Characters

A restless child spirit lingers near a Karakura playground, unable to pass on after dying at only five. When a hungry Hollow corners him one afternoon, his cries pull a reluctant Ichigo Kurosaki into the rescue, an early test of the young substitute's willingness to protect a stranger.

Ranked ninth among Aizen's original Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie is the only Gillian ever to earn a seat, a grotesque anomaly whose glass dome holds two murmuring Hollow faces. His talent for devouring the dead lets him borrow their shapes, and he wears a stolen one to break Rukia Kuchiki's spirit.

Aaroniero Arruruerie is the Noveno Espada in Sōsuke Aizen's army, embodying the death aspect of Greed. Uniquely the only lowly Gillian to sit among the Espada, he is really a pair of tiny Hollow heads afloat in a tank, devouring others to evolve without limit.

Abirama Redder, Arrancar number twenty-two, serves among Baraggan Louisenbairn's six Fraccion. A savage, ritual-obsessed brawler, he transforms into a steel-feathered eagle with his release Aguila, only to lose his head to Izuru Kira's weight-stacking blade in the fake Karakura Town.

The twenty-second Arrancar and a member of Baraggan Louisenbairn's personal Fracción, Abirama Redder is a bloodthirsty brawler who screams his intentions before every duel. Sent to raze one of the pillars anchoring Karakura Town, he unfurls a steel-feathered eagle form against Izuru Kira.

Absolute Dragon Shatter is a lethal marksmanship spell drawn from the BURN THE WITCH corner of the Bleach world, wielded by the dragon-hunting witch Noel Niihashi. Its ornate name renders roughly as Anti-Dragon Absolute Murder Gun, fitting for a shot meant to end a life outright.

Addiction Shot is a Fullbring technique performed by Riruka Dokugamine through her power Dollhouse. With a heart-shaped seal she can shrink a chosen victim and lock them away inside any object she likes, from a doll to a plush toy, until the effect is somehow broken.

This Adjuchas-class Hollow appears only in the game Bleach: Erabareshi Tamashii, turning up in the Karakura High School courtyard as the title's final boss. Bird-like and bristling with spikes, it wields electricity as its deadliest weapon.

Afinar is the unusual combat trait of the Arrancar Findorr Calius, whose Hollow mask works as a lock on his own strength. Each fragment he snaps away lifts his power another step, climbing from a low seated rank all the way toward captain class.

Agitowari, whose name means jaw splitting, is a brutal Zanjutsu technique built to settle a fight in one motion. The swordsman drives a single cut from the opponent's jaw straight down the body, cleaving the target cleanly in two.

Aida is an anime-original Shinigami of the Gotei 13's Third Division, serving under captain Shūsuke Amagai. Sullen at first about an unfamiliar new leader, he grows into a confident, team-minded officer as the squad slowly finds its footing.

Aiko Kugihashi is a Karakura High School student and one of Ichigo Kurosaki's classmates. A minor face in the background, she is noted chiefly for her taste in hats and a fleeting appearance on the school's posted class rankings.

Air Blades is a fan-named ability tied to Tachikaze, the Zanpakutō wielded by the Visored Kensei Muguruma. By harnessing the sword's command over wind, Kensei looses cutting gusts that strike from a distance and burst their targets apart, potent enough to carve a giant Hollow into pieces.

Aisslinger Wernarr is the seventeenth Arrancar in Aizen's army and, alongside his partner Demoura Zodd, a gatekeeper of Las Noches. A four-armed gunner who gave up his human shape for power, he blocks Ichigo's rescue party before falling to Uryū Ishida.

Akon serves as lieutenant of the Twelfth Division and, at Soul Society's Shinigami Research and Development Institute, acts as its second-in-command. A level-headed scientist who once sat as the division's Third Seat, he is known for his cool head and sharp analytical mind, with a focus on spirit-energy research and the crafting of artificial bodies.

Ala Cortadola is an offensive move that Cirucci Sanderwicci performs after unleashing her released state, Golondrina. Its name blends a Spanish reading of Wing Cutter with a Japanese sense of Severing Wing, and it turns her enormous plumed wings into slashing instruments that can shear through hard matter.

Ala Cortadola Dispersion is a ranged variation of Cirucci Sanderwicci's wing attacks, used while she holds her Resurreccion, Golondrina. The name reads as Wing Cutter Dispersion, reflecting how she scatters the razor plumes of her wings across the battlefield.

