User blog comment:BlazeUchiha/Have Bankais lost their Status?/@comment-971831-20100510000236

i agree that bankai lost it's status.. but that's just for the strong people.. as for every other shinigami, that is still an awesome achievement.. as byakuya said, only one in a hundred generation or something like that, has the ability to achieve bankai..

one more thing that makes bankai lose its status, is urahara's 3day method..

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