I call it nitro-eleven

Eleventh Division still claimed that nothing beat hand-to-hand combat, man against man, mano against mano, zanpakutou against zanpakutou, the whole enchillada (especially when cooked by their Captain) and that anyone who tried to fight otherwise was a wimp.

But they did, reluctantly, admit that handmade, personally cooked-up explosives were in the right spirit. Especially when carried round in a backpack and delivered from close to.

Ace got elected an Honorary Eleventh Division member.

(She was allowed to keep the little man with the straw hat and umbrella as a mascot. Zaraki-taichou himself admitted that sometimes one needed a good navigator.)

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