Recaps

Gin Ichimaru found Rangiku Matsumoto badly wounded after her fight with Cang Du and insisted she stop fighting. Rangiku promised to seek medical care while Gin left to help other Soul Reapers battling in Wahrwelt.

• Gin Ichimaru found Rangiku Matsumoto injured and told her she had lost the ability to fight.
• Rangiku resisted, insisting she could still support the Gotei 13 with low-level Kidō.
• Gin Ichimaru told Rangiku he did not want to see her hurt or die, leaving her flustered.
• Rangiku promised to find the Fourth Division's medical team and stay out of battle until she had healed.
• Gin Ichimaru used Shunpo to leave and look for other fighters who needed help.

Tōshirō Hitsugaya encountered the Bambi squad and fought the four Quincy girls with Hyōrinmaru. After his Shikai proved insufficient against their combined attacks, he released his Bankai.

• Tōshirō Hitsugaya found the Bambi squad while trying to regroup with the other captains, and Candice Catnipp attacked him.
• Tōshirō used Hyōrinmaru's Shikai to freeze Candice Catnipp's lightning and Meninas McAllon's attack, but Liltotto ate his ice and Giselle Gewelle sent the zombie Bambietta after him.
• The Quincy girls attacked Tōshirō together, using lightning, brute strength, ice-eating, and Bambietta's explosive orbs to wear down his defenses.
• Tōshirō retreated, then summoned his captain's spiritual power and released Bankai, Daiguren Hyōrinmaru.

Tōshirō Hitsugaya fought Candice Catnipp, Meninas McAllon, Liltotto, and Giselle Gewelle, but Meninas knocked him unconscious and Giselle turned him into a zombie. Meanwhile, Yachiru Kusajishi got separated from Kenpachi Zaraki in Wahrwelt and entered a room where Gěnà'ěr Lǐ Xiéqiào was waiting.

• Tōshirō released Daiguren Hyōrinmaru and attacked the four girls, while Candice and Meninas activated their Vollständig.
• Candice, Meninas, and zombified Bambietta forced Tōshirō to expend his strength as he dodged attacks and countered with ice.
• Candice's lightning attack nearly exhausted Tōshirō, and Meninas struck his back, sending him crashing into a ruined house unconscious.
• Giselle poured her blood into Tōshirō's wounds and turned him into a lifeless, Captain-level zombie.
• Yachiru wandered away from Kenpachi through Wahrwelt and entered a room where Gěnà'ěr Lǐ Xiéqiào sat at a table.

Yachiru Kusajishi defeated Guenael Lee, only to be overwhelmed by Gremmy’s reality-altering power. Kenpachi Zaraki arrived and split the rubble pinning her down.

• Yachiru Kusajishi wandered into a room and encountered Guenael Lee, who vanished using his ability to erase his presence.
• Yachiru sensed Guenael’s position and wounded him, then summoned Three-Step Sword Beast and killed him with a chain of slashes.
• Gremmy revealed that Guenael was an imagined creation and used The Visionary to make Yachiru’s bones brittle and open a pit beneath her.
• Gremmy dropped a massive chunk of building onto Yachiru, trapping her beneath the rubble and leaving her barely conscious.
• Kenpachi Zaraki split the stone pinning Yachiru and found her in the pit.

Kenpachi Zaraki fought Gremmy, overcame his imagined weakness, and was brought to the brink of death when Gremmy made his organs fail. As Kenpachi heard Nozarashi’s voice for the first time, he stood and released his Zanpakuto.

• Kenpachi Zaraki leapt from the pit and shattered Gremmy’s steel defenses and floating table with a single slash.
• Gremmy used The Visionary to weaken Kenpachi, but Kenpachi’s Reiatsu overcame the effect.
• Gremmy imagined Kenpachi’s organs failing, causing him to cough blood and collapse toward death.
• Kenpachi heard Nozarashi speak to him for the first time and learned the spirit’s name.
• Kenpachi stood, raised his Zanpakuto, and shouted, “Devour, Nozarashi!”

