Groups

The Bambies are a five-woman Quincy squad within the Wandenreich's Sternritter, a tight but quarrelsome crew who socialize and fight side by side as friends under the name of their founder, Bambietta Basterbine.

The Bount are an anime-original tribe of artificially made beings who cheat death by devouring souls, born from a Soul Society experiment gone wrong and hunted for centuries until only a scattered remnant remained under Jin Kariya.

The Calligraphy Club is a recreational society within Soul Society devoted to the practice of traditional Japanese brush writing, chaired by the reserved noble captain Byakuya Kuchiki and drawing a handful of notable Shinigami to its meetings.

Central 46 is the court that decides matters of law for Soul Society. Empowered by a mandate handed down from the Soul King, this body reaches far past ordinary judging duties, shaping legislation and directing the military arms of the realm from behind its walls.

The Dark Ones are a band of six exiled souls, the remnants of a disgraced house cast out of Soul Society a thousand years ago. Introduced in the film Memories of Nobody, they harness the drifting spirits called Blanks in a bid to tear their old homeland apart.

The Espada are the ten strongest Arrancar in Sousuke Aizen's army, elite Hollows wielding Shinigami-like power. Ranked zero through nine and each embodying a different face of death, they stand as the chief opponents of the Gotei 13 captains during Aizen's war.

The Gatekeepers are the four towering warriors who guard the great gates of Seireitei. Each is posted to a single entrance of the Four Great Seireimon, standing watch to keep intruders from breaching the walled heart of Soul Society.

The Gotei 13 is the military heart of Soul Society, thirteen divisions of Shinigami that most graduates of the Shin'ō Academy hope to join. Founded and long led by Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, it defends the realm and shepherds souls to their rest.

The Ikebana Club is a leisure society within Soul Society devoted to the traditional Japanese craft of flower arranging. Chaired by Retsu Unohana and based at the 4th Division, it draws a small circle of Shinigami to its gatherings.

The Ise Clan is a matrilineal line of priests in Soul Society who conduct its sacred rites. In place of personal Zanpakutō, each generation's head inherits the ceremonial blade Shinken Hakkyōken, a treasure that turns a god's power back against its wielder's foe.

The Karakura-Raizer Team is a costumed squad built by Kisuke Urahara to hold off Hollows in Karakura Town. Reviving the old sentai gimmick with Kon and Don Kanonji at its core, the team unknowingly serves as cover for Urahara's real preparations for the coming war.

The Karakura Superheroes are a Super Sentai-style team assembled by TV medium Don Kanonji to rescue his sagging ratings while guarding Karakura Town. Made up of the Kurosaki sisters, two Urahara Shop children, and Kon, they stand in as Hollow-slayers whenever the real Shinigami are away.

Ranking just beneath Soul Society's four great families, the Kasumiōji stand out as an anime-original noble line whose forges arm the Royal Family. An unbroken law reserves leadership for women, and the clan nearly collapses when a scheming steward bends its craft toward forbidden ends.

The Kidō Corps forms a secretive branch of Soul Society's military built entirely around mastery of Kidō, the art of spiritual spells. Working apart from the Gotei 13, its hidden practitioners guard the barriers, seals, and gateways that hold the spirit world together.

One of the four great noble houses of Soul Society, the Kuchiki Clan has long been entrusted with recording and safeguarding its history. Bound by rigid tradition and led by Byakuya Kuchiki, the family is known for its treasured heirlooms and its adopted daughter, Rukia.

Soul Society's noble houses form its hereditary aristocracy, with the Four Great Noble Families at the summit. Their sway touches even the Central 46 and the academy, and no branch of the military may move against a noble house without clear proof of treason.

The Noble Houses form the aristocracy of Soul Society, with four great families wielding influence that reaches into government and beyond. Insulated by law from military interference, these clans, from the mighty Kuchiki and Shihōin down to lesser lines, shape the hidden power structure of the spirit world.

The Onmitsukidō, or Stealth Force, is Soul Society's covert military arm, handling assassination, surveillance, and the punishment of rogue Shinigami. Tied to the 2nd Division and led for generations by the Shihōin Clan, it works in shadow where the Gotei 13 acts in the open.

The Patchworks are the development division of Wing Bind, the dragon-management agency of Reverse London. Led by Saka Rynn, they specialize in recovering and preserving the corpses of dragons.

The Pipers are the conservation division of Wing Bind, the agency that manages dragons in Reverse London. Also called Conservation Rangers, they tame dragons, harvest their resources, and count Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole among their number.

Also called the Zero Division, the Royal Guard is Soul Society's most elite unit, sworn to protect the Soul King and his palace. Just five captain-class warriors strong, their combined might is said to exceed that of the entire Gotei 13.

