Chapter Summaries

Kisuke Urahara asked Dōsan Hanyū to talk with Yoruichi, and Dōsan agreed to negotiate if Yoruichi was involved. Above Karakura Town, Grimmjow and Ulquiorra confronted the Visored, while Dōsan sealed the combatants inside a space-time barrier.

• Kisuke Urahara asked Dōsan Hanyū to discuss the situation, and Dōsan agreed if Yoruichi Shihōin was included.
• Yoruichi questioned what Dōsan wanted with her and accused him of pursuing an inappropriate relationship with her.
• Grimmjow confronted Kensei Muguruma above Karakura Town, and their spiritual pressure collided in a powerful blast.
• Ulquiorra moved to attack Kensei from behind, but Shinji Hirako turned the fight against him, and the Visored rose to face the Arrancar.
• Hachigen Ushōda sensed that Dōsan Hanyū had altered space-time and enclosed the fighters in a barrier.

Dōsan Hanyū used his knowledge of the law to get Ikkaku Madarame arrested, then tried to make peace with Rizukihime by giving her a lunch. Meanwhile, Gin Ichimaru learned that the Shiba Clan enshrined an ancient Zanpakuto called Miroku, but Tsunayashiro Tokinada interrupted before its ability could be revealed.

• Dōsan pointed out Ikkaku and Yumichika's violations, and Genshirō Okikiba had Ikkaku arrested after Dōsan threatened to expose his Bankai.
• Dōsan brought Mitsui-san to the classroom and gave Rizukihime a lunch while asking Jinmao about the money he had borrowed.
• Ichimonji Tsunayashiro showed Gin Ichimaru the Artificial Soul facility and boasted about his plan and power.
• Gin asked why Tsunayashiro valued the Shiba Clan, and Tsunayashiro explained that its ancient Zanpakuto was called Miroku.
• Tsunayashiro began to reveal Miroku's ability, but Tsunayashiro Tokinada interrupted him.

The Skin-Changing Hollow revealed itself as Shiba Miyako and fought Kaien and Kūkaku, then escaped with Miroku after giving them Shiba Miyako’s location. Tachikawa Magaki claimed Miroku and entered a Senkaimon for the World of the Living, while the battle between Dōsan Hanyū’s allies and the Arrancar stalled as both sides waited.

• The Skin-Changing Hollow revealed itself as Shiba Miyako, and Kaien attacked it to avenge her.
• Kūkaku struck the Hollow away, but it escaped underground with Miroku after telling Kaien and Kūkaku where Shiba Miyako was.
• Tachikawa Magaki met the Skin-Changing Hollow in South District 6, took Miroku, and opened a Senkaimon to the World of the Living.
• Tachikawa entered the passage, intending to obtain Dōsan Hanyū’s ability and kill Aizen.
• Dōsan Hanyū maintained a spatial barrier as the Visored and Arrancar fought without committing, while Kensei Muguruma fought hardest in Bankai.

Dōsan Hanyū maintained a barrier around the battle while the Visored and Arrancar fought cautiously. When Grimmjow fired a Gran Rey Cero at him, Hachigen Ushōda prepared to intervene, but noticed Dōsan had changed.

• Dōsan Hanyū held the barrier steady as Hachigen Ushōda watched him closely.
• Hirako remained wary of a scheme and fought cautiously, while Mashiro Kuna and Kensei Muguruma actively battled Grimmjow.
• Grimmjow fired a Gran Rey Cero at Dōsan Hanyū while other Arrancar prevented Hirako and Kisuke Urahara from intervening.
• Hirako and the others prepared to raise a temporary barrier if Dōsan dodged, while Kisuke Urahara tried to restrain Baraggan.
• Hachigen Ushōda analyzed Dōsan and began to summon his Spiritual Pressure, but stopped when he saw Dōsan change.

Jin'ya Tsunayashiro and Dōsan Hanyū clashed with Kidō and Hakuda, revealing Dōsan's growing strength and the drawbacks of Jin'ya's resurrection. Jin'ya seized Dōsan and began unleashing Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō.

• Soi Fon sent her subordinates away from the forest as Jin'ya and Dōsan's Spiritual Pressures overwhelmed them.
• Jin'ya and Dōsan exchanged Hadō and Bakudō, and Dōsan's Mirror Reversal and Jin'ya's counterattacking Dankū destroyed the surrounding forest.
• Jin'ya attacked with Hakuda, but Dōsan caught his fist and his gray mist injured Jin'ya.
• Jin'ya mistook Dōsan's blend of Kidō and Hakuda for the Shihoin Clan's Shunkō and struggled to keep up.
• Jin'ya endured Dōsan's punch, seized his arm, and began casting Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō as his body burned and cracked.

