Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27110495-20160106235339/@comment-27565137-20160310002208

StealthBlade98 wrote: Well many people thought the manga would have ended before 2016 and it's still going. I'm guessing Kubo will pull the bankai out of his rear end before this arc ends before the readers see it. Would be nice if the Anime rebooted though, at the stage this arc is currently in. I doubt the anime would need too many fillers. I mean I feel it's already at 110 episodes right now(guessing).

As far as his bankai being stolen i'm not sure how that would happen when he has similar quincy powers as Yhwach maybe it would cancel out or maybe he's that arrogant to believe Yamma's Bankai is stronger than Ichigo's Bankai.

The anime will not restart. At this point seeing Bleach position compared with other mangas, I don't see anyone picking up the anime again. If it was done without any fillers, maybe.

As for his bankai. Initially I believe that it couldn't be stolen because much of Ichigo's powers were dorment and suppressed by Old Man. And even now that Ichigo is supposedly with full control, there's that little big detail about him not being exactly anything. He's shinigami, hollow, quincy, and at the same time he's none of them. In a way he's almost like a living Hougyoku.