Recaps

Sajin Komamura and Yoruichi Shihōin fought to protect the Seireitei until Aizen announced that Genryūsai Yamamoto and Shiraishi had fallen. Kaname Tōsen then defeated Komamura and challenged Yoruichi, explaining that he had chosen a different path from Kakyō’s.

• Yoruichi Shihōin rescued Sajin Komamura from an elephant Arrancar and explained why she had come to support his battlefront.
• Aizen announced that Genryūsai Yamamoto and Shiraishi had fallen and said he would attack the Soul King Palace.
• Kaname Tōsen confronted Sajin Komamura and defeated him with Los Nueve Aspectos, leaving him unconscious.
• Yoruichi Shihōin fought Kaname Tōsen but was outmatched by his speed and sound-wave attacks.
• Kaname Tōsen told Yoruichi Shihōin that justice was not something he could explain with words and that he had chosen his own path.

Aizen broke through the barriers to the Soul King Palace and arrived with Gin Ichimaru, Aura Michibane, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi. After Aizen overpowered Tenjirō Kirinji, a voice from the palace challenged his claim to become the new king.

• Aizen learned that Gin Ichimaru had stabbed Rangiku Matsumoto and that Kaname Tōsen had chosen to remain behind.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi revealed he had installed a tracking device on Nemu to locate the Kūkaku Cannon, but Aizen shattered the barriers to the Soul King Palace without it.
• Aizen and his companions rode a disk of Reishi to the Soul King Palace and approached the Soul King’s residence.
• Tenjirō Kirinji confronted the group, but Aizen caught Kinpika with one finger and returned it to him.
• A voice from the palace challenged Aizen for entering uninvited and reminded him that Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto was not the only one who could stop him.

Aizen revealed the true Soul King Palace and killed Senjumaru Shutara, Tenjirō Kirinji, Kirio Hikifune, and Ōetsu Nimaiya before confronting Ichibē Hyōsube. Ichibē used his strongest technique, but Aizen regenerated through it and killed him, wiping out Squad Zero.

• Senjumaru Shutara confronted Aizen and Mayuri Kurotsuchi, while Gin Ichimaru prepared to fight.
• Aizen revealed his Soul King-like eyes, dismissed Senjumaru's divine soldiers, and pulled away the illusion concealing the true Soul King Palace.
• Aizen revealed the bloody heads of Senjumaru Shutara, Tenjirō Kirinji, Kirio Hikifune, and Ōetsu Nimaiya, whom he had killed with Shunpo.
• Ichibē Hyōsube attacked Aizen with Ichimonji and Futen Taisatsuryō, but Aizen's regeneration outpaced the technique.
• Aizen shattered Ichibē's Thousand-Mile Heaven-Piercing Palm and severed his head, leaving Squad Zero wiped out.

Aizen used the Soul King's mutilated body to open a new world, while the Soul King's death threatened to collapse Soul Society, the World of the Living, and Hueco Mundo. Ichibē Hyōsube sought Kūgo Ginjō as a replacement, but Kisuke Urahara proposed making Ginjō and Jūshirō Ukitake the Soul King together and began preparing his method.

• Aizen engraved a spell on the Soul King, whose power surged into the Dangai and opened a new world.
• Ichibē Hyōsube restored his body, realized the Soul King was dying, and descended to the Seireitei to find Kūgo Ginjō.
• As the three worlds trembled, the fighting in the Seireitei stopped, and Ichibē demanded that Kisuke Urahara hand over Ginjō.
• Kisuke Urahara produced Ginjō's corpse, and Jūshirō Ukitake volunteered to give his life to become the Soul King.
• Kisuke Urahara proposed making Ginjō and Ukitake the Soul King together, then took out his Space Capsules and started preparing the process.

As the three realms began collapsing after the Soul King’s death, Shiraishi and Yamamoto watched from Hueco Mundo while Isshin and Masaki faced the disaster in Karakura Town. Kaname Tōsen died beside Kakyō’s grave, and Aizen began gathering chosen residents to carry into his new world.

• Shiraishi and Yamamoto discussed Hueco Mundo’s collapse and the destruction awaiting all three realms after the Soul King’s death.
• Isshin and Masaki ran outside during an earthquake in Karakura Town, confessed their love, and embraced as the shaking continued.
• Tōsen returned to Kakyō’s grave, spoke of Hisagi and Komamura, and stabbed himself with Suzumushi as Soul Society broke apart.
• Aizen told Gin that Tōsen had killed himself, then used a pillar of light to lift the Espada and Arrancar away from the collapsing ground.
• Aizen sent beams of light to gather Kira, Hisagi, members of the Third, Ninth, and Fifth Divisions, and selected residents of the World of the Living and Hueco Mundo for his new world.