Komamura was driven into a violent transformation after looking toward the forbidden end of Muken. In the World of the Living, the Law of Causality warned Dōsan Hanyū of danger as a vast, ominous Spiritual Pressure descended over Karakura Town.

• Komamura sensed a powerful prisoner watching him as the captains traveled through Muken, and Ukitake explained that the Soul King had sealed a forbidden area at its end.
• Unohana and the other captains repaired Muken's barrier and prepared to leave, but Komamura looked up despite a warning and began transforming as his eyes turned red and his fur grew wildly.
• Dōsan Hanyū realized that his reflected attack had struck Grimmjow instead of Hachigen Ushōda, whom he had suspected of preparing a space-time Kidō attack.
• The Law of Causality trembled and urged Dōsan Hanyū to kill as he looked toward the sky, and the barrier around the group disappeared.
• Black clouds enclosed the fighters over Karakura Town as blood-red threads of Spiritual Pressure filled the space, leaving the visitors from Hueco Mundo confused.

Aizen and Gin discussed the ancient prisoner from Muken who had trapped the Soul Reapers and Arrancars in a mysterious barrier. As the captives tried to cooperate and understand the barrier, the prisoner recognized Baraggan as a talented junior from the Hollow race.

• Aizen told Gin that the barrier's creator was a powerful figure imprisoned in Muken for trying to place everyone with Spiritual Pressure inside a Fourth World.
• Kensei and Grimmjow argued under the barrier's influence until Kisuke urged the Soul Reapers and Arrancars to cooperate.
• Harribel asked Dōsan Hanyū whether the barrier was Kidō, and he said it was not.
• Hachigen offered to undo the barrier, but Dōsan said he could not; Hachigen accepted the refusal amiably.
• Baraggan recalled hearing of a talented Hollow junior named Baraggan before the Shiba Clan imprisoned him in Muken.

Baraggan and Hachigen Ushōda attacked the dark barrier with powers of decay and space, weakening it where their abilities converged. Dōsan Hanyū warned that their attacks were helping the barrier recover, and Baraggan demanded an explanation.

• Shinji Hirako recognized that the space was amplifying everyone's negative emotions, while Urahara urged Dōsan Hanyū to deal with the barrier.
• Baraggan released Arrogante and unleashed Respira against the barrier, which barely changed.
• Dōsan Hanyū noticed that Baraggan's decay aura was slightly affecting the barrier at the Reishi level.
• Hachigen Ushōda used Space Annihilation alongside Baraggan's attack, and their combined powers visibly weakened the barrier.
• Dōsan Hanyū warned that space-time abilities were helping the barrier recover, so Hachigen stopped and Baraggan ended his release.
• Baraggan returned to his Arrancar form and demanded an explanation from Dōsan Hanyū.

Dōsan Hanyū identified the prisoner’s ability as a Domain that altered the laws of time and space, then used Human Path to rewind events by three minutes. In the revised moment, Soi Fon and Tachikawa Magaki helped create an opening to attack the Domain from outside.

• The prisoner admitted he had forgotten his name after spending an unknown number of years in Muken and refused Kisuke Urahara’s attempt to persuade him.
• Dōsan Hanyū explained that the prisoner’s Domain imposed rules independent of the three realms, and Urahara warned that the group’s emotions would soon turn them against one another.
• Grimmjow and Kensei Muguruma gathered their Spiritual Pressure as the Domain stirred hostility, so Dōsan Hanyū activated Law of Causality: Human Path.
• Three minutes earlier, Aizen told Gin that he wanted to obtain the god’s ability through Miroku, while Soi Fon arrived in the World of the Living and used Bankai.
• Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon struck the same point in the Domain as Tachikawa Magaki raised her Asauchi and chanted, “Laugh, Miroku.”

Tachikawa Magaki returned to Soul Society with Dōsan Hanyū’s Law of Causality and confronted Sōsuke Aizen, who revealed why the world had turned against Dōsan Hanyū. The two activated their Bankai and began their final battle.

• Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon struck the black barrier together, breaking it and freeing the captains trapped inside.
• Tachikawa Magaki obtained Dōsan Hanyū’s ability, returned to Soul Society, and Aizen told Gin Ichimaru to stay behind.
• In North District 6, Aizen explained that Dōsan Hanyū came from beyond this world and that the world’s order rejected him and drew powerful enemies toward him.
• Aizen told Tachikawa Magaki that she had grafted Dōsan Hanyū’s fate onto herself and was one of the pieces sacrificed in the world’s struggle against him.
• Tachikawa Magaki activated Bankai: Law of Causality, and Aizen answered with Bankai: Heavenly Water Moon.

Tachikawa Magaki’s Law of Causality failed to kill Aizen, who claimed Kyōka Suigetsu had let him survive despite having died ten years earlier. As Magaki lay dying, she tried to warn Gin Ichimaru about Aizen, but Aizen used an illusion to manipulate what Gin heard.

