User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/399: Deicide/@comment-452405-20100408025048

His hand isn't there to pull out a mask, he just raised his arm to block Ichigo's attack. And we havn't seen much of Gin's bankai yet as it has only been released, we've still got quite a few chapters to go so Gin has some time to surprise us.

And Lia, don't forget that Ichigo has gotten pretty strong himself, you can't keep expecting everyone to be able to completely wipe him out and get annoyed whenever Ichigo actually can have an even fight with someone. Oh and Gin does land a hit on Ichigo, after blocking the attack you can see Ichigo's forehead bloodied and it's not like blocking Gin was an easy thing for him by the looks of it.