Szayelaporro escaped with Loly through a beam that disrupted the Dangai, leaving Shiraishi and Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto stranded and cut off. In Seireitei, Kisuke Urahara and the surviving captains prepared to evacuate and search for survivors while Aizen remained a threat.

• Szayelaporro used the Hōgyoku to revive himself and escaped with Loly through a beam that Yamamoto's Bankai could not stop.
• The disturbance in the Dangai left Shiraishi and Yamamoto stranded, with no contact or clear way home, so they began considering how to find food.
• Kisuke Urahara failed to contact Shiraishi and Yamamoto because the Dangai's spirit waves were disrupted.
• Kirio Hikifune reunited with the surviving captains, and Urahara urged them to leave Seireitei before Aizen returned.
• Retsu Unohana and Byakuya Kuchiki chose to search for injured squad members and other survivors while the others prepared to leave.

Shiraishi encountered Fon at a remote teahouse and discovered she was Soi Fon, the captain of the Second Division, sent to kill him for murdering Hasegawa Taizo. After they argued over his claim that he had acted to protect a woman, Shiraishi and Soi Fon began to fight.

• Shiraishi stopped at a remote teahouse and flirted with Fon while ordering dango and tea.
• Shiraishi recognized Fon as Soi Fon, and she shed her disguise and revealed her combat uniform.
• Soi Fon accused Shiraishi of killing Hasegawa Taizo and said she had orders from the Central 46 Chambers to eliminate him.
• Shiraishi defended the killing as an act to protect a woman from Hasegawa, but Soi Fon rejected his explanation.
• Shiraishi attacked Soi Fon with Steel Tempest.

Shiraishi fought Soi Fon with his Zanpakuto's unusual abilities and Yasuo's skills, overpowering her before escaping. Soi Fon survived the battle and ordered the Stealth Force to hunt him down.

• Soi Fon challenged Shiraishi, but his Steel Tempest tracked her movements and forced her to draw Suzumebachi.
• Shiraishi passed through Soi Fon with an attack, then wounded her with a circular Steel Tempest slash.
• Shiraishi built two stacks of Gathering Storm and sent a tornado at Soi Fon, whose kick was caught in its wind.
• Shiraishi struck Soi Fon three times with Last Breath, then used Steel Tempest to slip away.
• Soi Fon failed to track Shiraishi's Reiatsu and ordered a portrait and wanted notice issued to the Stealth Force.

Shiraishi sought refuge in Ban Village after killing Hasegawa Taizo, the Stealth Force's Fifth Seat, and refused an offer to join the Jingi Group. He paid to be directed to Kūkaku Shiba's home in West District 4 and left with a map.

• Shiraishi used Steel Tempest to reach a hidden contact in Ban Village, identified by three bluestones outside his house.
• Shiraishi showed the contact Adachi's pendant and said he had killed Hasegawa Taizo, then refused to join the Jingi Group.
• The contact offered Shiraishi several escape options, and Shiraishi chose to seek help from Kūkaku Shiba rather than flee to the outer districts.
• Shiraishi paid five thousand kan for a map and left to find Kūkaku Shiba's home.

Shiraishi reached the Shiba Clan residence and asked Kūkaku Shiba to marry him before explaining that he needed shelter after killing the Stealth Force's Fifth Seat. Kūkaku agreed to let him stay, then sensed the Stealth Force arriving and went to confront them, where she faced an immense Captain-level Reiatsu.

• Shiraishi reached the Shiba Clan residence and persuaded its gatekeepers, Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko, to let him in.
• Kūkaku Shiba received Shiraishi, who knelt and asked her to marry him.
• Kūkaku rejected the proposal but agreed to let Shiraishi stay after he explained that he had killed the Stealth Force's Fifth Seat, Hasegawa Taizo.
• Kūkaku sensed the Stealth Force approaching and went upstairs to deal with them.
• At the entrance, Kūkaku witnessed a vast Captain-level Reiatsu erupt uncontrollably.

Kūkaku Shiba received Kaien’s body and restrained her grief rather than attacking the Shinigami who had killed him. As the Shiba family mourned, Shiraishi tried to comfort Kūkaku with special spicy senbei and left her beside Kaien’s coffin.

