Recaps

Shuichi and his allies survived a devastating Quincy assault, while the Soul Society treated its wounded and reorganized after the war. As Suzuko accepted a new role and Yoruichi took over the Shihōin Clan, noble factions turned their attention to Kōga and Ise Akira’s marriage.

• Shuichi and Suzuko attacked Quincy camps, but Holy Soldiers soon struck the Soul Reaper camp, where Frida froze the battlefield and Suzuko used her Bankai to stop time.
• Shuichi defeated Ursula, bound Frida and Lena, and sent his Bankai’s healing light to Suzuko, while Zhu Sibo and Huashen fought their own Quincy opponents.
• Oda Tenza arrived through a Senkaimon and drove Siegfried Hess away, but Suzuko’s Spirit Network was left damaged and required surgery and months of rehabilitation.
• Haschwalth punished the Quincy who fled or failed, while Central 46 assessed the Soul Reapers’ losses and the Sages discussed Shuichi’s strength and Ukitake’s abilities.
• The Eleventh Division chose a new captain, Quincy activity dwindled, and the divisions gradually restored their patrols and regular duties.
• Tokinada Tsunayashiro’s marriage to Ge Kuang alarmed fallen nobles, while Kōga Kuchiki became Sixth Division lieutenant and the nobles plotted to damage his Spirit Network.
• Suzuko accepted an offer of care and honors as the Great Sacrificial Priest of Rejuvenation, on the condition that she would not use her abilities during treatment and would decide their later use herself.
• Yoruichi succeeded Qianri as head of the Shihōin Clan, while rumors surrounding Ise Akira’s marriage to Kyoraku Haruyama prompted an Ise representative to seek delays to its authorization.

As the Gotei 13 changed leadership, Kisuke Urahara became Twelfth Division captain, Murata Shō took command of the Eleventh, and Love Aikawa succeeded Huashen Jing. The story also followed the Miyanou siblings from a Hollow attack to their first day at the Shin'ō Academy.

• Yoruichi Shihōin became Second Division captain, Kisuke Urahara defeated the Third Seat, and Marechiyo Ōmaeda succeeded his father as lieutenant.
• Kirio Hikifune developed Gikon, earned promotion to the Zero Division, and left the Twelfth Division without naming a successor.
• Central 46 provisionally selected Kisuke Urahara to lead the Twelfth Division, and Hiyori Sarugaki attacked him when he arrived in Kirio’s captain’s haori.
• Kaien Shiba achieved Shikai, joined the Thirteenth Division, and impressed Jūshirō Ukitake with his work on increasingly independent missions.
• Murata Shō seized the Eleventh Division captaincy, defeated the forces sent to arrest him, and earned Yamamoto’s approval after improving the division’s discipline.
• Kisuke Urahara linked a Hollowfication disaster to an ancient presence, while Zhu Sibo Zhengyuan rescued the Miyanou siblings and welcomed them into his family.
• Love Aikawa demonstrated his Bankai before Yamamoto and became Seventh Division captain after Huashen Jing retired.
• Shuichi reported unusual Reiatsu from Murata’s Fifteenth Seat to Yamamoto, while Fujimaru and Matsuri began their first day at the Shin'ō Academy.

Kisuke Urahara secured Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s release and a new research institute, while Shibata Takanobu’s catastrophic Bankai and Arturo Platido’s invasion shook Seireitei. The story then followed the characters’ postwar choices and growing tensions, ending with Kuruyashiki stepping forward as Shibata left the Eleventh Division exposed to Quincy arrows.

• Kisuke Urahara persuaded Central 46 to approve a research institute and release Mayuri Kurotsuchi, then Murata Shō fought Eleventh Division veterans until Shibata Takanobu unleashed his devastating Bankai and was detained for assessment.
• As Kisuke Urahara traveled to Hueco Mundo with Shibata Takanobu and several captains, Arturo Platido emerged in Seireitei and led a Hollow invasion, which Zhu Sibo Zhengyuan and Shuichi fought before Redwater Mirror helped drive Arturo away.
• Seireitei’s fighters treated the invasion’s casualties, Zhu Sibo Zhengyuan resigned but agreed to delay pursuing Arturo, and Shinji Hirako accepted the Fifth Division captaincy while Kensei Muguruma became Ninth Division lieutenant.
• Kisuke Urahara traced the Hollow uprising to Arturo Platido, Gin Ichimaru graduated early, and Central 46 released Shibata Takanobu and appointed him Eleventh Division captain as the new graduates joined their divisions.
• Sosuke Aizen studied records about Arturo Platido, Shendu Wuming, and Bankai Hollowfication, while Kisuke Urahara removed a Soul King Fragment from Ge Kuang and Aizen secretly found it in his laboratory.
• After Tsunayashiro Tokinada admitted killing Ge Kuang, Sosuke Aizen intervened as Tōsen Kaname left, and Tōsen and Sajin Komamura later became friends before choosing the Ninth and Seventh Divisions respectively.
• Shibata Takanobu’s constant criticism wore down the Eleventh Division, and during a Quincy attack he stayed behind as Squad Members fell until Kuruyashiki cut down incoming arrows and advanced in his place.