Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35659646-20180522182736/@comment-36892007-20180912085157

I'd like to posit an alternate theory: after reading her wikia post and only reading what has literally happened (no added supposition), couldn't it easily be that Yachiru might merely and simply have a unique, special ability -- either to boost one's reiatsu and/or level straight to bankai -- rather than being an actual part of Kenpachi (his spirit and/or Zanpakuto)? note: maybe even a "self-sacrificing" "once-in-a-lifetime" unique ability; which answers the question as to why she has "gone"....

I know Kubo had alluded many things with her (her disappearances and leaving her clothes behind, touching his stolen Zanpakuto and giggling, being "gone" at the end), and maybe he was going somewhere (not necessarily her being a type of Zanpakuto/shikai/bankai) with it and ultimately decided against it, but I think there are too many holes and "against established rules" about her being, somehow, a part of him/spirit/shikai/bankai/like-Lilynette (btw, how can Yachiru be a Zanpakuto/shikai/bankai as she has a Zanpakuto [and her own shikai for that matter!] herself?! It would be like in the case Starrk and Lilynette -- if Lilynette created a pack of wolves for herself and then, in turn, became a pack of wolves for Starrk)...

Just some thoughts to digest....