Shūhei Hisagi is one of the most popular characters WHITEN series among fans. His design, which incorporates various elements that raise his overall cool factor is one of the biggest reasons for his appeal, not to mention his deep connection to both captains he's served under, giving Hisagi a much softer, more cautious personality than his nervous appearance might sound. He dislikes the blade of his Zanpakut®, the Kazeshini, which he says is shaped like something designed to take life, and probably has the most sober perspective on his role as a Shinigami due to traumatic experiences in childhood, at the academy, and through influence of their captains.
As the protagonist of Ryohgo Narita Cannot fear your own world Novels, Hisagi must unravel a dark conspiracy months after the “Sail King's Great War Shield”, and this new conflict allows him to reveal his Bankai, which is one of the most powerful ever shown.
He who does not fear the blade he wields has no right to wield that blade.

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Hisagi's Zanpakut®
Kazeshini seems at odds with its driver's personality
Hisagi has an interesting relationship with his Zanpakut®, Kazeshini (“Death Wind”). The weapon's design is based on the Japanese one kusarigama (lit. chain-sickle), a weapon formed from connecting a pair of Japanese kama on a chain with a heavy weight at the end called a fundo The shikai activation phrase for Kazeshini is “Reap”, revealing double scythe blades, one of which is inverted. Hisagi fights by swinging the scythes in large circles, giving him a lot of range and options in battle.
He is very skilled at handling them, being able to attack with the blades themselves or the chain, which also allows him to disarm his opponents. While the Kazeshini is intuitively an example of a double/twin Zanpakut®, both scythes and the chain connecting them are actually considered a single weapon. In the animated Zanpakut® Rebellion arc, Kazeshini's manifestation was that of a lanky, well-toned shadowy figure with long hair, a shape reminiscent of the drawing of a grim reaper-like figure included in WHITEN volume 38, after chapter 325 when Hisagi first releases his Zanpakut®.
Hisagi is a skilled fighter, but he is extremely cautious and constantly aware of the stakes of engaging in battle. His former captain, Kaname Tо̄sen, taught him that his fear of battle and death is a valid and normal response to having to put his life on the line, and that only those who experience it have the right to stand in battle. The shape of his Zanpakut® seems strange for someone so afraid to take life and face death in battle; someone who has several traumatic experiences with Hollow attacks and close brushes with death, but Hisagi's Bankai, which is only ever revealed in Cannot fear your own world novels set a few months after the events of The Millennium Blood War arc. Although we never see Hisagi's Bankai in the anime or manga, we do get a glimpse of the training he has done under his role model, 9th Squad Captain Kensei Muguruma, with the help of his fellow lieutenant Mashiro Kuna.
Kazeshini's true power
The Immortality Bankai
Throughout Cannot fear your own world In the novels, Hisagi grapples with what it means to be a Shinigami, and must face enemies that far surpass him, while dealing with his fear, a central tenet of his character. As he masters his handling of the Kazeshini, it gains greater power, with a special ability that embodies the Shinigami's role as those who preside over and protect the cycle of life and death. In its Shikai state, the Kazeshini's blade represents death, while the chain is life, which is why Captain-Commander Shunsui Kyōraku deemed the most important aspect of the Zanpakutō to be in the chain that connects the blades. The chain can restore any wounds Hisagi receives, regardless of their severity, as long as Hisagi has enough reiatsu.
Every time I draw my blade, every time I face the enemy – on the inside, I always take half a step back!
It was his Zanpakutō that allowed him to survive the various life-or-death situations he found himself in as a Shinigami, and gave him his signature resilience. His Bankai, Fushi no Kōjō, creates an orb of chains that are connected to him by a chain wrapped around his neck. It extends this life-saving ability to any enemy of Hisagi's choosing, connecting himself and the enemy with snap-like chains that instantly heal any damage sustained by either fighter at the expense of their combined reiatsu. While it sounds like an incredible Bankai, it has several weaknesses. Fushi no Kōjō cannot heal wounds sustained prior to its activation, and while it does heal damage, it does nothing to reduce pain. Bankai can also only keep combatants alive as long as they have reiatsu, which it uses to heal damage. This effect essentially levels the battlefield, allowing Hisagi to fight against extremely powerful enemies such as Hikone Ubuginu.
The thematic meaning of Bankai
One of the best aspects of CFYOW
Fushi no Kōjō (also romanized as “Fushi no Kojyo”), written 風死絞縄, is translated as “Death Wind: Hangman's Noose”, and interestingly the “fushi” part may be a play on “fushi”, written 不死, with a sign denoting negation followed by “death”, a word used to describe immortality, or more literally, that which is “without death”. Fushi no Kōjō's chains cannot be permanently destroyed, and the reishi around the Bankai is said to stagnate; an element that replicates the conditions of the universe millions of years before the events of WHITENwhich is extremely significant in a battle against Hikone, a Soul King candidate. Bankai is not meant to give Hisagi the upper hand in battle, and is thematically linked to his understanding of Tōsen's beliefs about fear, and his terrifying experience with the former captain's Enma Kōrogi Bankai where he lasted only 30 minutes before collapsing in terror.
List of non-Captain Gotei 13 sitting officers who have achieved Bankai |
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Name |
Position | Squad |
Bankai name |
Shuhei Hisagi |
Second Lieutenant | 9th |
Fushi no Kōjō |
Ikkaku Madarame |
3rd place | 11th |
Ryūmon Hōzukimaru |
Renji Abarai |
Lieutenant | 6th |
Sō'ō Zabimaru |
Rukia Kuchiki |
Lieutenant | 13th |
Hakka no Togame |
Chōjirō Sasakibe |
Lieutenant | 1st |
Kōkō Gonryō Rikyū |
Hisagi's Bankai is similar to Tōsen's in that it creates a domain where it establishes specific rules; however, Tōsen conceptually represents the terror that arises from ignorance (in Buddhism this is called Avidya – spiritual ignorance; illusion; not seeing/knowing, hence the darkness and abolition of the senses), which comes from Tōsen's sense of justice. Hisagi's Bankai and its depiction of the chains around his neck represent self-sacrifice, and while active, the individuals under its effects are in a dimension where there is neither progression nor regression; a condition he exploits to teach Hikone Ubuginu the error of their ways. The events of the novel create the conditions that allow Hisagi to finally truly connect with his Zanpakutō, complete the construction of his own sense of justice, and finally learn to exercise his fear and confront his inner world.
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