Ala Cortadola Gradiator is a technique in Cirucci Sanderwicci's arsenal, available once she enters her Resurreccion, Golondrina. Rendered as Wing Cutter Gladiator, it lets her meet armed foes on their own terms without closing the distance between them.

Ala Cortadola Hachador is one of Cirucci Sanderwicci's released techniques, drawn from her Resurreccion, Golondrina. Its name carries the sense of Wing Cutter Axman, and it trades away her wings in exchange for a single concentrated weapon.

Aldegor is an anime-original Arrancar who threw in with Patros in a scheme to steal the Hogyoku and topple Sosuke Aizen. A brawny, brash Numero, he released his boar-themed sword Jabali against Ikkaku Madarame before the failed rebellion cost him his life.

Aldegor is an anime-original Arrancar who throws in with Patros on a scheme to topple Sosuke Aizen and seize the Hogyoku. A hulking member of the Numeros, he prefers quick, decisive fights and meets his end after the failed rebellion, dying of his wounds beside the very ally he followed.

Algora Lallau is a Quincy who served in Yhwach's earliest Schutzstaffel some thousand years in the past. A soldier of the Lichtreich, he fought with a pair of axes conjured from spirit particles and fell during the ancient assault on Soul Society, cut down by the Head Captain's flames.

Amor is the signature power Zommari Rureaux gains in his released state, Brujeria. The word means Love in both Spanish and Japanese, an ironic label for an ability that lets him seize command of whatever falls under his many eyes and bend it entirely to his will.

Andou Daniel is a professional boxer who holds Japan's heavyweight title and trains as a sparring partner for Yasutora Sado. He turns up in WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU, a Bleach light novel, where his drive to test himself against larger opponents brings him to Sado.

Angila is an anime-only Hollow that forms when numerous weaker Hollows merge together into a single towering beast. Emerging during a rooftop battle, it terrorizes the fighters present until Raku, transformed into a blazing lion, joins the costumed Karakura Superheroes to destroy it.

Aoga serves the Gotei 13 as a Shinigami of its Fourth Division. He barely survived a devastating Hollow attack as a senior student at the Shin'ō Academy, and the ordeal steered him away from frontline combat and toward the ranks of the healing corps.

Arkvine is a member of Wing Bind and a close aide to Sullivan Squire, the Director of the Sabres division who sits among the Top of Horns, the leadership council that steers the organization from its base in Reverse London.

Arpeggio is a technique wielded through Kinshara, the released Zanpakutō of the Shinigami Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi, better known as Rose. It binds a chosen target in a coiling wire and crushes it through the motions of imagined music.

An Arrancar is a Hollow that has torn away its mask to take on a humanlike form and gain powers resembling those of a Shinigami. Once rare and seldom fully realized, they multiplied when Sōsuke Aizen used the Hōgyoku to forge fully developed Arrancar for his army.

Arturo Plateado is a video-game-original Arrancar of tremendous age and power, featured in Bleach: Shattered Blade and Bleach: The 3rd Phantom. A self-made being whose name means Silver Arthur in Spanish, he twice wages war on Soul Society across a thousand years of buried history.

Arturo Plateado is an ancient, self-made Arrancar and a villain original to the Bleach video games. Bent on wiping out the Shinigami, he assaulted Soul Society more than a thousand years before the main story and was sealed away, his Zanpakutō Fénix letting him grow stronger with every soul he slays.

Asguiaro Ebern is an Arrancar who serves as a soldier of the Wandenreich. Sent to test and stall Ichigo Kurosaki with a Medallion built to steal Bankai, he denies his Arrancar past and pledges himself wholly to the Quincy empire and its emperor, Yhwach.

Ashido Kanō is an anime-original Shinigami stranded for centuries in Hueco Mundo. After Hollows wiped out his unit in the Forest of Menos, he stayed behind to slay as many of them as he could, honoring his fallen comrades and shielding the living world.

Born from the blade of Mayuri Kurotsuchi, this small winged figure is one of the materialized Zanpakutō Spirits of the anime-exclusive Zanpakutō Rebellion. Twisted violent by Muramasa's control, it wields a paralyzing poison, and after its release becomes a timid, well-meaning oddity.

