Recaps

Tachikawa and Gin deduced that Dōsan Hanyū may have chosen the Shiba Clan to bypass the cost of his ability, and Tachikawa offered to modify Gin’s Zanpakuto into a one-strike poison weapon. Meanwhile, Dōsan fought the Hollow wearing U Genjō’s body, which planned to devour him, as Dōsan began to unleash a new power.

• Tachikawa told Gin that Dōsan Hanyū’s ability carried a serious price that Aizen might have found a way around.
• Gin speculated that the Shiba Clan and its inherited Zanpakuto, Miroku, were connected to Dōsan’s ability, and suggested Dōsan had chosen the clan himself.
• Tachikawa offered to modify Gin’s Zanpakuto with a potent poison that could kill in a single strike.
• Dōsan recognized the Hollow wearing U Genjō’s body, but the creature denied being the same Hollow he had killed before.
• The Hollow attacked Dōsan with its modified body and revealed its plan to devour him and claim his ability.
• Dōsan escaped the Hollow’s attack, then began releasing boiling Spiritual Pressure and spreading gray mist.

Dōsan Hanyū fought Tachikawa Magaki’s mud Hollow while Gin and a hidden Ninth Division officer uncovered clues about her research and Captain Aizen. The Hollow survived Dōsan’s attack, then latched onto Inorei Hikaru and began spreading Hollow-like Spiritual Pressure through his body.

• Dōsan Hanyū struck the mud Hollow with an unincanted Hadō seventy-three, while Tachikawa Magaki discussed its powers and the brain tissue Kisuke Urahara had left behind with Gin.
• Gin sensed someone approaching, and Honrō Useki overheard their conversation before following Tachikawa to investigate her research.
• Captain Tsunayashiro appeared and told Gin he had noticed an interesting fellow.
• Dōsan’s attack revealed the Hollow’s small, mud-like true form, but its Spiritual Pressure continued to recede under the spell.
• Hikaru rushed in and kicked the Hollow, which wrapped around his leg and began merging with him despite Dōsan’s warning.
• The Hollow noticed Hollow-like Spiritual Pressure in Hikaru as darkness spread from his left arm across his body, and Hikaru invoked No Cause.

During Dōsan Hanyū’s fight, Inorei Hikaru began transforming as the Hollow inside him reacted to the pain, drawing the attention of both Aizen’s schemes and Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s interest. Mayuri demanded that Dōsan and Sōji Sanjō surrender, and Dōsan released his Zanpakuto to fight back.

• Dōsan Hanyū’s blade struck Inorei Hikaru, causing the sludge Hollow inside him to destabilize and a white mask to begin forming.
• Tsunayashiro explained to Gin Ichimaru that a dead Hollow lived inside Hikaru, whose unstable Reishi might help the Tsunayashiro Clan’s research.
• Gin suspected Aizen had hypnotized Hikaru rather than Dōsan, while Tsunayashiro remained unaware that Aizen was manipulating him.
• Sōji Sanjō panicked over Hikaru’s apparent Hollowfication and urged Dōsan to kill him, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi claimed it was not Hollowfication and ordered them to surrender.
• Sōji dropped his Zanpakuto, but Dōsan recognized Mayuri as the source of No Cause’s warning and released Ashisogi Jizō.

Dōsan Hanyū fought Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who tested the limits of Dōsan’s damage-returning ability and used Ashisogi Jizō to counter it. Just as Kurotsuchi prepared to capture him, the weapon fell from his hand and its pain struck him instead.

• Gin and Ichimonji Tsunayashiro discussed Kurotsuchi’s interest in Hikaru and the need for Dōsan to become a Shinigami to approach the Shiba Clan.
• Kurotsuchi attacked Dōsan and analyzed his Mirror Reversal ability while Dōsan blocked and countered with Kidō and sword strikes.
• Dōsan’s killing intent intensified, letting him sever one of Kurotsuchi’s arms and cut open his abdomen.
• Kurotsuchi healed himself and explained how Ashisogi Jizō’s effect could counter Dōsan’s ability, then advanced to capture him.
• Kurotsuchi suddenly lost control of his hand, dropped Ashisogi Jizō, and felt the weapon’s pain affect his own body.

