Kaito Kurosawa

Kaito´s portrait in Bleach Art book

### Relatives

Kaguya Kanda (Wife)Mao Kurosawa (Sister)Miu Hoshino (Mother)Daisuke Kurosawa (Father)

## Zanpakutō

### Reiatsu Color

Blue

> "The death doesn´t distinguish between good and evil, gender or race. His only truth is the blinding light of truth and time."
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## Debut & VA

### Spanish Voice Actor

Carlo Vázquez

— **Kaito Kurosawa to Musashi Kanda**

**Kaito Kurosawa** (海翔 黒澤 *Kurosawa Kaito*) is the actual 4th seat of the 9th division, co-editor of the Seireitei Communication with Shūhei Hisagi, ex lieutenant of the Kido Corps and head of the Kurosawa family. Is recognized in the soul society for his brutality in combat and his strong sense of justice

## Appeareance

Kaito is a man who has been described as beautiful by many people. Mainly due to his curved dark blue hair that he combs back, adding to his gray eyes make his gaze somewhat mesmerizing to people. His cheekbones are gently highlighted and his face in general has a fine but hard shape that makes him an eye-catching style.

He is a very tall and muscular shinigami, his body is excellently worked though full of scars due to his peculiar fighting style and personality. His right arm is a prosthesis made by Kisuke Urahara, the original was cut off in an incident in Zaraki, the District 80 of the North Alley of Rukongaii, but at least he was lucky that his dominant hand was his left.

His face is painted on the cheeks, eye contour and jaw, this arose after an incident that made Kaito pay his respects to that person in the form of a distinctive mark on his skin. He also has a spine-shaped tattoo on both sides of his neck as well as one on his left chest, above his heart.

## Personality

Kaito has been described in his beginnings as violent without regard for his surroundings during his fights, although today he´s considered someone quite calm and serene, still maintaining unfriendly traits such as his refusal to use honorifics to refer to people or his lack of respect to authority figures, but in any case that behavior manages to transmit a serene aura with slight violent touches that can be noticed by observing his reiatsu. He´s usually a joker and kind to those closest to him such as his family or friends, in addition to sometimes having shown to be somewhat narcissistic by boasting about his beauty and his body without having asked him at all, at that point he resembles Yumichika Ayasegawa from the 11th division.

During the confrontation he is someone annoying, he usually jokes and makes fun of his opponents, always looking to beat them on their specialtyso he´s someone very skillful. He´s considered an extraordinary warrior similar to his former academy mates, Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake.

## History

On a still uncertain date Kaito Kurosawa was born. Product of premature birth or due to a divine act of evil, the little baby meet the world with pain and agony, his mother could not hold him in her arms because his body immediately began to fail, his small lungs perforated by fine ribs, eardrums damaged by his own crying and vocal cords that damaged him when he cried.

He lived, but only to grow up thinking he was cursed. He has golden eyes decorated with beautiful blue eyelashes, but over time they were losing their color, every time Kaito managed to live his eyes they were lost little by little. The sunlight burned him, his vocal cords tore at him from the inside, his bones were so brittle that just bumping into something while he was walking was enough to break them.

The years passed and he seemed to improve, his parents, his sister, the servants, all were the anchor that kept the mind of that fragile child with them. When Kaito was finally able to leave the room without his supervision he was given a sword, a helmet and began training.

His father was a legend, a captain of the Gotei 13, so his lessons were intense and hard to keep up with, especially due to the fact that Kaito had no sword skills at all, was clumsy, could barely hold his tools, it was a disaster that moved too slowly.

His mother, another legend, lieutenant of the Kido corps, an exemplary woman who patiently and calmly taught the little boy everything he needed about the demonic arts, contrary to the previous case, Kaito was very good at Kido, he understood quickly and his spells with time improved alarmingly, however, the boy loved the sword. Even if he was slow, he wanted to learn how to fight like his father and that way he spent all his youth training until he got to the academy for shinigami.

