The Moment of Collision! An Evil Hand Draws Near to the Quincy

'''The Moment of Collision! An Evil Hand Draws Near to the Quincy''' is the seventy first episode of the Bleach anime.

Statistics

 * Original Airdate: March 7, 2006
 * English Airdate: July 6, 2008
 * Opening Song: Ichirin no Hana
 * Ending Song: My Pace
 * Manga Chapters: None
 * Kanji: 激突の時!クインシーに迫る魔の手
 * Romaji: "Gekitotsu no toki! Kuinshī ni semaru ma no te"
 * Arc: The Bount arc

Summary
Ryō Utagawa holds the human woman hostage until Ishida steps up to take her place. Ichigo signals the others to act when Utagawa tries to eat Ishida’s soul, but the snake holding Ishida smashes his head into the pavement. Utagawa has a taste of Ishida’s blood, but then a fireball comes out of the sky. Utagawa is forced to drop Ishida in order to block the attack. Yoshino gets her hands on Ishida, but then disappears behind the flames. Once the flames clear, the group is still left with Utagawa and his snakes to fight. Fortunately for them, Renji brings Tessai, Jinta, and Ururu to help and ward off Utagawa, who then withdraws from the battle. However, Ririn has now lost track of Yoshino’s spiritual power. At this time in Soul Society, Captain Kyōraku is trying to sneak into Captain Kurotsuchi’s room and get some information about the Bounts. However, he gets caught and Kurotsuchi insists on the formal procedure for requesting information. Kyōraku angers Kurotsuchi so much that he tries to delete the Bount data, but gets denied access by the computer.

Ichigo wants to go find Ishida, but Urahara stops him. Meanwhile, Ishida wakes up, having been saved by Yoshino. He tells her about losing his powers and how he’s the last Quincy. She tells him that her family had a law. A law which forbade them from consuming the souls of the living. However, If they do consume living souls, then they can obtain a powerful energy and are able to increase the power. Doing so would destroy the balance of the world, so they decided they would not do such a thing, until now. The person behind the Bounts sudden change is Jin Kariya. He seems to have his sights set specifically on Ishida, and Yoshino refers to the Quincy as the key. Ishida blacks out at this point. Later, Ichigo and company learn that Ishida is at the hospital. They go to see him and he relays the information he learned from Yoshino. After everyone leaves, Ishida is reminded of how Yoshino’s face was. It was like that of his mothers, who always seemed to be sad. Meanwhile, Kariya promises Utagawa that things are being done to correct Yoshino's actions, while two new faces smile from behind him.