Dōsan Hanyū fought Mayuri Kurotsuchi until Kurotsuchi unleashed his Bankai, prompting Gin Ichimaru to intervene and help him escape. Afterward, Ichimonji Tsunayashiro tried to recruit Dōsan and Inorei Hikaru, but Hikaru's refusal was rejected.

• Kurotsuchi recovered enough to summon his Bankai, Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō, while Dōsan stood his ground.
• Tsunayashiro ordered Gin to attack, and Gin destroyed Kurotsuchi's Bankai and pierced him with Shinsō.
• Kurotsuchi transformed into green sludge and fled, while Honrō Useki developed photographs of Dōsan's fight.
• Dōsan recognized Tsunayashiro and Gin as connected to the attack that had targeted Soi Fon.
• Tsunayashiro offered Dōsan a position as Third Seat, but Dōsan refused and said he wanted to join another squad.
• Tsunayashiro invited Inorei Hikaru to join his guard, but when Hikaru refused, Tsunayashiro declared that he had no right to refuse.

After the mission, Kuchiki Ginrei arrived to arrest Ichimonji Tsunayashiro over the escape of a legendary prisoner from Muken, believed to be the King Above Kings. The surviving students were taken to the Second Division for investigation, where Dōsan Hanyū was separately summoned to answer questions about Inorei Hikaru.

• Kuchiki Ginrei told Ichimonji Tsunayashiro that a prisoner had escaped from Muken and ordered him to surrender his Zanpakuto for investigation.
• Ichimonji Tsunayashiro handed over his Zanpakuto after suspecting Yamamoto was moving against him.
• The students learned that nineteen Modified Souls and seventeen of their classmates had died, and the Second Division took the survivors into custody.
• Rizukihime Kasumiōji protested her detention, but a Second Division officer threatened to execute anyone who resisted.
• A Second Division officer summoned Dōsan Hanyū for questioning about the captain of the Twelfth Division, and Sōji Sanjō tried to intervene by mentioning his mother's connection to the division.

Soi Fon proposed Dōsan Hanyū as Second Division vice-captain, and Yamamoto approved the appointment despite objections about his brief time at the academy. Unaware of the decision, Dōsan was escorted by Ittōbō Murashita, who promised his classmates would receive protection and invited him out for drinks.

• Soi Fon nominated Dōsan Hanyū to become vice-captain of the Second Division.
• Komamura objected that Dōsan had barely begun at the Shin'ō Academy, while Zaraki, Kyōraku, and Ukitake offered their reactions.
• Yamamoto appointed Dōsan vice-captain and asked Tōsen to publicize the news in the Seireitei Communication.
• Ittōbō Murashita introduced himself to Dōsan and explained that the Second Division had been putting on a show for outsiders.
• Ittōbō promised to give Dōsan's classmates preferential treatment and said the Second Division would try to keep them alive.
• Murashita invited Dōsan to join Ōmaeda and the others for drinks, and Dōsan showed reluctance because drinking often left him injured.

Dōsan Hanyū attended a Second Division banquet where Ittōbō Murashita and the others tried to get him drunk and uncover his relationship with Soi Fon. When Dōsan struck back and overwhelmed them, the chaos spread through the barracks, where Hikaru, Jinmao, and Sōji Sanjō sensed his Spiritual Pressure.