### Shin'ō Academy

Kaito was the partner of Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake. He was trained alongside Kyōraku and Ukitake under the wing of Captain-Commander Yamaoto, there he was able to polish his skills as a swordsman, however, as his skills increased, his ego did as well because he was constantly praised by his family, classmates and teachers since he was one of the great promises along with his other two companions. His skills with the Kido were also exceptional so in a short time he was titled as one of the best of his generation on this art and call the attention of the Kido Corps Captain-Comander Misashi.

As time passed, his attitude began to go from arrogant to violent, he abused his new and powerful body, skipped classes, only respected his own strength and this attitude led him to earn the rejection of those who before they praised him

During a Kendo class, Kaito was put to train with a partner, at first he was uninterested in that partner, making fun of him and even yawning in front of him after having taken away his sword. At one point the companion got angry and managed to hit Kaito, this caused a door to open inside the young Kurosawa, responding to his blow as he had not seen before. When Kaito told this, he didn´t advance further, but Kyōraku was the one who finished the story explaining that that classmate was unable to continue in the academy after that, from that moment on Kaito's aggressiveness didn´t stop even when he was recruited by the Kido Corps on his way out.

### Kido Corps Lieutenant

Upon graduating from the academy Kaito was immediately sought out to become the lieutenant of the Kido corps by the captain commander himself. Kaito accepted and was immediately sent to work and was put as the leader of a body developed for the mission of locating the whereabouts of the former lieutenant who had defected from Kido's corps, capture him and hand him over for trial in front of the camera of central 46 Kaito would quickly find the target and, going against his captain's orders, would order the extermination of the former lieutenant. Returning with only the traitor's clothes and showing an indifference to life that made those present tremble when he exclaimed that he did not need more companions for future missions.

As time passed, his reputation was further questioned due to his violent attitudes and immoral acts with civilians. One day, Captain Musashi confronted his lieutenant, not much is known about what happened in this period of time as only Musashi and Kaito know about it, but the result of this fight ended with Kaito losing his arm and his title as lieutenant. .

### The cursed sword, Sōzōsa

Once his time as a teacher was up, the young Kurosawa would give up the Kido bodies and transfer to the 11th division, however, his Zanpakuto was a Kido-based one so he decided to go home and talk to his parents so they would allow him. being the new owner of the Zanpakuto Sōzōsa, receiving a resounding refusal, however, thanks to the intervention of his older sister, Mao Kurosawa, he was given the opportunity to perform the sword binding ritual.

While the man was preparing for the day of the ritual, he was visited by his old captain who told him that the weight of carrying an unusual and powerful sword was not something that his fragile arms could carry, likewise Kaito responded by saying that his weaknesses are a memory of the past and that after losing his arm something began to change in him, he had met someone and at the time when he was a teacher his students helped him better understand the weakness of his body. Although his former captain kept stating that he was not yet ready to handle Sōzōsa, Kaito continued with his preparations and when the day of the ritual arrived he showed up at the 20th district of the rukongai.

At the beginning of the ritual, Kaito appeared wearing a wide suit and with his torso uncovered, covering his face under a seal written on a long cloth. his left arm was tied behind his back. He would sit on an altar built for the ritual and immediately afterwards the previous owner of the sword, his father, would stick it in the ground in front of him, beginning to recite a prayer while all the members of the Kurosawa clan performed a chorus.

The most tense moment would begin and Kaito would perform the Jinzen to start an initial conversation with Sōzōsa in his inner world. After a few minutes of silence in the outside world, some bells would be heard ringing and next to it the roar of a monster, culminating in a lightning bolt that would fall directly on the Zanpakuto in front of Kaito, at that time Sōzōsa would manifest in the world real and start the real combat where Kaito would untie his arm breaking the rope with his brute force and taking one of four swords that had appeared in front of him.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master swordman:** Kaito was born as a failure for the art of the sword, his hands were never able to deal a blow properly and his feet were clumsy, but having been trained by a renowned expert like his father, older sister and having lived events where the use of the sword was crucial, he managed to reach a master level higher than that of Kaito. his own father. Kaito is proud of himself and says he´s very lucky to have been blessed with a body where the blood of the Kurosawa runs.

