Hotaru Kanisawa

Kanisawa is a small girl whose fairly short brown hair is partly gathered above her right ear with a clip set with two red beads. She wears the standard female uniform of the Shin'o Academy and carries her Zanpakuto on a strap slung across her back.

A senior student, Kanisawa carried herself with the responsibility of an upperclassman, taking charge of the younger cadets and organizing them for their assignment. As a classmate of Hisagi she stood as a senpai to juniors such as Renji Abarai, Izuru Kira, and Momo Hinamori.

Together with Hisagi and Aoga, Kanisawa helped lead a training expedition to the material world so that students could practice the Konso rite. Before setting out she had the cadets sort themselves into threes by matching the marked slips of paper handed out beforehand. As Hisagi was about to call an end to the day, a Huge Hollow killed her; Aoga tried at once to avenge her and was wounded by the same creature. Years later, in the lull between the Wandenreich's two assaults on the Seireitei, the two survivors visited her grave and mourned the way she had died.