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“ | As a member of your school, I would only be able to imitate you. The role of a right-hand man should be to compensate for those areas which you cannot address! | „ |
~ Chōjirō Sasakibe to Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto. |
Chōjirō Tadaoki Sasakibe is a supporting character in the anime/manga series Bleach. He is the lieutenant of the 1st Division under the command of Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and has kept this post for at least 110 years.
He is voiced by Taro Yamaguchi in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Michael McConnohie (episode 54-55) and Dan Woren (rest of the series and Episode 1 of the Thousand Year Blood War series) in the English version.
Appearance[]
He has slightly tanned skin, white eyes without pupils, short silver-gray hair, and a small black mustache. He wears the standard black Shinigami shihakushō with white shoulder guards. Under his uniform he wears a white turtleneck and has a lieutenant's armband on his left arm.
Personality[]
Chōjirō Sasakibe has great, unwavering loyalty and admiration for his captain, Yamamoto, always wishing to be his apprentice. During one of his missions in the World of the Living, he found a source of inspiration in the form of English culture, which he later transferred to Soul Society, starting to brew his own black tea, which usually did not end very well. His fascination with English culture reached such an extent that he began to prefer only Western cuisine and not Japanese, which is where he differs from Yamamoto.
Trivia[]
- At Sasakibe's funeral, Byakuya revealed that Sasakibe's full name was Chōjirō Tadaoki Sasakibe. Sasakibe is usually known by the name "Chōjirō", which means, "chief second son" or "second son of the main line". His first name, Tadaoki, means "Loyal breath" or "loyal son."
- In the original anime, Chōjirō's eyes have pupils, while in the manga they do not have any, which is also how he's depicted in the anime adaptation for the Thousand Year Blood-War arc.
- Chōjirō's Zanpakutō, Gonryōmaru, was depicted as a lightning-type Zanpakutō in the anime-only Zanpakutō Rebellion arc long before it was revealed in the manga, during Chapter 504.
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