**Expert Tactician**: Thanks to his upbringing with a tactical genius like his mother, Kaito developed a great ability to memorize information and use it to develop plans, improvise movements or simply be able to choose the right words in negotiations.

**Hakuda Master**: His domain. Kaito controls hand-to-hand combat like a master and his style is characterized by doesn´t have any sense, the youngest of the Kurosawa lashes out using inconsistent combos of feints and lethal blows. Somersaults, jumps, punches thrown from unusual positions, kicks like axes and fists like rocks. Kaito was listed as one of the greatest dangers in the Hakuda experts.

* **Sanryū** (三龍, *three dragons*): A series of three movements that together form a powerful technique. Kaito throws an open palm strike from the bottom up towards the chin, then launches a kick to the stomach which is followed by a movement of the same hand as before grabbing the back of the target's neck and dealing several blows to their face.

**Kido Master**: As the ex-lieutenant of the Kido Corps, Kaito's he has an absolute command of this demonic art, mainly in the branch of destruction: the Hadōs. Being able to use all the existing spells of this branch including the forbidden ones, even, he is able to create his own spells (which he has already done several times).

**Immense Spiritual Powe**r: In order to cast spells of such magnitude and also possess a Zanpakuto that works with spiritual power, Kaito has an inordinate amount of Reyrioku. This seems to be his birth talent and it was because of this that he introduced himself as a lieutenant of Kido's corps upon finishing the academy.

**Shunpo Expert**: He´s fast and elusive, outmatching many of his teammates and matching several powerful captains. His body trained to the limit has given him this and he is very grateful to have such abilities.

**Enhanced Strength**: Kaito is a man who took his body to the maximum, thanks to it and his constant training he developed inhuman strength. It´s able to break bones with a single blow, throw someone flying and even make organs explode thanks to the expansive force of the blows, due to this Kaito usually contains his strength and is only able to release it all when he faces extraordinary cases like Kenpachi Zaraki. His most powerful blow is one created by himself called "終了 (Shūryō, *End*)" which he has only used 4 times in his life due to how dangerous it is.

**High visual reaction**: His visual reaction is perfect, he can see the movement of each blow with perfect clarity and in this way he´s able to fight the way he likes. Since little he was able to see the blows perfectly, but he wasm´t able to react, however now he is different because his experience together with his monstrous body give him a great battle skills,

### Zanpakutō

**Sōzōsa** ("*assistant who possesses all*") is a Zanpakutō of the electric type, the most powerfull one. This sword has been passed down through the generations of the Kurosawa family as a seal indicating its users as the head of the family. Its current user is Kaito Kurosawa. The spirit of this sword, Sōzōsa, is someone who constantly talks with Kaito, both have a rough relationship because they are constantly bothering each other with nicknames and insults. In a way, Sōzōsa is the one who has kept traces of Kaito's old personality through time and in a nutshell, they hate each other. To keep the sword calm his owner must constantly defeat the spirit within it, so every month Kaito must have a duel with Sōzōsa to keep him still.

**Otogibanashi** (おとぎ話, *Fairy Tale*): was Kaito's first Zanpakuto.

### Personality

When Sōzōsa's current owner hands him over to the next head of the Kurosawa family, he must have a confrontation to access the Bankai. At the beginning of the ritual with Kaito Sōzōsa, he appeared sitting on a throne full of mold and with a serious and intimidating attitude, little of him was seen because he was dressed in a long and thick black cape that surrounded him several times, his face was barely visible and the only thing you could see of him were his bright violet eyes.

