The Nightmare Returns...Revival of the Espada is the two hundred and seventy-eighth episode of the Bleach anime.
Statistics
Bleach 278.
- Original Airdate: July 6th, 2010
- English Airdate:
- Opening Song: ChAngE
- Ending Song: Stay Beautiful
- Manga Chapters:
- Kanji: 悪夢再び…復活の十刃
- Romaji: "Akumu futatabi...fukkatsu no Esupāda"
- Arc: The Fake Karakura Town arc
Summary
As Coyote Starrk and Shunsui Kyōraku continue their fight, the other captains Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Soifon are desperate after seemingly winning their Espada opponents: Tia Harribel and Baraggan Luisenbarn. Jūshirō Ukitake then interferes in the middle of Shunsui's fight with Starrk and seemingly giving him his cero back. But it's then revealed he just absorbed his cero while he goes on shooting at him ceros again. As Starrk prepares to shoot another cero, but this time at Ukitake. Lilynette Gingerback tells him it's a trap, only for Starrk to ignore her and continue shooting ceros at Ukitake. As Coyote shoots a cero at Kyōraku tries to sneak-attack Starrk, but he also dodges. Just as the three continue are about to continue their fight, a huge Garganta appears and is opened by Wonderweiss Margera who brings Fūrā with him. Captain Sajin Komamura then recognizes Fūrā's eye which was seen when it rescued Aizen, Ichiamru and Tōsen from Soul Society. Fūrā then blows away Yamamoto's Jōkaku Enjō and released the trapped opposing captains Sōsuke, Gin and Kaname in the process. When Lieutenant Izuru Kira looks scared that Soul Society may have lost, Aizen notably scares him in the current situation, until someone tells Aizen to stop right there and it's revealed to be Shinji Hirako and his fellow Vizards. A flashback scene is then seen, for Aizen to remember the Vizard and the Hollowfication of them, and the Vizard are then introduced as back then and now: Shinji, Hiyori Sarugaki, Kensei Muguruma, Love Aikawa, Mashiro Kuna, Lisa Yadōmaru, Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi and Hachigen Ushōda. Hirako, Aizen's former captain, then tells him it's been awhile.
Shinigami Illustrated Picture Book
Characters in Order of Appearance
- Tōshirō Hitsugaya
- Tia Harribel
- Soifon
- Marechiyo Ōmaeda
- Jūshirō Ukitake
- Coyote Starrk
- Shunsui Kyōraku
- Lilynette Gingerback (flashback)
- Sajin Komamura
- Tetsuzaemon Iba
- Momo Hinamori
- Izuru Kira
- Shūhei Hisagi
- Rangiku Matsumoto
- Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto
- Wonderweiss Margera
- Fūrā
- Sōsuke Aizen (flashback)
- Baraggan Luisenbarn
- Kaname Tōsen
- Gin Ichimaru
- Shinji Hirako
- Hiyori Sarugaki
- Hachigen Ushōda
- Love Aikawa
- Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi
- Mashiro Kuna
- Lisa Yadōmaru
- Kensei Muguruma
- Kisuke Urahara (flashback)
Fights
Powers and Techniques Used
Kidō used:
- Healing kidō
- Bakudō #75 Gochūtekkan (五柱鉄貫, Quintet of 1 kan Iron Pillars) (flashback)
- Bakudō #99 Kin (禁, Seal) (flashback)
Techniques used:
- Hyōten Hyakkasō (氷天百華葬, Frozen Heaven Hundred Flower Funeral)
- Jōkaku Enjō (城郭炎上, Fortress Blaze)
Shinigami techniques:
- Shunpo (瞬歩, Flash steps)
Hollow techniques:
- Cero (虚閃, Hollow Flash; Literally meaning "Empty Disaster", Meaning (Viz) "Doom Blast"; Spanish: Zero)
- Sonído (響転, Sound Ceremony; Spanish: Sound)
- Garganta (黒腔, Black Cavity; Spanish: Throat)
- Hierro (鋼皮, Steel Skin; Spanish: Iron) (flashback)
Zanpakutō released:
Shikai:
- Katen Kyōkotsu (花天狂骨, Flower Heaven, Crazy Bone)
- Sōgyo no Kotowari (双魚理, Truth of Pisces)
Bankai:
- Suzumushi Tsuishiki: Enma Korogi (清虫終式閻魔蟋蟀, Cricket Final Form: Devil Cricket) (flashback)
Resurrección used:
- Los Lobos (群狼, Wolf Pack)
- Tiburón (皇鮫后, Imperial Shark Empress)
- Arrogante (髑髏大帝, Great Skull Emperor)
Other Powers:
- Fūrā's breath
- Hollowfication (虚化, Horōka) (flashback)
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