Name : Yasutora "Chad" Sado
Birthday : April 7
Height : 197 cm
Weight : 112 kg
Blood type : AO
Occupation : High School Student
Sado Yasutora, 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 name is almost always read as cha (meaning tea). He sometimes carries a nametag so most assume his name is Chado (Chad).
Chad was born in Okinawa, but taken to Mexico by his parents at a young age. They died there, and Chad was adopted by a man named Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa, whom Chad called Abuelo ('grandfather' in Spanish).
 During his early years, Chad was extremely violent and because of his size, intimidated and hit any other children that annoyed him. Abuelo tried to teach Chad to be gentle, but was initially unsuccessful. However, one day Chad was attacked by the fathers of the children he would fight, seeking to punish him. 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.
Much 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 Jr. 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 were transferred to Karakura High.
 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.
In the beginning of Bleach, Chad didn't have any special powers, and could not even see ghosts, although he seemed to be able to hear them. After his encounter with the cockatiel boy Y��ichi Shibata (he relied on his sheer strength - enough to rip an electric pole from the ground and smack a hollow with it - and assistance from Rukia), 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 Ury�� Ishida and Ichigo, Chad started fully seeing spirits.
That was also the day he first used his special powers, though at that time he didn't know about them. Chad's special power is a blast that he can fire from his  arm. For this, his arm grows armor (dubbed the right arm of the giant), colored black with a red and white stripe (the colors used on Mexican military dress uniforms). The armor can also be used for protection. This ability also seems to improve his already impressive physical strength, allowing him to bend swords.
Chad is later trained by Yoruichi Shihouin and learns how to consciously bring up the armor on his arm and fire blasts. He also gains stamina which allows him to fire many blasts in one day. More recently, he has made a request of Kisuke Urahara to become his student after seeing how helpless he was against the arrancar who invaded Karakura Town. He is currently training with Renji Abarai. It has been revealed that Chad's powers are capable of achieving a level similar to the shinigami final release (bankai), but his powers are not similar to Quincy or shinigami powers. |