Kenpachi Zaraki defeated Gremmy after surviving his imagined disasters and overpowering Gremmy’s attempt to copy his strength. He destroyed Gremmy’s true brain, then searched the crater for Yachiru, who did not answer.

• Kenpachi released Nozarashi, overcame his illness, and split Gremmy’s enormous meteor with a single slash.
• Kenpachi charged through Gremmy’s imagined weapons and obstacles, cutting them all apart.
• Gremmy imagined himself with Kenpachi’s strength, but his body could not withstand the power and burst apart.
• Kenpachi cleaved the nutrient tank and the brain inside it, ending the battle.
• Kenpachi returned to the crater and called for Yachiru, but received no reply.

Kenpachi searched the crater where the pink-haired girl had vanished and found only the clothes of an 11th Division lieutenant. Elsewhere in Wahrwelt, Mayuri and Nemu fought Pernida, whose evolving nerve tendrils overwhelmed the battlefield and cost Nemu her left arm.

• Kenpachi searched the crater but found only a folded Shihakushō with an 11th Division lieutenant's armband, then left to look for another opponent.
• Mayuri and Nemu confronted Pernida, the Sternritter whose true form was the Soul King's Left Hand.
• Mayuri's anesthetic briefly stalled Pernida's nerve tendrils, but Pernida rapidly evolved resistance and its severed tendrils produced new eyes, mouths, and corrosive acid.
• Pernida filled the battlefield with tendrils and trapped Mayuri in midair, so Nemu disobeyed his order and threw him toward an opening.
• Mayuri cut off Nemu's left arm when it began mutating, and the arm burst apart under Pernida's power.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi fought Pernida with a specially designed Bankai creature, but Pernida adapted and destroyed it before closing in on Mayuri. Yamamoto’s flames then swept in to burn away the encroaching nerve tentacles.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi struck Nemu for acting without permission and scolded her over her damaged body.
• Pernida activated Vollständig, transforming its nerve strands into enormous tentacles that attacked Mayuri and Nemu.
• Mayuri summoned Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo, Matai Fukuin Shōtai, which produced an armored new Jizo designed to resist Pernida’s nerve interference.
• Pernida adapted to the new Jizo, causing it to burst apart and turning Matai Fukuin Shōtai’s body against Mayuri.
• Mayuri destroyed his Bankai, but Pernida surrounded him with a rapidly tightening net of nerve tentacles.
• Yamamoto called out “Flame-Scorched Rampart,” and towering flames burned away the tentacles around Mayuri.

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and Mayuri Kurotsuchi fought Pernida, whose evolutionary abilities let it adapt to Yamamoto’s flames. Mayuri injected a drug that sent Pernida’s growth out of control, leaving its body collapsing as it demanded to know what he had done.

• Yamamoto burned away Pernida’s tendrils and dismissed Mayuri’s complaint that the creature had been his specimen.
• Pernida declared its loyalty to Yhwach and attacked Yamamoto with a vast net of Reishi spears, which Yamamoto destroyed with Nadegiri.
• Yamamoto engulfed Pernida in a fire tornado with Torch, but Pernida evolved heat-resistant armor and vents to withstand the flames.
• Mayuri injected a drug into one of Pernida’s nerves while its attention was fixed on Yamamoto.
• The drug caused Pernida’s body to proliferate uncontrollably, and Mayuri revealed that it accelerated the creature’s evolution.

After Pernida’s defeat, Aizen decided to leave his post beneath Wahrwelt and join the battle above. Sōya Azashiro failed to stop him and followed through the portal to keep him in sight.

• Pernida’s enormous hand disintegrated under Yamamoto and Mayuri’s combined assault, restoring the view beneath Wahrwelt.
• Aizen watched the fortress from the ruins while Sōya Azashiro guarded him and Urozakuro complained.
• Aizen stood and announced he would visit Wahrwelt, but Azashiro warned that Kyōraku had ordered him to keep Aizen there.
• Aizen opened a passage to Wahrwelt and overwhelmed Azashiro’s attempt to slash him with a surge of Reiatsu.
• Aizen entered the portal, and Azashiro followed just before it closed.

Askin poisoned Ichigo and Gin while evading their attacks, but Yoruichi cornered him and overwhelmed him with Hakuda. Yushiro intervened to face Askin himself, activating Shunkō as Yoruichi watched.

