Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4976518-20140808063123/@comment-5553481-20140919193258

What if the whole manga is a part of Complete Hypnosis, and at some point it'll be just Aizen back in the Deicide Arc actually managing to kill Ichigo.

Regarding the whole 'Complete Hypnosis' is shikai/bankai, as far as the information goes, it's a shikai, and unless Kubo states otherwise, it will stay a shikai, although I am confused why he didn't bother using bankai at all... The only thing that comes to mind would be that his bankai works "against" or affects Complete Hypnosis and has nothing with illusions at all.