Bleach
Bleach timeline
Bleach events in chronological order, with where they happen and the story arc they belong to.
A million years earlier · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
The Soul King becomes the linchpin of the worlds
A million years ago the founders of the Soul Society, among them the ancestors of the great houses and Ichibē Hyōsube, strip the Soul King of arms, legs and heart and seal him in a crystal: from then on he keeps life and death apart.
A thousand years earlier · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
The first war between Quincy and Soul Reapers
A thousand years ago Yhwach leads the Quincy against the Soul Society. Yamamoto and the first Gotei 13, an army of killers that includes the first Kenpachi, defeat him; Yhwach withdraws and falls into his nine-hundred-year sleep.
Before the story · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
The young Kenpachi meets the first Kenpachi
In Zaraki, the eightieth district, a nameless boy fights Yachiru Unohana and survives. So as never to lose again the only opponent who ever entertained him, he unconsciously seals his own strength.
110 years earlier · Turn Back the Pendulum
Urahara becomes captain of the Twelfth Division
A hundred and ten years ago Kirio Hikifune is promoted to the Royal Guard and Kisuke Urahara takes her place, over Hiyori's protests. He frees Mayuri from prison and founds the Research and Development Institute.
110 years earlier · Turn Back the Pendulum
The Hollowfication of the captains
Sent to investigate mysterious disappearances in the Rukongai, Kensei, Mashiro and then Shinji, Hiyori, Lisa, Love, Rose and Hachigen are Hollowfied by Aizen, with Gin and Tōsen at his side. Urahara and Tessai try in vain to save them.
110 years earlier · Turn Back the Pendulum
The exile of Urahara and the Visored
Central 46 condemns Urahara and Tessai in Aizen's place and orders the Visored eliminated as Hollows. Yoruichi spirits them away, and they all flee to the World of the Living.
Decades earlier · Soul Society: The Rescue
Rukia and Renji grow up in Inuzuri
In the poor district of Inuzuri two orphans, Rukia and Renji, survive with a band of kids and decide to enter the Shin'ō Academy to become Soul Reapers.
Decades earlier · Soul Society: The Rescue
Byakuya adopts Rukia
Keeping the promise he made to his dying wife Hisana, Byakuya Kuchiki adopts Rukia into the house without telling her why. Renji, convinced he can never reach her, steps aside.
Decades earlier · Soul Society: The Rescue
Kaien Shiba's death
The Hollow Metastacia kills Miyako, Kaien's wife, and then fuses with Kaien himself. Rukia is forced to run her lieutenant through, and he dies thanking her.
Decades earlier · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
The first Substitute Soul Reaper
Years before Ichigo, Kūgo Ginjō receives the Substitute Soul Reaper badge from Ukitake. On discovering it also serves to watch him, he rebels, kills some Soul Reapers and disappears.
About twenty years earlier · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Isshin, Masaki and the Hollow White
Twenty years before the story, captain Isshin Shiba faces White in Karakura, an experimental Hollow created by Aizen. The young Quincy Masaki saves him, but the Hollow merges with her soul.
Ichigo's childhood · The Substitute
Sōken Ishida's death
Uryū's grandfather is killed by Hollows while the Soul Reapers arrive too late; his body ends up in Mayuri's laboratory. Uryū swears hatred against Soul Reapers.
Ichigo's childhood · The Substitute
Masaki's death
Six years before the story, on the riverbank, Masaki dies shielding Ichigo from the Hollow Grand Fisher. Ichigo, nine years old, believes it was his fault.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Rukia gives her powers to Ichigo
The Hollow Fishbone D attacks the Kurosaki Clinic. The wounded Rukia runs Ichigo through with her sword to transfer part of her powers: he takes them all and fells the Hollow in one stroke.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Ichigo vs Acidwire (Sora Inoue)
Orihime's brother, turned Hollow, returns to take her with him. Orihime recognises him; Sora wounds himself so as not to kill her and is purified by Ichigo.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Ichigo vs Shrieker: the gates of Hell
To save little Yūichi's soul, Ichigo faces Shrieker, a Hollow who was a murderer in life. Defeated, Shrieker is not purified: the gates of Hell open and drag it inside.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Ichigo vs Grand Fisher
On the anniversary of his mother's death, at the cemetery, Ichigo meets the Hollow that killed her. Rukia lets him fight alone; Ichigo wounds it, but Grand Fisher flees.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Don Kanonji and the abandoned hospital
During a live broadcast of the show 'Bra-ra', Don Kanonji nearly turns a soul chained to the hospital into a Hollow. Ichigo steps in on camera and purifies it.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Uryū's challenge and the Menos Grande
Uryū challenges Ichigo to a Hollow-hunting contest by scattering bait all over Karakura. Dozens of Hollows and a Menos Grande show up; Ichigo and Uryū drive it back together, while Chad and Orihime awaken their powers.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Rukia's arrest
On a rainy night Renji and Byakuya come to Karakura to take Rukia back to the Soul Society. Uryū is knocked out; Ichigo takes on Renji, but Byakuya cuts him down in an instant and strips him of his powers.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
The Shattered Shaft
In the shop's basement, Urahara severs Ichigo's Chain of Fate and throws him into a shaft: if he doesn't become a Soul Reaper before the chain wears away entirely, he will become a Hollow. Ichigo finds Zangetsu in his inner world and climbs out with the cleaver.
