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StealthBlade98 wrote: Guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on this part. I thought his actions in the first arc was quite polar opposite to his later action in the manga. In the first arc he was willing to kill both Ukitake and Kyoraku for destroying the Sōkyoku regardless if they were his favorite students and the first captains in the academy he created. Yes, but that's not the same thing. At all.

Yamamoto has been against involving Humans in Shinigami affairs since the Fake Karakura Town arc. That's why he didn't have Orihime heal his arm. This doesn't apply to Shunsui and Ukitake because they're Shinigami, not Humans.