• The female Shinigami brought Kaien’s body to the Shiba home and said she had killed him, while Kūkaku ordered her to leave.
• Ganju cried over Kaien, and Kūkaku welcomed her brother home and asked Shiroganehiko to prepare water so she could clean his face.
• Kūkaku told Shiraishi to find a room, and he reflected on Kaien’s death and his determination to prevent Kūkaku from losing an arm in the future.
• Shiraishi wandered into the room where Kaien’s coffin rested and found Kūkaku sitting there with Ganju asleep on her lap.
• Shiraishi offered Kūkaku special spicy senbei, then left as she ate them and silently cried from their heat.

Shiraishi joined Kūkaku Shiba as she prepared the Kūkaku Cannon to send her eldest brother Kaien’s ashes into the sky during the Shiba Clan’s joyful funeral. As the preparations finished, Jūshirō Ukitake arrived late, and Kūkaku greeted him with barely restrained killing intent.

• Kūkaku Shiba woke Shiraishi for breakfast and invited him to attend her eldest brother’s funeral that night.
• Kūkaku explained that the Shiba Clan sent off its dead with smiles because grieving would insult those who had fought for their beliefs, and she warned Ganju not to cry.
• Kūkaku led Shiraishi to the Kūkaku Cannon and explained that she planned to fire Kaien’s ashes into the sky as part of a promise they had made.
• Shiraishi questioned whether Kaien had made that promise casually, and Kūkaku punched him before accepting his apology.
• Kūkaku prepared the cannon and painted the Shiba Clan crest on it, then Jūshirō Ukitake arrived late and Kūkaku angrily confronted him.

Jūshirō Ukitake explained how Kaien Shiba died after a Hollow fused with him, while Kūkaku Shiba struggled with her grief. Kaien’s spiritual body then rapidly dissipated, and Shiraishi sensed someone attacking him from behind.

• Jūshirō Ukitake apologized to Kūkaku Shiba and recounted how Kaien confronted the Hollow after Miyako and the division members were killed.
• Jūshirō Ukitake explained that the Hollow made Kaien’s Zanpakuto disappear, then fused with his spiritual body and began devouring him from within.
• Kūkaku Shiba understood why Jūshirō Ukitake had stopped Rukia from helping Kaien, recognizing that Kaien’s dignity mattered deeply to him.
• Shiraishi noticed Kaien’s spiritual body dissolving, and Kūkaku Shiba and Jūshirō Ukitake watched his remains vanish into blue motes of light.
• Kūkaku Shiba smashed the coffin in grief, and Shiraishi sensed an attacker behind him, drew his sword, and struck back.

Shiraishi discovered that an unseen, powerful attacker had approached him, while Jūshirō Ukitake tested his spiritual perception and then left for the Seireitei after coughing blood. Shiraishi suspected Sōsuke Aizen was responsible, but Kūkaku Shiba demanded he explain what he knew or leave her home.

• Shiraishi drew his Zanpakuto after sensing someone behind him, but the attacker vanished before he could identify them.
• Jūshirō Ukitake attacked Shiraishi to test his claim, and their blades clashed before Ukitake coughed up blood.
• Jūshirō Ukitake confirmed that someone had approached Shiraishi without either him or Kūkaku Shiba noticing, then returned to the Seireitei to recuperate.
• Kūkaku Shiba questioned Shiraishi about his enemies, and he recalled that Sōsuke Aizen possessed a cloak that could conceal Reiatsu.
• Shiraishi wondered whether Aizen's appearance was connected to Kaien Shiba, while Kūkaku Shiba warned him to tell her the truth or leave her home.

After Kūkaku Shiba sent him away for hiding the truth, Shiraishi left to seek work in Stone Village and resolved to avoid Aizen until he grew strong enough. While traveling through West District 4, he sensed a Hollow and hurried to defeat it before the Shinigami arrived.

• Kūkaku Shiba rejected Shiraishi's excuses and told him to leave, but softened and directed him to Ichirō Yagyū's odd-jobs business in Stone Village.
• Shiraishi set out alone, refusing Kūkaku Shiba's offer of his older brother's clothes because his own outfit improved his critical-hit chance.
• Shiraishi traveled through the mountains of West District 4, stopped to swim in a lake, and reflected on the scarcity of wildlife in Soul Society.
• Shiraishi sensed a Hollow's Reiatsu to the north, hurriedly dressed, and rushed toward it to claim the experience before the Shinigami could arrive.

