User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 608 - whatever the title of this one is/@comment-25247258-20141205010824

So I just had this thought as I finished this chapter (and this is "a bit" crazy so bear with me). Manga is written in black (dark) and white (light), and black is any object. So what if Ichibei is breaking the fourth wall, and all of the ink, "the darkness", in the artwork of the manga becomes his? That's a bit unrealistic considering how completely, utterly and ridiculously overpowered that would be, but it does fit with the whole ink motif he has going on. Breaking the fourth wall even more, Ichibei could be Kubo writing himself into his own manga (Kubo did come up with all of the names after all).