Recaps

Ryūsaki joined Ginjo’s group, helped rescue Kitahara from Soul Society, and later served Aizen while witnessing Masaki’s Hollowfication and rescue. He infiltrated the Wandenreich, earned a Sternritter position by killing Berenice, and received an enhanced Vollständig from Yhwach.

• Ryūsaki learned Fullbring from Ginjo’s group, then used his chains to defeat a Togabito and joined Ginjo’s mission to rescue Kitahara from Soul Society.
• Ginjo, Ryūsaki, and Tsukishima infiltrated the Research and Development Institute, but Mayuri had already been examining Kitahara, and the group fled Soul Society after fighting its Soul Reapers.
• Ginjo and Ryūsaki agreed to serve Aizen in the New World, where Ginjo completed Hollowfication and Ryūsaki helped arrange White’s attack on Isshin.
• White infected Masaki, and Isshin sacrificed his powers to help Urahara and Yoruichi seal White inside her.
• Aizen sent Ryūsaki to investigate the Wandenreich, where Sōken gave him a key to enter and Haschwalth tested his strength before he joined the Quincy ranks.
• Ryūsaki witnessed Yhwach use Auswählen to drain Quincy across the Wandenreich, then killed Berenice and received his Schrift and a Sternritter Medal from Yhwach.
• Ryūsaki secretly recorded Bazz-B’s account of Haschwalth’s role in Yhwach’s awakening, then sparred with Bazz-B before the Quincy gathered.
• Three months later, Yhwach used Auswählen again and granted Ryūsaki a stronger Vollständig with the title “God’s Stillness.”

Ryūsaki forged an alliance between Hueco Mundo and the Wandenreich while the Quincy invasion devastated Soul Society and Aizen began his own assault on the Soul King Palace. The arc ended with Aizen’s group divided by Urahara’s domain, Yhwach preparing to advance, and Ulquiorra leading the Arrancar to find Ryūsaki.

• Amagai helped expose the Kasumioji Clan’s Bakōtō experiments, while Yhwach’s Auswählen affected Masaki and Katagiri’s unborn children.
• Rei revealed himself through Ryūsaki and negotiated a one-time alliance with Yanis and Hueco Mundo’s leaders against the Soul Reapers.
• Ryūsaki returned to the Wandenreich with Arrancar cooperation, learned how Still Silver could counter Auswählen, and survived the Quincy’s deadly selection.
• Mayuri sent Soul-Devouring Beasts into the Wandenreich, prompting Yhwach to mobilize as Soul Reaper divisions invaded and the Sternritter stole several Captains’ Bankai.
• Yhwach killed Yamamoto after taking his power, and the Wandenreich’s hidden buildings dissolved to reveal the Seireitei as the war spread across Soul Society.
• Aizen sacrificed more than two hundred thousand souls to empower Tōsen and Yushima, then led a chosen group toward the Soul King Palace while battles raged below.
• Ryūsaki cleared a path through the palace barriers for Aizen’s group, but Urahara and members of the Zero Division trapped the intruders in the Infinite Sin Domain.
• Aizen fought Ichibē as the other intruders were divided, while Ulquiorra led Nel and Tier Harribel away to find Ryūsaki and prepare a Garganta.