• Askin poisoned Ichigo with toxins in the air and prepared to kill him, but Gin struck him and forced him to flee.
• Gin pursued Askin until he realized he had been poisoned and stopped to fight the toxin with his spiritual power.
• Yoruichi intercepted Askin and attacked him with a barrage of Hakuda strikes, breaking through his toxin defenses.
• Yushiro arrived and told Yoruichi he wanted to prove himself as head of the Shihōin Clan.
• Yushiro blocked Askin's escape and activated Shunkō, Bakuen Musō.

Yūshirō used the Shihoin family’s Raijin Battle Form to overwhelm Askin, but Askin adapted to his Reiatsu and poisoned him with his own spiritual power. Yoruichi rescued her unconscious brother and prepared to fight Askin with her Raijin Battle Form.

• Yūshirō unleashed his Raijin Battle Form and battered Askin with a series of fiery attacks.
• Askin caught Yūshirō’s burning fist and explained that he had adapted to Yūshirō’s Reiatsu, making it toxic to Yūshirō himself.
• Yūshirō collapsed from the poison, and Askin kicked him before attempting to stab him with a Reishi blade.
• Yoruichi rescued her unconscious brother and confronted Askin for injuring the head of the Shihoin family.
• Yoruichi began gathering lightning-attribute Reishi as she prepared to use Shunkō: Raijin Battle Form.

Yoruichi unleashed her thunder-powered form and battered Askin until he appeared defeated, but he used the prolonged fight to analyze her lightning and poison her. Askin became immune to her attacks, leaving Yoruichi weakened and unable to use her Reiatsu without worsening the poison.

• Yoruichi transformed into her thunder-powered form and struck Askin with a rapid series of devastating Hakuda attacks.
• Askin endured Yoruichi's assault and stopped her final punch by touching her fist, causing her lightning to dissipate.
• Yoruichi discovered that Askin's poison was spreading through her arm and lungs, and she retreated after cutting off the affected nerve impulses.
• Askin explained that he had analyzed her lightning, become immune to it, and altered her immune system so using her Reiatsu would intensify the poison.
• Askin sat down and taunted Yoruichi while she knelt, weakened by the poison.

Kisuke Urahara arrived as Yoruichi struggled against Askin and urged her to unleash her Black Cat Battle Princess form. Yoruichi defeated Askin but lost control of her instincts, leaving Urahara to draw her out of the form with a cat teaser.

• Kisuke Urahara arrived and provoked Yoruichi into using the form she had refused to unleash.
• Yoruichi transformed into her Black Cat Battle Princess form, and her rapidly shifting Reiatsu overcame Askin's poison and analysis.
• Yoruichi battered Askin through the ruins and kicked him through multiple walls, leaving him buried and motionless.
• Kisuke Urahara used a cat teaser to lure Yoruichi out of the form, and she pounced on him and licked his face.

Kisuke Urahara faced Askin after Yoruichi collapsed from the effects of her berserk form. Askin unleashed his Vollständig and destroyed Urahara’s eyes, but Urahara adapted and began releasing his Bankai.

• Yoruichi fell into a deep sleep after exhausting her Reiatsu, and Urahara laid her on a stone slab.
• Askin emerged in a poison-woven suit of armor and revealed that his Vollständig let him alter the life-taking limits of substances he had tasted.
• Urahara deduced how Askin’s ability worked, prompting Askin to attack by lowering the pressure tolerance of the capillaries in Urahara’s eyes.
• Askin destroyed Urahara’s vision and sent a contracting poison net at him, but Urahara used Reishi detection to track the attack.
• Urahara raised Benihime and activated his Bankai, Kannonbiraki... Benihime Aratame.

Kisuke Urahara used Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame to restore his eyes and remodel Askin’s arm and poison Barrier. Askin countered by sealing them inside an adaptive Poison Domain, and Urahara’s repeated attempts to reconstruct his body began to fail as the toxins intensified.