During the confrontation with Kaito, the sword spirit was disappointed, with an air of grandeur and haughtiness as he exclaimed that Kaito was a disappointment as a swordsman, he mocked his abilities and continually boasted of his own abilities. As the fight passed he began to be more volatile and violent, finally showing his face full of anger, it is then that the real fight began for Kaito.

At the end of the fight, Sōzōsa surrendered, showing his respect by kneeling in front of Kaito, showing himself without his dark cape in front of him and revealing all the information necessary to use it to its maximum capacity, from then on Sōzōsa was more open and friendly to the young man. Kurosawa, talking to him at all times and bothering him with nicknames, teasing and insults which Kaito returns to him from time to time.

At the time when Kaito transferred to the 11th division Sōzōsa kept quiet and did not show up when Kurosawa visited him in his inner world, he only showed up once a month just to fight Kaito as the tradition says. After the new change from him when he went to the 9th division, Sōzōsa spoke with him again, but now he was calmer.

After the TYBW arc Sōzōsa was kept together with the zanpakuto in the temple of the main Kurosawa house, being removed from there in the events of CFYOW.

### Inner World

Kaito's inner world is surrounded by huge spiral violet trees, from the center of these trees waterfalls fall that all converge in the water of a huge ocean, in the middle of this ocean there is a titanic temple full of mold, surrounded by branches of these trees spiral and with a huge arch of light that passes over the temple.

Upon entering the temple, it´s in ruins, with a couple of torn tapestries next to destroyed statues, but just ahead there is a dark corridor that after walking for a while you will see an illuminated room with huge wings of fire, with ivory statues of each previous user of the zanpakuto. Right in front of all that huge room there are stairs that lead to a demolished throne with mold and pillars made with spiral trees burning constantly behind the seat, sitting on the throne is Sōzōsa.

The spirit of the Zanpakuto appears before Kaito wearing a black tunic that surrounds her entire body, with her face visible and a gold ornament that ranges from bracelets, lace and rings. Sōzōsa has 6 arms, a twisted abdomen like the trees and on her forehead is marked the tattoo that Kaito has on her chest.

### Shikai

* **Shikai**: Its Shikai command is "Pierce the skies and roar, blind with your infinite light and cover everything with the darkness of despair, Sōzōsa" (***空を突き刺して咆哮し、無限の光で盲目になり、絶望の闇ですべてを覆い隠す、ソゾサ,*** *Sora o tsukisashi, hōkō shi, mugen no hikari de mōmoku ni nari, zetsubō no yami de subete o ōimasu, Sōzōsa*) Kaito sets his sword facing downwards and after reciting his poem-like command, the sword is surrounded by golden rays which surround her and Kaito himself, changing in a flash of light into a two meter long trident, teeth interconnected by the middle of the edge and gold lace throughout the entire weapon, especially the upper part of the handle. At its base it has a small curved edge and in the area of the main blade it is deformed to present a giant hole where a disc floats in the middle of this shape, with two golden rods coming out on each side and having two cloth tails tied. red, besides these rods there are two black spheres also floating.

***Shikai´s Special Ability***: Sōzōsa's power is electricity, he is able to create and manipulate electricity, especially electric shocks to everything he touches or is near him. The shocks are usually not deadly, but that is because Kaito is able to limit the mortality of the shocks and only uses deadly levels against enemies that he gives them a quick death.

A very useful attack that he has is called "***Ran'ō***" (嵐王, *Storm King*) and it is a frontal launch of the trident which shoots out with a flash of light, upon impact Sōzōsa releases a discharge with a power equivalent to Reiryoku infused into the weapon before launching. It is always used as a killing attack

### Bankai

* **Bankai**: **Rokuhiji ō seibyō** (六臂腐王聖廟, *Mausoleum of the King of Rotten arms*) Cutting his own neck Kaito positions his Shikai pointing to the sky and his blood begins to pour out of his wound, flooding a space of 30 meters around him where after a few seconds the blood becomes solid and breaks like glass, revealing a space totally dark where the ground disappears and is changed by a giant hand, some black mountains appear on the horizon and Sōzōsa's face appears in the form of a skull surrounded by a ring of bones and a cloth covering the socket of his eyes, only leaving see his jaw. Kaito's clothes also change and now he´s wearing the same clothes as Sōzōsa and his trident transforms into a 2 meter curved sword, with a worn blade and a bronze tsuba.

