User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 540 - The Sword Five/@comment-1904799-20130605203940

I have to disagree with just about everyone on this one. I didn't like this chapter one bit. Ichigo's history is now a convoluted mass of people's influences giving him powers, and it's impossible to get anything straight. This most recent chapter has done nothing to explain whatsoever where Ichigo draws his powers from. If anything, it blatantly disregards previously-established facts for the sake of bringing up a slew of new questions.

If Zangetsu is Yhwach from 1000 years ago, is he actually a zanpakuto spirit at all? If not, why did he manifest through Urahara's training with Ichigo? If so, why would Yhwach take on the form of a zanpakuto? If all of these abilities were inherited by Ichigo at birth, why did he need Rukia to lend him her powers in the first place in order to make them manifest? Why is Zangetsu actually Yhwach, anyway? What sense does that make? Is Zangetsu acting independently of Yhwach himself, or are they mentally connected somehow? Is this going to be another Aizen-like twist wherein Ichigo has actually been manipulated for a great length of time? And what of White? Was White present in Ichigo from birth? Why did it only manifest in the Shattered Shaft? Are White and Zangetsu the same being? Are White and Hollow Ichigo the same being? Does this mean that White and Yhwach are the same being? When will any of this start making sense? Or is Kubo content to just spit out random bits of nonsensical character connections until we all just give up trying to piece it together and he can end his manga?