Ashido, an anime-only character, is a mysterious shinigami who lives in the Forest of Menos beneath the desert of Hueco Mundo. He wears the standard shinigami uniform, in ragged condition and without any footwear, with a fur coat draped over himself. The coat consists of several hollow masks adorned on it, one of which he wears as a mask over his face. The mask came from a hollow that killed his fellow shinigami friend, and resembles a gazelle's skull. He uses the other masks as shields to block cero blasts from hollows. Ashido has gray eyes and spiky maroon hair. His zanpakuto has a cracked tsuba. During a skirmish in Soul Society several hundred years prior to the main storyline, Ashido and his team followed a group of attacking hollows back into Hueco Mundo. Realizing too late how outnumbered they were, all but Ashido were slaughtered in the ensuing fight. Though he could have returned to Soul Society, he decided to remain in Hueco Mundo to kill as many hollows as possible, hoping to reduce the numbers appearing in the living world. Rukia's general knowledge of hollow activity would seem to imply that his efforts were wasted, though she neglects to tell him that Aizen's influence is responsible for that. Ashido is introduced when he saves Rukia Kuchiki from a group of Menos Grande after she falls into the Forest of Menos. Immediately after, he spars with her to ascertain her strength, then proceeds to help her search for her friends. They are ambushed by several adjuchas-class menos along the way, though they easily dispatch each one. Ashido finally decides to leave the Forest of Menos and join Ichigo's group to enter Las Noches. However, when the group tries to leave the forest, they are attacked by gillian-class menos and a surviving adjuchas. Ashido chooses to stay and shield Ichigo's group so they can escape. As Rukia pleads for Ashido to leave with them, a stray attack causes a cave-in and traps Ashido with the menos. Rukia promises to come back for him once Orihime is rescued. Shamefully taken from Wikipedia