Recaps

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen fought to a stalemate, then chose to unleash concentrated attacks instead of wasting time in an even contest. The chapter ended as Naruto’s compressed sphere collided with Aizen’s sword pressure, twisting the space around them and releasing a blinding blast.

• Naruto charged Sōsuke Aizen and knocked him several kilometers back after Aizen blocked his punch with his blade.
• Naruto and his Shadow Clones attacked with punches and Rasengans while Aizen countered with sword energy from Illusion.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen stopped fighting after realizing they were evenly matched and decided to build up their power for a decisive clash.
• Naruto dispelled his Shadow Clones, shrank to Aizen’s size, and compressed a multicolored sphere as nine tails wrapped around his arm.
• Naruto struck with the sphere as Sōsuke Aizen slashed down, and their attacks collided in a burst of light and hurricane-force pressure.

Naruto and Aizen’s clash ended with Naruto’s ruined arm healing instantly while Aizen emerged from his cocoon in the Hōgyoku’s Third Fusion Form. As Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihōin discussed Aizen’s overwhelming power, Urahara felt relieved that Naruto had taken responsibility for fighting him.

• Naruto and Aizen were hurled away by their clash, and Naruto’s badly damaged right arm rapidly healed.
• Aizen’s cocoon cracked around his head, revealing his long hair and purple eyes as he entered the Hōgyoku’s Third Fusion Form.
• Yoruichi Shihōin told Kisuke Urahara she could no longer sense Aizen’s Reiatsu and felt cut off from the outside world.
• Kisuke Urahara explained that Aizen’s power surpassed most Soul Reapers and Hollows, leaving him on the verge of a further breakthrough.
• Yoruichi doubted Naruto could defeat Aizen, but Kisuke Urahara was relieved that Naruto had stepped forward to face him.

Naruto learned that Sōsuke Aizen could continue evolving in response to the pressure Naruto put on him, then asked Seiichi to move everyone to a larger battlefield. Seiichi transported the group to the moon, where the others reacted to his overwhelming power as Naruto prepared to fight Aizen at full strength.

• Kisuke Urahara greeted Seiichi warmly, and Seiichi returned his greeting.
• Sōsuke Aizen told Naruto that his evolutions depended on the pressure Naruto put on him and that he did not know their limit.
• Naruto decided to fight in his most powerful form and asked Seiichi to find them a suitable battlefield.
• Seiichi transported everyone to the moon and reinforced the battlefield so Naruto and Aizen could fight freely.
• Isshin Kurosaki, Kyougetsu Shunsui, Jūshirō Ukitake, Yoruichi, Sōsuke Aizen, and Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto recognized Seiichi's immense power, while Kisuke Urahara looked forward to the coming battle.

Naruto prepared to finish his battle with Sōsuke Aizen and transformed into his powerful Kurama: Infinite Explosive Mode. With the battlefield buckling under his aura, Naruto urged Aizen to bring their fight to a conclusion.

• Sōsuke Aizen sensed that Seiichi possessed the ultimate power he had always sought, while Naruto said that their showdown was the main event.
• Naruto warned Aizen to be careful, and Aizen focused all his attention on the transformation to come.
• Naruto gathered natural energy until his body became a towering white, nine-tailed fox with a crown-like exoskeleton.
• Naruto unveiled Kurama: Infinite Explosive Mode, whose overwhelming pressure sank the ground for more than ten kilometers.
• Naruto told Aizen they should waste no more time and finish their battle together.

Naruto attacked Sōsuke Aizen with a Chaos: Spiral Truth-Seeking Ball Cannon and then unleashed an eleven-shot barrage, pushing him through repeated explosions. Sōsuke Aizen emerged from the smoke in a new, inhuman form, his purple reiatsu scattering the clouds.

