User blog comment:Bloody Bankai/The Plot and Characters in Bleach ( Spoilers inside, please avoid this post if you do not read the manga as well as watch the anime )/@comment-1654562-20091023062003

earlier when i mentioned his "new mask power", throughout the entire series, I've seen many times where he has been in a battle and either "dies" or gets very very close, and the hollow comes forward, and takes over. When this happens, it just seems that he can analyze where the power came from and focusing it toward killing the enemy, kinda like when he got his Vizard power to begin with, by struggling with the hollow inside to make it obey his personal "willpower". AND every time Ichigo has been in these HUGE battles, he has come out of them stronger then when he went in. I don't know if it just means that he needs to wait a bit longer? or actually "deal" with the internal struggle a bit more? or what? but having learned how to summon this "new mask" seems to me like a big increase of at least some power... even though he has yet to master anything about it which seems odd considering his ability to analyze power and situations to at least plan in some fashion, and win.