Chapter Summaries

Aizen orchestrated the Visored Army’s Hollowfication and planned to kill Shinji Hirako, but Kisuke Urahara and Tekka Gekka arrived before he could finish. Aizen escaped accountability by using Kyōka Suigetsu to create an alibi, and Tekka Gekka attacked him as the confrontation continued.

• Kisuke Urahara reported the loss of contact with the deployed officers, and Yamabuki Chidori sent more captains and lieutenants to investigate.
• Aizen watched as Tōsen ambushed Kuna Shiro, and the Visored Army staged injuries and Hollowfication while fighting one another.
• Shinji Hirako exposed Aizen, who declared that he would kill Hirako himself, but Kisuke Urahara arrived and intercepted his blade.
• Aizen explained that Kyōka Suigetsu gave him an alibi and left with Tōsen after Kisuke Urahara threatened to report him.
• Tekka Gekka attacked Aizen with Hadō #88: Dragon of Thunder.

Kisuke Urahara was framed for Hollowfication Experiments and sentenced to death while Yamabuki Chidori secretly maneuvered the Visored captains and Soul Society’s leaders. As Urahara’s convoy reached the execution route, Shihōin Yoruichi and Tekka Gekka attacked to rescue him, and Yoruichi found Chidori seemingly pretending to lose to her.

• Aizen blocked Tekka Gekka’s attack, while Kisuke Urahara took the Hollowed captains to his home and retrieved his Incomplete Hogyoku to try to save them.
• Shihōin Yoruichi arrested Urahara after the Onmitsukidō found the Hollowed captains in his home, and Urahara suspected Yamabuki Chidori was behind the accusations.
• Central 46 heard Urahara’s case, but Gin Ichimaru accused him and Aizen produced an alibi backed by the Captain Commander and more than a hundred First Division members.
• Yamabuki Chidori arranged for the Visored captains to hide safely, then urged the Gotei 13 to execute Urahara and the Hollowed Soul Reapers.
• On the day of Urahara’s execution, Yoruichi and Tekka Gekka attacked the convoy, and Yoruichi engaged Chidori while Gekka moved to rescue the prisoners.
• Yoruichi used Shunko against Chidori, but he appeared to let her overpower him and praised her strength.

Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara escaped execution with help from Shunsui Kyōraku, while the Gotei 13 reorganized after losing several Captain-level fighters. Yamabuki Chidori was assigned as Jūshirō Ukitake’s Lieutenant, and Soi Fon was devastated that Yoruichi escaped without her.

• Yoruichi rescued Kisuke Urahara and the Visored Army, while Shunsui Kyōraku pretended to lose and secretly directed them to Jūshirō Ukitake at the East Gate.
• The Captain Commander and Yamabuki Chidori discussed replacing the vacant Captains, and Yamabuki recommended Gin Ichimaru, Aizen Sōsuke, Sajin Komamura, and Kaname Tōsen.
• The Captain Commander assigned Yamabuki Chidori to the Thirteenth Division as its Lieutenant, and Shunsui Kyōraku told Jūshirō Ukitake the news.
• Yamabuki recommended Soi Fon for the Second Division Captain position and Kurotsuchi Mayuri for the Twelfth Division, and the Captain Commander accepted the replacements.
• Yamabuki discovered Soi Fon had learned that Yoruichi escaped without her, and Soi Fon returned home heartbroken.

After the Gotei 13 appointed six new Captains, Yamabuki Chidori struggled to manage the understaffed Thirteenth Division while Soi Fon buried her heartbreak in work and training. He recruited Shiba Isshin to persuade Shiba Kaien to become the division’s 3rd Seat, and the chapter ended with Jūshirō Ukitake taking twelve months of sick leave.

• Soi Fon cried over Yoruichi’s departure, then accepted her appointment as Captain of the 2nd Division despite feeling unprepared.
• Yamabuki Chidori took a post as the Thirteenth Division’s Lieutenant and pressured Jūshirō Ukitake to let him handle the division’s work.
• The Gotei 13 announced six new Captains, including Aizen, Gin Ichimaru, Tōsen, Komamura, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, and Soi Fon.
• After months of recovery, Yamabuki Chidori found the Thirteenth Division’s delayed paperwork overwhelming and ordered a notice seeking a 3rd Seat.
• Shiba Isshin recommended his nephew Shiba Kaien for the position, and Yamabuki Chidori agreed to consider him.
• Jūshirō Ukitake submitted a sick-leave form for twelve months, and Yamabuki Chidori signed it.