• Naruto outmaneuvered Sōsuke Aizen and slammed a Chaos: Spiral Truth-Seeking Ball Cannon into his Super Barrier, shattering it.
• Naruto vanished before the cannon exploded, leaving Sōsuke Aizen swallowed by a massive blast and mushroom cloud.
• Naruto charged back into the smoke and fired an eleven-shot barrage of enlarged Chaos: Spiral Truth-Seeking Ball Cannons at Sōsuke Aizen.
• Sōsuke Aizen unleashed powerful purple reiatsu that scattered the smoke and revealed his new, nonhuman form, walking through his own blood.

Naruto asked Seiichi to help Aizen complete his unstable Hōgyoku transformation. After absorbing Seiichi’s Dark Energy, Aizen reached a refined new form and thanked him.

• Aizen transformed directly into the Hōgyoku’s ultimate fusion state, taking on a monstrous, Hollow-like appearance.
• Naruto asked Seiichi to help Aizen, recognizing that his transformation was incomplete and unstable.
• Seiichi engulfed Aizen in Dark Energy, and Naruto urged Aizen to absorb it without fear.
• Aizen absorbed nearly all the energy and transformed into an elegant new form with purple markings, a third eye, and three pairs of wings.
• Aizen felt the immense Reiatsu within him and thanked Seiichi for helping him achieve his goal.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen tested their new strength in a fast-paced battle, trading close-range blows before switching to energy attacks. Aizen stopped Naruto’s Spiral Tailed Beast Bomb with his bare hands, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Sōsuke Aizen urged Naruto to stop wasting time, and they launched into a rapid exchange of punches and kicks.
• After testing his new body, Sōsuke Aizen retreated to a safe distance, and Naruto also ended their close-range fight.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen exchanged purple and white energy projectiles as they darted around the sky.
• Naruto used his tail to sweep away Sōsuke Aizen’s dense barrage of Reiatsu projectiles.
• Sōsuke Aizen met Naruto’s Spiral Tailed Beast Bomb with both palms and burst the energy apart.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen continued their battle, with Naruto’s greater mastery of their power giving him an advantage. Naruto began gathering natural energy for a Giant Energy Ball as Aizen tried to interrupt him, and their attacks turned the surrounding battlefield into a field of massive explosions.

• Naruto’s Spiral Tailed Beast Bomb blast hurled Sōsuke Aizen dozens of kilometers away, though he showed no obvious injuries.
• Naruto raised his arms and gathered natural energy from hundreds of kilometers around him, compressing it into a ten-meter Giant Energy Ball.
• Sōsuke Aizen fired ultra-high-density Reiatsu blasts with Radiant Destruction to stop Naruto from gathering power.
• Naruto used his nine tails to unleash a rapid stream of Spiral Tailed Beast Bombs against Aizen’s attacks.
• The opposing attacks collided across the sky, triggering vast explosions and mushroom clouds that terrified the watching Soul Reapers and Arrancar.

Sōsuke Aizen formed a massive purple energy sphere while Naruto prepared a matching attack, and the two spheres collided in a world-shaking explosion. The witnesses remained stunned and silent as the blast’s enormous mushroom cloud blotted out the sky.

• Sōsuke Aizen abandoned Illusion and gathered surrounding Reishi into a purple energy sphere roughly ten meters across.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen launched their white and purple spheres at each other at the same moment.
• The spheres collided without immediately exploding, locking together amid lightning and distorted space.
• The spheres erupted into a blinding blast that created immense wind pressure and a mountain-sized mushroom cloud.
• Apache swallowed nervously behind Tier Harribel as the Soul Reapers and Arrancar fell silent.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen fought at full power, but Aizen used Genjutsu to make Naruto’s attack pass harmlessly through an illusion. The chapter left Aizen poised above Naruto with Illusion, his fused Zanpakuto, in hand.

• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen ignored the surrounding chaos as their devastating energy attacks collided and exploded.
• Naruto and Aizen vanished into a high-speed battle, trading volleys of Spiral Tailed Beast Bombs and Reiatsu projectiles.
• Naruto created two nine-tailed figures to surround Aizen and attacked his chest with a fire-nature Rasengan.
• Naruto’s Rasengan passed through Aizen, and Naruto realized he had fallen for Genjutsu again.
• Aizen appeared above Naruto holding Illusion, the Reishi Blade formed from his fusion with his Zanpakuto.

Sōsuke Aizen attacked two Naruto targets at once, but the Naruto he struck vanished as a clone, revealing that Aizen had misjudged Naruto’s strategy. Aizen realized the implications of the Clone Technique as the battle continued.

• Sōsuke Aizen slashed at the Naruto who appeared above him while firing Hadō No. 88: Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō at the Naruto clones below.
• Sōsuke Aizen told Naruto that he had anticipated this move, but Naruto calmly replied that Aizen had misjudged him.
• Sōsuke Aizen’s sword passed through the Naruto before him, who vanished in a wisp of light and smoke.
• Sōsuke Aizen recognized the Clone Technique and began considering what it meant.

Sōsuke Aizen unleashed Hadō No. 88, Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō, but Naruto emerged unharmed and attacked him with a lightning-attribute Rasengan. Aizen revealed that Naruto had fallen into his Genjutsu again and ran his sword through Naruto's chest.

• Sōsuke Aizen formed hand seals and unleashed Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō at Naruto's clones.
• Naruto emerged from the smoke unscathed and charged at Sōsuke Aizen with a lightning-attribute Rasengan.
• Naruto drove the Rasengan toward Sōsuke Aizen's heart and declared, “It's over!”
• Sōsuke Aizen calmly replied that it was not over as Naruto passed through his body, revealing the Genjutsu.
• Naruto realized he had been deceived again, but Sōsuke Aizen's Illusion pierced through Naruto's chest.

Naruto outmaneuvered Sōsuke Aizen by using clones, revealing that their apparent positions were illusions. Aizen acknowledged that he had underestimated Naruto’s combat experience.

• Sōsuke Aizen stood behind Naruto and declared that the battle would end, but Naruto laughed and said it was not over.
• Naruto’s figure burst into mist, revealing it had been a clone, and Sōsuke Aizen turned toward the real Naruto behind him.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen faced off as their auras filled the area with crushing pressure.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen’s figures both dissolved, revealing that neither had been their true selves.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen reappeared, and Sōsuke Aizen admitted that he had underestimated Naruto’s combat experience.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen agreed to fight without their signature techniques, then clashed with a blade and a fist. Naruto transformed his right arm and roared as he broke their deadlock, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Naruto responded to Sōsuke Aizen's praise with an unconcerned laugh, while Seiichi watched and laughed at the battle's unexpected turn.
• Naruto's real shadow clones overwhelmed Sōsuke Aizen, while Aizen's hypnotic power grew strong enough to interfere with Naruto at crucial moments.
• Sōsuke Aizen proposed that neither fighter use his signature technique, and Naruto agreed.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen traded attacks, laughed together, then collided Naruto's fist with Aizen's blade and unleashed a powerful shock wave.
• Naruto's tails wound around his arm, enlarging it dramatically, and he roared as he broke the stalemate.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen fought through the planet’s magma, trading devastating attacks and rapidly recovering from their wounds. They emerged into the air and ended the chapter facing each other in a tense standoff, with Aizen newly wielding the Light Transformation Technique.

• Naruto drove Sōsuke Aizen underground with a barrage of punches and followed him into the planet’s magma.
• Sōsuke Aizen raised a Reiatsu barrier to buy time, then used Illusion to sever Naruto’s tail during their close-quarters fight.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen inflicted severe wounds on each other, but Naruto’s Nine-Tails power and Aizen’s high-speed regeneration quickly healed them.
• Sōsuke Aizen rapidly evolved during the battle and grasped the Light Transformation Technique.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen burst out of the magma and faced each other in midair.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen agreed to end their exhausting battle with one decisive contest. Naruto returned to his normal form and summoned a colossal nine-tailed fox apparition, while Sōsuke Aizen plunged Illusion into his chest.