• Ōmaeda hosted Dōsan Hanyū at a banquet, and Murashita and six Second Division members tried to win his favor and probe his connection to Soi Fon.
• Dōsan reluctantly drank sake, and Murashita asked whether he and Soi Fon were together.
• Dōsan attacked Murashita, broke his arms with a Hakuda punch, and swiftly knocked down the other Soul Reapers.
• Second Division members converged on the battle as the rising Spiritual Pressure alerted Soul Reapers interrogating Hikaru and Jinmao.
• Hikaru recognized Dōsan's Spiritual Pressure, Sōji Sanjō hoped Dōsan had come to rescue them, and Rizukihime warned that someone was about to start showing off.

Dōsan Hanyū's supposed rise from a poverty-stricken wanderer searching for his mother to a powerful Soul Reaper became the subject of a sensational Seireitei Communication story, which announced his appointment as Second Division lieutenant. Soi Fon and Ōmaeda arrived to find Dōsan surrounded by wounded Second Division members, and Soi Fon ordered Ōmaeda to stop him.

• Ittōbō Murashita ordered the Soi Fon Fan Club members to draw their Zanpakuto and prepare to subdue Dōsan Hanyū after he injured two squad members.
• Isshin Shiba and Rangiku Matsumoto read a Seireitei Communication article portraying Dōsan as a poor soul who trained hard while searching for his mother and fought Mayuri Kurotsuchi to a draw.
• Rangiku and Isshin learned that Dōsan had accepted an appointment as lieutenant of the Second Division, and Rangiku cried out in shock.
• Soi Fon agreed to put Ōmaeda's 135,000-kan drinking bill on her tab as they headed back to the Second Division.
• Soi Fon and Ōmaeda found Dōsan standing among more than 150 wounded Second Division members, and Soi Fon ordered Ōmaeda to stop him.

Dōsan Hanyū lost control and defeated most of the Second Division, including Ōmaeda, before Soi Fon stopped him. She appointed him lieutenant of the Second Division and ordered him to pursue a fugitive from Muken in the World of the Living.

• Dōsan Hanyū mistook the Second Division members for attackers and beat Ōmaeda, leaving the Second Division nearly wiped out.
• Soi Fon subdued Dōsan, and Ittōbō Murashita accepted responsibility for the divisions’ injuries and faced punishment.
• Isane arrived with Fourth Division members to treat the wounded, and Dōsan awoke to find Murashita badly injured.
• Soi Fon appointed Dōsan lieutenant of the Second Division, captain of the Correction Corps, and vice commander of the Punishment Force.
• Soi Fon ordered Dōsan to accompany her to the World of the Living to pursue a fugitive who had escaped from Muken.

Soi Fon received orders to lead a team into the World of the Living to pursue the escaped Muken prisoner, while Dōsan Hanyū became acting captain of the Second Division. As Dōsan dealt with the division’s wounded and debts, Rizukihime tried to use their connection to get him released from prison.

• Chōjirō Sasakibe ordered Soi Fon to lead the Punishment Force with Rangiku Matsumoto, Ikkaku Madarame, and Yumichika Ayasegawa, while three captains stood by as backup.
• Soi Fon left Dōsan in charge of the Second Division and went to the Twelfth Division to learn about the detected events in the World of the Living.
• Dōsan helped treat the injured Soul Reapers, then asked Ōmaeda how to begin his new role as lieutenant.
• Ōmaeda showed Dōsan IOUs totaling about 1.5 million and estimated that repairs from the damage would cost another five hundred thousand kan.
• A Correction Corps guard released Rizukihime and the others, but Rizukihime demanded that her little brother Dōsan be freed too.
• The guard told Rizukihime that Dōsan was the Second Division’s acting captain.

Dōsan Hanyū and Ōmaeda used legal regulations to fine and detain unruly Soul Reapers in the 11th Division, earning a large sum as they worked to repay a loan. Their shakedown was interrupted when they encountered Tetsuzaemon Iba, lieutenant of the Seventh Division.

• Dōsan cited regulations against carrying swords and sentenced two 11th Division Soul Reapers to confinement and a fine after one assaulted him.
• Ōmaeda reported that they had made five hundred and thirty thousand that morning, and Dōsan said they should move on from the 11th Division.
• Dōsan and Ōmaeda approached a group of six Soul Reapers, but Ōmaeda failed to notice Iba among them.
• Iba introduced himself to Dōsan, who apologized for not noticing him and left Iba questioning whether he was easy to overlook.

