The arc initially ran from August 8, 2006 to January 4, 2007 in Japan on TV Tokyo. It lasted seventeen episodes. The English adaptation of the season began airing on December 13, 2008 on Adult Swim and ended on April 11, 2009. Four DVD compilations of the season were released by Aniplex between January 24, 2007 and April 25, 2007 in Japan. The first two DVD compilations contain four episodes of the season, and the last two contain five episodes. __TOC__