Rin Tsubokura detected a Hollow entering Soul Society, but a silver-haired man named Shiraishi killed it before the assigned Shinigami arrived. When Rin recognized Shiraishi as a murderer wanted by the Second Division, Yachiru Kusajishi used her Reiatsu to stop him from reporting the man, intending to leave him for Ken-chan.

• Rin Tsubokura monitored the Projection Hall while Yachiru Kusajishi visited and helped herself to his snacks.
• Rin detected a Hollow opening a Garganta toward West District 4 and sent a warning to the responsible Shinigami.
• Yachiru told Rin that a silver-haired man had killed the Hollow before a Shinigami arrived.
• Rin slowed the surveillance footage and identified the man as Shiraishi, wanted by the Second Division for killing Hasegawa Taizo.
• Yachiru threatened Rin with her Reiatsu and stopped him from contacting the Second Division, saying Ken-chan should get the chance to fight Shiraishi.

Shiraishi hired Ichirō Yagyū to arrange a quiet home in West District Ten where Hollows appeared frequently, agreeing to pay a referral fee partly in debt. After reaching the district, he sensed several rough Reiatsu signatures and went to meet his new neighbors.

• Shiraishi visited Odd Jobs and asked Ichirō Yagyū for a secluded place to live where he could fight Hollows.
• Shiraishi admitted that he had killed Hasegawa Taizo, and Ichirō Yagyū recognized him as Lord Shiraishi and offered to arrange the move for five thousand kan.
• Shiraishi paid three thousand eight hundred kan and agreed to owe the balance, accepting that Kawakami Saburō might claim credit for his Hollow kills.
• Ichirō Yagyū gave Shiraishi a map to Kawakami Saburō’s post near Ox Horn Mountain in West District Ten.
• Shiraishi traveled to West District Ten, sensed several rough Reiatsu signatures, and went to greet his new neighbors.

Shiraishi arrived in Beginning of Summer and stopped Kenji and his companions from tormenting children. After Kenji’s companions betrayed him and begged for mercy, Shiraishi killed them and continued searching for the Shinigami stationed there.

• Kenji began a blindfolded killing game with a boy outside Rice Village, while his four companions watched.
• Shiraishi arrived, frightened Kenji and his companions into fleeing, and comforted the children before leaving them to find their mothers.
• Shiraishi caught up with Kenji and his companions in a grove and challenged them to fight.
• Kenji drew his sword, but his four companions stabbed him and asked Shiraishi to spare them.
• Shiraishi killed the four men with Steel Tempest, then searched for the Shinigami stationed in Beginning of Summer.

Shiraishi visited Kawakami Saburō’s residence, where Kawakami hired him to handle Hollows in West District Ten after learning Shiraishi had killed Kenji and his group. Shiraishi agreed to the work and left to retrieve the Denreishinki from Kenji.

• Shiraishi entered the Kawakami residence and flirted with the maid who welcomed him.
• Kawakami Saburō praised Shiraishi for killing Hasegawa Taizo and introduced him to Akimoto Osamu.
• Shiraishi revealed that he had killed Kenji and his group, and Kawakami celebrated their deaths.
• Kawakami hired Shiraishi to handle Hollows in West District Ten for five hundred kan per Hollow.
• Shiraishi agreed to retrieve Kenji’s Denreishinki and vanished from the hall.

Shiraishi hunted Hollows around Beginning of Spring while saving money and experience, then rushed to a Gillian sighting near Bamboo Village. Just as he prepared to fight it, an unseen attacker killed the Gillian from far away, and Shiraishi set out to find whoever had stolen his kill.

• Shiraishi killed a small Hollow, checked his status, and found himself 220 experience points from the next level.
• Shiraishi returned to Rice Village to look for work, explaining that he preferred repaying money rather than owing Kawakami Saburō a favor.
• Shiraishi received a Denreishinki alert about a Hollow near Bamboo Village and raced to the location.
• Shiraishi saw a Gillian emerge through cracks in the sky and moved to attack it.
• An unseen attacker killed the Gillian from more than three kilometers away, and Shiraishi headed toward the mountains to find them.

Shiraishi met Retsu Unohana at a mountain hot spring and tried to flirt with her, then proposed to Isane Kotetsu when she arrived. Unohana threatened him over his advances, while Isane remained stunned by his claim that he wanted both women as wives.

