Don Kanonji

Don Kanonji (ドン・観音寺, Don Kan'onji?) – Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English) is a popular spirit medium who has a television show called Ghost Bust that, at the time of his introduction, is watched by 25% of Japan's population. The method in which Don Kanonji used to rid ghosts, thinking he was sending spirits to heaven, actually quickly caused those spirits to become hollows (he would take his cane and forcibly rip open the holes in spirits that hadn't fully changed into hollows yet). He found this out when he and Ichigo Kurosaki fought a hollow that appeared because of Don Kanonji during a television taping at Karakura Town. He later formed the Karakura Superheroes, which consists of the Kurosaki sisters and the children at the Urahara Shop, to get the show's declining ratings up. His special attack is "Golden Kanonball," a tiny ball of golden light that moves slowly and explodes with surprising power. He speaks in a mixture of Japanese and English. His trademark pose is to cross both arms over his chest and laugh boisterously and deeply. His catch phrase is "Smells like bad spirits!" This is most likely a tribute to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," a song by the band Nirvana. He seems to have some knowledge on hollows and shinigami, albeit limited due to his limited interaction with them.