User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/399: Deicide/@comment-1591878-20100408091304

So I did some number crunching and this is what I found. Gin said that his shikai's limit was the length of 100 swords. I'm assuming he means katana's. The average katana is between 23.6 –28.7 inches. So lets high ball it at 28.7 that means that the limit of his shikai's reach is 0.045 miles.(less than a mile) Knowing that his bankai has a limit of 13km that brings his total reach to about 8.07 miles which is a big improvement but makes it just as lame. Ichigo could stand at 8.08 miles and fire off Getsuga Tenshō's to his hearts content. I always thought that Gin had one of the coolest Zanpakutous because he could strike you from any where. Now (so far) I'd put him in the same category as Ryūsei Kenzaki's zanpakutou Benishidare. (super lame) But we know there will be some hidden ability to it that will turn it from suck to badass.(hopefully)