GOTEI 13
The thirteen court guard squads of Soul Society: captains, lieutenants, and every seated and unseated Shinigami on record.
100 members catalogued
Kisuke Urahara
Kisuke Urahara runs a small candy shop in Karakura Town, wears a striped bucket hat, and apologizes constantly. He is also the exiled former captain of the 12th Division, founder of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute, and the...
Sousuke Aizen
Sousuke Aizen spends the entire Soul Society arc as the gentle, bespectacled captain of the 5th Division, and then the show finds his corpse pinned to a tower wall. Both things are lies. The corpse was an illusion, the kindness was a...
Kenpachi Zaraki
Kenpachi Zaraki took his name from the most violent district in the Rukongai and his title by killing the previous Kenpachi. He captains the 11th Division without ever having heard his sword's name, fights with one hand, wears an eyepatch...
Rukia Kuchiki
Rukia Kuchiki starts the story by committing a capital crime: she gives her Shinigami powers to a human boy because a Hollow is about to kill his family. The series never lets either of them forget it. She spends the early episodes...
Byakuya Kuchiki
Byakuya Kuchiki is the 28th head of the Kuchiki clan, captain of the 6th Division, and the man who stands calmly by while his own adopted sister is sentenced to death. His logic is airtight and monstrous: he broke the rules twice in his...
Yoruichi Shihōin
Yoruichi Shihoin enters the story as a talking black cat with a deep male voice, and stays in that shape long enough that her transformation back, in front of a scandalized Ichigo, is one of the series' most famous gags. The cat is a...
Gin Ichimaru
Gin Ichimaru smiles constantly, keeps his eyes closed, and talks like a fox in a children's story, and the show uses him for a hundred episodes as shorthand for something being wrong. He is Aizen's right hand through the entire Soul...
Renji Abarai
Renji Abarai grew up in the same Rukongai slum as Rukia Kuchiki, watched their other friends die, and entered the Shinigami academy with her as the only family he had. Then the Kuchiki clan adopted her, and Renji spent the next forty years...
Tōshirō Hitsugaya
Toshiro Hitsugaya is the youngest captain in Gotei 13 history, a prodigy from the same icy district Rangiku Matsumoto found him in, permanently annoyed at being treated like a child and permanently doing his paperwork anyway. His...
Rangiku Matsumoto
Rangiku Matsumoto plays the 10th Division's lieutenant as a running joke, allergic to paperwork, first in line for sake, forever teasing her tiny captain. The show lets the act stand for long stretches because the truth underneath is...
Retsu Unohana
Retsu Unohana spends most of the series as the gentle captain of the 4th Division, the healer whose braided hair hangs down her front and whose soft smile makes Kenpachi-sized men behave in her infirmary. The Gotei 13's worst-kept secret...
Shinji Hirako
Shinji Hirako transfers into Ichigo's class with a backwards grin, an antique haircut, and an offer: join the Visored, the exiles who learned to wear their Hollows instead of being eaten by them. He spends his introduction acting like a...
Ikkaku Madarame
Ikkaku Madarame spent most of the series as the 3rd Seat of the 11th Division, which was a deliberate choice rather than a ceiling. He hides the fact that he has achieved Bankai, because a known Bankai user gets promoted to captain of...
Mayuri Kurotsuchi
Mayuri Kurotsuchi is the captain of the 12th Division, head of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute, and the show's standing argument that Soul Society was never the good guys. Urahara released him from the Maggots' Nest, the...
Yachiru Kusajishi
Yachiru Kusajishi is the lieutenant of the 11th Division and the small pink-haired child who rides on Kenpachi Zaraki's shoulder through every fight he picks. Kenpachi found her as an infant in the Kusajishi district, the worst part of the...
Shūhei Hisagi
Shūhei Hisagi is the lieutenant of the 9th Division and, for most of the series, the man holding that division together on his own. The scars over his right eye came from a Hollow attack in his Academy years, and the 69 tattooed on his...
Nemu Kurotsuchi
Nemu Kurotsuchi is the lieutenant of the 12th Division and an artificial soul that Mayuri Kurotsuchi grew himself, using a gigai construction method and his own genetic material. He introduces her as his daughter and treats her as...
Isshin Kurosaki
Isshin Kurosaki runs a small clinic in Karakura Town, ambushes his teenage son at breakfast with flying kicks, and holds loud conversations with a poster of his dead wife. He was also, under the name Isshin Shiba, the captain of the 10th...
Jūshirō Ukitake
Jūshirō Ukitake captained the 13th Division for over a thousand years while chronically ill, coughing blood through half his appearances and recuperating at his family estate between them. His hair turned white over three days during an...
