Bansui Amatsuki

Bansui﻿ Amatsuki is a video game only character from Bleach: Hanatareshi Yabou and is the main antagonist of the game. Because this game was never released outside of Japan, the information concerning Bansui is sketchy and uncertain. Please keep this in mind when reading this article.

History
Bansui is said to be a former Shinigami who "wields a shocking amount of reiatsu" even for a captain-class Shinigami.Long ago, he was a gifted researcher who specialized in souls and reishi, and devised many inventions long before the founding of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. It was even known that Bansui could cut any form of flowing reiatsu and direct its path to him. Bansui showed this technique when studying how a shinigami activates his/her Zanpakutō and Bankai. Apparently he believed that by suppressing the Hollowfaction process, he would eliminate the need for the Shinigami as a martial force.

However, he was enmeshed in a dispute with the authorities of Soul Society. He was betrayed by the Shinigami and banished from Soul Society. Because of this, he harbors a deep grudge against the Shinigami, and "plots the destruction of the world." He is also rumored to be a mentor of Kisuke Urahara.