Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5218928-20140305213023/@comment-5218928-20140309034530

I could go on a case-by-case basis, but first I'll sum everything up on two sentences: Stefan wrote: (...) I'd like to think that (...) (...) I personally think that (...) See, that's the thing. That's your opinion. I'm cool with it, but I prefer to stick what is said and happens throughout the pages. It's much less of a hassle and I don't risk offending anyone that way (talking about opinions instead of facts is the quickest way to do that. I prefer to avoid).

You do make an excellent point that Bleach starts with Rukia transferring her power to Ichigo and leading to his transformation. Indeed, that happened. No arguments from me there.

Stefan wrote: As for the poisonous part, I'd like to think that since Ichigo was born with both Hollow and Quincy powers, he developed immunity, or at least a strong resistance to the poison, while the Hollow was still dormant and less potent. Constant exposure to a toxin over several years will do that. Yes, IRL that might happen. In the Bleachverse, Quincies are mortally terrified and remain unable to endure it. We got Kisuke and Mayuri stating that, we were treated to the Sternritters abandoning the stolen Bankai because of it. Now, if the modern Quincy managed to overcome imperfections of the Letzt Still and develop the Vollstandig, they would have developed immunity too, since as Kisuke points out, it would allow them to steal the Arrancars' Ressurrécion powers ... is Ichigo "a special case", being a supposed "true blood"? Your guess is as good as mine, at least until we advance the story further and Kubo decides to show us.

And, yes, when I say "hollowfy easily" I meant that he could do it and NOT die, or suffer any form of visible injury. All it did was exhaust him, not bring him close to an inch of his life. Ingested poison (like mercury poisoning), at least IRL, slowly builds up quantities inside you until it becomes a dose big enough to kill; no amount of training can overcome that - you need to flush it out of your system or break it down. Kisuke has pointed out that Quincies can't process Hollow power, so the breaking down thing is out of question; which leaves only the flushing out part.

Stefan wrote: After using Saigo no Getsuga Tensho, Ichigo lost the top layer of both his Quincy, and his Shinigami/Hollow powers; the last two being one and the same.

Yeah ... no. Saigo no Getsuga Tensho is stated by make the wielder lose ALL his Shinigami powers. That's what Tensa Zangetsu itself said. So when Ichigo used it, he lost ALL of it, not just the "top layer" (or whatever that might be), but the top, the bottom, the middle, the left, the right and even the tangent layers ... BUUUUUUUUUUUT, since Bleach can't be Bleach without Ichigo and Kubo wanted to continue the story (lucky for us!), a TINY speck of power stuck to him at the very last moment and while he lost all his spiritual powers, he began to make more and after a year or so, he's up to combat level again.

(I'm not making this up, this is actually what's been said in the Fake Karakura and the Fullbringers arcs. Rule of Cool is the only rule that's always in effect at the Bleachverse, but it's all cool, so why bother with that "logic" shenanigans right?)

Stefan wrote: Well, winning the lottery, or surviving a plane crash, doesn't make much sense either. Can we go into chaos theory mathematical models and probability mechanics? :P