Yamabuki Chidori recruited Shiba Kaien into the Thirteenth Division and persuaded Kuchiki Ginrei to stop opposing Byakuya's relationship with Hisana. Yamabuki then suggested that Ginrei make Byakuya head of the Kuchiki Clan so he could decide his own future, leaving Ginrei to consider the plan.

• Shiba Isshin escaped Yamabuki Chidori's paperwork, then took Yamabuki to meet Shiba Kaien, who agreed to join the Thirteenth Division as its 3rd Seat.
• Kaien began processing the division's paperwork while Yamabuki enjoyed his newfound free time.
• Kuchiki Ginrei came looking for Yamabuki, and Kuchiki Byakuya arrived shortly afterward asking to speak with him.
• Ginrei explained that Byakuya refused an arranged marriage because he loved Hisana, a commoner, and Yamabuki advised him to let the young couple decide for themselves.
• Yamabuki proposed that Ginrei make Byakuya head of the Kuchiki Clan so the clan elders would have to respect his wishes.

Yamabuki Chidori urged Kuchiki Byakuya to trust his feelings, and Kuchiki Ginrei stepped down so Byakuya could become clan head and marry Hisana. Byakuya brought Hisana to Seireitei, where a necklace from Chidori protected her from its dense Reishi, and Hisana prepared to reveal a secret.

• Yamabuki Chidori encouraged Kuchiki Byakuya to marry the woman he loved and trust his own feelings.
• Kuchiki Ginrei named Byakuya clan head, while Kuchiki Kyōka pledged to support him against the elders.
• Byakuya silenced the elders’ objections and declared that he would marry Hisana.
• Byakuya reunited with Hisana in Rukongai and brought her to Seireitei, where its dense Reishi made her ill.
• Yamabuki Chidori gave Hisana a necklace that eased her symptoms and hinted that she could recover what she had lost.
• Hisana told Byakuya she had something important to tell him later.

Yamabuki Chidori kept Yoruichi in the dark about the Captains’ Hollowfication and Aizen, then rescued the starving Rukia from a market in Rukongai. After bringing her to Seireitei, he contacted Byakuya, who recognized her as Hisana’s missing younger sister and hurried to meet her.

• Yamabuki Chidori received a wedding invitation from Byakuya, and Hisana asked Byakuya to find her younger sister.
• Yoruichi confronted Yamabuki Chidori about the Hollowfication incident, Urahara’s secrecy, and Aizen, but he refused to explain and promised answers might come in about a hundred years.
• Rukia and Renji’s companions stole bread at the Rukongai market, and the owner caught Rukia and threatened her with a knife.
• Yamabuki Chidori stopped the owner, paid for the bread, and took Rukia with him after pinning Renji and the other children down with his Reiatsu.
• Yamabuki Chidori brought Rukia to Seireitei and sent Byakuya her photograph; Byakuya recognized her as Hisana’s sister and went to the Thirteenth Division.

Byakuya and Hisana reunited Rukia with her sister and brought her into the Kuchiki Clan, while Renji spent five years striving to become a Soul Reaper. At Shino Academy’s entrance examinations, Renji and Rukia met again, and Rukia recognized her old friend after guards briefly restrained him.

• Byakuya confirmed through a DNA test that Rukia was Hisana’s younger sister, and Hisana rushed to embrace her.
• Byakuya decided to adopt Rukia as his younger sister, and he and Hisana took her back to the Kuchiki Clan.
• Renji learned how to enter Shino Academy and vowed to become a Soul Reaper so he could rescue Rukia.
• Five years later, Yamabuki Chidori reviewed the entrance examination applicants and noticed Renji, Rukia, Ikkaku Madarame, Momo Hinamori, and Oomaeda Marechiyo on the list.
• Renji spotted Rukia at Shino Academy and rushed to her, but Kuchiki guards pinned him down until Rukia recognized him and ordered them to release him.