Substitute Soul Reaper · The Substitute
Yoruichi trains Chad and Orihime
While Ichigo trains beneath the shop, the talking cat Yoruichi teaches Chad and Orihime to control their newly awakened powers, in preparation for the invasion of the Soul Society.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Across the Dangai
The ryoka go through Urahara's Senkaimon and run through the Dangai chased by the Kōtotsu, the 'cleaner' that sweeps the corridor. Orihime saves them with Santen Kesshun.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Ichigo vs Jidanbō
Before the Hakutōmon gate Ichigo defeats the giant Jidanbō, who lifts the gate out of respect: on the other side stands Gin Ichimaru, who cuts off his arm and pushes Ichigo back out of the Seireitei.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Kūkaku Shiba's cannon
Kūkaku agrees to help Yoruichi: she trains the ryoka to hold a sphere of spiritual energy together and fires them over the Seireitei's barrier. The sphere breaks and the group is scattered.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Ichigo vs Ikkaku Madarame
Ichigo's first serious opponent in the Seireitei is the Eleventh's third seat. Ichigo wins, and the defeated Ikkaku tells him where Rukia is.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Aizen's 'corpse'
At dawn Aizen is found pinned to a wall of the Seireitei. Hinamori, distraught, attacks Gin; Kira defends him; Hitsugaya stops them both. It was all an illusion of Kyōka Suigetsu.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Uryū vs Mayuri: Letzt Stil
Uryū faces the man who dissected his grandfather. To beat him he unleashes Quincy: Letzt Stil, the Quincy's final form, and loses his powers. Nemu, disobeying, gives him the antidote.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Chad vs Kyōraku
Chad fights his way through the Soul Reapers until he meets Kyōraku, who offers him a drink and then fells him with a single blow, sparing his life.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Ichigo vs Renji
Ichigo and Renji meet again in the Seireitei. Ichigo wins, and the defeated Renji asks him to save Rukia in his place.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Ichigo vs Kenpachi Zaraki
On the way to the Senzaikyū Ichigo runs into Kenpachi, whom his blows cannot even scratch. Only after a talk with Zangetsu can Ichigo wound him; both end up on the ground.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Bankai in three days
Beneath Sōkyoku Hill, Yoruichi uses the Tenshintai to materialise Zangetsu: Ichigo must subdue him to achieve Bankai, which normally takes ten years. He does it in three days.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Renji vs Byakuya
On the steps of the Senzaikyū Renji uses his newly achieved Bankai, Hihiō Zabimaru, against his captain to save Rukia. Byakuya defeats him, but acknowledges his resolve.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Kenpachi vs Komamura and Tōsen
Kenpachi sides with the ryoka and takes on Komamura and Tōsen. Komamura removes his helmet and reveals his wolf's head; Tōsen's Bankai blinds Kenpachi, who wins anyway.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Ichigo stops the Sōkyoku
On execution day the Sōkyoku's fire phoenix is about to strike Rukia. Ichigo stops it with his sword; Kyōraku and Ukitake destroy the Sōkyoku with the Shiba house's shield, and Renji carries Rukia away.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Yamamoto vs Kyōraku and Ukitake
For destroying the Sōkyoku, the two captains face their own teacher. The Captain-Commander unleashes Ryūjin Jakka; his two students release their twin swords.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Soi Fon vs Yoruichi
Soi Fon faces her old mentor, who outpaces her and shows her Shunkō. Defeated, Soi Fon bursts into tears: she never forgave her for leaving her behind.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Ichigo vs Byakuya
Tensa Zangetsu against Senbonzakura Kageyoshi: the arc's decisive duel. Byakuya reaches the Shūkei: Hakuteiken form; for a moment, Ichigo is covered by his Hollow's mask. Byakuya concedes defeat.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Central 46 massacred
Hitsugaya and Unohana separately discover that Central 46 has been dead for days: the orders came from Aizen. Aizen, alive, runs Hinamori through and overwhelms Hitsugaya; Isane broadcasts the truth to everyone via Kidō.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
Aizen's betrayal
On Sōkyoku Hill Aizen explains his entire plan, extracts the Hōgyoku from Rukia's soul and, surrounded by the captains, is lifted away in the light of the Negación together with Gin and Tōsen.
