While visiting the World of the Living, Rukia comes across Kurumadani, the current Soul Reaper stationed in Karakura Town, being attacked by a mysterious masked man. To her surprise, the masked man reveals himself as Shrieker, the Hollow previously defeated and sent to hell by Rukia and Chad.

Dordoni the Arrancar is a Privaron Espada, a former Espada. Ichigo underestimates his strength and is quickly driven into a corner when Dordoni releases his Zanpakuto. Dordoni pushes Ichigo and demands to see his Bankai, but Ichigo refuses. He wants to fight Dordoni as he is in order to conserve his strength. Dordoni loses his temper and releases the blast of a massive Cero at Ichigo.

There is a fad going around where young girls ask a "kokkuri" for romantic help. Back at Spirit Affairs, Bonbori and Hozuki immediately give it a try. Zakuro and the others are also interested. However, the "kokkuri" runs off wildly. Zakuro tries to dispatch it but her blade has no effect. By chance, Lt. Hanadate, who came to Spirit Affairs with a request about this case, joins in the search.

Natsu is heading back with Wendy, who holds the key to saving Erza, while Gray is facing off against one of the cornerstones of Oracion Seis, Racer! But things go beyond just his overwhelming speed, and heat up into an all-out magic motorcycle race, the Dead Grand Prix! Gray's got guts taking on the enemy on his own turf, but then his old fellow pupil Lyon shows up. With the two them working in sync, can they find a way to steal his speed?

To return Prince Chris to his former self, Vivi uses her cards of fortune. The cards end up showing Vivi's mistress, the Keeper of the Jewels. Thinking the Ultimate Shine is at her mistress', she returns to the house and, just as the fortune says, finds a card that is shining. Vivi returns to the human world and heads straight for Chris. However, the card she is holding suddenly glows and flies away saying "Liar, liar." What Vivi was actually holding was the Liar Liar card which forces whatever it is attached to to lie. Vivi chases after the card to catch it, but the card runs through the entire town forcing people to tell lies. Finally, it attaches itself to Natsuki, who hates lies...

Ichigo's group begins helping Tennouji-san come up with some way to raise her sales, but the shop's location in Midtown makes it difficult to attract regular customers, since most of the crowds are tourists. At the same time, Miya is scheming to get revenge on Tennouji and take over her shop! Ichigo gets inspired with an idea for an event that should get new customers, and Tennouji's imagination is reinvigorated after she encounters a young dancer who is entranced by her sweets... But will it be enough?

200 years ago, Niche and her twin sister were shunned as cursed, and were eventually disposed of. Thrown into a river, with the most precious thing in the world, her sister, split apart from her, she matured all on her own, and has lived together with the Maka ever since. When Niche finally encounters her, she has no recollection of what happened, and instead protects Lag, a "human." Shocked by seeing her sister in such a state, she tries to kill both her sister and the other people. Lag tries to stop her, and shoots a shindan into her with his feelings...

16: The scene is Daten City beach. Beautiful semi-nude girls, glistening in sweat, and fighting to the death! 17: While looking around for men, Stocking falls in love at first sight! However, the man she falls for is absurdly ugly. What does destiny have in store for their relationship?

Erika wakes up in her room and is horrified as she remembers what happened last night and the fact that she wanted blood. Meanwhile, the student council, including Kohei, decide to keep watch during the night to figure out if the rumors about vampires going around school are true, but...

Hey, it's Tomoki. Guys that look and act like girls have been popular recently. I guess the implication there is a little different than those that actually cross-dress. If you don't really make the distinction to people who really care about such things, they'll go on and on explaining the difference. But, now that I've actually gone and seemed to be a girl myself, I can say it's not very fun at all. Well, it is fun, but dealing with the aftermath isn't. Actually, it's always a pain dealing with any aftermath when it comes to me... Anyway, with Forte is entering the final stretch, is it really okay for me to be doing stuff like this?

Naruto and Jiraiya attempt to save a village from Kandachi, a former right-hand man to Hanzo of the Hidden Rain.

Jiraiya takes Naruto to a village in the hopes of teaching him how to counter the Sharingan’s genjutsu attack.

Elsie tries to cook for her divine brother, but Keima is never pleased. This time, she tries to make a "self-propelled" lunch, but she gets yelled at again... Elsie is feeling down, but after some advice from Chihiro, she decides to try again! As she prepares to make a strawberry shortcake, she prepares sugar from hell and eggs of all kinds of colors. One of the eggs is...

Mom's assistant, Ai, is having a marriage interview with a good looking, high salaried elite. Mom and the others are super excited and Ai declares she has finally won at life. However... Bunji is invited to Chinatsu's house for dinner. He was lectured by Chinatsu on everything from the gift to bring to how to use a knife and fork, but things don't go right... Bunji comes home making puns left and right as puns have become the popular thing at school. As they come to him, he tries one pun after another on Mom and Ai. In the end, he's even trying them on Mr. Mizunuma. As autumn becomes winter, Mom remembers about when she was young and moving to the city. She had huge hopes, but her worries were even larger. At that time, Mom loved to visit the zoo.

A Seireitei International Film Festival is to be held in the Soul Society, and Nanao recruits Ichigo and his friends to cooperate with the filming. The crew consists of Rukia in the lead role, Renji as the director, Uryu as the costume designer, with Rangiku, Orihime, and Chad as supporting cast members. Will these guys really be able complete the film and win the award for best film?!

Ichigo, Uryu, Chad, Rukia, and Renji go their separate ways down the corridors of Las Noches and vow to safely reunite. Ichigo heads down a pathway on his own, but he is followed by Nel. He has no choice but to allow her to join him in order to keep her safe. Suddenly, he senses someone's Spiritual Pressure. An Arrancar named Dordoni stands in Ichigo and Nel's way. Dordoni is Espada Number 103 and doesn't appear to be very strong. Ichigo unenthusiastically accepts his challenge.