Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-9826910-20130618064245/@comment-11129263-20130621154151

Going back a little, personally what i read into it around the time of him fighting Aizen. Taking into consideration stuff people have already said about him and his inner hollow, his mother getting attacked and how things panned out with urahara helping him get his shinigami powers back. So he had an inner hollow which was part of his power with zangetsu.

he's deifferent from the vizored and arrancar because all they can ever do is "stack" shinigami and hollow powers where as his are both within him and can be joined. Aizen also talked a lot about how he(aizen) transcended hollow and shinigami, and this is again how i interpreted things, he did this using the hogyoku where as ichigo had the potential for that power within himself and acheived it "naturally" hence why he is stronger.

as for the new stuff, i think it has gotten a little bit ridiculous and if it was all preordained they could have done it better. saying that the better part of his power has been suppressed all this time seems funny to me as he has always been known to have particularly high rietsu. and if he now has access to all this power, is he stronger than he was against aizen (he was boss as hell)? and wouldnt that make him just a little OP because who will now pose a threat.

Sorry, a little offtopick, just want some thoughts and dont get me wrong I love this show/manga. just some of this new stuff is a little....you know