User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 542 - THE BLADE IS ME/@comment-5847836-20130619182602

Some of you are assuming this is what Ichigo's new Shikai looks like, but the entire point of going to Nimaiya's palace was to get a proper Asauchi. So is this his Asauchi or his Shikai? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

And we need some detail on whatever Uryū's been up to. Disappears for dozens of chapters then appears in a Stern Ritter uniform…