Recaps

Iori confronted Altair, learned that her revolt was tied to Shizuna Shimazaki’s death, and brought her to a contract. As fictional characters gathered in the real world, Meteora warned that their presence threatened reality, while both sides debated whether public recognition and changing the Rules could alter their worlds.

• Athena helped Akame defeat Kakkavet, and Akame awakened as a Campione! with the Authority she named Black Water.
• Central 46 considered charges against Saito and Iori, while Iori’s allies completed the Diablo Cult’s cleanup.
• Iori entered Altair’s world, met Mamika and Meteora, and convinced Kubo Ei that fictional characters had crossed into reality.
• Altair recruited the Demon King and tried to enlist Iori, who fought her and revealed Shizuna Shimazaki’s soul, prompting Altair to contract with him.
• Iori’s group encountered the Sorrowful King and other summoned characters as Altair gathered more figures and raised their public exposure.
• Alicetelia urged the characters to work together, but Iori’s group learned from Meteora that the Correction Force’s efforts to accommodate them could cause a Great Collapse.
• Iori tested whether creators could change Seele’s abilities, while the Sorrowful King argued that conflict and disrupted Rules could let Altair rewrite lives and worldviews.

Iori turned the growing crossover project into a public battle for the Golden Star Cup, then betrayed Altair and orchestrated a story that revived Shizuna. After returning to Bleach, he investigated Quincy activity as Lan Dao’s hidden past and the Bount drew Saitō Fuyōfushi and Hikifune Kirio into the conflict.

• Iori cooperated with the government to publicize the Created, while Meteora warned that Altair’s plans and the growing supernatural incidents threatened a Great Collapse.
• Iori defeated Alicetelia in a fight broadcast across Japan, but Mamika intervened and Alicetelia continued trying to save her homeland.
• Iori proposed a Singularity powered by worldwide Recognition Power and a wish-granting contest, which Altair named the Holy Grail War.
• Iori defeated Hiko Seijuro, gained the Master and Disciple skill, and launched Singularity F as the participants battled before a global audience.
• Altair reached the Golden Star Cup, defeated the Sorrowful King, and triggered the Cup’s transformation of reality into Heavenly Reverse Moon.
• Iori betrayed Altair and revealed that he had used her despair to gain power, but the collapse of the Star Cup’s world led to Shizuna’s revival and a prepared story in which Altair defeated Iori.
• Shizuna chose to explore fictional worlds with Altair, while Iori promised the Created he could help them through the Singularity F project before returning to Bleach.
• Iori warned Yamamoto of Quincy activity in Seireitei, while Lan Dao defended the Bount and was joined by Saitō Fuyōfushi and Hikifune Kirio.

Iori defeated Yhwach and then fought his way through Zero Division to reach the Soul King. He left the Soul King unharmed, promised to seek a replacement and help with Hell, while Haschwalth sensed Yhwach might still be nearby.

• Saito and Hikifune fought the Quincy in the World of the Living as Yhwach prepared an invasion, then Iori and his allies returned to Soul Society and discovered that the Quincy had attacked the Shiba clan.
• Iori’s forces fought through Quincy ambushes and Reigai while the Wandenreich seized parts of the Seireitei, and Yamamoto’s battle against Yhwach’s double ended when Iori confronted the real Yhwach.
• Iori defeated Yhwach with the Divine Blade Mandala Array and World-Saving Divine Lightning, while Yamamoto killed Lille Barro and the surviving Quincy forces retreated.
• Iori reached the Soul King Palace and challenged Hyōsube Ichibē and Zero Division, overwhelming their attacks and shattering the palace in his battle with Ichibē.
• Ōetsu stabbed Iori with an Asauchi while Ichibē used his ink to weaken him, but Iori’s original body appeared and Sōfuku returned to him as its master.
• Iori defeated Ichibē and Ōetsu, extracted Ichibē’s conceptual energy, and rebuilt the path and palace before opening the Soul King’s crystal pillar.
• Iori promised the Soul King he would seek a replacement and help with Hell, while Haschwalth remained imprisoned and sensed Yhwach’s bloodline connection and Letter B awaken.

Iori recruited Haschwalth and entered Chaldea’s preserved record of Ritsuka’s past before building the Uranus and confronting the Silver Race. The arc left Iori heading toward Dianaira while Leiketi, whom he had spared, asked to meet him.

• Iori defeated Haschwalth, revealed Yhwach’s death, and persuaded him to pledge the Quincy to his cause.
• Iori learned from Merlin that Ritsuka’s memories could help free her from her sacrifices, then entered the Singularity Record and fought beside her through its crises.
• Iori studied Chaldea’s records and rescued a reconnaissance team from a Bronze race swarm with the Golden Ark.
• Iori built the Uranus, defeated the Silver Race Nodos Leiketi and Almanderus, and captured Leiketi rather than returning her to the Silver Race.
• Iori made a pact with Gaia to defeat five Hero Race members and restore the Hero Race’s destroyed home planet.
• Iori relaxed with his companions aboard the Uranus, encouraged Hippolyta to pursue human emotions, and visited the Federation capital at Meriyagos’s invitation.
• Iori asked Meliagros for the Argo’s route so he could find Dianaira, while the spared Leiketi woke aboard the Uranus and asked to speak with him.