Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2234210-20140123124247/@comment-24282510-20141014151139

StealthBlade98 wrote: That's another thing i just couldn't understand: why didn't Orihime just use her Soten Kisshun on Head Captain to restore his arm. I know he used it to try to kill Aizen but that was a wasted effort as he dodged it at the last second. It seemed like Kubo deliberately made him weak during the whole aizen arc around this time. :|

Weak? His Ryūjin Jakka/Zanka no Tachi didn't really need to be two hand weilded to be deadly. The only thing he really lost (that we know of) was the Sōkotsu.

In real life ask an old war veteren. Most wear their scars/missing limbs has Badges of Honor.

Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") wrote:

Yhwach also mentioned that he didn't consider Yama to be a "Notable Threat" due to his handicap, so it was obviously holding him back

The missing arm was just one part of that but used has a example.

Yhwach states it is due to him growing softer due to getting a over infalted sense of honor. The way i took it means that the young Yama would have done everything in his power to kill Yhwach the moment Yama sensed Yhwach. Even if it had no honor in doing so. Due to Yama in the old days being no more then a murderous thug.