Mayuri Kurotsuchi

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Mayuri Kurotsuchi is a male character who features in Bleach.

Biography

Mayuri Kurotsuchi (涅 マユリ Kurotsuchi Mayuri) was a male being whose past was not fully known except that around 110 years ago he was a prisoner of the Maggot's Nest who considered him dangerous enough to be kept confined in a small prison cell with him being chained to the wall by his ankle. One day, he was visited by Kisuke Urahara who was looking for a scientific genius that could join him as Vice-President of the newly formed Shinigami Research and Development Institute (技術開発局, Gijutsukaihatsu Kyoku; lit. "Technological Development Department", The Department of Research and Development in English Dub). At first, Mayuri refused but relented when Kisuke told Kurotsuchi that there was little for him to accomplish in his prison cell whereas as Vice-President he would inherit everything of Uhara's one day.

He then decided to seek out the Ryoka within the city in order to capture them for his experiments. For the task, he enlisted some of his subordinates which he secretly implanted with biological bombs. They were then dispatched to assist the Ryoka who were disguised as shinigami warriors. Once near their target, Kurotsuchi activated his bombs but the Ryoka were saved when Orihime Inoue used her powers to shield herself and her team mate Uryū Ishida. After disposing of the last of the implanted subordinates, he confronted the two intruders where he expressed an interest in taking Orihime away for study and asked her if she would become his research subject. He attempted to offer incentives such as not performing such experiments that were painful. It was then he was attacked by Uryū Ishida using a mystical arrow with Mayuri commenting that his opponent was fast for a Quincy. Though a rare breed now, Kurotsuchi had no interest in Ishida despite Quincy's not being seen in years as he said that he had learnt all he could about their kind. He later expressed disbelief that the two intruders knew so little of Soul Society and revealed that he was one of the Gotei 13 where he highlighted his name, rank and position. Ishida then had Orihime depart whilst he stayed behind to fight the shinigami captain and even thwarted Mayuri's attempts at using an extendable limb to capture Inoue. After regenerating his limb, he decided to focus his attention on Uryū as he said that he could always track Orihime down at a later point. Evading Ishida's attacks, he came to take note of the advanced Quincy techniques used by Uryū and was resolved to kill him. He then used his lieutenant Nemu to tackle Ishida so that he could stab both of them with his Shikai but only came to hurt his target's arm after his creation let go of the target.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was spiteful in the sense that he sought to take some meaning of revenge for those that demeaned him as was the case when he tried to delete information on the Bounts rather then give it to a fellow Captain who had insulted him.

Mayuri created an artificial entity known as Nemu Kurotsuchi (涅 ネム, Kurotsuchi Nemu) who served as his daughter.

Powers and abilities

His Zanpakutō was called Ashisogi Jizō (疋殺地蔵, Leg-Cutting Jizō) whose guard he typically wrapped in cloth and had several spiky protrusions sticking out right below the blade that resembled leaves. The sheath hung directly in front of him instead of to th side as was commonly seen where it was visibly modified into a hook at the end of the hilt. Mayuri was noted to had also installed a sensor that caused his blade to automatically block all sword attacks within 2 feet of his body at an angle of sixty degrees or greater. The Shikai (始解, Initial Release) was said to be "Rip" (掻き毟れ, kakimushire; Viz "Claw Out") whereby the blade glowed and transformed into a deformed trident with curved, serpentine blades. Its middle blade was straaighter and longer than the side blades were it appeared to rise from the guard that was shaped like a baby's head with hands clasped in prayer. The blades were mounted on his sword's normal hilt that had a more ornate spiky protrusions on the sides that resembled golden leaves right below the guard. The baby-shaped mouth guard was known to secret a poisonous vapor on occasion with Mayuri's weapon working as akin to a venomous spider bite. Those stabbed with the sword led to the target's neural impulses being severed thus preventing the brain signals controlling the limbs of their body. Thus, it limited their movements regardless of where they were struck but it did not stop the sensations experienced by pain receptors and nerve endings. Thus, unlike regular paralysis, the sword limited movements but allowed them to experience all the pains from any injury to their body. It was shown that healing any stab wounds did not remove the effects of the paralysis. By sticking his fingers in one eye of the baby headed guard, Mayuri was able to initiate the Ashisogi Jizō, Kyōdo Yon (疋殺地蔵 恐度四, Leg-Cutting Jizō, Terror Magnitude 4) whereby it began to leak a dark fluid with the face screaming in the process. Anyone not of Kurotsuchi's blood that heard the screem were paralysed for 4 seconds with this being different from his Shikai as it paralysed all biological processes in the body.

Within Soul Society, he served captain of the 12th Division in the Gotei 13 and 2nd president of the Shinigami Research Institute.

From his research, he produced a number of creations that included:

• Nikubakudan (肉爆弾, Flesh Bomb) : biological bombs that were implanted into the bodies of others such as his subordinates without their knowledge. A remote detonator was used to set the explosives off in order to destroy anyone and anything around the bomb wielder.
• Hojiku-Zai (補肉剤, Flesh-mending Drug; Viz "Flesh-Healing Medicine") : a green-coloured regenerative serum that when injected into a wound was able to regrow lost limbs or even less severe injuries. Pain was noted to be experienced as a result of the serum's effects.

Notes

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi was created by Tite Kubo where he featured in the setting of Bleach.

In other media

Video games

Appearances

• Bleach:

External Link

• Bleach Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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