Soul Society · Soul Society: The Rescue
The Substitute Soul Reaper badge
Before Ichigo heads home, Ukitake hands him the Substitute Soul Reaper badge, officially recognising him. Rukia chooses to stay in the Soul Society.
Anime-original arcs · The Bount
The Bount assault on the Seireitei
In the anime-original arc, Jin Kariya leads the Bount in an assault on the Soul Society to avenge his people. Ichigo stops him at the heart of the Seireitei.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Ulquiorra and Yammy arrive in Karakura
The first Arrancar land in Karakura: Yammy sucks out the souls of passers-by, breaks Chad's arm and injures Orihime. Ichigo cannot make use of his Bankai; Urahara and Yoruichi drive Yammy off.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Shinji Hirako, the new classmate
A blond boy with an enormous grin enrols in Ichigo's class and invites him to join the Visored: he too has a Hollow inside, and can teach him to master it.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Grimmjow's first raid
Grimmjow attacks Karakura with his Fracción without Aizen's permission. The Gotei's advance team takes them on: Rukia beats Di Roy, Ikkaku secretly uses his Bankai against Edrad, Renji defeats Yylfordt, Hitsugaya and Rangiku bring down Shawlong and Nakeem. Ichigo faces Grimmjow; Tōsen comes to fetch him.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Ichigo tames his Hollow
In the Visored's warehouse Ichigo enters his own inner world and defeats his Hollow, while the Visored take turns holding his body back. He gains the mask, which at first lasts only a few seconds.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
The second Arrancar raid
As Ulquiorra moves for Orihime, Aizen sends a diversion: Grimmjow, Yammy, Wonderweiss and other Arrancar attack Karakura. Ichigo fights Grimmjow with his mask.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Orihime abducted in the Dangai
While crossing the Dangai towards the Soul Society, Orihime is intercepted by Ulquiorra: either she follows him to Hueco Mundo, or her friends will die. She has twelve hours to say goodbye to one person; she chooses Ichigo, asleep.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Departure for Hueco Mundo
The Soul Society declares Orihime a traitor and recalls its Soul Reapers. Ichigo, Uryū and Chad leave anyway through the Garganta opened by Urahara; Rukia and Renji soon follow them.
Arrancar · Arrancar: The Arrival
Isshin cuts down Grand Fisher
While Ichigo is in Hueco Mundo, Grand Fisher, now an Arrancar, returns to Karakura to take revenge on Karin. Isshin appears for the first time in a captain's attire and cuts him in two with a single strike.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Nel, Pesche and Dondochakka
In the desert Ichigo, Uryū and Chad stumble on a small Arrancar and her two "brothers", playing tag with the sandworm Bawabawa. They become their guides to Las Noches.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Ichigo vs Dordoni
The first Privaron Espada goads Ichigo until he uses his Hollow mask. Ichigo wins but spares him, and the offended Dordoni is reached by the Exequias.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Chad vs Gantenbainne
Against Privaron Espada No. 107 Chad discovers the true nature of his power: Brazo Derecha de Gigante is joined by Brazo Izquierda del Diablo.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Uryū vs Cirucci
Uryū, with Pesche's unpredictable help, defeats Privaron Espada No. 105 using the Seele Schneider, the Quincy's energy blade.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
First clash with Ulquiorra in Las Noches
Ichigo finds Ulquiorra and faces him with Bankai and mask. Ulquiorra doesn't even release his sword: he pierces his chest with a Cero and leaves him dying.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Rukia vs Aaroniero
In the darkness of the Ninth's tower, Aaroniero shows himself to Rukia with Kaien Shiba's face. Rukia runs him through with Sode no Shirayuki's third dance, symbolically killing her lieutenant once again.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Renji and Uryū vs Szayelaporro
Renji and Uryū join forces against the Eighth Espada, who analyses them, neutralises their every attack and manipulates their organs with voodoo dolls. Mayuri's arrival saves them.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Ichigo vs Grimmjow: the rematch
Grimmjow forces Orihime to heal Ichigo so he can face him at full strength, then unleashes Pantera. Ichigo stops Desgarrón bare-handed and wins; Nnoitra strikes Grimmjow down from behind.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Mayuri vs Szayelaporro
The Gotei's scientist against the Espada's scientist. Mayuri had foreseen everything: he injects a poison that slows the perception of time, and Szayelaporro lives 'a hundred years' in the instant of the sword that kills him.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Kenpachi vs Nnoitra
Nnoitra humiliates Nel and nearly kills Ichigo. Kenpachi arrives: two fighters who live only for battle. Kenpachi grips his sword with both hands as in kendō and cuts him down.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Byakuya vs Zommari
Byakuya protects the wounded Rukia from the Seventh Espada. Against Brujería's fifty eyes and their power to control the body, the captain answers with speed and Kidō.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Kenpachi and Byakuya vs Yammy
Stranded in Las Noches after Aizen's departure, the captains face Yammy in his Ira form, which grows without limit with his rage. Kenpachi and Byakuya grudgingly fight side by side.