Renji reunited with Rukia, learned she had been happy with Hisana, and was brutally defeated by Yamabuki Chidori before their lives diverged after graduation. A thousand years later, Chidori traveled through Karakura Town, stopped a train attacker, and met a schoolgirl named Masaki Kurosaki.

• Rukia told Renji about the years she had spent with Hisana, and Renji angrily confronted Yamabuki Chidori, who knocked him through a wall with one slap.
• Renji became a Soul Reaper, grew distant from Rukia, and later entered the Fifth Division before Aizen sent him to the 11th Division to train with Ikkaku Madarame.
• After a thousand years of peace, Yamabuki Chidori visited modern Karakura Town and boarded a crowded train.
• A man in a girls' school uniform attacked an orange-haired girl, and Chidori used Kidō to disarm him, causing the knife to strike him in the groin.
• The orange-haired girl, Masaki Kurosaki, questioned Chidori about his powers, and he realized she had missed her school stop.

Yamabuki Chidori tried to arrange a match between Masaki Kurosaki and Shiba Isshin so that Kurosaki Ichigo could be born, then enlisted Aizen to create White Ichigo and set the plan in motion. The chapter ended with a Menos Grande appearing over Karakura Town, leaving the local Substitute Shinigami facing a terrifying threat.

• Masaki Kurosaki revealed to Yamabuki Chidori that she was a Quincy, and he revealed that he was one too.
• Yamabuki Chidori urged Shiba Isshin to date Masaki, but Isshin refused unless Chidori took over half a month of his work.
• Masaki's Ishida relatives scolded her for being late, while Ryuken Ishida defended her and his mother hoped they would marry.
• Yamabuki Chidori realized that Aizen had never created White Ichigo and recruited him to create a Hollow that could enter Masaki and pass its power to her child with Isshin.
• Aizen created the Hollow and released it into Karakura Town, where its Reiatsu appeared alongside a Menos Grande and alarmed the local Substitute Shinigami.

Shiba Isshin fought White Ichigo in the Human World, where Aizen ambushed him as a Quincy and Masaki Kurosaki arrived to help. White Ichigo was destroyed and his power transferred to Masaki, but Ryuken Ishida confronted the wounded Isshin over the Quincy-Soul Reaper feud, leaving Masaki caught between them.

• Yamamoto sent Shiba Isshin to the Human World, where Isshin drove White Ichigo back with Moon Fang Sky Roar.
• Aizen wounded Isshin with Quincy arrows and escaped through a Wormhole, while Masaki Kurosaki arrived and attacked White Ichigo.
• Isshin mistook Masaki for another attacker and swung at her, but Yamabuki Chidori stopped his blade before she confronted Isshin about the misunderstanding.
• White Ichigo stabbed Isshin from behind, and Aizen activated its self-destruct device, transferring its power into Masaki Kurosaki.
• Ryuken Ishida arrived and prepared to kill Isshin, but Masaki stood between them as Isshin challenged Ryuken over their families' bloody history.

Masaki Kurosaki’s dormant Hollow Power awakened, putting her on the verge of Hollowfication, and Yamabuki Chidori arranged for Shiba Isshin to save her by giving up his Shinigami Power. Isshin and Masaki chose to stay together in the human world, while Ryuken Ishida left heartbroken.

• After Masaki Kurosaki returned home, Ryuken Ishida’s mother scolded and slapped her for fighting, and Masaki discovered a black Hollow Hole in her chest while bathing.
• At school the next day, Masaki’s Hollow Reiatsu overtook her Quincy Reiatsu, her classmates began to look like food, and a Hollow mask appeared on her face.
• Ryuken Ishida carried Masaki away without shooting her, and Shiba Isshin recognized that she was undergoing Hollowfication.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Shiba Isshin that transferring his Shinigami Power could suppress Masaki’s Hollow Power, and Isshin agreed to sacrifice his status and abilities to save her.
• Yamabuki Chidori performed the ritual, after which Masaki and Isshin woke up close; Masaki chose Isshin over Ryuken, who left alone.
• Yamabuki Chidori gave Masaki and Isshin money, and Isshin decided to remain with her in the human world.

