Recaps

Shuichi and Furoufushi Saito fought Jugram Haschwalth, whose shield and speed overwhelmed their attacks. Shuichi’s red slashes repeatedly spawned chains that briefly restrained Jugram, but Jugram broke free and continued blocking their strikes.

• Jugram Haschwalth nearly killed Shuichi with a swift sword strike and shield blast, while Furoufushi Saito watched from the ruins.
• Furoufushi Saito attacked Jugram Haschwalth with Dairitsu, but her Shikai only partly suppressed him, and she could not use her Bankai without affecting Shuichi.
• Shuichi’s Zanpakutō shifted into its healing form, restoring his strength, and he changed it to Flower of Longing before launching a red slash that produced chains.
• Jugram Haschwalth broke free of the chains and struck Furoufushi Saito into a wall, while Shuichi’s next slash shattered against his shield.
• Shuichi launched another slash that spawned more chains, and Furoufushi Saito attacked again, but Jugram Haschwalth broke the restraints while blocking her strike.

Shuichi and Saito fought Jugram Haschwalth, who wounded them both, while Shuichi’s unusual Reiatsu stirred and he finally called out Bankai. Shuichi’s Reiatsu stabilized and his Zanpakutō transformed, leaving its newly revealed name in his mind.

• Jugram Haschwalth fired eight Small Holy Arrows at Shuichi, piercing his left shoulder and forcing him behind a wall.
• Jugram Haschwalth disarmed Saito with his shield and cut her from her right shoulder to her abdomen, knocking her to the ground.
• Shuichi released blue butterflies that trapped Jugram Haschwalth in a brief memory of his childhood with Bazzard Black, then attacked as the vision faded.
• Jugram Haschwalth avoided Shuichi’s slash and shattered the butterflies, while Shuichi’s Reiatsu began fluctuating and producing strange static in his ears.
• Shuichi shouted “Bankai,” unleashing and drawing back a Reiatsu shockwave that stabilized his power and transformed his Zanpakutō into translucent crystal threaded with four colors.

Shuichi unleashed his Bankai, Higan Heaven: Underworld Blossoms, and Jugram vanished after receiving Yhwach’s order to withdraw. The Quincy retreated across Seireitei, leaving the survivors to confront the devastation and mourn their dead.

• Shuichi’s four-colored flower sea slowed Saito’s bleeding and spread to Jugram as Shuichi activated his Bankai.
• Jugram received Yhwach’s message, raised his shield, and disappeared into the shadows as Shuichi’s red sword-energy slashes passed through him.
• The Quincy forces withdrew from Seireitei in unison, prompting some Lower Nobility and Soul Reapers to cheer while others searched for survivors or collected bodies.
• The Upper Nobility surveyed heavy casualties, with the Kuchiki, Shihōin, Shiba, and Tsunayashiro Clans each bearing damage from their battles.
• The Upper Nobility districts remained subdued as families counted their dead and carried them to mourning halls.

After the Quincy withdrew from the Seireitei, a sudden storm fell over the battle’s aftermath. Saito helped Shuichi control his Reiatsu and release his Bankai, leaving him exhausted among the flowers.

• Gerard Valkyrie killed Zenteiji Yūbin, then vanished into the shadows as the Quincy retreat spread across the Seireitei.
• The Quincy disappeared, leaving the Seireitei quiet amid its ruins, fires, and fallen Soul Reapers.
• A sudden downpour soaked the battlefield as the temperature plunged.
• Shuichi’s tension broke, and he sat among the flowers, unable to figure out how to release his Bankai.
• Saito leaned against Shuichi and guided him in drawing back his Reiatsu until his Bankai dissolved.

After Yamamoto’s Bankai ended, he found no trace of Yhwach and wondered whether he had survived. Sasakibe summoned the surviving Soul Reapers to central Seireitei, where the battered divisions gathered with their wounded and dead, while Shuichi brought Saito to the assembly.

• Yamamoto surveyed the scorched battlefield after the rain extinguished the fires but found no trace of Yhwach.
• Sasakibe used Tenteikūra to summon all surviving Soul Reapers to central Seireitei, and Yamamoto allowed the order.
• Survivors from the divisions converged on the center, carrying the wounded Chikiri Shijima and Wang Tuchuan Yuxuji and the bodies of Zenteiji Yūbin and Saizo Sakigane.
• Shuichi heard Sasakibe’s summons, carried the injured Saito to central Seireitei, and watched the divisions assemble.
• The Fifth Division arrived last with Danjiro Obana on a stretcher after Pernida Parnkgjas had devastated its ranks.

