Recaps

After the Fullbringer conflict, Yoriichi returns to Soul Society, challenges its handling of the Fullbringers, and begins teaching at Shin'ō Academy. A Dangai investigation reveals Reigai created by Inaba Kagerōza, while Ichigo becomes entangled in the pursuit of Nozomi Kujō and flees with her from Reigai captains.

• Ichigo defeats Ginjo and watches him die, while Tsukishima fatally stabs himself and Yoriichi tries to heal him.
• Tsukishima dies, restoring the real memories of Orihime and the Fullbringers, and Yoriichi kills Shishigawara when he attacks in revenge, and Ichigo and Yoriichi return home before Yoriichi heads back to Soul Society.
• Yoriichi confronts Ukitake and Yamamoto over Soul Society's treatment of the Fullbringers, then accepts Yamamoto's assignment to teach at Shin'ō Academy and begins helping its students improve.
• Yoriichi investigates a Dangai anomaly for Mayuri, defeats Reigai copies of Kyōraku and Ukitake, and learns they reported to Inaba Kagerōza.
• Yoriichi warns Yamamoto that Reigai may have infiltrated Seireitei, prompting emergency precautions, while Ichigo encounters Nozomi Kujō after she falls through a spatial rift.
• Nozomi uses her Shikai, Benihikō, to absorb and release a Hollow's Cero, then comes under pursuit by Reigai Byakuya Kuchiki and Tōshirō Hitsugaya.
• Ichigo refuses to surrender Nozomi, fights the two Reigai while holding back near residents, and escapes with her across the rooftops as they give chase.

Yoriichi and the Soul Reapers stopped Kagerōza’s Reigai invasion, and Nozomi left for the World of the Living with Ichigo. The story then turned to comic Seireitei mishaps, ending with Mayuri restoring the shrunken Soul Reapers after a fireworks accident.

• Ichigo fought Byakuya, Hitsugaya, and Gin to protect Nozomi until Yoriichi arrived and defeated their Reigai copies.
• Yoriichi and Ichigo brought Nozomi to Soul Society as Kagerōza gathered Reishi and prepared an invasion with powerful Reigai modeled on Ichigo and Yoriichi.
• Reigai forces attacked Seireitei, and Kagerōza fought Mayuri before releasing his strongest Reigai against the captains.
• Yoriichi defeated Reigai Yoriichi while Mayuri trapped Kagerōza, and the Central 46 sentenced Kagerōza to ten thousand years in the Maggot’s Nest.
• Nozomi thanked Yoriichi and returned to the World of the Living with Ichigo, while Yachiru’s mischief and the captains’ daily troubles caused further chaos in Seireitei.
• At a fireworks festival, Mayuri’s contaminated firework shrank several Soul Reapers, and he found that Dewdrop Fruit could be used to make an antidote.
• Yoriichi helped Mayuri prepare the antidote, which restored Mayuri and left him dispensing medicine to the shrunken captains.

Yoriichi uncovered Mayuri’s secret sacrifice of Rukongai souls and learned more of Soul Society’s buried crimes as the Wandenreich launched its invasion. After the Quincy killed Chōjirō Sasakibe and Izuru Kira, Yoriichi fought Lloyd and Bazz-B, until Haschwalth intervened to defend Bazz-B.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi erased twenty-eight thousand Rukongai souls to restore the balance of the Three Realms, and Yoriichi Tsugikuni traced the disappearances to the Twelfth Division.
• Nianzol Weizol attacked Yoriichi in Seireitei, but Yoriichi pierced his spatial distortion and killed him with One Moment... Thousand Strikes as the Wandenreich invaded.
• Yoriichi returned to find Chōjirō Sasakibe among 117 dead, and Yamamoto confronted Mayuri over the Rukongai killings before postponing his punishment until the war ended.
• Yoriichi searched the Great Spirit Book Gallery and learned of the Soul King’s imprisonment, the Quincy’s extermination, and the ritual that sent dead captains to Hell.
• Yhwach’s forces conquered Hueco Mundo, defeating Tier Harribel and Starrk, while Ichigo repelled Ebern and entered Hueco Mundo with Urahara, Chad, Orihime, and Nel.
• Cang Du sealed Ichigo inside a Sacred Jail Gate, and Grimmjow killed Cang Du while Urahara began examining the prison.
• Yoriichi defeated Lloyd Lloyd’s copy of his Bankai, then found Izuru Kira dying in the ruined Third Division headquarters and killed the Quincy responsible for the copied Bankai.
• Yoriichi overwhelmed Bazz-B after Kira’s death, but Haschwalth blocked Yoriichi’s attempt to execute him and prepared to fight.

Yoriichi helped Zaraki recover his suppressed strength, then traveled to the Soul King Palace and learned how the Three Realms were made and why the Soul King had to be replaced. He accepted the burden of defeating Yhwach and began preparing for the coming battle with Ichigo and the others.

• Yoriichi stopped Haschwalth’s Balance, killed Bazz-B, and drove Yhwach and the surviving Quincies from Seireitei before Ichigo arrived.
• After Yamamoto declared the Gotei 13 defeated, Zero Division summoned Yoriichi and Ichigo to the Soul King Palace, but Yoriichi first helped Unohana draw out Zaraki’s strength without costing her life.
• Yoriichi and Ichigo traveled with Rukia, Renji, and Byakuya to the Soul King Palace, where Ichibē led Yoriichi to meet the Soul King.
• The Soul King showed Yoriichi the origins of his powers, the creation of the Three Realms, and the sacrifice that made him their supporting core.
• Yoriichi learned that the Soul King’s power was fading and that either Yhwach, Ichigo, or Yoriichi would have to become the new Wedge, and he accepted the task of defeating Yhwach and making him take the throne.
• Yoriichi visited his recovering friends and watched Ichigo train, while Ōetsu said he could not awaken Yoriichi’s power because it came from beyond the Three Realms.
• Senjumaru made Yoriichi an Ōken-infused Shihakushō and haori, and Yoriichi returned to Ōetsu with Hekyō and asked him to draw out its Zanpakuto spirit.