***Bankai´s Special Ability***: After the Bankai is released, a current of electricity alerts everyone except Kaito, but the true ability of the bankai is called **Hyakki Yagyō** (百鬼夜行, *Night Parade of the Hundred Demons*) which allows the shinigami to create an army of puppets made from electricity and to be able to grant each of these with a special weapon. Once the puppets are made, Kaito will be able to fight by interspersing his position between the entire army, changing his weapons, having a maximum of 3 puppets help him at the same time and also, the sword that he obtains when he releases his Bankai is capable of alternating his form. between the trident and its current form.

The only limitation of this bankai is that for every second that it remains active, a blade inside Kaito's chest will advance little by little until it crosses his heart. This blade will not return to its initial position when the bankai is deactivated, so the use of this has a fixed limit of one hour.

Kaito has already used fifty minutes.

## Relationships

### Canon characters

**Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto**: Yamamoto was Kaito's former teacher and childhood hero, his strength, leadership ability and rectitude were a great guide during the time when Kaito was trying to go the right way. He has great respect for him and total loyalty to him, so since he was received in the gotei 13 he hasn´t disobeyed any direct order from the Captain-commander.

**Shinji Hirako**: An outgoing and talented boy that Kaito met during his time as a teacher for the Shin'ō Academy. Although both were very different ages, they got along quite well and ended up forming a very strong friendship that lasted after several years. "A talented brat who was able to understand a worthless brat with no talent very well. I knew he would go far, he´s not the type of person who gets discouraged and abandons his goal halfway" were Kaito's words during an interview for Seireitei Communication the day Shinji became captain.

**Shuhei Hisagi**: Lieutenant of his current division, close friend, co-worker, drinking partner, Hisagi is a very good friend of Kaito with whom he spends much of the work day in the 9th division. Both share a sense of justice and righteousness inherited from the tutelage of the former captain Kaname Tosen. Kaito usually invites him to eat when Shuhei doesn't have money since he doesn't like to see him begging for food like he used to before Kaito entered the 9th division and he usually scolds him whenever he finds him doing it.

**Rojuro Otobarashi**: Rojuro used to be a friend of Kaito, both used to get together to listen or talk about music with Shinji. The three had planned to form a band until what happened in the events of TBTP and from then on they lost a lot of contact with both of them, but with Rojuro the consequences of this were much more noticeable because after returning to the Soul society their friendship was restricted to simply greeting each other and small talk when they meet (the reason for this hasn´t been specified). Shinji is still trying to help fix the connection between them.

**Sajin Komamura**: Along with his former captain, Komamura is an example that always refreshes and calms Kaito's moral guidance, because of this he has great respect and admiration for him. After revealing Aizen's betrayal and losing Captain Tosen, Kaito formed a friendship with Komamura alongside Shuhei, the three determined to open Tosen's eyes to the truth.

**Kaname Tosen:** His ex-captain and one of the main people who have helped the formation of the current Kaito. His sense of justice, words and will that seemed rigid as steel made him worthy of being a hero in Kaito's eyes, whenever he needed advice he talked to him. His betrayal and the subsequent battle in Karakura were a great blow to Kaito, but he will always keep in his heart the one who was his greatest hero in life after his father.

**Kensei Muguruma**: His current captain and someone who he considers one of the best qualified to wear the Captain's Haori for the 9th division, their relationship is based on mutual respect so Kensei usually treats Kaito with honorifics but due to his personality Kaito's doesn´t use any honorifics with Kensei. He admires Kensei's ability to handle Mashiro.

