Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1409915-20140307195609/@comment-26467723-20150613095832

Coolishy777 wrote:

When they find him on the pile of bodies, he appears to be no more than 12 or so. Also the Shinigami with Unohana says "who is that kid?". That is correct, and during a flash back, it is also shown him defeating Unohana at around the same age.

When he is seen first "meeting" Yachiru, he stats that he gives her that name, because it belonged to the only person he ever admired.

Yachiru's "Kenju" attack, if looked at closely, actually strongly resembles Kenpachi, and that is obviously done on purpose.

Through a few arcs involving the training of a soul reaper, it is noticed that all the swords have very strongly connected personalities, or at least appearances with their wielders, even if you take that small bit into account, that could even be part of the clues.

Tite Kubo even mentioned that Yachiru will ALWAYS be Kenpachi's Support. Which begs the question, can Yachiru even die? Kenpachi himself rejects this idea altogether, when the Quincy mentions that all of Yachiru's bones have been turned to dust.

Atop of all the logical stuff, there is still the illogical stuff to consider, like that despite Yachiru being OLDER than Rukia, she is still YOUNGER than her some how? Yes, people can argue that "people never age in the soul society" and then we'll all throw the fact that Rukia was brought tot he soul society was a newborn baby, and AGED and GREW up, as did Kenpachi, Toshiro, Byakuya, Renji, and many others. However, Yachiru has never aged after a certain point.

YES, I realize that she COULD be considered a midget, BUT, she is even listed as a child, and has the maturity, demeanor and thought process of that of a child aswel.