Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27565137-20160415174609

First we got Zaraki bankai turning him into a red skin looking Oni. And now we get Hitsugaya bankai turning him from a kid to an adult.

I'm really not sure what the move is from Kubo perspective, but to me it all seems very weird. If it was not weird enough that we find that Yachiru as been all this time Zaraki zanpakutou soul. And that he simply bypasses the normal method for reaching the bankai level. Now we find out that the ice petals from Hitsugaya bankai weren't a time limit as we initially were lead to believe, but a transition phase to adulthood.

Maybe it will have a cost to Hitsugaya, much like Komamura human metamorphosis technique also in the end had a heavy price. Either way I'm finding it hard to believe, that some of this characters had this powers all along and only now they're willing to use them.

But more than that it's the physical alteration aspect that seems really off. In Zaraki case if he had a mask covering his face and a hole in his chest, we might as well call him a hollow. Because the rest... The change in skin color, the markings... They're kinda hollow-like. I guess if Byakuya bankai also turns out to change him physically, then we can assume Kubo is amping up the scale of what a bankai can do and be. 