Yasutora Sado
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| Yasutora "Chad" Sado | |
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| Occupation | High School Student |
| Birthday | April 7 |
| Height | 197 cm (6' 5½") |
| Weight | 112 kg (247 lb) |
| Blood type | AO |
| Zanpakutō | N/A |
| Theme Song | "No Song Unheard" by The Hellacopters |
| Seiyū | Hiroki Yasumoto |
| Voice Actor | Jamieson Price |
Yasutora Sado (茶渡 泰虎 Sado Yasutora?) is a major character of the anime and manga series Bleach. He is a teenager who studies in the same class as Ichigo Kurosaki. Yasutora is better known as Chad, mainly because the first character in his family name (茶) is almost always read as cha (meaning tea). Because Ichigo first read Yasutora's name off of a nametag, he pronounced his family name as Chado, which is what Ichigo continues to call him throughout the story.
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[edit] Character outline
Chad is a teenager of Mexican descent. He is extremely tall and appears to be much older than he really is. Not only does he possess extraordinary toughness, being able to survive the impact of a falling steel girder on his back and a head-on motorcycle collision, he has superhuman strength: enough to swing telephone poles around with ease.
Chad has a tattoo on his left shoulder which reads 'Amore e Morte' (love and death in Italian) and consists of a heart, snake and angel wings around the heart. In the series, he is usually seen wearing either his school uniform or a Hawaiian shirt. During the Soul Society arc, he wore a plain white sleeveless shirt with a red stripe. He currently dons a dark, long-sleeved shirt with a rose emblazoned on the left sleeve. The rose may be in honor of his grandfather seeing as how his grandfather's name was Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa, "de la Rosa" being Spanish for "of the Rose".
Chad is a quiet person, which is sometimes the subject of jokes. Nonetheless, he is treated equally within his group of friends in Karakura (Ichigo, Keigo and Mizuiro). Chad also has a weakness for cute things, like small animals and Kon.
[edit] History
Chad was born in Okinawa, but taken to Mexico by his parents at a young age. After their deaths, Chad was adopted by Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa, a man believed to be his grandfather, as Chad called him 'abuelo' ('grandfather' in Spanish).
During his early years, Chad was extremely violent; exploiting his advantage in size, he intimidated and hit any other children who annoyed him. Abuelo tried to teach Chad to be gentle, but was initially unsuccessful. One day the fathers of the children Chad fought, seeking to punish him, attacked Chad. Abuelo stepped in for Chad, taking his punishment without retaliation. Chad was inspired by this example to become a decent person. Afterwards, Abuelo gave Chad a Mexican coin. Years later, when Abuelo had died, Chad made a vow that he would never fight unless it was to protect others, as instructed - even if his own life was in danger. The coin would come to symbolise this vow, which Chad now claims to hold more value than his own life.
Many years later this was used against him when some thugs captured him and threatened to destroy the coin. Ichigo saved him from them, and made a pact with Chad that they would fight for each other, because Chad wouldn't fight to protect himself.
When Abuelo died, Chad decided to return to Japan, where he entered Mashiba Junior High School. He met Ichigo slightly before the school year started when he saved Ichigo from being injured by local thugs. Eventually, he and Ichigo graduated from Mashiba and entered Karakura High School.
Because of his constant involvement with gangsters, Chad gained a reputation as a ruthless gangster himself. Others were scared of him when he first entered Karakura High, though this later changed.
[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Early story
Chad first appears as a student in Ichigo's class. Days after Ichigo becomes a shinigami, Chad is offered a cursed cockatiel whose previous owners have all died horrible deaths. He takes possession of the cockatiel, and is hit by a steel girder, hit head-on by a motorcycle, and is involved in a large traffic accident all within the next day. He is treated at the Kurosaki clinic, where Rukia and Ichigo notice a mark of a hollow's hand burned on to his back. The hollow confronts Rukia and Chad, who find innovative ways to do battle with it, as Chad cannot see ghosts and Rukia has lost her powers, until Ichigo arrives. The cockatiel reveals himself as Yūichi Shibata, a boy who accidentally killed a serial killer who had killed Shibata's mother. As a hollow, the serial killer got his revenge on the boy by imprisoning him in the cockatiel's body, claiming he could bring back Shibata's mother. Ichigo defeats the hollow who is sent to Hell. Ichigo performs a soul burial on Shibata with the hope he can meet his mother in Soul Society. Chad promises that if he ever meets Shibata again, he will carry him around as he did over the last few days.
