About

Hinamori Momo
Gender

Female
Species

Shinigami

Previous partner(s)

Sōsuke Aizen
Affiliation

Soul Society
Team

5th Division
Occupation

lieutenant of the 5th Division
[hide] Family


[hide] Zanpakuto

* Shikai: Tobiume


Seiyū (Japanese)

Kumi Sakuma
Voice actor(s) (English)

Karen Strassman

Personality

Hinamori is an upbeat and easy-going girl who is generally quite trusting, but also very impulsive, emotionally vulnerable, and naïve. She greatly admires her former captain, Sōsuke Aizen, to the point where she refuses to believe that Aizen intentionally betrayed the Soul Society even though he stabbed her.
[edit] Appearance

Her appearance is fairly ordinary compared to other shinigami in Soul Society. She wears her hair up in a bun with a cloth wrapped around it and tied with a ribbon.
[edit] History

Hinamori grew up in Junrinan, District 1 of Rukongai, along with Tōshirō Hitsugaya. While Hitsugaya tended to be a bit of a brat as a child, Hinamori found him amusing and treated him like a younger brother. The two have a close friendship, reflected by Hinamori giving him the nickname Shiro-chan (little Shiro in the English dub)although Hinamori is older and toushiro is younger it gives him the best reason to protect her even more the two are very close and will protect each other as a promise they made to each other. When Hinamori entered the shinigami academy, she excelled at kidō. It was there that she met Kira and Renji, who soon became her friends and, later, her fellow lieutenants. They were placed in the 5th Division of the Gotei 13 under Captain Aizen and his lieutenant, Gin Ichimaru. While Kira and Renji would later leave to other Divisions, Hinamori remained in the 5th Division and became the division's lieutenant (through much hard work as noted by Hitsugaya).
[edit] Shinigami Powers

Momo, unlike Renji and Kira, excelled at kidō.
[edit] Zanpakutō

Hinamori's zanpakutō is Tobiume (飛梅, flying plum tree).

* Shikai: The command for its shikai is snap (弾け, hajike) In the English dub, she also adds the word "deflect," though she does it after announcing the full command phrase. When its shikai is activated, Tobiume's blade straightens and produces several jitte-like prongs along its length.

Shikai Special Ability: In this form, Tobiume acts as a focus for Hinamori's spiritual power, concentrating it into energy bursts capable of cratering floors and breaching walls. Hinamori can also compress her power into massive energy balls and toss them from the blade's tip.