Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31283382-20150806205156/@comment-5398287-20150816184146

I agree with Kaido here. I understand that Bankais are cool and all, but they're not supposed to be obtained by just anyone - outside of captains (who are basically supposed to have it as a prerequisite for their position), two of the characters who have achieved Bankai are very important to the plot and/or close to Ichigo (namely Renji and Rukia) while Ikkaku was given one as part of his character development (crippling his own power and capability for the sake of a fight and staying under Kenpachi) and Chōjirō was expressly stated to be captain-level himself and could've become one any time he wanted. In terms of the other "potentials", I don't care how long the non-Captain Visored were training for, they're not relevant in the slightest compared to the captain-level ones, Yachiru barely uses her Zanpakuto anyway, Kenpachi hasn't had time to achieve Bankai, Marechiyo only started getting the character development necessary for him to master his Zanpakuto in the second invasion of this arc, Ukitake's out of commission, and Rangiku's a cat in a box right now. The other captains like Shinji, Shunsui, Urahara, etc., fine; but not them.