Tetsuzaemon Iba

Height: 182cm

Lieutenant of the Gotei 13's 7th Division. President of the Male Shinigami Association.

A man who speaks in the Hiroshima dialect and holds a deep sense of duty, honor, and loyalty; he is also devoted to his mother (Chikane Iba, the former 3rd Division Lieutenant).

He has trained in and mastered the four arts of Zan (sword), Ken (hand-to-hand combat), So (movement), and Ki (spiritual arts) in a balanced manner (he claims this makes it easier to be appointed as a lieutenant).

A former member of the 11th Division, he is a senior to Ikkaku Madarame and Renji Abarai; consequently, he occasionally displays the combative nature typical of the 11th Division. He is portrayed as a stark contrast to Ikkaku in certain ways—such as considering promotion for the sake of his family and accepting recruitment offers from other divisions—and he even once scolded Ikkaku for hiding his Bankai and suffering defeat.

Like Shuuhei Hisagi, he is smitten with Rangiku Matsumoto.