Tōshirō Hitsugaya reached the Seireitei gate seeking Dōsan Hanyū and reported that his childhood friend, Momo Hinamori, had disappeared. Dōsan left the Seireitei to investigate, learning that Momo was last seen at Kobayashi Izakaya.

• Tōshirō Hitsugaya asked Jidanbō Ikkanzaka to find Dōsan Hanyū and said a Hollow had taken a family member.
• Jidanbō sent his brother Jirōbō Ikkanzaka to deliver Tōshirō’s letter to Dōsan Hanyū.
• Dōsan read that Momo Hinamori had gone missing and left the Second Division to meet Tōshirō.
• Tōshirō told Dōsan that Momo had gone out the previous night and had last been seen at Kobayashi Izakaya.

Dōsan Hanyū and Tōshirō searched Kobayashi Izakaya for clues about Momo Hinamori’s disappearance, but the staff remembered her only briefly and did not recognize Dōsan. As Dōsan sent the Punishment Force to find witnesses, Nemu Kurotsuchi offered help from the Twelfth Division.

• Dōsan Hanyū and Tōshirō visited Kobayashi Izakaya to ask about Momo Hinamori, who had disappeared after visiting the previous evening.
• The manager confirmed that Hinamori had been at the izakaya around eight, but he had no information about where she went afterward.
• Dōsan and Tōshirō left without any useful leads, and Dōsan asked the Punishment Force to find and question witnesses.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi, now the Twelfth Division lieutenant, approached Dōsan and offered the division’s help with the search.

Dōsan Hanyū and Tōshirō raided an underground experimental base in West District 3, where they found Gin Ichimaru and rescued the bound Momo Hinamori. Gin surrendered but warned that the base belonged to Captain Tsunayashiro, and Dōsan saw the horrifying experiments inside.

• Nemu Kurotsuchi gave Dōsan Hanyū the base’s coordinates, and he took Tōshirō to West District 3.
• Dōsan sensed a hidden facility underground, and Tōshirō blasted open its entrance with Raikōhō.
• Gin Ichimaru emerged from the damaged laboratory, and Tōshirō spotted the bound Momo Hinamori.
• Dōsan accused Gin of conducting unauthorized experiments in Rukongai and ordered him to surrender.
• Gin surrendered, and the Punishment Force restrained him and the researchers.
• Gin warned Dōsan that the base belonged to Captain Tsunayashiro, and Dōsan saw the horrific scene inside the laboratory.

Dōsan Hanyū uncovered the Tsunayashiro Clan’s illegal experiments on girls with Spiritual Power and ordered the survivors taken to the Second Division. After killing a researcher who resisted arrest, Dōsan struggled with a growing urge to kill and a recurring dream in which he mended something.

• Gin Ichimaru explained that Captain Tsunayashiro’s experiments used girls with Spiritual Power to create powerful Modified Souls.
• Gin suggested that the Thirteenth Division had ignored the experiments and warned Dōsan Hanyū that he could let the Tsunayashiro Clan’s crimes go unchallenged.
• Dōsan ordered the researchers to continue operating on Hinamori and commanded the Punishment Force to take everyone to the Second Division.
• An elderly researcher claimed his noble status protected him from arrest, so Dōsan killed him after he resisted.
• Dōsan noticed his emotions growing harder to control and recalled his recurring dream of mending something.

Dōsan Hanyū grew restless in the Second Division and went to find Yachiru Kusajishi, while Gin Ichimaru witnessed Ichimonji Tsunayashiro’s creation of a hybrid test subject. Tsunayashiro then chose Kenpachi Zaraki as the next target for his experiments.