When Ishida uses hollow bait to release a multitude of hollows in Karakura Town, Chad leads a hollow that he can barely see away towards a field. He meets Karin Kurosaki who can fully see the hollow chasing Chad. She helps Chad fight the hollow but Chad is thrown aside. He realizes his huge strength is to be used to protect people and punches off the hollow's arm. Chad's arm is now armored and uses it to defeat the hollow. Chad is taken by Kisuke Urahara to his shop, where he finds that Inoue has also been taken there after her hollow encounter. They are taken to a bridge to see Ichigo fighting the Menos Grande and choose whether they will use their newfound powers to help Ichigo.
[edit] Soul Society arc
After Rukia is taken back to Soul Society, Chad and Inoue are trained by Yoruichi Shihouin to consciously call upon their powers when needed. After a week, Chad leaves for Soul Society with Orihime, Ishida, Yoruichi, and Ichigo. In Rukongai, Chad is reunited with Shibata, who has not found his mother but is living with a "family" of non-related people.
When the group is separated once entering the Seireitei, Chad ends up alone. Chad narrowly misses reuniting with Ichigo when he blasts a wall, giving Ichigo a chance to escape from the 11th Division. He defeats the remaining 11th Division members with a single blast from his arm. Chad finds his way into 8th Division headquarters and defeats the 3rd Seat, Tatsufusa Enjōji, with another single blast. He continues on his way but is confronted by Shunsui Kyōraku. After both try to convince each other to yield, Chad fires several blasts at Kyōraku but all either miss or are deflected. Chad reaffirms his promise to Ichigo to each fight for what the other protects and puts all his strength into a final blast at Kyōraku, who easily dodges and slashes Chad's chest, defeating him.
Chad is put in a holding cell and healed by the 4th Division where he finds himself with Ganju Shiba and Uryū Ishida. They are freed by Kenpachi Zaraki and are reunited with Inoue. Zaraki's lieutenant, Yachiru Kusajishi, leads the group to the Sōkyoku where they wait as Ichigo and Byakuya Kuchiki fight. After Byakuya is defeated, the group tends to Ichigo. They then find out that the events at Soul Society were an elaborate plot masterminded by Sōsuke Aizen and confront him, but Aizen departs for Hueco Mundo. Ishida, Sado, Ichigo, and Inoue depart for the living world.
[edit] Bount arc (anime only)
In the anime after the Soul Society arc Chad returns to school and helps Ichigo defeat the modified souls created by Kisuke Urahara. He is taken captive along with Orihime Inoue, and the modified soul Cloud impersonates him in front of Ichigo, who eventually identifies the impostor.
When the war against the Bount starts, Chad forms part of the group which aims to defeat them. He is paired with the modified soul Nova to seek out and destroy the Bount. He encounters Sawatari and fights him along with Rangiku Matsumoto, Nova, and Ururu Tsumugiya. The battle ends undecided.
After the Bount invades Soul Society, Chad meets up with Ichigo to fight Kariya. However the fight doesn't last very long as Kariya has gained power from the Jōkaishō.
[edit] Arrancar arc
After returning from Soul Society, a new student, Shinji Hirako, arrives at the high school. Chad and Inoue follow Shinji and overhear Shinji talking to Hiyori Sarugaki about convincing Ichigo to join them. Hiyori threatens to kill them but is taken away by Shinji. Inoue begins to chase them but Chad tells her not to, realizing that they will die if they follow unprepared.
When the arrancar duo of Ulquiorra and Yammy arrive in the real world, Chad and Orihime attempt to fend them off while attempting to retrieve any survivors. Completely outclassed, Chad's right arm is extensively damaged by Yammy, and required Ayame and Shun'ō to heal Chad for many days.
Immediately after his recovery, Chad attempts to join the fight against Grimmjow Jaggerjack's assault, but is nearly stabbed in the heart by D-roy. Realizing that he could no longer fulfill his promise to fight alongside Ichigo, Chad requested Urahara to train him. As a result, he engages in continuous single combat against Renji and his final release to improve his battle prowess.
[edit] Hueco Mundo arc
When Orihime is captured by Aizen, Chad and Ishida offer their services to help Ichigo rescue her. When Ichigo hesitates, Chad demonstrates the power of his improved arm, quelling any fears he might have had. The trio then departs through the Garganta Urahara opens. Upon their arrival at Hueco Mundo, Ishida and Chad engage two arrancar named Iceringer and Demōra, telling Ichigo to watch them. After struggling against Iceringer, they switch opponents and Chad proceeds to defeat the slower and less intelligent Demōra with his new attack.
