Ichigo's Dad, Ishida's Dad and Urahara

[sahugani]

I think that Isshin was 6th division. Because Aizen is quite old, so he hasn't been replaced for long. However, Byakuya's relatively "younger". I mean, Rukia can remember that. So who was captain before Byakuya? That's why Isshin's my bet.

well i'm not saying that this has anthing to do with it because i still need more info before i can theorize, but Gin became a captain at the same time as Byakuya, so you can't use timing to determine that as he'd be just as likely the 3rd division captian

[deathshadow25]

I think it's easy to determine which division he belongs too just rememer his mannerisms and match it up with the divisione he acts alot like. you know Kenpchi's division fight until they die, Byakaya's division acts snooty and the 4th division anre primary healers.

[Cyven]

I think it's easy to determine which division he belongs too just rememer his mannerisms and match it up with the divisione he acts alot like. you know Kenpchi's division fight until they die, Byakaya's division acts snooty and the 4th division anre primary healers.

only Byakuya acts snooty, Renji was just being arrogant (and he's a former 11th squad member), so judging an entire squad just by their captain might be unwise.

If Isshin was a captain we can rule out the following squads:
1st, 2nd, 4th 8th, 12th, 13th.

This leaves us with 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th squad...

Assuming Isshin was still around when Aizen was made captain of the 5th squad, that'd rule out his squad, but make 3rd squad a possibility, by this time Byakuya might've been already made captain of 6th squad, while Kenpachi could've been captain of 11th squad by now...

eh, if anyone has any other ideas... XD;

[deathshadow25]

I think Urahara is cool but what is his connection with Ryuuken do you think they had the same think going on like

Urahara- Rukia
Isshin- Ichigo
Uryuu- Ryuuken

do you think history is repeating itself?!?!?!

[sahugani]

well as i said before, Gin was made captain at the same time as Byakuya, so any reasons based on timing have to link the 3rd and 6th divisions. but in my view, timing reasons make it highly unlikely that he was a captain while the outfit makes me think he was, so i really need more info before i can make an educated guess. for now though i'll explain my timing reason. Urahara said that Isshin left the form of a shinigami 20 yrs before the present storyline and that matches up well with Ryuuken as he is a regular human who ages, so their adventure couldn't be more than 20 years ago. then consider how big a deal it was for Urahara and Yorouichi to leave Soul Society 100 year prior to the present. If Isshin left around the time of his adventure with Ryuuken, i think it would cause a bigger stir in Soul Society. besides that, if he had left Soul Society many years prior (it would have had to be much longer than 100 years or he'd be mentioned along with Urahara and Yorouichi) to that and just stuck around the material world, then that would mean that he had just been existing there as a shinigami all that time so that he wouldn't be as aged as he is now. i simply have a hard time believing that he'd just sit idle for that long.

[Cyven]

a possibility would be 10th squad?

Hitsugaya is still quite young and though shinigami have longer lifespans, he looks even younger than Rukia, meaning his age might be 100 or less, we also know he went to the academy after Hinamori did (and when Hinamori went, Aizen and Gin were still both in 5th squad) , and even if he's a genius it'd still have taken him some years to become a captain?

Besides, Kira, Renji and Hinamori haven't aged much since they went to the academy meaning their time there can't be more than a few decades ago. Meaning there's an ample window of time for Isshin to have been captain and then going away.

[cielorossas]

i think that isshin could be from the 10th squad.. maybe the fact that what he did was again very controversial, there was probably a hush-hush around his leaving so as not to cause any stir in SS. that is why rukia did not have any knowledge of isshin being a shinigami.

and probably the name kurosaki isshin was not even his real name in SS.

[Kazu-kun]

i think that isshin could be from the 10th squad.. maybe the fact that what he did was again very controversial, there was probably a hush-hush around his leaving so as not to cause any stir in SS. that is why rukia did not have any knowledge of isshin being a shinigami.

and probably the name kurosaki isshin was not even his real name in SS.

This kinda supports my Isshin is original the head Shiba Clan.

[Sarmad]

Woah, plus Ichigo resembles Kaien.

[Lohnt]

I have a theory I've been playing around with recently (since the anime got back from the fillers).

Shinji Hirako is Uruhara's son.

Thank you for reading.

[deathshadow25]

I have a theory I've been playing around with recently (since the anime got back from the fillers).

Shinji Hirako is Uruhara's son.

Thank you for reading.

I guess he could be a love child....maybe but it sounds a little bit off

[Kyuubi685]

well........as we all know, urahara was the captain of the 12th squad before he got banished for the creation of the houyoku and the gigai that leeches shinigami powers.

now isshin, i believe he used to be a captain of another squad and he and urahara were like kyouraku and ukitake, Bests friends. even though isshin may have never thought that urahara would go so far into his experiments, i'm sure that he was something like that.

urahara eventually was then found out by SS of his creations, which led to yoruichiand him leaving to live in the real world.
Isshin finds out about it and decides he must leave too, in support of urahara and against SS rules. however, before he got to leave, he was stopped by the other captains of the current gotei 13. he explains his reasons, they all try to convince him to stay but he made up his mind and everything already. so the leader at that time, 1st squad captain, i'm guessing yamamoto, orders for him to die; they get in a fight and during the fight, he gets his captains cloak ripped. eventually though, he was able to fend them off and escape to the real world.

once in the real world, he mets ryuuken, the current quincy in town, while fending off hollows or other shinigami sent. (who knows) either way they met pretty much the same way ishida and ichigo met.

isshin decides to find urahara and tell him his reasons for leaving SS and asks for one last favour, and that was the gigai. he tells urahara that he has lost confidence and respect for him. leaves and never sees him again, well at least for a while.

ryuuken and urahara met probably through fighting one another and ryuuken losing to him. but again they never got a long so meh.

the only question i have is whether or not ichigo's mom was a shinigami too. or was she a human who could see spirits like tatsuki, a person who gained no powers from coming into contact with a shinigami.

also, Aizen must have been one of the shinigami after isshin before he left if this theory is true, otherwise how would isshin know of him

[baboysai]

well, I haven't read anything or seen anything in the manga indicating that yoruichi and urahara left AT THE SAME TIME. It had been mentioned that yoruichi hadn't been seen for a hundred years or something. However, no time can really be defined about urahara's leaving. A lot has supposed it was to hide the hougyoku, which is probably right. So when did he start doing that? The only dead-clear clue we have is that he put it in Rukia. Although it's clear that he's been in the human world far longer than that...

aaaa I'm confused.