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Either way. Ichigo is too weak. Far too weak at this point.

So either he's hiding his true Shikai powers or not even using them at all. Or Ichigo is nowhere near being able to beat Yhwach.

What reason he could have to hide his power or keep it sealed in some way, you may ask. Well, it comes to mind Shunsui words, about what he said to Ichigo's friends on the physical world. Maybe Ichigo knows that once he unleashes all his power there's no turning back, there's no sealing it back up.

There's a theory a friend of mine came up with that actually might be quite accurate. She believes that Ichigo's apparent weakness is due to the fact that once he unleashes a power he can no longer go back. At first I also didn't quite get where she was getting. And then she told me "What if Ichigo releases his Shikai true power but can seal it back up. And the same goes for bankai and all the rest. What if omce in bankai he can no longer go back to shikai. And if he goes beyond bankai, he can no longer go back from that. What if Ichigo true power allows for almost endless evolution, but doesn't allow devolution? What if like a hollow evolves from hollow to Gillian, Gillian to Adjucha, Adjucha to Vasto Lord... Ichigo power once released to its different levels can't be turned off or sealed once again." When I started thinking on that hypothesis. That would be a good reason to hold back. Seemingly showing weakness, when in fact he's trying not to lose his connection to the life he has back in the physical world.

What do you think of this?