After that the room they were in begins to collapse because of the defeat of the two arrancar and they are forced to escape to outside of Aizen's palace. There they see a barren wasteland with a few small hollows in it. After some wandering they meet a few 'good' arrancar and head for Aizen's palace, only to be ambushed by a sand monster that seems immune to all their attacks. Nell, one of the good arrancar, explains that the sand monster's weakness is water, and just then Renji Abarai and Rukia Kuchiki arrive on the scene and Rukia defeats the monster by freezing it completely.
The five, with their arrancar companions, proceed to Aizen's headquaters and, encountering a room with five exits, decide to split up. This they proceed to do, after vowing that they shall meet again alive after their respective battles.
[edit] Chad's powers
When first introduced, Chad had no special powers aside from his unusual strength and could not even see ghosts, although seemingly able to hear them. After his encounter with the cockatiel boy Yūichi Shibata, he started to see the approximate locations of ghosts and hollows, but could not fully see them yet. Finally, after saving Karin Kurosaki from a hollow during the match between Uryū Ishida and Ichigo, Chad started fully seeing spirits.
[edit] Right Arm of the Giant
The same event also awakened his latent spiritual abilites, which manifested itself as armor on his right arm (dubbed the "Right Arm of the Giant"), colored black with a red and white stripe (the colors used on Mexican military dress uniforms). In this form, Chad can fire off powerful energy blasts from his arm. After receiving training from Yoruichi Shihouin, Chad learns to activate his powers at will and gains enough stamina to fire multiple blasts.
[edit] Improved Right Arm of the Giant
After seeing how helpless he was against the arrancar who invaded Karakura Town, Chad requested Kisuke Urahara to train him. Urahara proceeded to pit him in single combat against Renji Abarai's final release. He noted Chad's powers still had room to grow, but they did not resemble Quincy or shinigami powers.
The training was successful, and resulted in the acquisition of a new improved transformation for Chad's arm. Compared with its previous form, the pattern on Chad's arm becomes more intricate, and gives him a massive increase in physical might. Chad also possesses a new special attack called El Directo (巨人の一撃, lit. The Strike of the Giant, Spanish lit. The Direct). To perform it, the flanges on Chad's arm open up, and he punches the enemy.
[edit] Trivia
- He likes music, but he rarely watches TV. The only program he likes is "Carnivore Kingdom" that starts at 8 AM on Sundays. He likes it so much that he bought the DVDs for it. Not surprisingly, since Kon is a cheap knock-off plushie of the main character of "Carnivore Kingdom", Chad finds Kon especially cute.
- Chad has a bass guitar, but has never been shown playing it. It has been shown in Chad's room in episode 69 and in the 8th anime ending sequence. It's also shown on episode 9 after a "band practice". In the manga, he is seen carrying it immediately preceding the appearance of the incomplete arrancar.[2]
- The Mexican coin Chad wears as his grandfather's memento was minted sometime between 1823 and 1909, and has the words 'Republica Mexicana' engraved on it, as well as the Mexican National Emblem. The monetary reform of 1905 minted Mexican coins with the words, 'Estados Unidos Mexicanos’, are seen on the Mexican peso today.
- Chad studies in the same class as Ichigo. He is a highly capable student, being the 11th best in school in terms of academic achievement.
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| Karakura High School: | Ichigo Kurosaki | Orihime Inoue | Uryū Ishida | Yasutora "Chad" Sado | Tatsuki Arisawa | Keigo Asano |
| Shinigami: | Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai & Chōjirō Sasakibe | Soifon & Marechiyo Ōmaeda | Gin Ichimaru & Izuru Kira | Retsu Unohana, Isane Kotetsu, & Hanatarō Yamada | Sōsuke Aizen & Momo Hinamori | Byakuya Kuchiki & Renji Abarai | Sajin Komamura & Tetsuzaemon Iba | Shunsui Kyōraku & Nanao Ise | Kaname Tōsen & Shūhei Hisagi | Tōshirō Hitsugaya & Rangiku Matsumoto | Kenpachi Zaraki, Yachiru Kusajishi, Ikkaku Madarame, & Yumichika Ayasegawa | Mayuri Kurotsuchi & Nemu Kurotsuchi | Jūshirō Ukitake, Kaien Shiba & Rukia Kuchiki | Kisuke Urahara, Yoruichi Shihouin, & Isshin Kurosaki |
| Vizard: | Shinji Hirako | Other Vizard |
| Arrancar: | Ulquiorra | Grimmjow Jaggerjack | Yammy | Wonderwice Margera | Other Arrancar |
| Other characters: | Ganju Shiba | Kon | Ryūken Ishida | Jin Kariya | Other Bounts |
