Renji Abarai

Renji Abarai is a major character in the manga and anime Bleach. He was originally planned to appear as a playable character in Super Smash Flash 2 but ended up being an Assist Trophy instead. However, he was removed in the Beta version of the demo in favor of Rukia Kuchiki due to major bugs regarding floor collisions, teleporting issues and being slippery, as well as Rukia's larger popularity and importance in Bleach.

Character description
Renji is quite dynamic. He varies from smug and cocky to disquieted and depressed after his major defeats, but shows himself to be an incredibly serious and determined fighter when confronted with an actual challenge. Willing to fight, kill, and die for whatever he believes in, Renji is a dangerous man to those who stand in his way. He has brown eyes and long crimson hair, which is usually kept in a high ponytail. His upper body is covered in tribal tattoos. The amount of tattoos has increased over time, starting from his early days as a Shinigami candidate to covering his entire back and much of the front of his body and his extremities. He wears the standard Shinigami outfit, though he usually includes some sort of headgear, usually expensive glasses or a white headband when he is saving up to purchase some new glasses. While out of uniform, Renji often wears a white kimono-like type of night clothing, with pink floral patterns on it, and a dark gray sash tied around his waist, with bandages underneath.

As a Assist Trophy
Renji was considered an 'Intelligent Assist Trophy', similarly to Viewtiful Joe, because he did not focus at one single opponent or did one single attack. Instead, Renji chased the nearest opponents and slashed them multiple times. He also had an aerial, long ranged attack.

After several seconds, Renji would unleach his Bankai, Hihiō Zabimaru, a move with an extremely long range. Once the move was finished, he would then leave the battle.

As a playable character
Renji was once going to be a new character that would have appeared in SSF2 along with before being cut due to saturation of manga-originated characters. He appeared as an Assist Trophy instead.