• Aizen told Tachikawa Magaki that her wish had failed because he was already dead, and explained that Kyōka Suigetsu kept him alive as long as its witnesses believed he was not dead.
• Tachikawa Magaki seized Aizen and activated Bankai, but its poison could not overcome him, and she began to die from her injuries.
• Gin Ichimaru arrived and used Kaidō at Magaki’s request; she gave him a projection of her discoveries and a test tube containing Aizen’s blood.
• Magaki told Gin that Aizen’s ability was not what he claimed and warned him not to share her guesses with Dōsan Hanyū.
• Aizen remained hidden through Kyōka Suigetsu and made Gin perceive Magaki’s final words as a plea to be set free.

After the civil war, Yamamoto asked Dōsan Hanyū to help hunt Aizen and to lead the rebuilt Central 46. Hanyū refused the hunt but accepted leadership, becoming Great Sage Hanyū, and later helped suppress criticism of Byakuya Kuchiki’s marriage.

• Yamamoto thanked Dōsan Hanyū for remaining neutral during the conflict and asked him to help capture Aizen, but Hanyū refused.
• Yamamoto told Hanyū that the Four Great Noble Clans wanted him to become the first sage of the rebuilt Central 46, and Hanyū accepted.
• Dōsan Hanyū became Great Sage Hanyū, and the new Central 46 was formed mostly of powerful upper nobles.
• Yamamoto’s expedition failed to find Aizen, who was reported to have taken control of Hueco Mundo, and the pursuit eventually faded.
• Kuchiki Ginrei died, and Dōsan Hanyū helped silence criticism of Byakuya Kuchiki for marrying a commoner.

Dōsan Hanyū explained to Byakuya Kuchiki that Hisana’s illness could only be managed through dangerous alternatives, and Byakuya rejected modifying her spiritual body while reacting to the idea of freezing time. Thirty years later, Dōsan visited Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts as a substitute Kidō teacher, where Renji Abarai recognized the figure he had admired since childhood.

• Dōsan Hanyū told Byakuya Kuchiki that Hisana’s illness was incurable and that reversing time could not safely heal her soul.
• Dōsan offered modifying Hisana’s spiritual body with Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s help, but Byakuya refused, then considered Dōsan’s alternative of freezing time.
• Byakuya reacted to the mention of space and time, suggesting he knew someone connected to that power, while Dōsan left to attend to other matters.
• Thirty years later, Dōsan had become a dignified noble and Central 46’s first sage, though younger Soul Reapers barely remembered his past reputation.
• At Shin'ō Academy of Spiritual Arts, Izuru Kira and Momo Hinamori told Renji Abarai that a prominent substitute would teach their Kidō class.
• Dōsan introduced himself to the students, and Renji recognized the admired figure from his childhood as his classmates exclaimed over Dōsan’s appearance.

Dōsan Hanyū taught Kidō to Renji, Momo Hinamori, Kira, and the other students, while Renji recognized him as the swordsman who had once cut open the sky. He demonstrated an unusual mirror-like Kidō that reached into an illusion and struck a sleeping student, leaving the class attentive.

• Dōsan Hanyū answered the students’ questions and led them to practice Hadō #31: Shakkahō.
• Renji told Momo Hinamori and Kira that Teacher Hanyū looked like the swordsman who had cut open the sky when Renji was a child.
• Dōsan explained that mastering a Zanpakuto was more worthwhile for most Soul Reapers, while Hinamori argued that Kidō was a true foundation with great potential.
• Dōsan raised his Spiritual Pressure and created a mirror-like image of a twin-tailed student sleeping in class the previous day.
• Dōsan reached into the image and tapped the sleeping student, who felt the blow in the real world, then told the class that the feat was Kidō.

Dōsan Hanyū taught the students Kidō, guided Renji Abarai through Shakkahō, and warned the class to focus on their strengths. A female captain arrived and called Dōsan “Your Highness,” leaving the students wondering about his status.

• The students marveled at Dōsan Hanyū’s unusual Kidō and asked to learn it, while he told them to practice the basics first.
• Dōsan judged the class to have little Kidō talent and advised Renji Abarai to steady his Spiritual Pressure by meditating.
• Dōsan forgot part of the Shakkahō incantation but cast the spell successfully, then used Kidō to control Renji’s swelling fireball.
• Renji completed the Shakkahō chant and hit the target, prompting Dōsan to say he had captain potential but limited Kidō talent.
• Dōsan told the students that people had limits and should not expect to master everything.
• A woman wearing a Captain’s Haori called Dōsan “Your Highness Hanyū,” surprising the students.

Dōsan Hanyū presided over a Central 46 trial of Mayuri Kurotsuchi, presenting evidence that the Twelfth Division had abducted souls and bodies. Mayuri challenged Hanyū by invoking the ban on his Space-Time Kidō, leaving the trial at a tense impasse.

