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Wri-El wrote:

What about it?? He used a bankai technique while in Shikai or whatever. Doesn't that raise any questions to you? Like for example... "Damn. He just used a black getsuga tenshou while in Shikai. Or is it a shikai? Maybe it isn't. Maybe like hollows or Arrancars in this case, the sealed form of his powers are those dual blades. And getsuga tenshou isn't even his real power, but just a basic technique. After all both Urahara and Isshin both have used Getsuga Tenshou in one way or another. So most likely we haven't seen Ichigo true powers yet." You're aware that the black Getsuga is less representative of Bankai and more of the influence of Ichigo's inner Hollow/Zanpakuto spirit, right? It's black because the longer sword represents the real Zangetsu, while the shorter sword represents Old Man Zangetsu (and thus fires a blue/white Getsuga instead).