After the battle, Saito revealed that Shuichi had unlocked a healing-type Bankai like Yachiru Unohana’s, but Yamamoto offered only a brief acknowledgment. Shuichi walked home through devastated Seireitei, helping survivors along the way, and returned to his unchanged but suddenly unfamiliar house.

• Yamamoto ordered the dead collected and the wounded captains sent to the Shin'ō Medical Institute, then dismissed the surviving Soul Reapers.
• Saito announced that Shuichi had unlocked a Bankai of the same type as Yachiru Unohana’s, and Yamamoto quietly replied, “I see.”
• Shuichi left the battlefield alone and freed a trapped Ninth Division Squad Member from rubble.
• Shuichi helped a Lower Nobility woman uncover the body of a young man, then carried the injured Shimura to his home.
• Shuichi returned to his house, where everything remained as he had left it before the battle.

After the Quincy destroyed Senjumaru Shutara’s institute, Yamamoto offered her land, funding, and a Gotei 13 captaincy so she could rebuild in Seireitei, and she went to the Twelfth Division. In Silbern, Haschwalth asserted his authority while Yhwach slept and received seized Reishi research files from the Soul Reapers.

• Senjumaru Shutara confronted Yamamoto about the Quincy destroying her institute, and Yamamoto offered her vacant land and resources in Seireitei if she joined the Gotei 13 as a captain.
• Shutara did not explicitly accept Yamamoto’s offer, but she said she would visit the Twelfth Division and insisted on weaving her own Captain’s Haori.
• Yamamoto reported that the Fourth Division Captain had regained consciousness, the Tenth Division Captain was barely stable, and the Twelfth and Thirteenth Division Captains had been killed.
• A Quincy knight challenged Haschwalth’s authority outside the hall where Yhwach slept, but Lille Barro confirmed that Yhwach had granted Haschwalth control of Silbern’s affairs.
• The knight handed Haschwalth files on Reishi research seized from Shutara’s institute, and Haschwalth directed the others to set them aside.

After Senjumaru Shutara took command of the ruined Twelfth Division and began rebuilding it beside the Upper Nobility district, Yamamoto announced that every division would move into the Seireitei. The Central 46 failed to challenge him, and the noble clans offered them no support, leaving the Seireitei’s transformation underway.

• Yamamoto introduced Senjumaru Shutara as the Twelfth Division’s new captain, and Shutara appointed Okutano lieutenant and organized the reconstruction.
• Upper Nobility families protested Shutara’s construction plans, but Yamamoto drew Ryujin Jakka and frightened them into fleeing.
• The Central 46 condemned Yamamoto, who declared that all Gotei 13 divisions would move into the Seireitei and silenced their objections with his Reiatsu.
• The Sages sought support from the Four Great Noble Clans, but Tsunayashiro Shiki refused involvement, Shihōin Qianri dismissed them, and the Kuchiki Clan supported Yamamoto.
• The Sages abandoned the idea of appealing to the Shiba Clan and watched the Seireitei continue changing around them.

After the Quincy war, Seireitei held a funeral that sent the fallen powerful spiritual bodies to Hell. Yamamoto asked Shuichi to demonstrate his Bankai and offered him the vacant Thirteenth Division captaincy, which Shuichi accepted.

• The Central 46 confirmed that spiritual bodies with Third-Class Spiritual Might or higher became Heavy Reishi after death and had to be sent to Hell through an ancient funeral rite.
• Yamamoto held the funeral at Sōkyoku Hill, where the fallen Soul Reapers and Quincy were sent to Hell by the Kidō Corps’ ritual.
• After the funeral, Yamamoto asked Shuichi whether he wanted to become a captain and told him to demonstrate his Bankai.
• Shuichi released Bankai, Higan Heaven: Underworld Blossoms, covering Sōkyoku Hill in Four-Colored Spider Lilies and impressing the captains.
• Yamamoto explained that the Thirteenth Division needed a captain, and Shuichi agreed to take the position.

After Shuichi demonstrated his Composite Bankai and chose a site for the Fifth Division, Senjumaru studied the lingering white threads in Danjiro Obana and developed a seal and leg guards to contain them. As the Seireitei struggled with a severe postwar shortage of Soul Reapers, Yamamoto decided to expand recruitment and replaced the Genji School with Shin'ō Academy.

• Senjumaru identified Shuichi's Bankai as a Composite Bankai, and Yamamoto told him to choose a site for his division and select a long-sleeved captain's haori.
• Shuichi chose a pond-side plot in the southern outer district for the Fifth Division, angering nearby nobles who had hoped to claim the land.
• Senjumaru examined the white threads fused with Danjiro Obana's nerves and made him a reinforcing seal and leg guards that let him use Shunpo.
• Yamamoto reviewed reports showing that the war had left the divisions short of personnel, while efforts to recruit wandering Soul Reapers produced few results.
• Yamamoto chose a site in the eastern outer district and established Shin'ō Academy in place of the Genji School.

