Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-27458826-20180214122725

While Ichigo has power that resembles a vizards he isn't a vizard. Vizards were souls ( because soul reapers are not a race) that were transformed into hollow. The way they speak about their inner hollow leads me to believe that they some how had another entity forced into their inner world. That is not what happened with Ichigo. White was sealed and or fused with his mom's soul which changed and or fused with it and migrated into Ichigo. From there white became like a zanpakuto but wasn't a true zanpakuto. In short Vizard inner world has a hollow and a zanpakuto. Ichigo has a hollow that is similar to a zanpakuto and a manifestation of his Quincy powers. Halibel notes during his fight with grimmjow that she feels like she is watching 2 espada instead of a soul reaper and an arrancar. He uses sonido instead of shun po and over all has power that is more similar to a hollow than a soul reaper. Ichigo is most definitely a unique existence. The unique power of his bankai was supposed to be a super condensed power so he could hit hard and fast. Not really unique but it is what it is. Not all zanpakuto have unique ability. Squad 11 is supposed to be all soul reaper with direct combat type. So no they don't all have unique powers. As for them saying that his bankai was broken and all that. They had no reason to question whether it was a bankai or not. Really the only one who knew all the details about him was kisuke and if you think back during his initial training with Kisuke he was told by kisuke that he didn't have a zanpakuto. I believe he said it was a big ball of fluff that happened to be in the shape of a sword. Someone said something about him not having the same ability as the arrancar specifically high speed regeneration and hierro. There are a few things to consider. Ulquiorra tells him most arrancar trade the healing for power and that he alone among the espada had high speed regeneration. He also says that when the hollow hole in Ichigo's chest filled in that it was high speed regeneration. Something else to consider is that he is only like 16-18 years old. That is not a long time in the grand scheme of things ( the Vizard had been transformed more than 100 years before the start of the story) so they are powers he could potentially develop. As far as him shouting bankai..... That really doesn't seem relevant. He thought it was a bankai so he thought it was necessary?