Recaps

Araki returned to the Gotei 13, defeated Unohana and became the 11th Division captain, while binding her and Saito Furofushi to his Fullbring. At a captains’ meeting, Yamamoto presented Araki as his successor, and Araki warned him that the Quincy were growing restless.

• Araki agreed to return to Seireitei, raised his Spiritual Might, and trained to master Yakushi Rurikō’s Bankai before challenging Unohana Yachiru.
• Araki confronted Unohana at the 11th Division barracks, and their Bankai battle shook Seireitei until Araki defeated her and restored her vitality.
• Genryūsai named Araki the Kenpachi and captain of the 11th Division, and Araki bound Unohana to Ever-Blooming Flower, greatly strengthening his Reishi Manipulation.
• Araki tested his Fullbring’s Shared Sensation on Saito Furofushi, who felt the pain of his wounds, then watched her leave determined to grow stronger.
• Unohana accepted the name Retsu, stayed in the 11th Division as Araki’s vice-captain, and managed its affairs while Araki trained and completed his daily tasks.
• At Yamamoto’s captains’ meeting, Araki introduced himself as the new 11th Division captain, and the captains realized Yamamoto was presenting him as his successor.
• After the meeting, Araki warned Yamamoto that the Quincy were growing restless under their Emperor, and Yamamoto responded with a threat to kill them until they behaved.

Araki trained Sasakibe, confronted the invading Quincy, and fought Yhwach during the first Quincy war. After Yhwach survived and withdrew, Araki accepted Division 0’s invitation to visit the Soul King Palace and began training to restore the Soul King’s scattered fragments.

• Araki trained Sasakibe and arranged for Unohana to teach him the foundational combat skills, while Katori’s request to borrow Araki’s regenerative “treasure” led Araki to offer Sasakibe instead.
• After his Observation Haki revealed a future vision, Araki warned the Gotei 13 as the Quincy invaded the Seireitei, then suppressed the attackers at Shūwamon and demanded Yhwach’s head in exchange for the hearts he had collected.
• Yamamoto and the captains fought the Quincy at the gates, while Yhwach attacked the noble clans and Araki’s absence from the captains’ gathering led him to confront Yhwach alone.
• Araki rejected Yhwach’s offer, fought him with his Zanpakuto and Bankai, and escaped after Yhwach overpowered him, and Yamamoto then arrived and seemingly burned Yhwach to ashes.
• The Soul Reapers declared victory, but Yhwach survived in the shadows and told Jugram Haschwalth that he would reclaim his power and the world.
• After Araki recovered, Hyosube Ichibei and Oetsu Nimaiya invited him to Division 0, and Araki agreed to visit the Soul King Palace after learning they wanted him to gather the Soul King’s scattered fragments.
• Araki reached the Soul King Palace with Hyosube and Oetsu, and Hyosube offered to train him to First-Class Spiritual Might before he met the Soul King.

Araki rejected the Soul King-related missions and built his own power base, confronting Soul Society’s nobles before taking the 11th Division to Hueco Mundo. There, he enlightened Barragan, trained the Soul Reapers through years of battles, and recruited new captains as his personal guard.

• Araki left the Soul King Palace, rejected the missions offered to him, and later challenged Aizen over his plan to defect with the Hogyoku.
• Araki took Saito Furofushi into the 11th Division, confronted Yamamoto about the nobles, and used his Division 0 status to kill Tsunayashiro Yasushuku and destroy Central 46.
• Araki led the 11th Division and an expeditionary force into Hueco Mundo, where Ikkomikidō returned and fought Barragan in the Forest of Menos.
• Araki subdued Barragan in the Lapis Lazuli Pure Land and named him Vikarala, then assigned him and Kumbhira territories and created an Evolution Pool for Hollows.
• After the 11th Division struggled against the Great Hollows, Araki rallied its members and trained them to hunt Gillians in coordinated squads alongside the captains.
• Unohana and the captains defeated waves of Adjuchas while the 11th Division fought Gillians, and both Soul Reapers and Hollows used Araki’s restorative pools to recover and grow stronger.
• Araki continued the Hueco Mundo campaign for ten years, then welcomed replacement captains and recruited them into his personal guard at the Soul King Palace.

Araki returned from Hueco Mundo, took control of the Onmitsukidō and Kidō Corps, and trained a new generation of Soul Reapers while gaining Quincy power. After bringing his students to the Soul King Palace, he returned to Soul Society and found Kenpachi, whom he made his disciple and falsely presented as Yamamoto’s illegitimate son.

• Araki returned to Soul Society, killed the man claiming to command the 11th Division, and recruited young Yoruichi to train under him.
• Araki defeated Kirinjū Tenjirō in a contest, seized command of the Onmitsukidō, and brought Soifon to Yoruichi as her attendant.
• Araki took over a class at Shino Academy and trained Kyoraku, Ukitake, and Tokinada until they passed his assessment and went to the Soul King Palace to learn Bankai.
• Araki joined his disciples at the Soul King Palace, destroyed Mimihagi’s consciousness, and gained Quincy power and the Schrift “A—act of God.”
• Ukitake and Yoruichi mastered Bankai, and Araki sent them with Kyoraku and Tokinada into combat training against the First Generation Gotei 13.
• Araki returned to Soul Society and led the 11th Division into Kenpachi District, where he subdued a ferocious boy and named him his new disciple.
• Araki called the boy Kenpachi and convinced Sasakibe that he was Yamamoto’s illegitimate son, prompting Yamamoto to take responsibility for raising him.
• Araki secretly ordered 11th Division officers to spread the rumor that Kenpachi was Yamamoto’s illegitimate son.