• Naruto shook off the magma covering his body, scattering fiery fragments that scorched the ground.
• Naruto recognized that neither fighter had a decisive advantage and that their battle could otherwise continue for months.
• Naruto deactivated Burst Mode and told Sōsuke Aizen he wanted to settle the fight with one final contest.
• Sōsuke Aizen accepted Naruto's proposal, and the spectators focused on the impending climax.
• Naruto summoned a vast blood-red nine-tailed fox apparition behind himself.
• Sōsuke Aizen turned his wrist and drove Illusion into his chest near his heart.

Sōsuke Aizen absorbed Illusion and he and Naruto gathered their power for five hours, choosing to fight with pure strength rather than techniques. They finally clashed in a collision that shattered the surrounding space without making a sound.

• Illusion sank completely into Sōsuke Aizen, causing his Reiatsu to erupt with immense power.
• Sōsuke Aizen and Naruto coated their bodies in energy and prepared to settle the fight through a direct contest of strength.
• The two continued gathering power for five hours while His Majesty watched.
• Seiichi woke Hikari and told her the fight was about to begin.
• Sōsuke Aizen and Naruto compressed their energy, transformed into streaks of purple and red light, and collided, shattering the space around them in silence.

Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen ended their destructive battle in a draw, having fought so fiercely that the moon was destroyed. Seiichi then used a sphere of energy to create a new moon, leaving the group with a replacement in the sky.

• Seiichi transported everyone except Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen away from the expanding spatial rifts as the fighters clashed on the moon.
• A burst of light accompanied the moon’s destruction, and its fragments vanished into the spatial rifts.
• Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen reappeared badly wounded and declared their battle a draw; Naruto restored his arm, and Aizen healed the hole in his chest.
• Seiichi and the others reacted with disbelief to the draw, but Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen offered no explanation.
• Seiichi launched a black sphere of energy into space and empowered it to absorb earth-aspected natural energy.
• The sphere grew into a new, bright moon in less than ten minutes.

After creating a new moon, Seiichi returned to Karakura Town and explained the coming crisis to the Soul Reapers and Arrancar, asking them to join his effort to save both worlds. As a group returned from Hueco Mundo, Sasuke was embarrassed when Seiichi teased him for calling out like a child.

• Seiichi created a vast, smooth moon and brought everyone back to the ruins of Karakura Town.
• Kisuke Urahara asked Seiichi why he had come, and Seiichi said he intended to save his world and theirs.
• Seiichi used an illusion to show the Soul Reapers and Arrancar the events behind the coming crisis, including the threat posed by the Wandenreich and the Soul King Palace.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto asked what they should do, and Seiichi proposed attacking the Wandenreich in Soul Society before advancing on the Soul King Palace.
• Mu, Shisui, Kaido, Sasuke, Madara, and the others returned through a vortex, with Sasuke and Madara disappointed that their trip had produced no opponents.
• Sasuke called Seiichi “Big Brother,” and Seiichi teased him until Sasuke noticed Naruto laughing and lowered his head in embarrassment.

Seiichi gathered the group and brought the people still in Hueco Mundo to join them. After Ichigo Kurosaki was stopped from attacking Aizen, Seiichi transported everyone toward the Soul Society.

• Shisui told Sōsuke Aizen that Ulquiorra was with him, and Aizen let the matter go.
• Seiichi and Madara discussed Madara’s lack of a suitable opponent and the upcoming trip.
• At Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s request, Seiichi used his Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan to bring Ichigo Kurosaki, Isshin Kurosaki, and the others back from Hueco Mundo.
• Ichigo Kurosaki saw Aizen and drew his sword, but Isshin Kurosaki rebuked him and told him Aizen was no longer their enemy.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto offered to lead the group to the Soul Society, but Seiichi changed their surroundings instead.

