed 100,000 kan from Ōmaeda to pay for Dōsan's meals.
• Ōmaeda questioned whether feeding Dōsan would make him join the Second Division, then said he had a plan to recruit him.
• Three weeks later, Rangiku, now the Tenth Division's lieutenant, confronted Third Seat Ōmaeda after smelling his sake.

Ōmaeda tricked Rangiku into revealing that sake was Dōsan Hanyū’s weakness, then Soi Fon used the tip to arrange a drinking session during Dōsan’s sushi meal. Soi Fon mistook Dōsan’s efforts to refill her cup for a sign of loyalty and was shaken by his behavior.

• Ōmaeda offered Rangiku Sangō Sake and coaxed her into saying that sake was probably Dōsan Hanyū’s weakness.
• Dōsan dressed in expensive Shiba Clan clothes and met Soi Fon at the sushi shop, where his noble attire made her suspect the clan was flaunting its power.
• Soi Fon ordered two of everything on the menu and a flask of sake, while Dōsan worried about facing another enormous sushi meal.
• Dōsan poured Soi Fon a cup of sake, and she interpreted the gesture as thanks for the meal before drinking it quickly.
• Dōsan refilled Soi Fon’s cup before she could raise her head, leaving her astonished and shaken.

Soi Fon drank with Dōsan Hanyū, broke her rule against sharing a third cup, and was caught in a sudden fight when he became delirious and attacked her. A Ninth Division reporter photographed them in the aftermath, giving the Seireitei Communication a sensational story.

• Soi Fon drank the third cup Dōsan poured for her and began crying as old memories resurfaced.
• Dōsan’s Spiritual Pressure surged, and his killing strike made Soi Fon sober up enough to block him.
• Soi Fon briefly faltered from the alcohol, then avoided striking Dōsan directly as he carried her through a wall.
• Soi Fon blasted Dōsan away with wind-attribute Spiritual Pressure and announced the fight had begun.
• A Ninth Division reporter photographed Soi Fon and Dōsan amid the rubble, capturing a scene for the Seireitei Communication.

After Dōsan returned to the Shiba residence bruised and battered, Kūkaku and Ganju misunderstood his injuries as romantic rejection, while Soi Fon tried to recruit him and was publicly mocked in Seireitei Communication. Aizen later revealed that his plot against Soi Fon aimed to take her one-hit-kill ability for a Hollow that could devour abilities.

• A reporter spread a photograph of Dōsan pinning Soi Fon down, and the image sparked rumors throughout the Seireitei.
• Dōsan returned to the Shiba residence with torn clothes and bruises, telling Kūkaku and Ganju that he had walked into a table and refusing to name the young captain.
• Dōsan said he might go out again the next day and offered to pickle vegetables, leaving Kūkaku and Ganju astonished.
• Soi Fon beat Marechiyo Ōmaeda over the scandalous newspaper and stopped only after he promised to lend the Second Division more money and offered another plan to recruit Dōsan.
• Gin questioned why Aizen and Tōsen had made such an elaborate plan involving Soi Fon, and Aizen explained that they wanted her Bankai for a Hollow that devoured its victims’ abilities.

Aizen welcomed Tachikawa Magaki into his group while Gin and Kaname Tōsen traded barbs with her. Soi Fon took Dōsan Hanyū to Junrinan to teach him her fighting style, as a black butterfly flew out of Seireitei.

• Tōsen asked whether they should issue Soi Fon orders in Central 46’s name, but Aizen said there was no need to rush and that her meeting with Dōsan would be the right time.
• Tachikawa Magaki appeared and revealed she had been helping Aizen with his experiments, then traded insults with Tōsen and Gin.
• Aizen praised Magaki as a scientific genius, and Gin mocked her for being knocked unconscious by a young boy.
• Soi Fon recalled confronting Tōsen and the Captain-Commander over false gossip in Seireitei Communication, and reluctantly letting the matter go after Yamamoto offered the Second Division a larger share of the proceeds.
• Soi Fon led Dōsan to the outskirts of Junrinan and offered to teach him her way of fighting.
• A black butterfly flew out through Hakutōmon.

