Recaps

The Empire absorbed new allies and brought East Blue under its rule, crushing Arlong and intervening in Goa Kingdom with devastating consequences. After destroying Uranus and the Five Elders, Hane expanded the Empire’s reach into the New World, where the Navy defeated Kaido and Big Mom before Shanks surrendered his pirate identity.

• Garp brought Dragon to meet Hane, who approved his entry into the Empire and described its future journey beyond the seas and into the stars.
• Nami escaped the pirates with her savings, and Rear Admiral Tsuru’s fleet destroyed Arlong’s crew, rescued Cocoyasi Village, and arrested corrupt Colonel Nezumi and his men.
• When Goa Kingdom’s nobles tried to burn Gray Terminal, Dragon and Garp saved its residents, but riots and Dragon’s later order to suppress them left about fifty thousand commoners dead.
• Hane transformed Shirahoshi for a visit to the amusement park, then the Empire’s Divine Dragons destroyed Uranus and Imu as Hane confronted the Five Elders and brought Vegapunk to the Imperial Capital.
• Hane sent Kaguya to aid the Empire’s invasion of Wano, where she killed Kaido and Akainu’s forces defeated the Beast Pirates.
• Kizaru and Chika Uchiha led the assault on Whole Cake Island, where Chika killed Big Mom and offered her surviving children a chance to reform under the Empire.
• Shanks warned Sengoku and Garp that the Empire’s unification could bring oppression, but Uchiha Retsuyō made him choose between registering as an adventurer and being arrested, and Shanks agreed to register.

Hane merged the Ninja World with the Pirate World, then the Underworld Bureaucracy expanded into Hueco Mundo and began absorbing its souls. After gaining new power, the Bureaucracy entered Soul Society and defeated its captains, leaving Yamamoto and the other Death Gods kneeling before Madara.

• Shanks signed the Adventurer’s Oath at the Adventurers’ Guild, renouncing piracy as the gathered reporters and officials celebrated.
• Hane merged the Pirate World with the Naruto World, raising his cultivation and granting people in both worlds new powers as the Underworld expanded.
• Madara led the Underworld Bureaucracy through the Great Rift into Hueco Mundo, defeated Aizen, and brought Ichigo and his companions to see its reincarnation system.
• The Sage of Six Paths used the Nine-Dragon Jade Seal to merge Hueco Mundo with the Underworld, restoring broken souls and giving ghost officials soul-bound weapons.
• Ichigo returned to the World of the Living and demonstrated the power of his Netherworld Envoy Token to Kisuke Urahara, who feared the Bureaucracy could become Soul Society’s greatest enemy.
• Madara established the Bureaucracy in District 89, drawing hungry souls from Rukongai until Byakuya and Toshiro confronted its guards and were defeated by Roger.
• Madara challenged the Soul Society captains, repelled their attacks, and wounded Yamamoto with a Truth-Seeking Orb after Hashirama stopped the meteor’s falling fragments.
• Yamamoto released Zanka no Tachi, but Madara summoned Yama’s Blade and forced him and the other Death Gods to kneel.

Madara and Hashirama brought Soul Society under the Underworld Bureaucracy, while the Soul King was freed and Hane attended his wedding. An unknown force severed the World of the Living from the Underworld, but Hane found Ichigo and helped him rescue the Cursed Children and establish the Empire in Black Bullet.

• Madara forced Yamamoto Genryūsai and the twelve captains to submit to the Underworld Bureaucracy, then assigned the captains to its offices as Squad Zero arrived to investigate Soul Society’s disappearance.
• Hashirama defeated Squad Zero and explained the Bureaucracy’s reincarnation system, while Yamamoto Genryūsai and Kirio Hikifune accepted the edict that had kept them kneeling.
• Hashirama freed the Soul King from his crystal, and the Soul King gathered his scattered limbs as Yhwach sensed his revival.
• Madara, Hashirama, the Soul King, and the Death Gods attended Hane’s wedding, where Senju Tobirama reported that an unknown force had severed Soul Society’s World of the Living from the Underworld.
• The cloaked Witch’s arrival coincided with the loss of spiritual powers in the World of the Living, and Ichigo prayed for help while the Sage of Six Paths failed to restore contact.
• Hane followed the severed connection to Ichigo’s world, restored Ichigo’s youth and his friends’ spiritual bodies, and helped rescue Orihime and the Cursed Children from soldiers and Gastrea.
• Hane planted the God Tree near Tokyo and brought Imperial forces through a passage, where they defeated Gastrea and claimed territory while Seitenshi’s council learned the Empire would take the Cursed Children.
• Hane confronted Tokyo’s leaders over their treatment of the Cursed Children, announced an Imperial shelter, and oversaw Witch Wristbands that suppressed the girls’ infection while preserving their Authorities.

Sosuke’s Empire intervened in Tokyo to shelter the Cursed Children, while Rentaro’s hesitation drove Enju away and Tokyo’s hostility escalated into massacre. After Rentaro was left for dead and Hane returned the Seven Stars Legacy to Scorpio, Scorpio unleashed a global Gastrea uprising as the Empire vanished into the sky.

• Sosuke forced Seitenshi to sign the Empire’s document, then his companions rescued Cursed Children and took Enju in after she left Rentaro over his refusal to help Rina.
• Rentaro apologized, and Enju returned with him after receiving a Witch Bracelet that granted her a powerful Witch Authority.
• Hiruko Kagetane seized the Seven Stars Legacy, and Jian Yi’s soldiers removed Cursed Children from Tokyo while Kakashi’s squad began gathering others.
• Enju’s identity was exposed at school, and Rentaro and Kisara failed to protect her as Imperial soldiers massacred the crowd outside the shelter.
• Seitenshi showed Tokyo the Empire’s power and its anger over the treatment of Cursed Children, while international forces prepared to confront the Empire.
• Doflamingo destroyed Eagle Nation after it attacked him, and the Empire’s victory led other countries to seek its favor and surrender their Cursed Children.
• Hiruko Kagetane and Kohina left Rentaro for dead, while Enju found comfort among Rina, Kayo, Hina, and the other Cursed Children as Scorpio approached Tokyo.
• Hane returned the Seven Stars Legacy to Scorpio, who remembered her sisters’ deaths and attacked Tokyo, breaking its Boundary Steles and unleashing Gastrea worldwide as Hane lifted the God Tree’s land into the sky and vanished.