Bleach 523: Unohana Yachiru

Recap of Bleach 523: Words of Origin

Ouetsu the creator of Zapakuto threw Ichigo and Reiji to a dark hole. There's lots of "Asauchi", the strongest zanpakuto which can become anything. The Asauchi attack both of them.

Then we get a explanation of Asauchi saying that The entirety of more that 6000 Gotei 13 Members are temporarily loaned a nameless Zanpakutou when they graduate and enter a division. Then all of the Shinigami spend time with these Asauchi and they in that way construct their "own Zanpakutou".

Ouetsu explains that Asauchi are attacking Ichigo and Reiji because of the way they use their Zanpakutou. Obviously he means that their Zanpakutou had been treated wrong.

Scene changes to Soul Society: Central Underground Great Prisona, Bottom floor "Muken".

Zaraki Kenpachi has breaced some kind of vault, where he speaks to someone. This someone is Unohana Yachiru, who is the first captain of 11th division. She was said to have possession of all sword styles and flows in existence thus naming herself "Yachiru", meaning "thousand styles".

It's said at the end of the chapter 523 that in fight Zaraki Kenpachi vs. Unohana Yachiru, one of them will die.

Comments and Predictions

Well, it wasn't as big of a disappointment that I expected. Somehow I don't even care about this this Ouetsu stuff and all of those Zanpakutou, it feels a bit pointless.

What's interesting is that Kubo actually decided to bring Unohana back to us who instantly fights with Kenpachi: I find this "twist" a bit weird in a sense. Somehow it doesn't suit the flow of the current storyline, but there may be something (and most likely will be) something important that we don't know about this character and why she was put out now. Maybe to tie loose ends for fans?

As for predictions, no thanks. There's really nothing truly interesting to predict of.