**Shunsui Kyōraku**: Kaito's friend from the academy, they both used to spend their time flirting with girls from the academy and being reprimanded by Yamaoto, always being together with Jūshirō Ukitake as inseparable friends and even after going to different organizations after graduating, they used to get together to drink tea and talk about life.

**Jūshirō Ukitake**: Kaito has a very close relationship with Ukitake due to the similarity between the two in terms of their health, for this reason Kaito is kind and smiling when he is with Ukitake and occasionally appears with gifts in his division to help him feel better. He met him at the academy with Kyoraku and both of them could immediately see their similarities, so they became friends very quickly after meeting.

### Non-canon characters

**Kaguya Kanda:** His wife and mother of his daughter, a very sick woman and, in Kaito's own words: "she is the weakest woman in soul society" Kaito met her when he defended her from the middle of a battle that took place in the rukongai that ended with him losing his right arm. After this incident, both maintained contact and she constantly visited him to "make sure he didn't do anything dangerous again", in one of these visits Kaguya gave Kaito the earrings that she currently wears everywhere. For Kaito, Kaguya was the woman who saved him from stupidly drowning in a sea of blood and rage.

**Mao Kurosawa**: Her older sister and who initiated her in the world of music. Mao is the most precious person for Kaito so he is very protective of her despite their clear difference in power and height. They tend to get angry and fight each other from time to time, but they love each other and both constantly watch over each other's good.

**Reila Isanagi**: His former student alongside Shinji and Lisa. Kaito was always very strict and aggressive in his teaching method so when he was forced to give Reila extra classes because of her mishandling at Kido, he ended up developing a strange affection towards her based on the insults they constantly said among themselves. Even though their relationship seemed to be a disaster, Kaito really appreciates Reila and considers her to be a woman worthy of respect due to everything she had to endure. Reila is Kaito's biggest pride in his time as a teacher. *"She is impatient, useless in kido, bad talker, a hopeless fool and a very tomboyish girl... But, even with all her faults she managed to become a captain of the gotei 13. I couldn't be more proud of that stupid brat without touch"* -Fragment of Kaito's autobiography-

**Musashi Kanda**: Older brother of his wife, former captain, founder of the kido corps. Kaito hates Musashi with all his heart, but he has to pretend they like each other in front of Kaguya so as not to make her feel bad. It could be said that the only point in which both agree without hesitation is that they must make Kaguya happy.

## Trivia

* Kaito is worryingly bad at cooking.
* In his youth he had a love relationship with Kūkaku Shiba.
* He has a guilty taste for cute things, this was given to him by his current wife, Kaguya Kanda.
* Kaito's fight with Sōzōsa for the bankai lasted 3 months without rest and the damage caused by this confrontation is located on the outskirts of the 20th district of Rukongai
* He´s the author of *Bedtime Stories a voice* in the Seireitei Communication.
* Due to the close friendship that Kaito has with Ukitake many times people used to think that he was gay,
* Kaito is the author of a book titled "The Life and Death of the Cursed Child". An autobiography that recounts all of his youth, his time in the kido corps and the gotei 13 until his retirement.
* Kaito has only used honorifics with two persons: Yamamoto and his dad as a sign of his respect towards them, calling them "Genryusai Yamamoto-Sama" and "Daisuke Kurosawa-Dono" respectively.

## Quotes

* (Interview made to Kaito while he was in Kido's corps) "*Cut and move no matter who you take along the way, the unfit are not needed in this job*"
* (To Musashi Kanda) *"You're not my father, don't act like you have the right to raise me."*
* (To Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto) *"Power is a tool, I don't care what others use it for, but I use it to fight and defend soul society, now, please... Move, Genryusai Yamamoto-Sama."*
* (To Shuhei Hisagi) "I know you're a good boy Hisagi, that´s why I admire your strong will. Make sure you come back safe and sound, we'll meet for a couple of drinks when this battle end"
* (To Shinji Hirako) *"Dude, this new album is a huge pice of shit"*