Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-9826910-20130618064245/@comment-10630156-20130808011838

Seeing that both Byakuya and Isshin where members of Noble Families I'd be very surprised if Byakuya didn't know him and as has been stated he is very good at hiding his surprise. I'd say that Byakuya and Isshin knew each other in the past but whether or not he knew who Ichigo was is debatable. Now I ask this this why did the 13 treat Ichigo so specially e.g. returning his shinigami abilities to him and allowing him to have Kugo's body amongst other things it's is strange that they are treating him like that in my eyes anyway, so maybe they all knew who he was at that time?

hopefully next month we get an answer to some of these questions remember Ichigo and Byakuya could end up at the same place at the same time and he is observant so maybe he'll notice the change in Ichigo or be told he knows the truth by Nimaya in any case I'm hoping for a couple more flashbacks so that we get answers to these plot holes.

As for the Zanpakuto I am pretty sure it will be a Time orientated blade as the one ability of his old bankai seems to make me think down this path. If it is I'd be very interested in the abilities of it as we have yet to see a blade with these properties yet.

I'm fairly certain that kubo wants us to think down the lines of the getsu zanpakuto being similar or related but knowing him this is just going to be an enormous troll, he has done this before...