Arrancar · Arrancar: Hueco Mundo
Ichigo vs Ulquiorra above the dome
Above the dome Ulquiorra unleashes his Segunda Etapa and kills Ichigo. At Orihime's scream, Ichigo rises again as a full Hollow and tears Ulquiorra apart, wounding Uryū too. Ulquiorra dies reaching out to Orihime.
Anime-original arcs · The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai
Shūsuke Amagai's revenge
In the anime-original arc the Third Division's new captain turns against Yamamoto, believing him to be his father's murderer. On learning the truth, he takes his own life.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
The battles of the four pillars
The Tenteikūra pillars hold the replica in Karakura's place. Barragan sends his Fracción to bring them down: Ikkaku against Poww, Yumichika against Charlotte, Kira against Abirama, Hisagi against Findorr.
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Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Soi Fon vs Barragan
Soi Fon and Ōmaeda face the Second Espada and his Respira, which ages everything. With Hachigen's help, Barragan's own power turns against him and consumes him.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Hitsugaya vs Harribel
The ice captain against the water Espada. Harribel's Fracción summon the chimera Ayon, which Yamamoto incinerates; in the end Aizen cuts Harribel down, judging her useless.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Kyōraku vs Starrk
Kyōraku and Ukitake face the First Espada, joined by Love and Rose. Wonderweiss stabs Ukitake from behind; Kyōraku kills Starrk with Katen Kyōkotsu's shadow game.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Komamura and Hisagi vs Tōsen
Tōsen, Hollowfied, sees for the first time and unleashes his Resurrección. Komamura fights the friend he cannot bring himself to hate; it is Hisagi who finishes him with Kazeshini, as Tōsen asks for forgiveness.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Yamamoto vs Wonderweiss
Wonderweiss seals Ryūjin Jakka's flames and absorbs them. Yamamoto destroys him with the forbidden Hadō #96 Ittō Kasō, sacrificing an arm, and contains the released fire with his own body.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Aizen and the Hōgyoku
Left alone, Aizen faces everyone: with Kyōka Suigetsu he tricks Hitsugaya into running Hinamori through; Gin cuts down Hiyori; the Visored, Isshin and Ichigo are swept aside. Fused with the Hōgyoku, Aizen goes beyond every limit.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Training in the Dangai: the Final Getsuga Tenshō
Isshin takes Ichigo into the Dangai, where he spends three months in an hour. Ichigo faces Tensa Zangetsu in his inner world and learns the secret of the Final Getsuga Tenshō: becoming the Getsuga itself, at the cost of his powers.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Gin's betrayal
In the real Karakura Gin strikes Aizen with the poison of Kamishini no Yari and tears the Hōgyoku from him. Aizen evolves again, survives and kills him. Gin dies before Rangiku.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Ichigo vs Aizen: the Final Getsuga Tenshō
Ichigo emerges from the Dangai and draws Aizen away from the town. With the Final Getsuga Tenshō, Mugetsu, he surpasses him; the Hōgyoku rejects Aizen and the Kidō Urahara planted in him seals him. Ichigo loses his powers.
Arrancar · The Battle of Fake Karakura Town
Aizen sentenced to Muken
Central 46 sentences Aizen to twenty thousand years of imprisonment in the eighth level of Muken, chained and gagged, after increasing the penalty because of his attitude.