• Kisuke Urahara summoned his Bankai, which stitched his ruined eyes back together.
• Urahara struck Askin and used Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame to remodel his arm, then changed Askin’s poison Barrier into water.
• Askin unleashed a sealed Poison Domain that filled the area with lethal, corrosive gas.
• Urahara remodeled his respiratory system to filter the poison, but Askin adapted the toxin to Urahara’s Reiatsu and overwhelmed the new defenses.
• Urahara fell to one knee as the intensifying poison ruptured his blood vessels faster than his Bankai could repair them.

Askin nearly killed Kisuke Urahara inside his poison Barrier, but Gin Ichimaru arrived and struck Askin through the abdomen with Kamishini no Yari. Askin healed and expanded the Barrier to trap Gin as well, leaving both captains inside while he mocked them.

• Askin overwhelmed the weakened Kisuke Urahara, whose Reiatsu had fallen too low for Benihime to penetrate Askin's defense.
• Askin prepared to finish Urahara, who appeared to surrender as a tactic.
• Gin Ichimaru called Bankai and pierced Askin's abdomen with Kamishini no Yari from outside the poison Barrier.
• Askin escaped the strike with Shunpo and healed the wound using the poison domain's material.
• Askin expanded his Barrier, trapping Gin inside with himself and Urahara.
• Urahara questioned why Gin had not aimed for Askin's head, while Gin told him not to worry.

Gin Ichimaru revealed that Kisuke Urahara had helped him recover from Askin’s poison and that Urahara’s desperate efforts had bought time for outside support. Askin believed the two Soul Reapers had no way to escape his Poison Domain, but Gin hinted that their plan had already succeeded and challenged Askin’s understanding of his Zanpakuto.

• Askin questioned how Gin Ichimaru had recovered from the paralysis, and Gin credited Kisuke Urahara with giving him something useful.
• Askin deduced that Urahara had been buying time for backup, and Urahara explained that he had hoped an attack from outside might breach the Poison Domain.
• Askin praised Urahara’s preparations but insisted that his domain and defensive ability left the Soul Reapers with no chance to turn the fight around.
• Gin Ichimaru declared that they had already succeeded, but Askin dismissed his claim and advanced as the poison condensed around them.
• Gin showed Askin a chipped spot on his Zanpakuto and asked how much the Wandenreich knew about its abilities.
• Askin recited his intelligence on Shinsō and Kamishini no Yari, and Gin said his account was almost right but missing one detail.

Gin Ichimaru revealed that Kamishini no Yari was a Kidō-type Zanpakuto whose hidden poison left a fragment inside Askin, then detonated it and disintegrated him. With Askin dead, his poisonous domain vanished, leaving Kisuke Urahara to recover and ask Gin whether he would silence him for what he had overheard.

• Gin Ichimaru explained that he had concealed Kamishini no Yari’s true ability for over a century while preparing to use it against Sōsuke Aizen.
• Gin revealed that Kamishini no Yari was Kidō-type and that its blade left a poisonous fragment inside Askin when it struck him.
• Gin detonated the fragment, and Askin disintegrated into powder before he could escape or speak.
• Askin’s death caused the poisonous barrier and miasma to disperse, freeing Kisuke Urahara from the domain.
• Kisuke Urahara recovered enough to ask Gin Ichimaru whether he planned to silence him for overhearing the revelation.

Gin Ichimaru and Kisuke Urahara watched the fighting continue in Wahrwelt as Lille Barro used The X-Axis to devastate the Soul Reapers. Shunsui Kyōraku intervened to protect them and drew his twin Zanpakuto to face Lille Barro.

• Gin Ichimaru sheathed Kamishini no Yari, warned Kisuke Urahara about his poison, and looked toward the fighting in Wahrwelt with him.
• Lille Barro used The X-Axis to shoot through stone cover and kill or injure Soul Reapers, leaving Shūhei Hisagi and Marechiyo Ōmaeda unable to fight back.
• Shūhei Hisagi attacked Lille Barro from the air, but Shunsui Kyōraku deflected the shot and carried Hisagi to safety.
• Nanao Ise set up a defensive line while Shunsui Kyōraku confronted Lille Barro, who claimed to be the creation closest to God.
• Shunsui Kyōraku drew his twin Zanpakuto and released Katen Kyōkotsu.

