User blog comment:Godisme/Kill The Shadow/@comment-1268838-20120613185001

A little dragged out I must admit, but I do appreciate that Kubo got this detail out of the way from the get-go. It would have been a little uncanny for several fights to go on at once, only for the Bankais to be captured later on. Better to have the bulk of them taken away at once - I do like that Byakuya acknowledged the necessity of using them outright. It would seem that these captains (with the exception of Sui-Feng, of course) intentionally released with the purpose of exposing the seal. The problem being of course, that they miscalculated on the nature of the ability.

Seeing as most of the Bankai we are already familiar with were the ones taken, it does make me wonder whether the others will be able to avoid this fate, or if they will even need to use Bankai against their opponents. Frankly, I would love to see Tekken Tachikaze in action, but if it's just going to end up getting sealed, it'd be a real bummer.