After the Reiatsu eruption from the Seireitei killed the woman he loved and devastated his settlement, Shendu Wuming succumbed to hatred before Wuran's return interrupted a strange transformation in his eyes. Shendu resolved to gather abandoned wandering Soul Reapers and build a safe Rukongai beyond North District 70, and Wuran agreed to join him.

• Shendu Wuming mourned the woman killed by the Seireitei's Reiatsu eruption and blamed Soul Reapers and nobles for the deaths across Rukongai.
• As Shendu's hatred intensified, blackness spread through his eyes and Hollow Reiatsu surfaced until Wuran arrived and the darkness receded.
• Wuran brought food and told Shendu that Soul Reapers were recruiting in the earlier districts, but Shendu warned him not to go there again.
• Shendu announced that he wanted to build a Rukongai where wandering souls and unaffiliated Soul Reapers could live safely.
• Shendu proposed recruiting rejected wandering Soul Reapers and clearing a vacant stretch beyond North District 70, and Wuran agreed to help.

Shuichi became the Thirteenth Division's captain after helping its members rebuild their headquarters and restore their morale. After Yamamoto announced the creation of the Shin'ō Academy, Sasakibe convinced Shuichi that he could teach students the basics.

• Shuichi helped the Thirteenth Division relocate and rebuild its new headquarters while its members mourned their fallen captain and comrades.
• Shuichi arrived wearing a Captain's Haori, and the Squad Members recognized him as their new captain and became more spirited in their work.
• Chikiri Shijima woke in the Shin'ō Medical Institute and saw that Wang Tuchuan Yuxuji was alive but gravely weakened.
• Yamamoto announced that the Genji School would become the Shin'ō Academy and that captains would take turns teaching students recruited from Rukongai.
• Shuichi told Chojiro Sasakibe that he felt unqualified to teach, and Sasakibe reminded him that he only needed to teach the basics.

Shuichi approved the Thirteenth Division’s supply requests and promoted its highest-ranking seated officer as he faced the work of rebuilding the division. Meanwhile, Upper Nobility families debated Shin'ō Academy’s open admissions and realized that Yamamoto’s plan had the support of the Gotei 13, leaving them with little choice but to reckon with the new school.

• Shuichi signed the Thirteenth Division’s materials and logistics requests, then learned that its Eighth Seat was the division’s highest-ranking seated officer.
• Shuichi appointed the Eighth Seat to Third Seat and ordered him to fill the ranks through Tenth Seat.
• Upper Nobility gathered in Rukongai and voiced alarm that Shin'ō Academy would admit wandering souls with spiritual power and potentially reshape the Seireitei’s future.
• The nobles debated whether to send their own children, while the man at the head of the table warned that they would have to study alongside Rukongai students if they did.
• The nobles learned that all Gotei 13 captains, including Shihōin Qianri, would teach at Shin'ō Academy and concluded that the academy’s plan was settled.

Yamamoto’s recruitment drive for Shin'ō Academy gradually drew hundreds of Rukongai applicants, while the nobles continued to wait. In North 67th District, Shen Du blamed the Soul Reapers for the departure of most of his community, but he and Wuran chose to keep building their own Rukongai and then fought a Hollow together.

• Sasakibe reported that few people had registered, and Yamamoto told him to keep the Rukongai registration points open without pressuring applicants or nobles.
• Applicants learned that the Seireitei provided safe housing and meals, and the four registration points eventually recorded 317 people; Yamamoto ordered recruitment to reach 400.
• Shen Du found that most of the people in his courtyard had left for Shin'ō Academy and condemned the Soul Reapers and nobles, while Wuran urged him to build a place people would want to return to.
• Shen Du and Wuran set out to find anyone willing to stay, then spotted a Hollow near a settlement and attacked it.
• Shen Du repeatedly struck the Hollow’s legs with his Asauchi, Wuran joined the fight, and together they cut off all eight legs until the Hollow collapsed.

Shuichi organized the Thirteenth Division’s training, logistics, and mission duties as its headquarters neared completion. After Shimura invited him to reunite with old colleagues, they gathered at a tavern and toasted Shuichi’s promotion to captain.