Soi Fon trained Dōsan in Shunpo before receiving an unusual order to investigate abnormal Spiritual Pressure in West Rukongai. They found her Second Division subordinates dead, and a wounded Soul Reaper was blasted apart before he could reach her.

• Soi Fon demonstrated advanced Shunpo and taught Dōsan how to control his Spiritual Pressure while moving.
• A Hell Butterfly delivered an order for Soi Fon to investigate abnormal Spiritual Pressure at nearby coordinates in West Rukongai.
• Dōsan offered to accompany Soi Fon, and he improved his Shunpo by observing her as they traveled.
• Soi Fon and Dōsan arrived at the coordinates and found more than a dozen dead Second Division members, including her Fourth Seat, Sixth Seat, and 10th Seat.
• Soi Fon approached a twitching survivor, who tried to reach her and called her C-Commander before she blasted him apart with Shakkahō.

Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon fought the resurrected Gen Kiji while Aizen ordered Gin to attack a test subject created by Tachikawa Magaki. Soi Fon was gravely wounded, and Gen Kiji trapped Dōsan with her by demanding that she kill herself in exchange for Dōsan’s life.

• Dōsan Hanyū blasted a Soul Reaper, whose remains gathered into the form of Gen Kiji with powerful Spiritual Pressure.
• Tachikawa Magaki explained how she had developed Kisuke Urahara’s unfinished brain, and Aizen ordered Gin to attack the test subject.
• Soi Fon fought Gen Kiji and marked him with Hōmonka, but a hidden attacker struck her from behind and tore open her chest.
• Dōsan blocked a further attack with a broken Asauchi and treated Soi Fon with Kaidō, while she urged him to run.
• Gen Kiji offered to spare Dōsan if Soi Fon killed herself.

Dōsan tried to protect the unconscious Soi Fon while fighting Ryō Genshi, whose released Zanpakuto inflicted damage through vibrations. As Ryō Genshi prepared a third strike, Dōsan’s Spiritual Pressure began spreading as gray mist.

• Soi Fon smiled at Dōsan before passing out in his arms, while Dōsan listened to the breath and heartbeat of his sword.
• Gin Ichimaru’s strike was deflected by Dōsan, and Gin recognized that Dōsan had a special ability.
• Gen Kiji released his Zanpakuto, Heavy Kill, and attacked Dōsan while threatening Soi Fon.
• Dōsan cut Gen Kiji’s arm, but Gen Kiji’s vibrations worsened Soi Fon’s injuries even without his blade touching her.
• Dōsan blocked Ryō Genshi’s second vibrating strike with his back and suffered severe wounds as Ryō Genshi charged for a third attack.
• Gray mist spread from Dōsan as he prepared to face Ryō Genshi’s third strike.

Dōsan Hanyū released No Cause and used its power against Gen Kiji, whose Hollow transformation ended in an abrupt explosion. Aizen and his companions discussed Dōsan’s ability and decided to continue their plan, while Kūkaku concluded Dōsan was dead after finding his tattered clothes.

• Dōsan Hanyū released No Cause and stabbed the unconscious Soi Fon, transferring the damage Gen Kiji had dealt to her back onto Gen Kiji.
• Gen Kiji transformed into a Captain-level Menos Grande, then exploded before Dōsan could fight it.
• Tachikawa Magaki explained that the Hollow’s explosion resulted from genetic collapse, while Aizen insisted Dōsan’s ability was Correctness of Revision and chose to continue the plan.
• Kūkaku worried that Dōsan had not returned, and Ganju brought back his tattered clothes for her to bury as his remains.

Dōsan carried the badly injured Soi Fon into Seireitei and brought her to the Fourth Division for treatment. By morning, Chōjirō Sasakibe arrived with orders to investigate Soi Fon and place her under supervision.

