Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27110495-20160106235339/@comment-27565137-20160531163725

SilverRain wrote: Wri-El wrote: Dekoshu wrote: I am looking forward to see how Ichigo could do with his new form. We never talked about what the true name of Ichigo's Bankai would be, since Renji found out his, and it matters a lot. For all we know Tensa Zangetsu is still Tensa Zangetsu. Old Man said he'd lied about his name but nothing else.

What we can see, is for the first time Ichigo really using his true bankai, or his complete bankai. But that, I hope will only happen when Yhwach is pushed to go Vollstandig and not before.

I've had a fun theory with a buddy of mine about, in following Renji's case, Tensa Zangetsu is not the full/real name if Ichigo's Bankai; it is instead but one attack/form of his Bankai. In this case, a form that increases speed. It's more than likely not the case, but still kinda fun to imagine~ But in Renji's case his own zanpakutou deemed him unworthy of using all of its powers. We can't simply assume that Zangetsu thinks the same way. Although Zangetsu is also not quite the average inner soul. He's both shinigami and hollow, so he doesn't actually goes by the rules we know.

And remember that Ichigo took all that time to awaken Zangetsu. I would expect that Zangetsu would be the one shouting in Ichigo's mind "LET ME FIGHT DAMMIT!" but he wasn't. It was like for Zangetsu even Yhwach was not a worthy opponent. And so Ichigo needed to kick that bum awake.

But yeah. For all we know Tensa Zangetsu was simply a name Old Man came up with. Although I got to say the name does speak volumes. Heavenly Chained Zangetsu. The chain that connects heaven and earth. The chain that connects. And seeing Ichigo is shinigami, hollow and quincy, then that chain is quite a long one.