Shunsui Kyōraku fought Lille Barro with the rules of his sword games, but Lille’s piercing shots overwhelmed his tactics. After Nanao Ise tried to intervene, Shunsui took a fatal-looking shot meant for her and collapsed in front of her.

• Shunsui Kyōraku used Kageoni and Takaoni to attack Lille Barro, but Lille identified how the games worked and took the advantage of height while destroying the shadows.
• Lille Barro’s relentless shots forced Shunsui to dodge across the ruins and destroyed his hat, while Shunsui warned Nanao Ise to stay behind cover.
• Shunsui used Bushōgoma to obscure Lille’s aim, then tried to strike him with Irooni, but Lille blocked the blow and wounded Shunsui’s left shoulder with a grazing shot.
• Nanao Ise left cover and cast Bakudō #61, Rikujōkō at Lille, drawing his attention and prompting him to target her.
• Shunsui Kyōraku rushed in front of Nanao and took Lille’s piercing shot, which tore a bowl-sized hole through his waist and ribs.

Shunsui Kyōraku took a fatal wound while protecting Nanao Ise from Lille Barro, then recalled his promise to keep her safe. As Lille fired to finish them, Kyōraku released his Bankai.

• Nanao Ise tried to heal Shunsui Kyōraku and blamed herself for his wound, but he reassured her that protecting his lieutenant was his duty.
• Lille Barro mocked Kyōraku for sacrificing his advantage to protect Nanao and aimed his rifle at him.
• Kyōraku pulled Nanao behind him as Lille prepared to shoot, determined to keep the promise he had made to his brother and sister-in-law to protect her.
• Kyōraku dropped two curved blades into his hands, plunged them into the ground, and released his Bankai.

Shunsui Kyōraku activated Katen Kyōkotsu: Karamatsu Shinju and trapped Lille Barro in a deadly play where they shared wounds and Lille developed a fatal illness. As the third and final acts drew near, Kyōraku warned Lille not to underestimate him.

• Shunsui Kyōraku plunged his twin blades into the ground, shrouding Wahrwelt in darkness and creating a stage for his play.
• Lille Barro fired at Kyōraku, but Act One caused an identical wound to appear on Lille’s body.
• Shunsui Kyōraku explained that Act One made the two opponents share their wounds without dying from them during that stage.
• Lille Barro prepared to shoot again, but Act Two covered his body in black spots that Shunsui said would drain his strength.
• Black water rose around Shunsui Kyōraku and Lille Barro as the play’s third and final acts began to draw together.

Sōsuke Aizen and Sōya Azashiro walked through Wahrwelt as Aizen explained that the decisive clash would come at the summit. When Kyōraku’s ominous Reiatsu spread across the city, Aizen rushed toward it and Azashiro followed.

• Sōya Azashiro escorted the restrained Sōsuke Aizen through Wahrwelt while Urozakuro complained that Azashiro was acting like a lackey.
• Aizen told Azashiro that Yoriichi’s plan had a deeper purpose and that the true battle awaited at the doors atop Wahrwelt.
• A cold, despairing Reiatsu swept across the city, and Azashiro recognized it as Kyōraku’s.
• Aizen invited Azashiro to investigate, then used Shunpo to race toward the source without waiting for an answer.
• Azashiro followed Aizen across the ruins.

Shunsui Kyōraku defeated Lille Barro by using the final act of his Zanpakuto, but Lille transformed into Vollständig: Jiliel and renewed his attack. The chapter ended with Shunsui and Nanao Ise facing Lille’s overwhelming new form.

• Shunsui Kyōraku and Lille Barro sank into a black pool created by Shunsui’s Takaoni, where Lille’s attempts to escape only weakened him.
• Shunsui remembered his promises and used Itokiribasami: Blood-Stained Throat to sever Lille Barro’s head, ending the black pool.
• Shunsui collapsed among the ruins as Nanao Ise rushed to him, believing the crisis was over.
• Lille Barro’s headless body surged with Reiatsu and transformed into Vollständig: Jiliel, then threatened Shunsui and Nanao.