User blog comment:Tinni/Ichimaru Gin/@comment-1454424-20100530135011

rolls eyes you are grasping at straws. He isn't hiding it. He hasn't shown it. If Urahara is hiding his bankai, so is Kyoraku, Unohana, Ukitake and Yoruichi is hiding her entire zanpakuto! I repeat, he's not hiding anything.

There are gaps in his history sure, but there are gaps in everybody's history. What did the Vizards do for a 100 years? What did Yoruichi do for that matter? When did Komamura get involved in the Gotei 13 since he didn't recognise Shinji and the others and Kensei at least he should have recognised as Tosen's old captain?

1. I am not sure where you get the crack theory from. If Rukia or Byakuya turn-up dead, their deaths would lead to a proper investigation. It wouldn't be the same as the death of a low level shinigami or a random resident of rokungai. In addition, Aizen already explained that he needed to research way to get the Hyogoku out of Rukia. So even if he did know Rukia had it for X years, he couldn't just kill her and take it from her. The things he did to Rukia in Soul Society was not just for show you know.

2. You clearly are not aware if you think Urahara was doing anything other then the most mundane things like making sure the pillar, which he invented, were functioning correctly.

3. Yoruichi already said that she and Urahara have known each other since they were children and that Urahara as a child built their underground playground well within the boundaries of Seireitei. That indicates to me that Urahara was born in Seireitei and since I doubt the princess of the Shihonin clan would be allowed to play with just anyone, Urahara would be from a fairly high ranking clan. Alternatively, he could be from a clan with close ties with the Shihonin's but given the Urahara joined the Gotei 13 first and not the Omnitsokido says to me that Urahara's family were close to the Shihonins but not "under them" so to speak. But the point is, even if Urahara didn't mention is family, his family isn't a great big secret. Yoruichi, Tessei at least know about his family.

By contrast, Aizen is someone about whom nothing is known. Nor can you point to any other character, not even Gin and Tosen, and say - well they might know who Aizen's family is. THAT"S a real mystery. Urahara's family being a mystery is just garbage. Yes WE don't know about his family. But his family is NOT a mystery in the manga universe. Aizen's is. See the difference.

Like I said, people are reading non-existent mysterious where Urahara is concerned. He was once a mystery figure and it is true that he hasn't shown all his cards but he is hardly a mystery now.

PS. I also wanted to say that if "we don't know what X was doing while the battle in FKT was on" is enough to make a character mysterious, then Ise Nanao is the most mysterious character of them all.