• Jidanbō recognized Dōsan as the Commander of the Punishment Force, then lifted the Hakutōmon after Dōsan insisted on entering to save the injured captain.
• Dōsan carried the young captain into Seireitei, got lost after Jidanbō shut the gate, and used Shunpo to search for the Fourth Division.
• Dōsan met Rangiku, who led him to the Fourth Division Barracks, where Unohana recognized the injured captain as Soi Fon and ordered Isane to notify the Captain-Commander.
• Unohana treated Soi Fon while Isane accidentally struck her head on a steel pipe and received emergency care.
• At dawn, Chōjirō Sasakibe delivered the Captain-Commander's order to investigate Soi Fon for acting without authorization and causing the deaths of seventeen Second Division Soul Reapers, and his squad placed her sickbed under supervision.

Central 46’s attempt to arrest Dōsan Hanyū was thwarted, while Soi Fon’s investigation ended without severe punishment and exposed growing tensions between Central 46 and the Gotei 13. As the captains gathered to discuss Shin'ō Academy enrollment, Soi Fon confronted Sōsuke Aizen with her released Zanpakuto.

• Central 46’s Enforcement Squad tried to take Soi Fon for questioning and arrest Dōsan, but Rangiku and Unohana invoked their authority and the Shiba Clan crest to make the squad withdraw.
• Rangiku took Dōsan out of Seireitei, then he returned with her to the Shiba residence, where Kūkaku and Ganju were mourning beside a grave.
• Soi Fon’s investigation ended without severe punishment, but the captains recognized that relations between the Gotei 13 and Central 46 had begun to cool.
• Ōmaeda brought Soi Fon a list of Second Division candidates and proposed recruiting Dōsan, while Soi Fon reacted with unease.
• Yamamoto called a captains’ meeting to discuss Shin'ō Academy enrollment, and Soi Fon confronted Sōsuke Aizen with Suzumebachi released.

Soi Fon confronted Gin Ichimaru over the attack that nearly killed her, but other captains stopped their clash. At the captains’ meeting, they chose instructors for the Shin'ō Academy before Aizen opposed Ichimonji Tokinada’s proposal for an artificial-soul guard.

• Soi Fon accused Gin Ichimaru of attacking her, but Gin denied it and suggested her boyfriend was responsible.
• Soi Fon attacked Gin, but Retsu Unohana, Sajin Komamura, Kaname Tōsen, and Isshin Shiba intervened; Ichimonji Tsunayashiro then provoked Aizen and Tōsen.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto asked for three captains to teach at the Shin'ō Academy, and Sōsuke Aizen, Kuchiki Ginrei, and Soi Fon volunteered to teach calligraphy, etiquette, and flower arranging.
• Ichimonji Tokinada presented the proposal for the “Shin'ō Artificial Soul Noble Guard,” and Aizen declared that he would never support it.
• Tokinada dismissed Aizen as a coward who could not imagine him standing in the heavens.

Dōsan Hanyū went to the Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts admissions exam, where he tried to pass as an ordinary wandering soul and befriended Shūhei Hisagi. His sixth-grade reiatsu impressed the staff, but the final test revealed that his soul was only seven years old, leaving Mr. Mitsui stunned.

• Kūkaku, Ganju, Koganehiko, and Shiroganehiko prepared Dōsan for school, and Kūkaku launched the Shiba Clan house into the air with the Kakaku Cannon after he left.
• Dōsan met Shūhei Hisagi while waiting in the commoners' admissions line, and they chatted about school, talent, and Dōsan's sword.
• Mr. Mitsui recognized Dōsan from a picture and took him to the examinations, while Dōsan insisted on following the normal process.
• The examiners recorded Dōsan's reiatsu as sixth grade, but the final test twice showed his soul age as seven.

Rizukihime Kasumiōji learned that the highly favored transfer student Dōsan Hanyū would join her third-year class, while Dōsan’s age caused concern about whether he could safely attend the captains’ lessons. As Sōsuke Aizen prepared to reveal Kyōka Suigetsu, Dōsan was still delayed and the vice principal had not arrived.

• Rizukihime Kasumiōji and Inorei Hikaru discussed Dōsan Hanyū’s connections, talent, and rumored reserved position in the Tenth Division.
• Sōsuke Aizen told the third-year students that Dōsan would join their class and asked them to look after him.
• Mitsui-san worried that Dōsan, measured as only seven years old, could be harmed by intensive exposure to Spiritual Pressure and was not ready to attend the captains’ lessons.
• Sōsuke Aizen ended his lesson by announcing that he would demonstrate his Shikai and calling, “Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu!”