Hiyori Sarugaki
Hiyori Sarugaki was the lieutenant of the 12th Division under Kisuke Urahara, and she made his life difficult every day of it. She is short, permanently furious, wears a red tracksuit and flip flops, and greets people by kicking them in...
Yumichika Ayasegawa
Yumichika Ayasegawa is the 5th Seat of the 11th Division and, by his own account, the most beautiful person in it. He wears coloured feathers on his right eyelashes and eyebrow, judges opponents on their aesthetics before their skill, and...
Izuru Kira
Izuru Kira is the lieutenant of the 3rd Division, and for most of the series he is a man serving a captain he cannot read. Gin Ichimaru smiled at everyone and told Kira nothing, and Kira followed the orders anyway, including the ones that...
Sajin Komamura
Sajin Komamura captained the 7th Division while hiding his own face. He is an anthropomorphic wolf from a clan the Soul Society treated as beasts, and for years he wore a helmet and gloves so nobody would see what he was. Genryūsai...
Momo Hinamori
Momo Hinamori is the lieutenant of the 5th Division, and the person Sōsuke Aizen spent decades cultivating as proof of his own decency. She idolised him openly. She wrote to him, defended him to anyone who questioned him, and never noticed...
Kaname Tōsen
Kaname Tōsen was the captain of the 9th Division and one of the three who walked out with Aizen. Blind since birth, he navigates entirely by sound and spiritual pressure, and his stated principle is to take the path with the least...
Kensei Muguruma
Kensei Muguruma is the captain of the 9th Division, holding the post both before and after a hundred-year exile. He is blunt, short-tempered and built like a brawler, and the 69 on his abdomen is the division number he has worn since long...
Nanao Ise
Nanao Ise is the lieutenant of the 8th Division, and her captain is Shunsui Kyōraku, which means her job description is roughly to carry a heavy book and hit him with it. She is precise, humourless on duty, and the only reason the division...
Isane Kotetsu
Isane Kotetsu is the lieutenant of the 4th Division and later its captain, which makes her the person responsible for keeping the Gotei 13 alive through two wars. She is unusually tall, visibly nervous about most things, and has spent her...
Lisa Yadōmaru
Lisa Yadōmaru was the lieutenant of the 8th Division under Shunsui Kyōraku, and a century after being exiled from Soul Society she takes the captaincy of that same division. She is the calmest of the Visored and the most detached, usually...
Mashiro Kuna
Mashiro Kuna is the co-lieutenant of the 9th Division and the loudest person in any room she occupies. She spends most of her appearances complaining, kicking Kensei Muguruma, refusing to do the parts of her job she finds boring, and...
Hanatarō Yamada
Hanatarō Yamada is the 7th Seat of the 4th Division, which in the Gotei 13 means he is a medic in the division everyone else looks down on. He is nervous, apologetic, physically slight, and assigned to cleaning duty in the Seireitei's...
Kaien Shiba
Kaien Shiba was the lieutenant of the 13th Division under Jūshirō Ukitake, and the man who taught Rukia Kuchiki what a Shinigami is supposed to be. He was loud, direct, and completely uninterested in the deference her adoption into the...
Kirio Hikifune
A member of the Royal Guard and the former captain of the 12th Division, promoted to the Zero Division for inventing food that restores spiritual power. Hiyori Sarugaki was her lieutenant and never forgave her for leaving.
Tetsuzaemon Iba
Tetsuzaemon Iba is the lieutenant of the 7th Division under Sajin Komamura, and later the captain of it. He wears sunglasses indoors, has a burning cat tattooed across his back, smokes, and carries himself like a man who joined the wrong...
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi
Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi, who everyone calls Rose, is the captain of the 3rd Division, a post he held over a century ago and got back after Aizen's defeat. He is long-haired, unhurried, and more interested in music than in almost anything the...
Ashido Kanō
Ashido Kanō is a Shinigami who has been alone in the Forest of Menos for several hundred years. His unit chased a group of Hollows through a Garganta into Hueco Mundo and never came back out. They kept fighting until there was nobody left...
Kiyone Kotetsu
Kiyone Kotetsu is the co-3rd seated officer/acting lieutenant of the Thirteenth Division in the Gotei 13 under Captain Jūshirō Ukitake, sharing her position with Sentarō Kotsubaki.
Love Aikawa
A Visored and the former captain of the 7th Division, an afro-wearing Shinigami who reads shonen manga and fights with an enormous spiked club. He was Hollowfied with the other seven and spent a century in the Human World.
Akon
Member of the 12th Division's research institute and the second-best gigai scientist in the Research Institute.