Anime-original arcs · Zanpakutō Unknown Tales
The Zanpakutō rebellion
In the anime-original arc, Muramasa frees the Zanpakutō spirits and turns them against their masters; Byakuya vanishes to settle the Kuchiki house's guilt on his own.
Anime-original arcs · Gotei 13 Invading Army
The Reigai invasion
In the anime-original arc, artificial copies of Soul Reapers created by a researcher at the Institute invade Karakura and the Soul Society.
Fullbring · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
Ichigo and Xcution
Seventeen months after Aizen, Kūgo Ginjō offers Ichigo a way to get his powers back: Fullbring. Inside Riruka's Dollhouse Ichigo trains and turns his substitute badge into a weapon.
Fullbring · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
Book of the End
Tsukishima strikes Ichigo's family and friends with his bookmark, inserting himself into their memories: Orihime, Chad, Karin, Yuzu and the others treat him as a lifelong friend, and Ichigo is left alone.
Fullbring · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
Ginjō steals the Fullbring
Once Ichigo completes his Fullbring, Ginjō and Tsukishima tear it from him and share it among the Fullbringers. Ginjō reveals he is the first Substitute Soul Reaper.
Fullbring · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
Rukia gives Ichigo his powers back
Rukia runs Ichigo through with a sword made by Urahara and charged with the spiritual pressure of all the captains. Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper again, with a new look, right in front of Ginjō.
Fullbring · The Lost Substitute Shinigami
Ichigo vs Ginjō
The captains take on the Fullbringers — Byakuya against Tsukishima, Kenpachi against Giriko, Renji against Jackie, Hitsugaya against Yukio — while Ichigo defeats Ginjō, who dies.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
The Wandenreich declares war
Wandenreich messengers walk into the First Division and announce that the Soul Society will be annihilated in five days. They kill Sasakibe and display his crucified body.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
Ichigo vs Quilge Opie
Summoned by Nel and Pesche, Ichigo rushes to Hueco Mundo, where the Wandenreich has captured Harribel. He defeats Quilge, but is trapped in his 'The Jail' prison while the Soul Society is attacked.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
The stolen Bankai
In the first invasion the Sternritter use their medallions to take the captains' Bankai: Byakuya loses his to Äs Nödt, Soi Fon to BG9, Komamura to Bambietta, Hitsugaya to Cang Du.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
Byakuya vs Äs Nödt
Äs Nödt steals Byakuya's Bankai and uses it against him. Mortally wounded, Byakuya asks Ichigo to protect the Soul Society.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
Yamamoto's death
Yamamoto incinerates Driscoll and unleashes Zanka no Tachi against 'Yhwach', who is really Royd Lloyd. The real Yhwach arrives, steals his Bankai with the medallion and cuts him in half.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
Kenpachi vs Yhwach
Kenpachi hurls himself at Yhwach right after Yamamoto falls, and is beaten without truly wounding him: it is the first time the Eleventh's captain loses so decisively.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
Ichigo vs Yhwach: Tensa Zangetsu breaks
Ichigo arrives in the Seireitei and faces Yhwach. His Bankai cannot be stolen, but Yhwach breaks it; then he withdraws, taking Uryū with him, named his successor.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Blood Warfare
The Royal Guard descends to the Seireitei
For the first time in centuries the Royal Guard comes down to the Soul Society. Tenjirō heals the wounded and the five guardians take Ichigo, Renji, Rukia and Byakuya to the Reiōkyū.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
The springs of Kirinden
At the Royal Guard's first palace, Tenjirō dunks Ichigo and the others into his healing springs in anything but a gentle manner. Within hours the worst wounds close up.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
The Gatonden feast
Kirio Hikifune stuffs Ichigo and Renji with food that regenerates spiritual energy: for her, eating is part of the training, because one must reach the next palace at full strength.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Unohana vs Kenpachi
At Kyōraku's request, Unohana takes Kenpachi into Muken and kills and heals him again and again, until he abandons the limits he had imposed on himself and cuts her down. She dies happy to have been surpassed.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Kyōraku becomes Captain-Commander
After Yamamoto's death, Shunsui Kyōraku becomes the Gotei 13's new Captain-Commander and brings Nanao along as First Division lieutenant. His first decisions spare no one.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Zangetsu reborn
At the Hōōden Nimaiya turns Ichigo away; Isshin tells him about Masaki and his own nature. Ichigo realises that 'old Zangetsu' is his Quincy power and the true Zangetsu is the Hollow, and receives his two new blades.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