• Shuichi reviewed the division’s growing workload and assigned the Third Seat to oversee training while the seated officers handled daily affairs.
• Shuichi appointed the Fourth Seat to manage logistics, the Fifth Seat to dispatch assignments, and the Sixth through Tenth Seats to lead task groups.
• With most paperwork delegated, Shuichi found his table nearly empty and signed only five documents in a morning.
• Shimura visited the Thirteenth Division, congratulated Shuichi on becoming captain, and suggested gathering with Sakamoto and the others for a drink.
• Shuichi joined Shimura, Sakamoto, and their former colleagues at a tavern, where they raised a toast to his promotion.

Shutara considered developing Reishi Garments that could adapt to Reiatsu and repair themselves. Meanwhile, Yamamoto approved Shihōin Qianri’s reorganization of the Onmitsukidō, which began operations with five corps and appointed commanders.

• Shutara read Okutano’s report on damaged Reishi Garments and considered using her fabrics and Meridian Pierce to create garments that adapted to Reiatsu and repaired themselves.
• Shihōin Qianri presented Yamamoto with the Onmitsukidō’s five-division structure, and Yamamoto approved it after confirming that interrogation had been removed.
• Shihōin announced the Onmitsukidō’s establishment and appointed Ōmaeda Xiquanzhi to command the Patrol Corps.
• Shihōin appointed Ryouka Hachi commander of the Supervision Corps, and she accepted with the Hachi Clan’s ceremonial bow.
• Shihōin appointed the Seventh Seat commander of the Inner Court Corps and the First Third Seat commander of the Feimou Corps.
• Shihōin declared that the Onmitsukidō would officially begin operations that day.

Central 46 considered how the Shihōin Clan’s new Onmitsukidō could let them monitor the Gotei 13. With Wang Tuchuan Yuxuji still unconscious, Yamamoto recruited Shiba Ichisegawa as the new Tenth Division captain, and Ichisegawa began taking command despite the squad’s wary silence.

• Central 46 councilors discussed the Onmitsukidō’s authority and decided to seek connections with the Shihōin Clan.
• Yamamoto visited Shiba Chuanlu and asked him to fill the Tenth Division captaincy, but Chuanlu refused and directed him to Ichisegawa.
• Yamamoto told Ichisegawa that forty percent of the Tenth Division’s squad members had died and that Wang Tuchuan Yuxuji remained unconscious.
• Ichisegawa accepted the captaincy and arrived at the Tenth Division barracks the next morning in a captain’s haori.
• Ichisegawa told the squad that he would take Wang Tuchuan Yuxuji’s place, ordered the fourth seat to bring him the division records, and went to find the captain’s office.

Yamamoto introduced Shiba Ichisegawa as the new Tenth Division captain and assigned duties to the divisions. Afterward, Yamamoto prioritized reinforcing Shuichi’s Thirteenth Division and left the number of reinforcements up to him.

• Yamamoto announced that Shiba Ichisegawa had become the Tenth Division captain, and several captains invited him out for drinks.
• Yamamoto assigned division duties, including noble management to Furoufushi Saito’s Sixth Division and purification in the World of the Living to Shuichi’s Thirteenth Division.
• Yamamoto explained to Shuichi that Hollow extermination and soul burials were essential duties that could not be delayed.
• Yamamoto told Shuichi that the First Division would prioritize supplying the Thirteenth Division with personnel and gave him a form to request reinforcements.
• Shuichi asked Yamamoto what standards to use, accepted responsibility for deciding, and left with the form.

Shuichi traveled to Kaimachi to confront a Gillian after the stationed Soul Reapers requested a captain’s intervention. He discovered the area’s Hollow Disaster had drawn Soul Reapers, human soldiers, and Quincies into nearby camps, then began fighting the Gillian and its Steel-Skinned Hollows.

• Chojiro Sasakibe told Shuichi that a Gillian had appeared in Kaimachi and that the Head Captain had assigned the World of the Living Soul Reapers to the Thirteenth Division.
• Shuichi entered Kaimachi, sensed the Gillian and Steel-Skinned Hollows, and discovered Soul Reaper, human, and Quincy camps nearby.
• Shuichi struck the Gillian’s mask with a red sword slash, provoking its roar and the gathering of a Cero.
• The three camps noticed the battle, and the stationed Soul Reapers identified the fighter as a captain.
• Shuichi used Shunpo and reishi footholds to evade the attacking Steel-Skinned Hollows while the Quincies remained in formation.

Shuichi defeated the Gillian after disrupting its Cero attacks and splitting its mask with Ironstone Style. The Soul Reapers celebrated briefly before charging to support him against the remaining Steel-Skinned Hollows in Kaimachi.