Seiichi revealed the Wandenreich hidden within the Seireitei, where Yhwach announced his plan to destroy the Soul Society and rebuild the world's order. Sasuke and Madara stepped forward to take on the Quincy, then agreed to decide who would choose their opponents first with rock-paper-scissors.

• Seiichi exposed the Wandenreich's hidden base beneath the Seireitei, shocking Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and the other Soul Reapers.
• Yhwach emerged with the Sternritter, greeted Yamamoto as an old friend, and declared his intention to destroy the Soul Society and rebuild the world's order.
• Shunsui Kyōraku stopped Yamamoto from attacking Yhwach, while the others prepared for a major battle.
• Sasuke and Madara claimed the Quincy for themselves, and the Uchiha Empire, Soul Reapers, and Arrancar let them proceed.
• Sasuke and Madara agreed to split the Quincy into two groups and use rock-paper-scissors to decide who chose first.

After winning a game of rock, paper, scissors, Sasuke claimed Yhwach as his target, while Madara challenged the other Quincies and defeated Bazz-B in a clash of flames. Bazz-B survived but was left burned and bewildered by Madara’s overwhelming Fire Style.

• Sasuke beat Madara after eight draws and chose Yhwach as his target.
• Madara challenged every Quincy except Yhwach to attack him together.
• Bazz-B confronted Madara and used Hirenkyaku to appear before him.
• Madara countered Bazz-B’s Burner Finger with Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.
• Bazz-B used The Heat Hell, but Madara’s flames overwhelmed him and left him badly burned.
• Bazz-B struggled to his feet and said his flames had even countered Ryūjin Jakka, yet Madara’s flames had swallowed them.

Madara spared Bazz-B after overpowering him, but Bazz-B attacked again in Vollständig. Madara killed him with a gigantic purple flame dragon, leaving nothing behind.

• Madara approached Bazz-B, who tried to flee, then spared him and walked away.
• Bazz-B activated his Quincy Vollständig and attacked the retreating Madara with Burner Finger 4.
• Madara summoned a gigantic purple flame dragon with Fire Style: Dragon Flame Release Song: Modified.
• The flame dragon swallowed Bazz-B and incinerated him completely.

Madara provoked the remaining Sternritter into attacking him together, and Yhwach ordered them to unleash their full power. The chapter ends as the Sternritter’s coordinated assault began against Madara.

• Madara taunted the Sternritter while Yhwach watched without making a move.
• Yhwach told the Sternritter to attack Madara together, and they activated Vollständig and their abilities.
• Jugram Haschwalth’s Balance failed to affect Madara, so he threw a Heilig Pfeil at him.
• Pernida Parnkgjas, Askin Nakk Le Vaar, Bambietta Basterbine, Äs Nödt, and the other Sternritter launched their abilities or charged at Madara.
• Gerard Valkyrie charged into battle as the Sternritter’s combined attack converged on Madara.

Madara Uchiha faced the Sternritter’s attacks with Perfect Susanoo and Ninefold Rashomon, then counterattacked with his swords and evolved Limbo shadows. Meninas McAllon’s punch failed to penetrate Susanoo, and Madara decapitated her.

• Gerard Valkyrie, Meninas McAllon, Jerome Guizbatt, Mask De Masculine, Candice Catnipp, NaNaNa Najahkoop, Gremmy Thoumeaux, Nianzol Weizol, and Lille Barro prepared their abilities and attacked Madara, but NaNaNa discovered his power could not affect someone without reishi.
• Madara summoned Perfect Susanoo and raised Ninefold Rashomon, which blocked most of the attacks while Susanoo stopped the rest.
• Madara drew two swords and used Cross Slash to send the close-combat attackers flying.
• Madara’s eyes evolved into Three-Tomoe Rinnegan, and he unleashed sixteen Limbo shadows with altered powers.
• Meninas McAllon struck Madara, but Susanoo blocked her fist, and Madara cut off her head.