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I highly doubt Inoue can fix Ichigo bankai. A bankai isn't a arm or a plate. It has a special connection to the essence of the shinigami soul. It's the part of the shinigami soul that makes a shinigami a shinigami. So it's very unlikely she can fix it.

And even if she could. What's to stop Juha from inserting his presence into the future and break it again?

Something is definitely off. Honestly for a while I was hoping Ichigo was lying about it being his bankai, and was actually his Shikai true zanpakutou. Because to me it made more sense it being his Shikai rather than his bankai. And it would also allow for Ichigo to instantly regenerate the blade. But now that chance is out the window.

So unless Ichigo possesses some deep bond with his current power, he won't be able to fix his bankai no matter what. Even Espadas that got their zanpakutous damaged or broken avoid using Resurrección so not to damage their true forms/powers sealed inside the blade. So any chance Ichigo can use hollow powers to fix the blade are also non-existent. Seeing that in some ways a hollow zanpakutou is even more vulnerable than a shinigami zanpakutou.