• Shiraishi approached Retsu Unohana after seeing her defeat a Gillian Menos Grande and introduced himself as a wandering ronin called The Unforgiven.
• Unohana concealed her identity as a Shinigami and invited Shiraishi to join the 11th Division, but he declined because he valued his freedom.
• Isane Kotetsu arrived with gathered herbs and shyly introduced herself to Shiraishi.
• Shiraishi proposed to Isane, leaving her flustered, and Unohana warned him that she knew ways to treat sexual urges.
• Shiraishi denied being a filthy person and said any man would want to marry both Unohana and Isane, shocking Isane.

Shiraishi joined Retsu Unohana and Isane Kotetsu in a hot spring, where Unohana drew information from him while he admired Isane’s legs. Unohana invited Shiraishi to accompany them to West District Twenty-Six to search for Dragon Lantern Fungus, and her mention of a knowledgeable male colleague with glasses stirred him.

• Retsu Unohana invited Shiraishi and Isane Kotetsu to bathe with her, and Shiraishi eagerly accepted.
• Unohana used Kyokkō to conceal herself and Isane’s intimate parts, while Shiraishi praised Isane’s long legs.
• Unohana asked about Shiraishi’s Zanpakuto, and he explained that Infinity hid his Reiatsu.
• Shiraishi admitted that he was wanted for killing Hasegawa Taizo but withheld that he had settled in West District Ten.
• Unohana invited Shiraishi to West District Twenty-Six to search for Dragon Lantern Fungus and said a knowledgeable man with glasses had told her about it.

Shiraishi grew suspicious that Aizen had arranged the Gillian Menos Grande attack and went with Retsu Unohana to gather herbs in West District Twenty-Six. In Hueco Mundo, Aizen sent Nnoitra to test Shiraishi, leaving him to travel to Soul Society with Tesla.

• Shiraishi suspected Aizen had engineered the Gillian Menos Grande's appearance and accepted Retsu Unohana's invitation to gather herbs.
• Aizen met Nnoitra outside Las Noches and gave him a photograph of Shiraishi, explaining that Shiraishi had detected and attacked him while he concealed his presence.
• Nnoitra crushed the photograph and said he wanted to kill Shiraishi.
• Aizen ordered Nnoitra to go to West District Twenty-Six and meet Takehiko Tsunayashiro, who would arrange a hiding place until it was discovered.
• Aizen promised Nnoitra a fight to the death with Nelliel after the mission and instructed Tesla to accompany him to Soul Society.

Nnoitra and Tesla arrived in the Dangai under Takehiko Tsunayashiro’s cover, while Shiraishi searched a vast mountain for Dragon Lantern Fungus with Retsu Unohana and Isane Kotetsu. After getting lost in the dark, Shiraishi stumbled upon Kūkaku camping in a clearing.

• Aizen concealed Nnoitra and Tesla from the Research and Development Institute, and Nnoitra met Takehiko Tsunayashiro in the Dangai.
• Nnoitra pretended to obey Takehiko while sensing the area through the ground, then detected a powerful Reiatsu far to the east.
• Retsu Unohana brought Shiraishi and Isane Kotetsu to search a huge mountain for Dragon Lantern Fungus and promised a kiss as a reward.
• Isane resolved to find the fungus before Shiraishi, while Retsu kept her suspicions about Shiraishi’s Reiatsu to herself.
• Shiraishi got lost in the dark forest and, searching for a place to rest, found Kūkaku grilling meat at a campfire.

Shiraishi met Kūkaku Shiba in the forest, where she attacked him after mistaking him for someone investigating Takehiko Tsunayashiro. After they cleared up the misunderstanding, Shiraishi agreed to investigate the Tsunayashiro branch family's compound while Kūkaku helped him find Dragon Lantern Fungus.

• Kūkaku Shiba attacked Shiraishi with Kidō and Hakuda, then demanded to know why he was investigating Takehiko Tsunayashiro.
• Shiraishi explained that he had come with friends to search for Dragon Lantern Fungus, and Kūkaku realized she had mistaken his purpose.
• Kūkaku told Shiraishi that she suspected Takehiko Tsunayashiro had killed her big brother and stolen his body for a Hollowfication Experiment.
• Shiraishi deduced that Aizen had shifted suspicion onto Takehiko Tsunayashiro and offered to investigate the branch family's compound.
• Kūkaku agreed to help Shiraishi find Dragon Lantern Fungus and warned him to be careful in the compound.