A refinement of Mayuri Kurotsuchi's Shikai, this technique weaponizes the infant figure fixed to his blade, forcing out a scream whose sound locks the body of any listener not tied to his bloodline. Its name renders roughly as Leg-Cutting Jizō, Terror Magnitude Four.

Askin Nakk Le Vaar is a Quincy of the Wandenreich, bearing the Schrift D, The Deathdealing, and the only rank-and-file Sternritter raised into Yhwach's elite Schutzstaffel. Laid-back, self-deprecating, and deceptively lethal, he kills by bending the fatal dose of any substance.

Askin Nakk Le Vaar is a Quincy of the Wandenreich, one of Yhwach's Sternritter bearing the schrift 'D: The Deathdealing.' Uniquely raised from the ordinary ranks into the emperor's elite Schutzstaffel, he weaponizes lethal doses, turning even air and blood into poison, all while playing the role of a lazy, harmless bystander.

A Sternritter of the Wandenreich carrying the letter D, The Deathdealing, Askin Nakk Le Vaar is the only lower-ranked member raised into Yhwach's Schutzstaffel. A laid-back Quincy who kills through poison and lethal-dose control, he faces Kisuke Urahara in the war's closing battles.

Äs Nödt ranks among the Wandenreich's Sternritter, carrying the designation F and the epithet The Fear. A Quincy who hurls Reishi thorns, he weaponizes terror itself, and his duel with Rukia Kuchiki became one of the Thousand-Year Blood War's most memorable clashes.

As Nodt is a Quincy Sternritter bearing the letter F, The Fear. Reserved and philosophically obsessed with terror, he channels limitless dread through thorns of light, felling Byakuya Kuchiki with a stolen Bankai before meeting his end against Rukia's absolute-zero blade.

As Nodt fights for the Wandenreich as the Sternritter F: The Fear, a masked Quincy whose thorns plant boundless, instinctive terror in anyone they touch. A reborn invalid devoted to Yhwach, he cripples Byakuya Kuchiki before meeting his end against Rukia Kuchiki's frozen blade.

A sixth seat in the Third Division of the Gotei 13, Asuka Katakura serves under captain Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi. He appears only briefly during the Thousand-Year Blood War, falling to a Wandenreich attacker moments after releasing his seasonally named sword, Katakage.

The lieutenant of the Seventh Division under captain Tetsuzaemon Iba, Atau Rindō is a manga-only Shinigami introduced in the Hell chapter. Deaf and devoted to animals, he wields an unusual whip-like Zanpakutō whose forms he summons by naming creatures in sign language.

A Fullbringer born without a Fullbring of her own, Aura Michibane leads the XCUTION cult and hosts the Soul King's Saketsu. Introduced in the novel Can't Fear Your Own World, she serves Tokinada Tsunayashiro before her love for the child Hikone drives her to sacrifice herself.

Auswählen is a signature power of Yhwach that redistributes strength across the Quincy, seizing the life and abilities of those he deems unworthy and pouring them into his chosen. Rendered as Select or Consecration, it revives fallen allies at the cost of weaker Quincy who often die where they stand.

Ave Mellizos is the full expression of Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio's Resurrección, Giralda. Its Spanish name means Bird Twins. Drawing on the twin cyclones of his released form, the Arrancar spawns a swarm of serpentine extensions to overwhelm an opponent.

A towering chimera-Hollow, Ayon springs to life when the Tres Bestias invoke Quimera Parca, each tearing off her own left arm to feed the ritual. Barely sentient and built only to kill, the monster mauls a row of Gotei 13 lieutenants until Yamamoto burns it away.

Baishin is a rogue Shinigami from the OVA The Sealed Sword Frenzy who fused with his own Zanpakutō to sharpen his swordsmanship, then lost himself to a killing rampage. Sealed for centuries, he breaks free hunting powerful souls to force a separation from his blade.

Bakudantsuki, meaning Bomb Thrust, is a destructive attack channeled through Tachikaze, the combat knife wielded by the Visored captain Kensei Muguruma. By flooding the blade with spiritual pressure, he shapes a glowing sphere of energy and fires it forward as a concentrated, close-range blast.

Bala, written with characters meaning Hollow Bullet, is a ranged strike available only to Arrancar. It trades the raw destructive punch of a Cero for blistering speed, letting the user hurl compact bolts of condensed spiritual matter in rapid succession.