Yhwach awakened and used Auswählen against the Impure-blood Quincy, but Masaki Kurosaki survived and saved Kurosaki Ichigo from a Hollow. Yamabuki Chidori learned Yhwach had returned and ordered special training for the Gotei 13, ending with her swiftly defeating Toshiro.

• Aizen hypnotized newborn Kurosaki Ichigo with Kyōka Suigetsu, then left before Isshin Kurosaki returned to the hospital room.
• When Kurosaki Ichigo was six, Masaki Kurosaki heard a heartbeat that signaled Yhwach’s awakening, while Ichigo approached a Hollow disguised as a girl.
• Yhwach activated Auswählen and killed Impure-blood Quincy across the world, but Masaki Kurosaki survived because Yamabuki Chidori’s power protected her bloodline.
• Masaki Kurosaki killed the Hollow with a Quincy arrow and told Kurosaki Ichigo to keep her abilities secret from Isshin Kurosaki.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered special training for the Gotei 13, then defeated Toshiro moments after he challenged her to a fight.

Yamabuki Chidori assigned special training to the Shinigami and secretly arranged for Rukia Kuchiki to meet Kurosaki Ichigo, believing Ichigo’s powers needed to be awakened. After Rukia passed her spiritual power to Ichigo, he became a Substitute Shinigami, and she moved into his closet.

• Yamabuki Chidori ordered the lieutenants to train toward Bankai and assigned individual programs, including an unusual plan for Momo Hinamori to practice taking hits.
• Aizen searched the records and concluded that Yhwach might be awaiting revival, while he continued monitoring Kurosaki Ichigo and researching the Hogyoku.
• Aizen identified Rukia Kuchiki as the Shinigami whose spiritual power best matched Ichigo, and Yamabuki Chidori assigned her to Karakura Town.
• Rukia Kuchiki killed a Hollow in front of Kurosaki Ichigo, then later encountered another Hollow at his house and was forced to transfer her spiritual power to him.
• Kurosaki Ichigo became a Substitute Shinigami and began fighting Hollows, while Rukia Kuchiki moved into his closet.

After Rukia Kuchiki’s transfer of spiritual power drew the Soul Society’s attention, Kuchiki Byakuya and Renji Abarai came to Karakura Town to take her back. Their confrontation with Uryu Ishida escalated when Yamabuki Chidori revealed he had ordered the Quincy massacre, and Kurosaki Ichigo arrived as the battle continued.

• Masaki Kurosaki and Isshin Kurosaki left on a trip, while Rukia Kuchiki’s spiritual power continued to weaken.
• Kuchiki Byakuya decided to retrieve Rukia and traveled to the Human World with Renji Abarai, while Yamabuki Chidori followed.
• Rukia fled after sensing the three Shinigami, leaving Kurosaki Ichigo a farewell letter before Renji, Byakuya, and Chidori caught up with her.
• Uryu Ishida intervened to protect Rukia, and Yamabuki Chidori admitted he had ordered the massacre of the Quincy, including more than seven hundred members of the Ishida Family.
• Renji defeated Uryu, but Kurosaki Ichigo arrived; when Renji moved to attack him, Yamabuki Chidori stopped Renji and asked to fight Ichigo himself.

Yamabuki Chidori defeated Kurosaki Ichigo and took Rukia back to Soul Society, where Central 46 sentenced her to lose her spiritual power and remain confined for life. As Ichigo trained to rescue her, Byakuya and Renji searched for a way to challenge the punishment, and Yoruichi arrived with news that it would be carried out in three days.

• Yamabuki Chidori stopped Ichigo’s attack, wounded him, and took Rukia through a Soul Gate after Masaki Kurosaki intervened.
• Kisuke Urahara offered Ichigo a choice between returning to ordinary life and awakening his own Soul Reaper powers, and Ichigo began training to save Rukia.
• Central 46 sentenced Rukia to lose her spiritual power and remain confined to the Kuchiki Clan estate for life, prompting Renji and Byakuya to seek Yamabuki Chidori.
• Byakuya waited at Yamabuki Chidori’s empty office, while Renji returned to the Sixth Division and Byakuya reassured Hisana that he would handle Rukia’s case.
• Ichigo awakened his Soul Reaper powers and trained with Kisuke Urahara until Yoruichi arrived and warned that Rukia’s punishment was scheduled in three days.