• Dōsan Hanyū noticed Yachiru Kusajishi’s mental-health advertisement and headed to the 11th Division barracks.
• Daichizō Muragai hid his Zanpakuto from Dōsan Hanyū, then agreed to return to the Second Division after Dōsan showed him a captain’s approval document for carrying a sword.
• Gin Ichimaru watched Ichimonji Tsunayashiro present Inorei Hikaru, a stitched-together test subject with Soul Reaper, Hollow, and Quincy Spiritual Pressure.
• Tsunayashiro asked Gin to kill Dōsan Hanyū for a stronger spirit body, but Gin suggested Aizen instead.
• Tsunayashiro rejected Aizen as too weak-willed and decided to target Kenpachi Zaraki for the experiment.

Dōsan Hanyū sought Yachiru Kusajishi’s help with his growing urge to fight, then learned that Sōsuke Aizen and several Soul Reapers had been defeated and wounded in the World of the Living. At an emergency captains’ meeting, Yamamoto asked Dōsan for his thoughts on the attack.

• Dōsan asked Yachiru to help him understand why he kept wanting to fight, and she assured him he was normal while saying Ken-chan had high hopes for him.
• A Reitei Squad messenger told Dōsan that Tenzō Tenjō had defeated and wounded Sōsuke Aizen, while Ikkaku Madarame, Yumichika Ayasegawa, and Kaien Shiba had also been hurt.
• Dōsan went to the First Division for an emergency captains’ meeting and learned that Kaien had been severely injured but had returned to Soul Society.
• Ukitake tried to offer a suggestion but coughed up blood, and the captains began arguing among themselves.
• Yamamoto asked Dōsan what he thought about the situation.

The captains debated how to deal with Tenzō Tenjō, and Yamamoto sent Isshin Shiba and Kenpachi Zaraki to the World of the Living while refusing Dōsan Hanyū’s request to join them. Kaien Shiba returned to find his family had moved, then learned Yamamoto wanted him to kill Tenzō Tenjō with an ill-omened sword.

• Dōsan Hanyū recommended surrounding and eliminating Tenzō Tenjō, but Yamamoto ordered most divisions to keep preparing and assigned Isshin Shiba and Kenpachi Zaraki to provide support in the World of the Living.
• Dōsan asked Yamamoto to let him join the mission as a healer, but Yamamoto refused and announced that students would graduate early in ten days.
• Kyōraku warned Dōsan that determination alone would not let him defeat Tenzō Tenjō and said he needed time to grow.
• Kaien Shiba and Shiba Miyako returned to West Rukongai and discovered that Kūkaku and the others had moved without telling him.
• Yamamoto approached Kaien as Soul Society’s representative and asked him to kill Tenzō Tenjō with the ill-omened sword.

Dōsan Hanyū joined Kaien Shiba and Tetsuzaemon Iba to oversee early recruitment at Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts. After the three displayed their Spiritual Pressure to the students, they began assessing the candidates for division placements.

• Kaien greeted Dōsan as his little brother and set off with him to represent the Second Division at early recruitment.
• Tetsuzaemon Iba joined Kaien and Dōsan, and the three traveled to the academy.
• Vice Principal Ōunabara Gen'ogorō introduced the nearly hundred students to the three vice-captains and yielded the stage to them.
• Dōsan, Kaien, and Iba released their Spiritual Pressure, leaving several students unable to stand.
• The three began examining the candidates, who also sized up the vice-captains and favored Kaien while doubting Dōsan.

Kaien and Dōsan Hanyū tested the sixth-year students to determine who qualified to become Soul Reapers. After Kaien’s water-arrow trial left only five students passing, Dōsan invited the rest to attack him, and one student opened with a punch that was turned aside by Mirror Reversal.

• Kaien released Nejibana and sent a barrage of water arrows at the students, passing five of them, all of whom had learned Shikai.
• Dōsan Hanyū took over the assessment and entered the crowd after sensing the students’ Spiritual Pressure.
• Dōsan told the students to attack him with any technique and said anyone who broke through his defenses would qualify immediately.
• A student punched Dōsan before he had finished speaking, but Mirror Reversal repelled the blow and staggered the student back.