The second invasion: Silbern rises
The Wandenreich returns and, through the Schatten Bereich, replaces the Seireitei with its own city, Silbern. The Soul Society finds itself fighting in the enemy's home.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Rukia's Bankai
Against Äs Nödt, who floods her with fear, Rukia reveals her Bankai, Hakka no Togame: absolute zero. Even fear freezes; Byakuya, back from the Reiōkyū, stands by her.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Renji vs Mask De Masculine
Mask has beaten Rose and Kensei. Renji arrives, just down from the Reiōkyū: with the true Bankai taught to him by Ichibē, Sōō Zabimaru, he burns the Wandenreich's 'Superstar' to ash.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Kenpachi vs Gremmy
Gremmy imagines meteors, weapons and an invincible body; Kenpachi cuts through them all. When he tries to imagine Kenpachi's strength, his own body cannot bear it.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
Ichibē vs Yhwach
Yhwach climbs to the Reiōkyū. Ichibē faces him alone and, with his Bankai Shirafude Ichimonji, erases and rewrites his name. Yhwach breaks free and cuts him down.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Separation
The fall of the Royal Guard
The Schutzstaffel brings down the Royal Guard members one after another. Senjumaru unleashes her Bankai Shatatsu Karagara Shigarami no Tsuji, but she too falls.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Conflict
Giselle's zombies
Giselle kills Bambietta and turns Soul Reapers and captains, Hitsugaya among them, into her zombies. Mayuri finds a way to reverse the process and turn the zombies against the Bambies.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Conflict
Mayuri and Nemu vs Pernida
Pernida, the Soul King's left arm, twists the nerves of anyone it touches. Mayuri studies it as he fights; Nemu dies protecting him and dealing the decisive blow.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Conflict
Kyōraku frees Aizen
Against Yhwach the Soul Society needs everything it has. Kyōraku goes down into Muken and partially frees Aizen, who agrees to fight — in his own way.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Conflict
Kyōraku and Nanao vs Lille Barro
The Schutzstaffel's sniper takes an eye from Kyōraku, who answers with his Bankai Karamatsu Shinjū. Nanao wields her family sword, Shinken Hakkyōken, and together they stop Lille.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Conflict
Gerard Valkyrie's miracle
Every wound makes Gerard bigger: he becomes a giant towering over the Seireitei. Kenpachi, Hitsugaya, Byakuya and others must join forces — along with Mayuri's science — to hold him back.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Yhwach absorbs the Soul King
Before the King's crystal, Yhwach manipulates Ichigo's body so that his sword runs the Soul King through. He absorbs him and takes his place: the Reiōkyū becomes Wahrwelt, and the worlds begin to collapse.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Ukitake's sacrifice
With the King dead, Ukitake performs the Kamikake rite: he releases Mimihagi, the King's right hand living in his lungs, and for a moment becomes the pillar of the worlds. The price is his life.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Urahara, Yoruichi and Grimmjow vs Askin
At Wahrwelt Askin traps the group with his Vollständig. Urahara finally reveals his Bankai, Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame, Yoruichi her Shunkō Raijin Senki form, and with Grimmjow they bring the Sternritter down.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Bazz-B vs Haschwalth
Yhwach's Auswählen strikes his own Sternritter. Bazz-B rebels and challenges his childhood friend Haschwalth, who kills him.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Ichigo vs Haschwalth
On the way to Yhwach's tower, Ichigo faces the Grand Master of the Sternritter, whose Schrift The Balance diverts the wounds he receives onto his opponents.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Uryū vs Haschwalth
Uryū, his double game revealed, faces the Grand Master with his Schrift, The Antithesis, which reverses wounds. Haschwalth dies when Yhwach takes back his share of power.
Thousand-Year Blood War · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Yhwach's defeat
Yhwach breaks Ichigo's sword once more. Uryū looses the silver arrow that freezes The Almighty for an instant; an illusion of Kyōka Suigetsu shields Ichigo, who cuts Yhwach down with one last slash.
Ten years later · Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity
Ten years later
Ichigo and Orihime live in Karakura with their son Kazui; Rukia, captain of the Thirteenth, and Renji arrive with their daughter Ichika. Kazui dispels the last fragment of Yhwach's power with a touch.
After the war · Hell · No Breaths From Hell
The Konsō Reisai and the gates of Hell
Years after the war the Soul Society holds the Konsō Reisai for Ukitake. The balance of the worlds falters, the gates of Hell open and Kokutō, a damned soul, comes out to drag Ichigo into Hell.