Recaps

After Shuichi helped end the Reverse London battle, the Gotei 13 turned to rebuilding and a new generation of leaders took shape across Seireitei. The arc ended with Sōsuke Aizen assigned to the Fifth Division and Shinji Hirako reluctantly appointed lieutenant of the Ninth.

• Shuichi killed Momotaro, and the defenders routed the remaining attackers before the Gotei 13 left Reverse London’s affairs to the Dragon Management Organization.
• Yamamoto heard that Shuichi’s new Bankai obscured his position and Reiatsu, while Central 46 debated the changing balance of power and fallen nobles recruited Yushima Ouko for a secret project.
• Yoruichi brought Kisuke Urahara to the Shihōin estate, and Shuichi later taught Hakuda, Kidō, and theory at Shin'ō Academy as Kisuke enrolled.
• Unohana became captain of the Fourth Division, Minamoto Yishou took command of the Eleventh, and several other divisions began preparing successors and new instructors.
• Zaraki met a nameless girl in the forest and named her Yachiru Kusajishi, while Okuharano appointed the directionally challenged Raia as his assistant.
• Central 46 traced suspicious noble payments to Yushima Ouko, whose secret experiments continued in a hidden Rukongai workshop under Onmitsukidō surveillance.
• Graduates received their assignments as Aizen Sōsuke entered the Fifth Division, Hachigen Ushōda joined the Kidō Corps, and Lisa Yadōmaru and Rose Ōtoribashi received their placements.
• Jūmonji Quando appointed Shinji Hirako lieutenant of the Ninth Division after judging him the most qualified candidate, though Hirako continued to leave paperwork unsigned.

As Seireitei dealt with the Azashiro House riot and expanded reliable news in Rukongai, the Quincy launched attacks that forced the divisions to prepare for larger operations. The arc ends with the Eleventh Division mobilizing as rumors of the Quincy’s return spread.

• Shuichi learned that powerful beings did not enter the Reishi Cycle, while Kashima retired from the Thirteenth Division and Jūshirō Ukitake became its lieutenant.
• Sōya Azashiro served as the Eleventh Division’s lieutenant until rumors ignited a Rukongai riot, where he found his sister killed by a Gillian and was suspended pending investigation.
• Yushima Ouko expanded his Reishi Puppet research as the Sages traced the riot to him and his backers, while Yamamoto approved an independent investigation into the Azashiro House attack.
• Shuichi proposed notice boards and Seireitei Communication distribution in Rukongai, then advanced to First-Class Spiritual Might and helped Aizen master Kurohitsugi.
• After Sōya Azashiro was reinstated but remained despondent, the Kuchiki Clan’s growing influence drew criticism and Shinji Hirako and Kensei Muguruma were attacked by Quincy while surveying Rukongai.
• Central 46 ordered intelligence gathering after the Quincy attack, and Shunsui Kyōraku sent Lisa Yadōmaru to lead an Eighth Division reconnaissance mission.
• Lisa and her officers were ambushed by Quincy in a forest, and Lisa fought to open a path out as the injured group pressed onward.
• Minamoto Yishou concluded that the Quincy were making larger moves and ordered preparations, while Sōya Azashiro briefly joined Eleventh Division drills and rumors of the Quincy’s return spread.

The Soul Reapers repelled the Quincy assault, but the battle left Minamoto Yishou and Konishi Qianyi badly injured and set off a crisis over the Eleventh Division’s leadership. As Yushima Ouko advanced his puppet project and Fūgoin Yūkichi revealed his Bankai, Central 46 dismissed Minamoto and expelled Sōya Azashiro, just as an unknown figure arrived at Minamoto’s barracks.

• Minamoto Yishou and Sōya Azashiro broke through the Quincy line, but Stefan Lange’s Vollständig wounded Minamoto and overwhelmed Azashiro until Rose Ōtoribashi, Love Aikawa, and Shunsui Kyōraku helped defeat Stefan.
• Siegfried Hess defeated Konishi Qianyi, who survived her fall but learned that her Spirit Network injuries would severely limit her Bankai, while Minamoto discovered that repairing his Bankai had permanently weakened it.
• Central 46 appointed Rose Ōtoribashi vice-captain and Love Aikawa Third Seat, while the Eleventh Division’s officers worried over Minamoto and Azashiro’s condition and leadership.
• Yushima Ouko field-tested his Second-Generation Puppet against the Quincy, then began planning mass production and later designed puppets intended to reproduce captains’ abilities.
• Fūgoin Yūkichi revealed his Bankai to protect Tenth Division officers and used its Song Cards to defeat a Quincy captain and his soldiers.
• Yachiru Unohana proposed lethal duels to restore the Eleventh Division, but Central 46 rejected her proposal, and Sōya Azashiro challenged the sages before tearing off his lieutenant’s badge and leaving.
• Central 46 dismissed Minamoto Yishou as captain and expelled Sōya Azashiro, and as Onmitsukidō agents arrived to enforce the ruling, another figure approached through the rain.

The Gotei 13 rebuilt the Eleventh Division, reorganized its command, and returned it to the Quincy front as Central 46 struggled with internal threats and political divisions. Yushima Ouko escaped into the Dangai, his hidden production plans survived, and the Eleventh Division was sent to clear ruins in Rukongai.

• The Eleventh Division veterans attacked Central 46 over Minamoto Yishou’s captain’s haori, while Yamamoto challenged the sages’ authority and the Punishment Force stopped the assault.
• Central 46 approved a regulated Blood Plan for the leaderless Eleventh Division, and Retsu Unohana tested the contenders before the victor became the Third Kenpachi.
• Kiyonosuke became Fourth Division vice-captain, Huashen Jing was assigned to the Seventh Division, and Fūgoin Yūkichi received the Tenth Division captaincy order.
• Central 46 sent the Eleventh Division to the northern front as guerrillas, while Aizen and Urahara investigated Quincy differences and Kirio Hikifune began developing substitute-soul armaments.
• After Cang Du and BG9 awakened new Schrifts, they fought Zhu Sibo Zhengyuan and Aizen, and Central 46 responded by seeking noble-house help and imprisoning Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Yamamoto sent Ginrei Kuchiki against Yushima Ouko’s Puppet Corps, but Ouko escaped through the Dangai after fighting Ginrei and was later declared effectively destroyed.
• Fallen nobles continued Ouko’s work with copied production plans, but the Onmitsukidō raided and destroyed their hidden factory before the Eleventh Division accepted a paid assignment clearing ruins in Rukongai.