Hō and Ban

and are anime-only characters in the Bount arc. They are Bounts.

Appearance
As twins, they dress identically (light brown sweatshirt, dark gray shorts with the pant legs rolled up and a orange undershirt) with the exception of their hats. Ho wears a red baseball cap with short hair and Ban wears a white hat with long hair, parted down the middle.

Personality
Despite looking like children, these twins are incredibly wise. Before fighting, they analyzed the enemy's power and adapted their strategy to fit. Being that their dolls are sentient, they stayed behind battle lines at the beginning, revealing only their lower face. In order to control their dolls, they telepathically link, so they often finish each other sentences.

Bount arc (anime only)
Note: Events occurring in this arc are only in the anime and do not constitute canon material. They first appear in Jin Kariya's mansion, where they where sent out to capture Uryu Ishida. Later on in the hospital, the water comming from the sink doesn't stop running. The same thing begins to happen with the shower. Soon, the water starts to act on its own, as two dolls are summoned right infront of Renji Abarai. The two dolls combine, and wrap arround Uryu, in attempt to drown him, possibly to capture him. Ichigo Kurosaki then goes into his Shinigami form. He grabs his Zanpakutō, and gets rid of the water around Uryu, nearly making a cut near his eye. Ichigo, Rukia Kuchiki, Orihime Inoue, Yasutora Sado, Renji, and Uryu deicide to flee from the room. As they got out, the dolls creeped out from the door opening, scaring Orihime. They grab a towel to dry up the water, but it still didnt stop the water. Hō and Ban continue to spy on Ichigo and the others, as they run away. While they ran away, the dolls get summoned from a fountain, infront of them. They once again, attempted to capture Uryu, as they captured Chad aswell, since he was Uryu's mobilization. Before the dolls wrapped around the two, Renji swinged his Zanpakutō at the water, spilling it all over the floor. They all continued to run away, but the dolls got re-summoned infront of them, from a sink. The dolls attack Ichigo, and wrap arround Uryu and Chad. Renji frees them from the water, but the dolls capture them again. Ichigo frees them from the water, but the dolls re-capture them. After many attempts to free the two, Rukia uses Hadō 31: Shakkahō, creating steam, thus firing off the fire alarms. Ichigo and the others continue running away, until they run into a dead-end. They deicide to go the other way, and run into Hō and Ban. The twins summon their dolls, and attack Ichigo and the others. They all escape once again. After running around the hospital, they finally find an elevator. Once the elevator comes up, it releases a huge amount of water. Rukia and Renji fire Shakkahō at the water, but barley does any effect. All of the water turns into a bigger water doll. Ichigo then finds a lighter, and gets a fire extinguisher. The uses the fire extinguisher and the lighter as a bomb, causing an explosion, and scaring the people that escaped from the hospital. The twins re-summon the dolls, making Ichigo, and Renji stay behind to fight them. Once Rukia, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, and the Mod Souls got to the first floor, Ichigo broke the elevator doors, and jumped eight stories down, along with Renji. They got to the first floor, and went outside, only to discover that it was raining. The twins summon the dolls once again, claiming that they can't escape water. The dolls then join together, and begin to attack Ichigo and the others. They then begin to fight. The dolls then wrap around the Mod souls, Rukia, Renji, and Ichigo, while Orihime, Chad, and Uryu run away. The twins then control the dolls to go after them. Chad then fights the dolls, and twins. Chad manages to hit the twins, and send them away from eachother. They loose control of the doll, causing it to break down. They then catch up with Chad, Uryu, and Orihime. They then capture Uryu. Chad attempts to attack them, but they threatened him by claiming, that if he attacked, pain would be inflicted on Uryu. Ichigo, Rukia and Renji catch up into the shed, but get attacked by Hō and Ban's special ability. The ability nearly killed all of them. Noba then started teleporting the twins away from eachother, as the lost control of their doll. While Ban was knocked out, Hō was the only one of the twins able to fight. He then fought for a while, until Ganju Shiba and Hanatarō Yamada showed up. Ganju then threw a bomb into the doll's head, blowing up the entire body of water, and setting the doll on fire, causing the twins to turn into dust, thus killing them.

Dolls
and are Hō and Ban's twin dolls, respectively. Both dolls take the form of bottle caps, which the twins keep on their water bottles when not in use. When released, the dolls can control water, making destroying them quite difficult since the bottle caps are small targets within the large eyestalk-like shape they take.


 * Water Manipulation: In order to kill opponents, Guhl and Günther form a large stalk around their enemies and restrain them, forcibly drowning them. They also have the ability to force themselves into the human body (as 70% of the human body is water) and tear the enemy apart from the inside out. They are stronger when more water surrounds them, such as when its raining.


 * Mental Control: Each control one doll, but both of them can apparently control either if need be, as Hō demonstrates. They are able to control their dolls with more killing power if they combine them into one large body of water. But the downside is, Hō and Ban need to be side-by-side with each other in order to coordinate the dolls' attacks properly. If they are more than a few feet away, or if one of them is knocked unconscious, the dolls will disperse, as their control lies within their telepathic synchronization.

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