Renji, Rukia, Chad and Yammy’s eyes widened with surprise as the heavy spiritual pressure from above disappears. Yammy gets annoyed saying that he built up his spiritual pressure for nothing now that Ulquiorra died first.

Renji sees that Yammy is ranked tenth and thinks they can beat him. Yammy then releases his resurreccion and grows to monstrous proportions and as he does, the number 1 on his arm fades to leave the number 0. He states that espada numbers run from 0 to 9 and he’s the only one that can change his number after resurreccion. Espada 0, Yammy Riyalgo.

Their attacks prove useless, even Chad’s raw power couldn’t outmatch Yammy’s strength. Renji releases bankai, but is still overpowered by Yammy’s huge power.

Finally back to the real world now, Hitsugaya releases bankai to counter Halibel’s strength, but is still knocked to the ground. We go to short scene of other captains that’re fighting. Though they all seem to be losing.

Marechiyo says that they should release their limiters so they can go all out, but as Soifon explains, the seals were never put on, so they are all going all out.

Halibel questions how her fraccion were killed by such weaklings and she releases her Resurreccion, Tiburón. She makes one slash and easily slices Hitsugaya in half. She turns her attention to Yamamoto and says she’ll avenge her Fraccion. But before she could do anything, Hitsugaya attacks. What Halibel sliced up, was a mere ice clone, he’s still in one piece and ready to fight.

I always like unpredictable parts during these kinds of predictable shounens and Yammy being espada 0 was definitely unpredictable. I was expecting him to be beaten quite quickly by those three, but it seems like he’ll be sticking around for quite a while now. A few expected censoring on Halibel, but I don’t get why they censored the blood from Hitsugaya when he was sliced in half, it’s not like they don’t show blood. I liked the random jumping of scenes from captain to captain this time, seeing as we’re finally getting back to the real world fights it’s good to be reminded of who’s facing who etc. Love the fact that Yamamoto’s just standing there watching everyone lose and giving the odd evil eye to arrancar, I laughed at that. So, now back to the captains fighting, more drama to unfold.