Dōsan Hanyū tested the Shin'ō Academy students by neutralizing their attacks with Mirror Reversal, then accepted Yukimura for early admission. The students launched a coordinated Shakkahō attack at Dōsan, which was still heading toward him when the chapter ended.

• Dōsan neutralized a student's punch and Yukimura's sword strike, then told Yukimura he had passed and could join the Soul Reapers through early admission.
• A student fired Hadō #4: Byakurai at Dōsan, but Mirror Reversal made it vanish before it reached him.
• The students attacked Dōsan together with Hakuda, sword strikes, and Kidō, but he emerged unscathed from the chaotic assault.
• One student reasoned that coordinated Kidō could overcome Mirror Reversal and led more than thirty students in preparing Shakkahō.
• The students fired their coordinated Shakkahō attack at Dōsan, bringing its power close to Hadō #90.

Dōsan Hanyū selected Mitsu, Kōiku, and Kōji for early recruitment into the Soul Reapers, prompting the long-delayed student Harano to demand a chance to prove himself. The chapter ended with Kōiku volunteering to fight Harano after Dōsan refused to change his decision and threatened to execute him for continued defiance.

• Dōsan Hanyū absorbed a powerful coordinated attack and named Mitsu, Kōiku, and Kōji as early recruits.
• Harano challenged Dōsan’s selections, asking why Yukimura, Kōiku, and Kōji had earned his favor.
• Dōsan explained that Yukimura had spotted his opening and that Kōiku and Kōji had shown sufficient Kidō skill.
• Harano challenged Kōiku and Kōji to a Kidō contest, but Dōsan refused and warned that he could execute Harano under Central 46’s regulations.
• Harano knelt and pleaded for a chance to prove himself, and Kōiku stepped forward and volunteered to fight him.

Dōsan Hanyū helped assess the academy students, steered Kōiku away from the dangerous Twelfth Division, and saw several students choose their divisions. Meanwhile, reporter Honrō Useki suspected a conspiracy linking Gin Ichimaru, the Tsunayashiro Clan, and Sōsuke Aizen, and identified Dōsan as the easiest point of entry.

• Kōiku defeated Harano in a Shakkahō contest, and Dōsan blocked her spell with Mirror Reversal.
• Harano begged Dōsan to recognize his hard work, while Dōsan told him to train more.
• Iba selected twenty-five students, and they chose their divisions; eight chose Dōsan's Second Division.
• Dōsan told Kōiku an altered story about Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and she decided to join the Second Division instead of the Twelfth.
• Honrō Useki arrived and revealed he was investigating a hidden connection between Gin Ichimaru, the Tsunayashiro Clan, and Sōsuke Aizen.
• Honrō recognized Dōsan as the easiest way to investigate the dangerous undercurrent threatening Soul Society.

Dōsan Hanyū was diverted from examining Rizukihime Kasumiōji to reinforce the 11th Division in South Rukongai District 78, where he tracked down the powerful stitched figure responsible for the attacks. Gin Ichimaru watched Dōsan confront Inorei Hikaru and wondered what Captain Aizen was planning.

• Dōsan Hanyū left to examine Rizukihime Kasumiōji, while Rizukihime waited impatiently for her early-graduation examiner.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe gave Dōsan an emergency order to support Ikkaku Madarame and the 11th Division in South Rukongai District 78.
• Dōsan reached the battlefield and learned from Yumichika and Ikkaku that their opponent had mixed Soul Reaper and Hollow Spiritual Pressure and could negate attacks.
• Dōsan followed the traces of Spiritual Pressure and found a stitched-looking figure who felt strangely familiar.
• Gin Ichimaru watched Dōsan face Inorei Hikaru and wondered what Captain Aizen was planning.