• Maruko arrived to summon Dōsan Hanyū from his lesson, and the students learned that he knew Mayuri Kurotsuchi and held high status in Central 46.
• Dōsan asked whether Yamamoto or the other captains planned to observe, and Maruko said they had left Mayuri's punishment to his judgment.
• Dōsan changed into his Great Sage robes, took his seat in Central 46, and ordered Mayuri Kurotsuchi brought before him.
• Dōsan showed evidence linking the Twelfth Division to disappearances across Rukongai, Seireitei, and the World of the Living, then asked Mayuri to admit his crimes.
• Mayuri dismissed one of the images and challenged Dōsan over his own forbidden Space-Time Kidō.

After Central 46 punished Mayuri Kurotsuchi for his unauthorized research, he investigated the Twelfth Division’s records about Dōsan Hanyū from thirty-three years earlier. The chapter left Mayuri suspecting that his past research into the Hōgyoku and Aizen’s contact with it might explain why he survived targeting Dōsan.

• Central 46 stripped Mayuri Kurotsuchi of his captaincy and ordered the Twelfth Division to report its future research to the Gotei 13.
• Mayuri returned to the Twelfth Division and ordered Akon and the researchers to retrieve intelligence on Dōsan Hanyū from thirty-three years earlier.
• Akon’s records showed that Tachikawa Magaki had investigated missing souls near an izakaya, lost consciousness, and left no clear account of what happened.
• Mayuri learned that Rangiku Matsumoto had interrupted a later attempt to arrest Dōsan and that Twelfth Division members who had targeted Dōsan had since died.
• Mayuri recalled that he had been investigating the captains’ Hollowfication thirty-three years earlier and had encountered the Hōgyoku, which Aizen had also contacted.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi concluded that Kisuke Urahara had hidden a crucial element of the Hōgyoku’s construction and wondered whether it was connected to the Soul King or Dōsan Hanyū. Dōsan learned that the Kuchiki Clan’s sealed Zanpakuto, Universe, might help save Hisana, but its unknown side effects left the choice to Byakuya.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi reviewed Urahara’s research and concluded that his own Hōgyoku lacked an element connected to the Soul King.
• Dōsan Hanyū declined invitations from Central 46 and used Space-Time Kidō to travel to Soi Fon’s courtyard.
• Dōsan told Soi Fon that Hisana’s body could no longer withstand the power of space and time, and that he lacked the strength to anchor her safely.
• Soi Fon revealed that the Kuchiki Clan had sealed a space-time Zanpakuto called Universe, which might help save Hisana.
• Dōsan believed Byakuya would choose to use Universe, and he asked Soi Fon about the Zanpakuto passed down through the Shihoin Clan.

Dōsan and Soi Fon were attacked by Tōshirō Hitsugaya, whose mechanical Zanpakutō transformed Dōsan’s Kidō dragons into animated ice constructs. Dōsan recognized the strange power as time-based as the ice dragons closed in on him and Soi Fon.

• Dōsan sensed a sudden chill, and a white-haired boy emerged from another dimension and froze Dōsan’s back.
• Soi Fon struck the boy with Suzumebachi, but the Hōmonka marks faded from his chest as he counterattacked.
• Dōsan identified the boy as Tōshirō Hitsugaya, who summoned spinning bronze gears that filled the air.
• Dōsan unleashed Five Dragon Destruction, but the gears froze the Kidō dragons and turned them into ice sculptures.
• The gears appeared inside the ice dragons and brought them to life, breaking Dōsan’s barrier as they attacked him and Soi Fon.
• Dōsan recognized the source of the overwhelming chill as the power of time.

Dōsan Hanyū and Soi Fon discovered that a mysterious youth with space-time powers had defeated Captain-Commander Yamamoto and badly injured several captains. Before dying, Yamamoto entrusted Soul Society to Dōsan, who began organizing help as the Seireitei faced a grave crisis.

• Dōsan Hanyū used Space-Time Reversal and saw visions of Tōshirō Hitsugaya at different points in his life before the strangely dressed youth vanished.
• Dōsan told Soi Fon the youth might have come from the future, and they sensed Yamamoto and three other captains weakening.
• Dōsan and Soi Fon reached the First Division Barracks, found Chōjirō Sasakibe dead, and discovered Yamamoto near death amid the ruined buildings.
• Yamamoto identified his attacker as an orange-haired youth wielding a Zanpakuto called Zangetsu and suspected a connection to the Kuchiki Clan's Soul King Blade, the Universe.
• Yamamoto entrusted Soul Society to Dōsan before dissolving into Reishi, and Dōsan ordered Soi Fon to summon the captains and seek help from Kisuke Urahara, Shinji Hirako, the Zero Division, and others.
• Dōsan reassured Soi Fon and told her to leave everything to him.