Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1409915-20140307195609/@comment-26467723-20150612200838

Coolishy777 wrote: @NotARobot: Zaraki was not a captain when he meets Yachiru. He had already fought Unohana. then slowly began locking away his powers to draw out the fights. But he was already with Yachiru when he went to the Gotei 13 to fight the captain of squad 11. I don't remember her ever saying that she has nothing to do since Kenpachi wasn't around, do you happen to have a source for that? I do have a source but it would still be considered spoiler content, it was in one of the recent Manga releases, during the Quincy invasion. If you actually read the manga, you would never have missed it, it was JUST before she attacked a quincy due to "natural instinct".

Also, I said he reached Captain level, as in his spiritual pressure, not the actual status of captain.

Kenpachi faught Unohana as a teenager, so it is NOT that much of a stretch to say that when he was an ADULT, that he had reached the level of a captain.

I mean, if you pay attention to the story, it makes perfect sense.

Also @Xilinoc As far as most are aware, he releases his BANKAI, not his shikai, his sword is JUST like ichigo's sword after he becomes a soul reaper, such as that it was alwasy released in it's shikai.

Unohana was training him to release his Bankai.

@Stefan Not ALL of the swords betrayed their masters. Some were very quickly submitted. Take Byakuya for example, he made his sword submit almost instantly. Taking into account how strong Kenpachi's spirit it, it is no stretch at all, to assume his sword could NOT, or would not betray him.