Recaps

Chiba Makoto joined the Fourth Division to pursue healing and became Unohana Retsu’s disciple, though she assigned him to the Gynecology Department. After settling into his new role, Makoto met Aizen Sōsuke, who asked him about separating Shinigami powers from a spiritual body.

• Zaraki Kenpachi tried to recruit Chiba Makoto into the Eleventh Division after Makoto demonstrated that All Things in Nature could heal him, but Makoto chose the Fourth Division.
• Yamada Seinosuke brought Makoto and seventeen other graduates to the Fourth Division, where Makoto met Unohana Retsu and became her disciple.
• Makoto met the spirit of All Things in Nature and endured repeated lethal training that improved his Shunpo and revealed more of his Zanpakuto’s abilities.
• Unohana Retsu showed Makoto around the Fourth Division, assigned him to the Combat Support Division, and placed him in the Gynecology Department.
• Makoto worked with Aoki Risa, whose mother Aoki Chiyoko arranged an outpatient office for them, while Risa repeatedly brought him lunchboxes.
• Unohana Retsu acknowledged Makoto as her disciple at a captains' gathering, and word spread about the male physician in the Gynecology Department.
• Makoto told Unohana Retsu he wanted to stay by her side, but she drove him and Yamada Seinosuke out of her courtyard with her spiritual pressure.
• Aizen Sōsuke met Makoto outside the Gynecology Department, praised his abilities, and asked how to separate Shinigami powers from an ordinary spiritual body, and Makoto warned that doing so was dangerous and forbidden.

Chiba Makoto investigated the loss of soul fragments among Rukongai residents and learned Soul Transplantation Kaido to treat them. As he began saving patients, Yoshikami Tsume discovered Ichimaru Gin was hiding an unconscious girl who needed help.

• Chiba Makoto pondered Aizen Sōsuke’s interest in separating Shinigami powers, while Madarame Ikkaku and the Eleventh Division rallied around Makoto’s work in the Gynecology Department.
• Unohana Retsu warned Makoto to keep his distance from Aizen and later rejected Zaraki Kenpachi’s request to recruit him into the Eleventh Division.
• Yoruichi Shihoin sent Shaolin Fon to visit Makoto as a patient, and Makoto treated her injuries and developmental delays before sharing a meal with her.
• Unohana Retsu investigated Rukongai residents suffering soul loss and brought Makoto along, where they discussed how Zanpakuto reflected their wielder’s power and emotions.
• Makoto examined 168 afflicted residents and suspected Aizen had removed the emotional parts of their souls, then promised Yoshikami Tsume he would try to save the patients.
• Unohana Retsu taught Makoto Soul Transplantation Kaido, and he used it with Kaido to stabilize an injured girl whose elderly adoptive mother had volunteered to help her.
• Yoshikami Tsume found few residents with willing donors, then visited Ichimaru Gin, who asked him to find a trustworthy Soul Reaper to treat an unconscious orange-haired girl hidden in his home.

Chiba Makoto saved Matsumoto Rangiku through Ichimaru Gin’s sacrifice, then survived a deadly Adjuchas attack that exposed more of his evolving abilities to Aizen Sōsuke. After learning about Sōya Azashiro and becoming closer to Shaolin Fon, Makoto began Shunpo training with Yoruichi Shihoin, ending by targeting her captain’s haori.

• Chiba Makoto treated Matsumoto Rangiku by transplanting parts of Ichimaru Gin’s soul, then discovered a widow whose hollowed-out spirit body concealed a dangerous Adjuchas.
• The Adjuchas attacked Chiba Makoto and the Tenth Division, while Aizen Sōsuke and Tōsen Kaname observed, after Makoto nearly died, Ichimaru Gin and Unohana Retsu intervened, and Unohana destroyed the Hollow.
• Chiba Makoto recovered and learned that All Things in Nature’s Reishi Control could shape Reishi, while Aizen Sōsuke revealed that he had noticed Makoto’s strange recovery and suspected he was surpassing the limits of a Soul Reaper.
• Chiba Makoto encountered Urozakuro, who explained that her master, Sōya Azashiro, was imprisoned in Muken and could observe Seireitei through Reishi Illusion, though he could not interfere.
• Madarame Ikkaku and Ayasegawa Yumichika invited Chiba Makoto to join the Eleventh Division, while Shaolin Fon’s report to Yoruichi Shihoin revealed that she had become Makoto’s friend and fainted when Yoruichi teased her about marrying him.
• Yoruichi Shihoin took Chiba Makoto to a secret training ground to teach him Shunpo, where he filled the space with grass and trees and revealed that he had aimed to destroy her captain’s haori.

Chiba Makoto advanced his Shunpo and healing skills while building connections with Kuchiki Byakuya, Ichimaru Gin, and others, all the while growing wary of Aizen Sōsuke’s interest in him. After helping Byakuya bring Hisana and Rukia into his care, Makoto treated Kensei Muguruma’s severe injury and decided to investigate the limits of medical arts.

• Yoruichi Shihoin trained Chiba Makoto in Shunpo by having Shaolin Fon attack him, and Makoto stopped Fon’s strike with his Zanpakuto’s power even without holding it.
• Yoruichi Shihoin’s prank dressed Makoto in Kuchiki heirlooms and provoked Kuchiki Byakuya into a duel, which Makoto won before Byakuya later apologized and offered him a Ginpa'kasa.
• Makoto learned that Aizen Sōsuke had witnessed his Zanpakuto’s ability and began watching Aizen, while Aizen became increasingly interested in Makoto.
• Makoto accompanied Kuchiki Byakuya to the Shin'ō Academy entrance exam, where Ichimaru Gin placed first and revealed his hatred of Aizen Sōsuke over something important in Aizen’s possession.
• Makoto and Byakuya encountered Hisana in Rukongai, paid her debt, and learned that she wanted them to take in her younger sister Rukia, and Byakuya arranged a home for Hisana and Rukia.
• Makoto watched Zaraki Kenpachi defeat Kensei Muguruma, then used his Zanpakuto’s grass to stabilize and repair Kensei’s torn cardiac artery with Unohana Retsu’s help.
• After Unohana Retsu explained the spiritual requirements for conception, Makoto decided to research childbirth and improve gaps in Kaido and Medical Skills.