Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25360536-20140920031731/@comment-24519434-20140923233016

TennoHaineko wrote:

I wonder if Ichigo's shikai and/or bankai lost any abilities since then, because Ichigo's bankai broke and it would theorically "never be the same", we have seen a good side of it, with a weird new Double Getsuga Tensho and maybe Quincy powers, but it has to have a new weakness or something! It even shouldn't have a good side, it should be less-powered because Zangetsu's bankai has broken, so what has Zangetsu lost? Or how could this be explained?

Ichigo's Quincy powers were suppressing his Zanpokuto abilities so his Shikai (and/or Bankai) did lose power but is no longer being suppressed. Basically his original Shikai (and/or Bankai) was being suppressed by something stronger than the amount of power lost by braking and reforging Zangetsu.