Rin Tsubokura
Rin Tsubokura is a Shinigami who bears a strong resemblance to the 7th Seat of the 4th Division Hanatarou Yamada, he is almost always showing a face of distress or preocupation, he has (oddly) a small pigtail done in his front side of his...
Sentarō Kotsubaki
Sentarō Kotsubaki shared the 3rd Seat of the 13th Division with Kiyone Kotetsu, an arrangement that exists mainly so the two of them can compete over which one is more devoted to Jūshirō Ukitake. They shout over each other constantly, race...
Marechiyo Ōmaeda
Marechiyo Ōmaeda is the lieutenant of the 2nd Division and the Corps Commander of the Onmitsukidō's Patrol Corps, which are two jobs requiring discretion and speed given to a large man who eats rice crackers loudly through meetings. He is...
Miyako Shiba
Former 3rd seat of the 13th Division and served under Captain Jūshirō Ukitake
Shūsuke Amagai
Shūsuke Amagai took the 3rd Division captaincy after Gin Ichimaru's defection, arriving as a friendly, capable officer who bonded quickly with Ichigo Kurosaki and appeared to be exactly what the division needed. He is the antagonist of the...
Ginrei Kuchiki
As he is the head of the Kuchiki family, he wears the same scarf that Byakuya wears now. He, however, does not wear the aristocratic hair piece that Byakuya does. It is possible that he was one of the first Captains in the Gotei 13 because...
Zennosuke Kurumadani
He is a Shinigami with an afro who appears almost exclusively in omake chapters. He replaces Rukia Kuchiki in guarding Karakura Town from hollows after she is sentenced to be executed. Working in Karakura Town causes him great annoyance;...
Ryūnosuke Yuki
A trainee Shinigami assigned to the Human World alongside Shino, nervous to the point of paralysis and repeatedly saved by the people he is supposed to be protecting.
Hidetomo Kajōmaru
The 20th Seat of the 1st Division, one of the many low-ranking officers the series names once and does not return to.
Kōga Kuchiki
A former Kuchiki clan member, adopted into the house and later sealed away for treason, whose Zanpakutō Muramasa spends the anime's Zanpakutō rebellion trying to free him. He is Byakuya's ancestor and the reason Byakuya is so unbending...
Aida
Aida is a Shinigami of the Third Division during the tenure of Shuusuke Amagai as the Division's captain.
Makoto Kibune
He is Hanza's replacement, Third Division Lieutenant Izuru Kira's rival, Kumoi's unofficial "apprentice," and was the main antagonist during the second half of the Captain Amagai arc.
Asuka Katakura
Asuka Katakura is the 6th Seat of the 3rd Division of the Gotei 13. His captain is Roujuurou Otoribashi.
Shino Madarame
Shino is one of the Shinigami that replaces Zennosuke Kurumadani as the guardian of the Karakura Town area.
Yasochika Iemura
3rd seated officer of the 4th Division, and the leader of the first relief team serving under Captain Retsu Unohana. He is also the Vice-President of the Shinigami Men's Association.
Kagerōza Inaba
The head of the Shinigami Research Institute's Reigai project and the antagonist of the anime's Reigai arc. He built artificial copies of the Gotei 13's officers, and he and Nozomi Kujō are two halves of a single Modified Soul.
Rikichi Yuki
A member of the 6th Division with a tattoo on his forehead copied from Renji Abarai, who he admires without reservation. He is one of the few unseated Shinigami the series gives a personality.
Shinobu Eishima
Eishima Shinobu was the 4th seat of the 9th Division in the Gotei 13 and served under Captain Muguruma Kensei .
Aoga
Aoga was a student at Shinigami Academy. He was a Sempai to Momo Hinamori, Renji Abarai and Izuru Kira. Aoga was killed by a hollow during a training mission in the material world led by him, Shūhei Hisagi and Kanisawa, when he tried to...
Harunobu Ogidō
A member of the 4th Division, one of the medics who works alongside Hanatarō Yamada.
Hiyosu
Department head in the Research Institute tied to the 12th division.
Izaemon Tōdō
A Shinigami recorded in the Gotei 13's older history rather than its serving roster.
Kenpachi Kiganjō
The 10th Kenpachi and captain of the 11th Division before Kenpachi Zaraki, who killed him in a single strike in front of the entire division. The succession rule made that a legitimate transfer of command.
Ōko Yushima
The true identity behind Kagerōza Inaba, the other half of the Modified Soul split during the Reigai project. He is the anime's answer to what the Institute's research actually produced.
Seizo Harugasaki
A rank-and-file Shinigami who worked in the 11th Division and later the 4th, one of the few unseated members the series follows at all. His arc is about being ordinary in an organisation that only records the exceptional.
Sugama
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 outside the divisions the series follows closely.
