User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/418: Deicide 20/@comment-1904799-20100902010856

I thought this chapter was immensely satisfying. Seeing Ichigo shatter the Black Coffin like that after Aizen got all high-and-mighty touting how powerful it was... I giggled, not gonna lie. As for Ichigo having given up his reiatsu in exchange for pure physical strength... I agree, that's pretty lame. I don't think that's it, though. Ichigo never confirmed that Aizen's theory about throwing away his reiatsu was true, and no matter which way you look at it, Getsuga Tensho has to be reiatsu-based. I dunno, I'm not giving up on the reiatsu thing just yet. I think Aizen's wrong about Ichigo having thrown it away.

@CJett92 I thought Ichigo actually did just shatter Kyoka Suigetsu; wasn't Aizen using it? That shot with Aizen "shattering" on the sixth page... wasn't that him popping out of his little illusion? I mean, you're right, Ichigo stopped him either way, but wasn't Aizen already using Kyoka Suigetsu? Or am I looking at this wrong?