Kurosaki Ichigo entered Soul Society with Yoruichi, Uryu Ishida, Chado Yasutora, and Orihime Inoue to save Rukia, while Yamabuki Chidori secretly arranged battles to accelerate Ichigo’s growth. After Ichigo defeated Ikkaku Madarame, Chidori and Aizen watched his progress and considered his next opponent.

• Kisuke Urahara warned Ichigo that he could not defeat Yamabuki Chidori or the Gotei 13 and told Yoruichi to flee with Ichigo if they faced the people on his list.
• Yoruichi led Ichigo and his friends to Shiba Kukaku and Shiba Kaien, who explained the plan to enter Seireitei and fired them through its barrier in Kukaku’s cannon.
• Shiba Kaien called Chidori after Ichigo set off, revealing that he was coordinating with Chidori as part of the plan.
• Chidori had Ikkaku Madarame intercept Ichigo, and Ichigo’s abilities surged during their fight until he defeated Ikkaku.
• Aizen found Chidori monitoring Ichigo in their secret laboratory and considered recruiting Ichigo to help defeat Chidori, while Chidori planned a later fight against Renji Abarai.

Ichigo and Ishida stumbled into the Fourth Division and tried to use Huo Ying as a hostage, only to discover that the nurse was a formidable Shinigami guarding Rukia. After Huo Ying defeated them and Ichigo briefly unleashed greater power, Yoruichi arrived to confront her.

• Ichigo and Ishida entered the Fourth Division while fleeing 11th Division Shinigami, and Ichigo took Huo Ying hostage to escape.
• Huo Ying revealed that Rukia was being held in the Fourth Division and attacked when Ichigo tried to break her out.
• Huo Ying knocked Ichigo and Ishida down, crushed Ishida's hands, and warned him against removing his Sanrei Glove.
• Ichigo's Reiatsu surged, but Huo Ying shattered Zangetsu and defeated him after he managed to scratch her hand.
• As Shinigami moved to capture the boys, Yoruichi appeared and challenged Huo Ying for picking on them.

Yoruichi fought Soul Society’s veteran warriors to escape with Ichigo, while Ishida was left behind and threatened. She brought the badly injured Ichigo to Yamabuki Chidori for treatment, then learned Chidori would reveal the truth about the century-old mystery in a month.

• Yoruichi accepted the veterans’ wager and carried Ichigo through their attacks to reach the rooftop, while Chizome Souya deliberately let her pass.
• After Yoruichi escaped, Huo Ying and the others threatened to kill and eat the injured Uryu Ishida.
• Yamabuki Chidori treated Ichigo’s broken bones and damaged organs, then told Yoruichi to wait one month for answers about the events surrounding the Hollowfication incident.
• Ichigo woke up, learned Yoruichi was a woman, and admitted he had barely looked at Kisuke Urahara’s warning list.
• Yoruichi explained that Ichigo had grown stronger after surviving the fight, and Ichigo discovered that Zangetsu had been restored.

Ichigo and Yoruichi tried to rescue their captured friends while Soul Reapers and Huo Ying tested Ichigo’s growing strength. The chapter ended as Kenpachi Zaraki arrived to challenge Huo Ying and Ichigo.

• Yoruichi warned Ichigo that Uryu was in danger, but Soul Reapers cornered them in the sewer, where Ichigo defeated Renji and escaped.
• Chado and Orihime tried to flee by disguising themselves, but Chado attacked Yamabuki Chidori and was swiftly knocked out and captured.
• Ichigo and Yoruichi sensed that Chado had been caught and watched the Fourth Division, where Huo Ying appeared and demanded to fight Ichigo.
• Yoruichi revealed that Huo Ying had once been the sixth captain of the 11th Division and urged Ichigo to defeat her so he could rescue Rukia.
• Huo Ying led Ichigo to an open area, but Kenpachi Zaraki appeared above them and interrupted their fight.