Forum:Kido, Hoho and Hakuda

I have been thinking about this for sometime now but I was having difficulty phrasing it properly. So please bare with me. Just stating up front the problem I have is with consistency. I feel that there is some confusing as to how the basic skills of kido, hoho and hakuda are recorded in the profiles of the various shinigami. These three skills are basic shinigami skills that I propose we assume a given shinigami possesses unless explicitly stated otherwise. The reason for this is that right now there seems to be inconsistency regarding how information from filler episodes (and to a lesser extent movies) are applied to these basic skills. Don't get me wrong, I am in no way shape of form in favour of "special skills" that a shinigami demonstrates in filler material. But kido, hoho and hakuda are not special skills, they are basic skills that all shinigami are suppose to possess.
 * The reason I bring this up has to do with recent developments in the filler arc that has introduced inconsistencies with how the shinigami powers and abilities are setup. Firstly, the fact that Yumichika performed kido is not in his profile. However, the fact that Yachiru has clearly demonstrated the ability to perform shunpo has not been noted and in the past evidence of her shunpo skills from bount filler have been dismissed as "not manga canon". There is a part in the manga were I personally feel Yachiru employed shunpo but it's inconclusive, she might as well have just jumped. I don't have a problem with this but if we can't say Yachiru can perform shunpo based on filler episodes then we should probably remove the fact that Yumichika can perform kido and while we are at it, say something in Rangiku's profile that says she only performed kido in an anime filler but did recognise kido spells Hinamori used against Harribel's faccione, thus indicating that she does have knowledge of kido.
 * However, here is the thing. Nothing in the manga says that Yachiru can't do shunpo (or kido for that matter). Indeed, nothing says Kenpachi can't do shunpo. Only thing explicitly excluded is kido for Kenpachi and Ikkaku (and Ichigo of course). These are basic skills and any shinigami who has gone through the academy is suppose to be able to do hoho, hakuda and kido. They might be crap at all three but they are still able to do it. I realise that this doesn't apply to Yachiru but my point was that we need some consistency in how these three skills are treated.
 * Right now it's just a bit confusing but I don't really see a problem with following the lead of the studio writers, who have clearly assumed that they can get shinigami to do kido, hoho and even hakuda as long as it isn't someone who has been explicitly excluded from having that skill in the manga. I mean, the anime series writers (not the movie, they take lots of liberties) are fairly careful about sticking to what has been revealed in the manga and seem to think twice about get characters to do something they haven't been shown to do in the manga. But I think the general principle they are working off is that kido, hoho and hakuda are basic skills all shinigami posses (including Yachiru) and Kubo has to tell us explicitly that Shinigami X doesn't have that skill.
 * Anyway, just to re-iterate, I don't care one way or another what we decide. I just want some consistency. Tinni 13:06, November 11, 2009 (UTC)