Dōsan Hanyū’s unusually high Spiritual Pressure prompted the academy to arrange medical care, while Shūhei Hisagi was admitted after Mitsui intervened. Dōsan arrived late to Soi Fon’s class, where her reaction to a newspaper rumor left him confused.

• Aizen excused his lateness to Kuchiki Ginrei, who felt a sudden chill after reflecting on Aizen’s apparent perfection.
• Ōunabara Gen'ogorō discovered that seven-year-old Dōsan Hanyū had Spiritual Pressure at least as strong as a 10th Seat’s and arranged for him to avoid using it until the Thirteenth Division could examine him.
• Mitsui stopped the rejected Shūhei Hisagi and directed a staff member to take him to the new students’ classroom.
• Soi Fon assessed the students’ abilities during her flower-arranging class and recognized several with promising potential.
• Dōsan arrived late to class, and Soi Fon blushed and insisted that she barely knew him.

On his first day at the Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts, Dōsan Hanyū mistook his classmates’ curiosity for bullying and told them about Nemu Number Seven. Meanwhile, Kūkaku and Ganju pressured Ōunabara Gen'ogorō into arranging special roles and accommodations for Dōsan, then pushed their luck by asking to renovate the academy.

• Dōsan avoided sitting beside Soi Fon and watched her flower-arranging lesson until she lost her composure and left the classroom.
• After Soi Fon departed, Dōsan mistook his classmates’ attention for an impending attack, but they crowded around him to ask about his connections and Nemu Number Seven.
• Dōsan described Nemu Number Seven as ugly, foul-mouthed, and a soul-eater, captivating the students with the story.
• Kūkaku demanded that Ōunabara Gen'ogorō make her academy head and let her move the Shiba Hut onto the grounds, while Ganju asked to teach a fireworks class.
• Ōunabara allowed Kūkaku and Ganju to teach sixth-years pending Captain-Commander Yamamoto’s approval, and Kūkaku agreed Dōsan would attend only one class a day.
• Kūkaku offered to renovate the academy, and Ōunabara split his desk with a punch as he refused.

Dōsan turned his classmates against the Twelfth Division with an embellished account of Nemu Number Seven, then clashed with Nemu Kurotsuchi during a school examination. Tachikawa Magaki left the Twelfth Division for the Thirteenth, while Aizen told Gin that his plan had succeeded despite appearances.

• Dōsan persuaded his classmates, including Rizukihime, to avoid joining the Twelfth Division by recounting Nemu Number Seven’s death.
• Rangiku, Isane, and Nemu Kurotsuchi arrived to examine the students, and Nemu identified Dōsan as having a heart and ordered him to come with them.
• Tachikawa Magaki dismantled experimental machines, left her Zanpakuto modification records with Kurotsuchi, and departed the Twelfth Division.
• Central 46 and First Division headquarters appointed Tachikawa Magaki second lieutenant of the Thirteenth Division, where Kaien Shiba was serving as lieutenant.
• Gin told Aizen that his attempt to plant Kyōka Suigetsu had failed, but Aizen said he had succeeded.

Gin asked Aizen how to avoid Complete Hypnosis before leaving to serve as vice-captain of the Shin'ō Artificial Soul Noble Guard, and Aizen agreed to explain. Meanwhile, Nemu tried to carry out Mayuri's orders on Dōsan during his examination, but a mishap left her injured and asking to return to the Twelfth Division.

• Gin told Aizen he was leaving to become vice-captain of the Shin'ō Artificial Soul Noble Guard and asked how to avoid Complete Hypnosis.
• Aizen agreed to tell Gin how to avoid his Complete Hypnosis.
• Isane finished examining Dōsan and assured him that nothing was wrong with his body.
• Nemu tied Dōsan to an operating table and tried to use a scalpel on him while Rangiku was drunk and Isane was distracted.
• Isane accidentally struck Nemu, leaving the scalpel embedded near her Saketsu, and Nemu then injected herself with a green reagent.
• Nemu asked to return to the Twelfth Division, while Isane panicked and called for a doctor.