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Well. It took me completely off guard that Yachiru aka Nozarashi, that little girl was Zaraki shinigami soul, or the soul that resides inside his blade.

But although it all seems cool that Zaraki is now gonna use his Bankai form, I still don't believe it will be enough to beat Gerard. The Elite Sternritters are thougher than nails and ten times harder to get rid off.

Also Kubo might have raised a little sh*t storm here. Or at least something to people really consider and start to question some things that were given has fact. With Yachiru having always been Zaraki shinigami soul, then how was she simply able to pass for a normal girl. She even had her own Shikai and everything. Does, this means that zanpakutou souls have other souls inside them? Or that a shinigami can have souls inside souls? Now that supposedly Kubo should be closing things and answering all the unanswered questions, here he goes again and raises a bunch of them.

And this does not apply solely to Zaraki but maybe every other shinigami. Also it has to change everyone's view on Ichigo also. People have been assuming that he's in Shikai, but as stated by Byakuya, there might not exist such a thing as a constantly release state. And if that is so then Ichigo dual blades are not Zangetsu, but Zangetsu sealed form or pre-Shikai form. Also during Ichigo's fight for dominance with White Ichigo, at the time when it seemed Ichigo was gonna lose, he had that insight, vision, whatever you wanna call it, when it seemed he was in alternate inner version of his inner world where he fought that thing resembling Zaraki, but that it wasn't so. Might it be that we were seeing what we're now seeing with Zaraki, and Ichigo was actually communicating with another soul inside his soul that was neither Old Man nor Zangetsu, but something else?

Questions! Questions! Chapter 668 has indeed raised a lot of them.

Like right now. It just came to me. How is Zaraki gonna properly use his bankai if he never used it before or had any training using it? The need for the materialization part is already been answered. Seeing that Yachiru beeing Zaraki shinigami soul, and that she's been around him for who knows how many decades or centuries. That was one hell of a materialization. Also if his shinigami soul was able to materialize on its own, then why didn't Yachiru ever tried to make Zaraki see who she really was? She just stood by and let Zaraki for who knows how long, keep using his zanpakutou like a tool. Also when at first Ichigo seemingly achieved the Shikai state, he had to know Old Man first, he had to communicate with him and he could see him like he was just another person. Then why or how was Zaraki even able to use Shikai if apparentely he didn't even knew who Nozarashi really was? Also how could she reside inside his blade and outside at the same time? This twist Kubo just made reminded me of the Arrancar, Starrk, when he split himself into two beings. Although in Zaraki case it's way more complicated to understand how it all works and has worked up until this moment.