Recaps

Kenma defeated the Six Paths Brothers, brought the Ninja World’s dead under his authority, and began organizing the Seireitei while Yoruichi revealed she was pregnant. As Kenma prepared for a new war and recruited allies, the executions of Danzō, Obito, and Itachi led him to investigate Hell and Kisuke Urahara’s hidden knowledge.

• Kenma defeated Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki with his Bankai, then joined Big Mom and Kaido to check the other battles.
• Kenma overcame Sasuke and Obito, while the Ten-Tails emerged as the Divine Tree, and Fugaku’s clansmen took the Four Hokage’s souls and brought Sasuke and Naruto back.
• Kenma gathered the Ninja World’s dead under contracts, reunited Minato and Kushina, and began planning a government for the Pure Land while the Uchiha negotiated Hiruzen Sarutobi’s fate.
• Kenma halted Aizen Sosuke’s attempt to draw his Zanpakuto, then offered to help Aizen break through his limits while keeping watch on him.
• Yoruichi told Kenma she was pregnant, and the two discussed names for their child as Kenma promised to take time off to be with her.
• Kenma advanced firearms and Kido weapons, appointed Nobunaga to lead a coming war, recruited Michikatsu Tsugikuni, and welcomed Kagaya Ubuyashiki and the Spirit Killing Squad.
• Izuna Uchiha executed Shimura Danzō, Obito Uchiha, and Uchiha Itachi, but a Hell Gate took their bodies, prompting Kenma to seek Kisuke Urahara’s help investigating Hell.
• Kenma asked Urahara for help with Hollowification and suspected he was concealing the Hogyoku, then went home with pastries to find Yoruichi training Yushiro.

Kenma led an invasion of the Quincy Shadow Empire, fought through Silbern, and destroyed what he believed was Yhwach’s body. The campaign ended with the Quincy resistance largely crushed, while battles against Gerard, Askin, and Gremmy continued.

• Kenma removed Sukuna from Yuji Itadori, took his technique, and killed him before returning home for the birth of Yoruichi’s son, Shikokuin Tōichirō.
• Kenma’s forces opened a passage into the Shadow Space and invaded the Quincy city, while Yamamoto Shigekuni and Kagaya Ubuyashiki inspected the Onmitsukidō’s preparations.
• Akainu, Garp, Kuzan, Whitebeard, and other allies fought the Quincy as Kaido and Big Mom battled the Sternritter near the Royal Palace.
• Kenma entered Silbern with Shisui and Mayuri Kurotsuchi, killed Lille Barro and Haschwalth, and confronted a disguised impostor who claimed to be Yhwach.
• Kenma destroyed the corpse in Yhwach’s coffin after Shisui found it, then flew to a plateau where Gerard Valkyrie and Gremmy Thoumeaux were still fighting.
• Gremmy attacked Kenma’s forces with a conjured mountain, but Kaido and Big Mom shattered it as Garp, Akainu, Hashirama, and Madara surrounded Gremmy.
• Sengoku reported that the city’s resistance had been crushed, with more than four hundred soldiers dead and nearly twelve hundred Quincy captured, while battles against Gerard, Askin, and Gremmy continued.

After defeating the Quincy, Kenma consolidated his power, entered a secret partnership with Aizen, and made a pact with Hell. When Aizen’s Hollowfication operation struck the Gotei 13, Urahara was framed and Kenma set out to take custody of the accused while searching for a cure.

• Kenma learned that Haschwalth had escaped with Yhwach and other Sternritter, announced victory, and later accepted the title Underworld King.
• Kenma retaliated against Yamamoto with a surprise inspection of the First Division, while Kyōraku traced the growing conflict between the Gotei 13 and Onmitsukidō to Tokinada’s influence.
• Aizen showed Kenma his Hollowfication experiments, and Kenma agreed to fund the research and help obtain another Orb.
• Kenma entered Hell, secured its acceptance as its administrator, and returned to find that Sengoku planned to execute the Quincy prisoners.
• Zero Division took Kiryū Kirishiki to the Soul King Palace, and Kenma refused to back down despite suspecting its warning was aimed at him.
• Kenma ordered Aizen to begin the operation, and the Gotei 13 captains investigating the disappearances began to Hollowify.
• Aizen escaped after Urahara and Kirinji interrupted him, while Urahara’s attempt to treat the captains was disrupted by Mu and an unseen attacker.
• Urahara accused Kenma and others of orchestrating the incident, but Aizen’s illusion confused the witnesses, and Kenma left to seek Urahara’s transfer to the Onmitsukidō so he could investigate and find a cure.

Kenma betrayed Yoruichi and Kisuke, then launched a war to seize the Seireitei and challenge Yamamoto. Though Yamamoto seemingly killed him and later unleashed his Bankai, Kenma regenerated and returned to the fight, where their weapons were damaged in a clash of time and heat.

• Kenma admitted his role in the captains’ plight, took Kisuke’s Benihime, and joined forces with Aizen after Kisuke and the others escaped.
• Kenma gathered his commanders and began the uprising, while Yoruichi learned the scale of his plans and confronted him over his betrayal.
• Kenma’s army seized Central 46 and attacked across the Seireitei as he confronted Yamamoto and the captains, then cut down his opponents with Time Severance.
• Yamamoto countered Kenma’s time stop with Kido, and Kuchiki Ginrei beheaded Kenma before Yamamoto burned his body.
• Kenma regenerated after absorbing Candice’s life and power, while his allies fought Yamamoto’s forces and Kyoraku’s Bankai battle with Borsalino ended in Kyoraku’s defeat.
• Yamamoto defeated or froze several captains and unleashed Zanka no Tachi against Kenma’s allies, forcing them to retreat.
• Kenma intercepted Yamamoto’s attack on his allies and fought him with Time Severance, but Yamamoto moved during the time stop and damaged Kenma’s Bankai.