Taketsuna Gori
Taketsuna Gori is the 5th Seat of the 3rd Division of the Gotei 13. His captain is Roujuurou Otoribashi.
Toshimori Umesada
is the 20th Seat of the 9th Division (a position he shares with 15 other Shinigami).
Heizō Kasaki
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13, part of the roster outside the seated officers the story follows.
Jirōbō Ikkanzaka
The former 4th Seat of the 7th Division, who deserted and made a living robbing other Shinigami of their Zanpakutō. He calls himself the Kannogara Jizaikei and is dispatched by Uryu Ishida in short order.
Makizō Aramaki
A large 11th Division Shinigami, nicknamed Maki-Maki by Yachiru Kusajishi, who spends most of his appearances carrying her or being volunteered for something. He is one of the few 11th Division members shown to have no interest in fighting.
Tatsufusa Enjōji
The 4th Seat of the 11th Division, who introduces himself with his full title at every opportunity and is beaten quickly enough that it becomes a joke. He is the division's clearest example of rank without much behind it.
Atau Rindō
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 appearing in Soul Society's wider roster.
Batsu'unsai Katori
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 recorded in Soul Society's older history rather than its current roster.
Chigiri Shijima
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 named in Soul Society's wider records.
Chika Shihōin
These are miscellaneous current and former members of the Gotei 13.
Chikane Iba
Tetsuzaemon Iba's mother and a former lieutenant of the 11th Division, who holds strong views on manliness and terrifies her son. She runs a bar in the Seireitei.
Danjirō Obana
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 recorded outside the seated officers.
Entetsu Kumoi
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 named in Soul Society's wider records.
Furōfushi Saitō
A Shinigami named in the Gotei 13's records outside the divisions the series follows.
Furuoki Ōtogawa
A member of the Gotei 13 recorded outside the seated officer roster.
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto founded the Gotei 13 and commanded it for over two thousand years. He built the Shin'o Academy, trained Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake personally, and set every rule the organisation still runs on,...
Ginjirō Shirogane
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 recorded in Soul Society's history.
Hachigō Nemuri
The eighth Nemu of Mayuri Kurotsuchi's Nemuri Project, created after Nemu Kurotsuchi's death. She appears as a child and is, by Mayuri's design, considerably less compliant than her predecessor.
Ichika Abarai
Renji Abarai and Rukia Kuchiki's daughter, a Shinigami of the next generation with her mother's Zanpakutō lineage and her father's manner. She appears after the Wandenreich war.
Inose
Inose is a Shinigami of the 3rd Division during the tenure of Shuusuke Amagai as 3rd Division captain.
Jinemon Kotsubaki
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 recorded in Soul Society's history rather than its current structure.
Kanō
This article is about the 3rd Division Shinigami, for the Shinigami who once lived in the Forest of Menos, see Ashido Kanō.
Kenpachi Kuruyashiki
The 7th Kenpachi and a captain of the 11th Division, killed by his successor Sōya Azashiro. He appears in the novels rather than the series.
Kinroku Izuhara
A member of the Gotei 13 appearing in Soul Society's wider records.
Kōkichirō Takezoe
A member of the 4th Division, one of the medics deployed alongside the combat divisions.
Mihane Shirogane
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 named alongside Ginjirō in Soul Society's records.
Nobutsuna Shigyō
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 outside the seated officer roster.
Saizō Sakahone
A member of the Gotei 13 recorded in Soul Society's history.
Seinosuke Yamada
The former lieutenant of the 4th Division and Hanatarō Yamada's older brother, a considerably more confident medic than his sibling and a good deal less pleasant about it.
Shinta Seko
Shinta Seko is the new recruit and non-seated officer in the 3rd Division who alerts his superiors to a presence of Hollows during the Kasumiōji Conspiracy.
Shunsui Kyōraku
Shunsui Kyōraku drapes a pink flowered kimono over his captain's haori, wears a straw hat indoors, drinks through meetings and avoids work with real commitment. He is also one of the two oldest captains in the Gotei 13, Yamamoto's first...
Shunzan Kyōraku
A member of the Kyōraku clan recorded in Soul Society's noble history, part of the house Shunsui Kyōraku was born into.
Suì-Fēng
Suì-Fēng is the captain of the 2nd Division and Commander-in-Chief of the Onmitsukido, which makes her responsible for both the Gotei 13's assassinations and its internal security. She earned the position by being better at the work than...
Uhin Zenjōji
A Shinigami of the Gotei 13 named in Soul Society's wider records.
Yuyu Yayahara
The lieutenant of the 8th Division under Lisa Yadōmaru, appearing after the Wandenreich war as part of the reorganised Gotei 13.