User blog comment:Bloody Bankai/Kenpachi's Bankai/@comment- More Ichigo Rants/@comment- 'Winter war' comments./@comment-1432572-20091111012100

Bloody Bankai, excellent thoughts on your point. It's exactly what I've been thinking. Ichigo is progressing too much too quickly. He has attained Captain-level Reiatsu in only a few days, compared to Renji's decades of training. I think he's even more powerful than a few Captains (who have been training for centuries).

Another thing is that this is a WAR, yet no Shinigami has died, no good guy in fact has died. Are the Arrancar this nonlethal? No, they always come pretty close (like one attack away from killing a good guy), only for someone to intervene at the last second and kill them.

Ichigo will defeat Aizen, but not on his own. I think we are all forgetting that there is one other person who hasn't seen Aizen's Shikai, Kaname Tosen. His Bankai is the perfect counter to Aizen's Shikai. I dont think Tite would have emphasized his belief in justice this much only to have him die meaninglessly. I think he WILL die, but before he does he will contribute to Aizen's defeat.