Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27110495-20160106235339/@comment-27565137-20160412175340

Kenpachi broke all the rules. But then again if Yachiru was really his shinigami soul materialized and seeing the years she had been among him and others and no one even noticed that she was not a normal girl, that alone speaks volumes. And thus grant Kenpachi the necessary leverage to pull off a bankai without following the rules.

Has for Ichigo. There's still a lot of stuff we don't know. In a way Kenpachi and Ichigo have become more mysterious than ever. Kenpachi for all the reasons I mentioned before and Ichigo because we now can't assume anything. Everything we've seen can be put into question.

When he first released Zangetsu in Urahara's basement, was it even partially Zangetsu, or was it just a blade Old Man created to keep the facade?

When training to obtain a bankai, was he really training to obtain a bankai or was that another one of Old Man schemes to give Ichigo the impression he was using shinigami powers, when in fact he was not?

And how was Old Man able to suppress White Zangetsu? Seeing the difference in blade size, that usually is a representation of one's amount of reiryoku, Ichigo shinigami+hollow side was definitely larger in power.

Also seeing that we now know that White Ichigo was the real Zangetsu, we also learn that his approach to teaching Ichigo was completely different from regular zanpakutous. After all he did tried to dominate Ichigo completely. But at the same time, has Old Man quincy also pointed out, it was his hollow side that in Ichigo's greatest moments of danger, that saved his life. And it's true. During Ichigo showdown against Zaraki, during his almost iminent death at the hands of Byakuya, when he basically lost to Ulquiorra, heck even when he was fighting against Hiyori and his power simply went out of control and his mask appeared, Zangetsu personality would've choked the life out of Hiyori.

And still we don't see Ichigo doing much of anything.

Have you noticed that ever since he came down from the Soul Palace he hasn't once said Zangetsu name?