• Shuichi split the Gillian's Cero with sword energy but evaded the surviving beam with Shunpo.
• Shuichi restrained the Flying Hollow with Bakudō #4: Hainawa and used golden chains to disrupt the Gillian's Cero, making it explode against the Gillian's mask.
• Shuichi's first direct slash failed to pierce the Gillian's mask, but his next sword-energy strike caused another Cero to explode prematurely.
• Shuichi used Unohana's Ironstone Style to smash through the Gillian's cracked mask, killing it as its body disintegrated into the Reishi Cycle.
• The Soul Reapers at camp celebrated the Gillian's defeat, then charged out to support Shuichi against the remaining Steel-Skinned Hollows.

Shuichi and the stationed Soul Reapers defeated the Steel-Skinned Hollows at Kaimachi. An Onmitsukidō agent warned that a High-Reishi Unit had likely attracted the Menos Grande, and Shuichi kept his troops on alert to search for it.

• Shuichi and the stationed Soul Reapers killed the Steel-Skinned Hollows, with Shuichi taking down four and the Soul Reapers defeating the rest.
• Quincies watched from their camp as the fighting ended, while soldiers in the mortal army cautiously emerged from their shelters.
• An Onmitsukidō agent told Shuichi that a High-Reishi Unit likely attracted the Menos Grande and might still be nearby.
• Shuichi ordered the Soul Reapers to remain alert and maintain combat status.

Shuichi discovered a refugee girl with unusually dense spiritual power and a samurai general whose Reiatsu seemed inhuman. General Takeda adopted the girl, while Shuichi ordered the local Soul Reapers to watch over her until she could be retrieved after her death.

• Shuichi used White Blade to detect the refugee girl’s dense spiritual power and the strange Reiatsu of the samurai general beside her.
• A guard told Takeda that the unfamiliar white-uniformed army had left, and Takeda ordered the town rebuilt while keeping the supernatural events from his soldiers.
• Takeda had an adoption document drawn up and sealed, then told the girl that her surname was now Takeda.
• Shuichi’s Soul Reapers noted that the girl would not be retrieved for decades, and Shuichi sent the others back to their posts while ordering local personnel to watch her.

Shuichi returned to Seireitei and filed a report about the Kaimachi battle, including a human child with abnormal spiritual power and a military officer whose Reiatsu was unlike any he had encountered. At Shin'ō Academy, Yanyuan Jinle taught students that Kidō and Reishi Arts shared the same foundations, then warned them that many Reishi Arts manuals were unstable.

• Shuichi wrote a report on the Kaimachi mission and brought it to the First Division the next morning.
• Yamamoto read Shuichi's report and focused on its notes about the child and the officer's unusual Reiatsu.
• Yanyuan Jinle taught sixty Shin'ō Academy students that Kidō relied on precise control of Reiatsu and that its first lesson was not to be afraid.
• Yanyuan Jinle explained that Kidō and Reishi Arts used the same underlying principles, then warned that many Reishi Arts manuals circulating in Rukongai were unstable.

At Shin'ō Academy, the students faced very different lessons as their instructors put them through Kendo, Hakuda, Shunpo, theory, and flower arrangement. The classes continued with the Rukongai students struggling to adapt to the Academy's methods.

• Nobutsuna Shigyo called forward students with Rukongai Kendo experience, defeated seven of them, and declared their Kendo fourth-rate at best.
• Shihōin Qianri knocked all sixty students down during a Hakuda warm-up and told them to rest before continuing their lesson in taking a beating.
• Chikiri Shijima told the Shunpo class to practice without demonstrating, and the students made uneven progress as he watched and encouraged them.
• Entetsu Kumenoi taught the theory class clearly, while his intimidating appearance kept all sixty students rigidly attentive.
• Bakuzan Katori taught flower arrangement and gently guided students whose unfamiliarity with the craft left them struggling to compose their arrangements.

Shin'ō Academy's second round of captain-led courses gave students a mix of ordinary lessons, harsh practical training, and baffling technical lectures. The students left with little idea of Yamamoto's true rank or Shutara's subject, while Saito and Unohana's intimidating classes made a stronger impression.

• Shiba Ichisegawa taught a clear, ordinary Reiatsu class, and Danjiro Obana patiently guided students through Kidō.
• Furoufushi Saito chased the students during Shunpo practice, striking and taunting all sixty as they tried to evade her.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto taught basic sword techniques through repeated practice, while the students found his Kendo class dull and did not recognize him as Commander-General.
• Yachiru Unohana grimly taught flower arrangement, frightening the students as she followed Yamamoto's instruction to calm down.
• Shuichi taught Hakuda basics, and Senjumaru Shutara lectured on Reishi principles and materials before telling students they did not have to force themselves to understand.