Yoko-chin

Tall and unappealing, Yoko-chin wears his dark brown hair in cornrows and sports a thin mustache. A gold chain runs between a ring set in his left nostril and another in one ear, and he keeps a pair of glasses on his face; he and his crew usually turn up in their bluish-gray school uniforms. Returning to Karakura Town after four years away, he has traded the cornrows for a bleached, scruffy afro.

As a gang boss Yoko-chin keeps his own hands clean, leaning on the obedience and fear of his underlings to do the rough work, though he has never managed to make his crew quit the nickname he despises. He grows rattled whenever a target refuses to cower, or in Sado's case refuses to fight back at all, and he can turn genuinely cunning when it suits him, once wiring an open phone call onto Chad's jacket so he could eavesdrop and learn how best to wound him.

Two years before Ichigo started high school, Yoko-chin crossed him with help from Sado and set out to get even. His scheme sent two thugs to attack Chad, who honored his vow and would not defend himself, then fled once Ichigo arrived, leaving behind a phone that let Yoko-chin listen in and learn the meaning of the coin Sado carried from Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa. Later he had Chad bound to a chair and threatened to smash the coin before his eyes, only for Ichigo to burst in, kick him down, and knock him out.

Not long after, his father's job relocated the family. Years later he resurfaces at Karakura High during Ichigo's senior year, confronting him amid a brawl with Obuta's gang, but when Ichigo pointedly fails to recognize him and mocks him instead, his revenge collapses again: Ichigo's boss Ikumi Unagiya kicks him in the head and knocks him cold before he can give the order to attack.