RETSU UNOHANA SPOILER!
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Captain of Squad 4, the medical division. Serene, gentle, the captain every other captain treats with a specific and unusual deference that Bleach does not explain for a very long time. Unohana has been in Soul Society longer than almost anyone alive and the history she carries is not what her presentation suggests. The gentleness is real. What the gentleness is built on top of is one of the series' better long-game reveals and one of the more genuinely surprising pieces of lore the show produces across its entire run.
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Open page →In the original Bleach anime, Minazuki is shown as a large flying creature used by Unohana to transport and treat the wounded. That presentation fits the identity the series gives her for most of its run: captain of the Fourth Division and one of Soul Society's most trusted healers. Her past and Bankai are later Thousand-Year Blood War revelations and should not be backfilled into the 2004–2012 version of this page.
