Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1409915-20140307195609/@comment-25801533-20150613015124

NotARobot9181 wrote:

I do have a source but it would still be considered spoiler content, it was in one of the recent Manga releases, during the Quincy invasion. If you actually read the manga, you would never have missed it, it was JUST before she attacked a quincy due to "natural instinct".

That would be chapter 570, correct? If so it said that her schedule was wide open since Kenpachi wasn't comming back. Or at least the translation I read did.

NotARobot9181 wrote:

Also, I said he reached Captain level, as in his spiritual pressure, not the actual status of captain.

Kenpachi faught Unohana as a teenager, so it is NOT that much of a stretch to say that when he was an ADULT, that he had reached the level of a captain.

When they find him on the pile of bodies, he appears to be no more than 12 or so. Also the Shinigami with Unohana says "who is that kid?".

NotARobot9181 wrote:

Also @Xilinoc As far as most are aware, he releases his BANKAI, not his shikai, his sword is JUST like ichigo's sword after he becomes a soul reaper, such as that it was alwasy released in it's shikai.

Unohana was training him to release his Bankai.

I won't say we know this for sure but it does seem to be the most likely outcome. If Yachiru, Sanpo, and Kenju are his zanpakuto shikai then it does make sense. No bankai has an ability unrelated to its shikai. Shikai, if theory proves to be true, is the ability to not miss when slashing at something as Yachiru is shown doing. Bankai ability is the ability to cut anything. If that was his shikai there really isnt any higher it can go in terms of power (cut more than everything???).