Once a noble house of Soul Society, the Ryōdoji Family was cast out a thousand years ago and reborn as the Dark Ones. Exiled to the Valley of Screams, its last survivors turned the power of the Blanks against the home that abandoned them.

The Sabres are Wing Bind's tactical division, patrolling the streets of Reverse London to shield its citizens from dragons. When a Dark Dragon appears, it falls to the Sabres to hunt it down and destroy it.

The Sacreds are one of the eight divisions of Wing Bind, the agency that manages dragons in Reverse London. A liturgy corps led by Cquntnire Milieve, they are represented by the zodiac sign Aquarius.

The Schutzstaffel are Yhwach's elite personal guard, the five strongest Sternritter of the Wandenreich. Nearly unkillable and answering only to their emperor, they were unleashed to crush the Royal Guard during the Thousand-Year Blood War.

Circulated throughout Soul Society, this monthly periodical falls under the Ninth Division's roster of duties. Yamamoto credits it with lifting the spirits of the Shinigami and knitting them together, a run that has reportedly carried on for well over a thousand years.

Once counted among Soul Society's high aristocracy, this family ranked as the fifth great house before its standing collapsed. Its prestige once rivaled that of the Kuchiki and Shihōin lines, yet the death of its most celebrated son sent it tumbling from the nobility.

One of the four great noble houses of Soul Society, this family traditionally commands the covert operatives of the Onmitsukidō and safeguards sacred armaments said to have been handed down as gifts from the heavens.

A social club for the men of the Gotei 13 that styles itself both as a meeting hall and as the sworn counterpart to the Shinigami Women's Association, though it enjoys far thinner funding and far less success than its rivals.

Attached to the Twelfth Division, this body serves as Soul Society's engine of invention, developing spiritual tools while tracking the currents of energy that pass between the living world and the realm of souls.

An organization of Shinigami women, drawn largely from the higher ranks of the Gotei 13, devoted to improving life for all soul reapers while bankrolling itself through assorted schemes and captain photo collections.

The elite Quincy knights of the Wandenreich, each branded with a letter of power by their emperor and charged with conquering Soul Society and purging the Shinigami during the final war between the two realms.

A small society within Soul Society devoted to practicing the Japanese tea ceremony, led by the Captain-Commander himself and drawing a handful of the Gotei 13's senior figures to its unhurried gatherings.

The supreme decision-making body of Wing Bind, uniting the directors of its eight divisions to set policy and confront the dragon-related threats that menace Reverse London from the shadows, gathering in the chamber they call the Crown Council.

Known as the Three Beasts, these three Arrancar serve as the loyal Fracción of the Espada Tier Harribel, notorious across Hueco Mundo for their raw ferocity and for feuding viciously even among themselves rather than sparing that violence for their foes.

Reputed to be the mightiest and most influential of Soul Society's four great noble houses, this family oversees the recording of history and guards a cursed ancestral blade that no member dared to wield before Tokinada.

A loose band of former Shinigami captains and lieutenants who gained Hollow powers, branded as traitors by Soul Society yet standing as pivotal allies against Aizen and, in time, the Wandenreich.

The Wandenreich is a concealed Quincy empire ruled by emperor Yhwach, hidden within the shadows of Seireitei for a thousand years. Rising from the remnants of the Lichtreich, it exists to finish Yhwach's ancient war against the Shinigami and to unmake the separation of the worlds.

Wing Bind is the agency of Reverse London charged with protecting and controlling dragons, a sprawling organization whose licensed witches and wizards are the only people permitted to handle the creatures directly.

Wing Bind is Reverse London's dragon-management agency, an organization of witches and wizards sorted into eight zodiac-themed divisions. First among them are the Inks, the spellcasters who hunt down Dark Dragons with raw magic.

Wing Bind, also called the Natural Dragon Management Agency, protects and polices the dragons of Reverse London. Its witches and wizards divide into eight zodiac-marked divisions, among them the Gallows, the unit charged with personnel matters and divine punishment.

Wing Bind is Reverse London's dragon management authority, a large agency whose examined witches and wizards alone hold the legal right to touch and tend the dragons that share their hidden city.

Wing Bind, also called the Natural Dragon Management Agency, is the organization charged with protecting and policing the dragons of Reverse London. Its witches and wizards are the only people allowed to handle dragons directly, and they answer to a ruling council of directors known as the Top of Horns.

The Wolfman Clan is a lineage of sinful souls cursed into beastlike wolfmen and living in self-imposed exile in the hidden depths of Soul Society's Rukongai. Its best-known member, Sajin Komamura, abandoned the clan to become a captain of the Gotei 13.

Xcution was a covert society of Fullbringers in the Human World, founded by the former Substitute Shinigami Kugo Ginjo. Its members bound their powers together by pact, and their scheme centered on stripping Ichigo Kurosaki of his dormant Shinigami abilities.