Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-27565137-20180210021348

Kakorat wrote: Ichigo has no Bankai, that's why he shouts Bankai when using his powers. His first sword was a pseudo-Bankai, but his Final Arc Tensa Zangetsu is 100% and without a doubt a Bankai. His first sword was still a Zanpakuto though. Don't even try to say otherwise. It is not a resurrection either unless you want to say that the original sword Ichigo had didn't exist. It's just that that Bankai was not his actual Bankai, kind of similar to how Renji's spirit withheld its true name from him. Oh really! Then please explain why all that fuss about repairing Ichigo's "bankai" TWICE! First when he was not in possession of his full powers and then when he should have been in possession of all of his powers. Yuha broke his "bankai". Then he began to crack it in the final chapter, and from that mostly cracked sword a new old blade emerged. And last time I checked zanpakutous didn't do that. No Shinigami or Hollow zanpakutou had that ability! Know why!? Because those were real Shinigami and Hollow zanpakutous. While Ichigo still used a fake one!

When Old Man (NOT ZANGETSU!) was teaching Ichigo the "bankai" he made appear several tens of swords. He made them appear because that's what he did with Ichigo's initial zanpakutou that most people including Yoruichi herself said it was a full time released zanpakutou. Just like they had said the same about Zaraki's zanpakutou only to be proven wrong. Zaraki's zanpakutou was never a full time released sword, it was just an Asauchi and it's only on the last arc that we see him use his Shikai and Bankai. Just in case you forgot.

Know what was Ichigo's mistake?! He held on to Old Man! If he had allowed Zangetsu to have become the one in charge then Yuha would've never been able to manipulate Ichigo like he did. Because Zangetsu that was both Shinigami and Hollow would be immune to Yuha's control. But no. Ichigo made it so that Zangetsu and Old Man had a equal share of his power. At least with his swords sealed. Yes! Sealed! Or didn't you even wondered why when the bigger sword was black Ichigo was normal, then Zangetsu wakes up and Ichigo hollowfies in a completely new way. If there was a Shikai that would've been it. But it wasn't! At least not entirely. You see Ichigo's second mistake was that he said to Zangetsu and Old Man that from that moment on he was gonna fight on his own. HUGE MISTAKE!

Instead of telling Zangetsu and Old Man 'Teach me all that you know and that you can!' Ichigo instead says he was gonna fight on his own. Do you know why Ichigo's "bankai" even then wasn't a bankai?! Because Zangetsu never taught him what his bankai was! Or have you got so confused on who was truly Zangetsu that you also forgot that one. Old Man could not have taught Ichigo how to do perform a real Bankai because A) Old Man was not Zangetsu and thus it was not within his power to teach it to Ichigo B) Old Man himself said that he didn't wanted Ichigo to become a full Shinigami, thus if he didn't wanted it then he would never teach him a Bankai seeing that's as Shinigami as one gets!

What Old Man did with that training of all those swords was to show Ichigo that the power lied within him, not the sword he held. That's why the initial swords all broke so easily, but as Ichigo's determination increased and he began to realize he couldn't depend on anyone but himself he started to pour more of his power into each blade he chose and thus each blade began to last longer and longer. As for the so called "bankai". It was simply Old Man giving more freedom to Zangetsu. That's why Zangetsu was the first to perform the Black Getsuga Tenshou, and through observation Ichigo tried to mimic the attack but never really got around to mastering it. Even during their inner world battle Zangetsu pointed out that Ichigo was doing a piss poor job at mimicking the attack he had shown him how to do.

Also don't forget! Not once Ichigo revealed his special ability. NOT ONCE! And if everyone had one, Shinigamis, Hollows and even Quincies then where was Ichigo's ability?! I mean... He pulled off a Gran Rey Cero but couldn't use Hierro, High Speed Regeneration, Pesquisa, Blut Vene and Blut Arterie. Face it! Ichigo never got a grip on how his powers really worked because he believed he already knew how they worked.

Ichigo could've been fully prepared by the time of the Quincy invasion. All he had to do was ask from the start for Zangetsu and Old Man to train him. Old Man could've used Quincy Shadow on Ichigo to make time pass slower to the rest of the world in comparison to him. Giving him time to learn all he needed. I'm not even gonna say master, but at least control all the aspects of his true power. But he chose to walk alone and we got what we got.

And don't doubt for a minute that if Kubo had been given the time he needed, he would've blown the fans minds with things that were staring the fans in their faces, but still 99% didn't saw it, because like I said before, Kubo didn't had the time to write the story he wanted to write. Nor to explain every little detail. He counted on fans to read between the lines and we all saw how that turned out. Might as well have said it was so from the beginning. But even he didn't knew how much time he had left. So at least there Kubo can be forgiven.

And some people still believed in him when he said that the ending he delivered was gonna be the ending he was gonna deliver anyway. That was such BS. That I'm surprised anyone believed it and still believe it even after he has said that he was only halfway through the story.