That’s what I saw too. I have a feeling that the sword wasn’t his originally and therefore doesn’t respond to him. It might also explain why the blade is always jacked up looking as well. I’m thinking, however, that he is going to end up giving that blade a wake up call in the maner of his power extending through it, or it finally “hearing” him and blowing the lid off SSJ style. Either way, I think Juha had better be ready this time. He punked Ken. That ain’t gonna sit well with him and in the end, somebody is gonna end up losing way more than an arm.
It does reinforce Yamamotos point though, if young Kenpachi was already stonger than Unohana, then who would stop him if he went rouge after this [S]power up[/S] power back training is complete.
At this point the options for stopping him would be the Royal Guard, Aizen, Urahara, Ichigo (maybe) and Juha… and none of them even live in Soul Society, well I guess technically Aizen.
If kenpachi has stuck around this damn long without going rouge, I Don’t understand why he’d go rouge after becoming Shinpachi. Especially if everyone around him is fodder. He wouldn’t get any joy of swinging his sword…like he said a chapter ago.
I mean, tousen getting raped in his own rape prison really doesnt seem as bad to me anymore. Dude had one of the most broken (shown) bankais but he was against someone who breaks the rules of bleach so its ok.
This one’s easy. - The child was too young to speak with the Zanpaktou, and when he subconsciously suppressed his abilities he made himself deaf to its cries.
Also to peeps complaining about predictability: There’s only a limited number of logical directions any certain situation can go and still make sense. And when you have a hundred people speculating about what will happen next, someone’s bound to get it right…
When Kubo brings something in out of left field that doesn’t make any logical sense people bitch, when he’s predictable people bitch. SMDH
This is purely speculation but, he can’t speak to it because it’s not his. Zanpakuto are given to Shinigami, something that Kenpachi was not. He shouldn’t have had one in the first place. We want to know how/where he got it. Also, Hitsugaya could hear his Spirit as a child before he became a Shinigami. I don’t think him being a child had anything to do with it.
There are plenty of options Kubo could go with without being illogical or predictable. It’s called being a good storyteller.
hmm… could the sword be his oldman’s :wonder: I mean Ichigo’s zanpakuto is said to be very similar to (iirc the same as) his father’.
If so… His dad got bored and let himself die, bandits try to take his pop’s Zanpakuto but after a reverse goku moment (head bump of enlightenment) lil’Ken takes the handle and lets the bodies hit the floor. A few days later Captain Mom shows up and hilarity ensues.
The bankai form is an immaculate Masamune katana, were his attacks are more skilled and he uses finessed attacks rather than suppressing his spiritual pressure.
He sort of breaks the rules of Bleach, but at the same time, look at who we’ve seen him fight. Every fight he’s had has been against someone who was trying to battle with him in terms of sword clashes—which doesn’t seem like a good idea for actually beating him. Versus Ichigo it was all swordplay. (I forget if Ichigo actually used the sword hadoken against him). Against the Espada with the arms it was all melee attacks. His loss against the Quincy was off-panel. Even when Tousen had him in the black bubble, Tousen was still trying to slice him up directly, which didn’t quite work out. Like, who have we actually seen use a ranged attack against him? Ken versus someone with a ranged Bankai-level attack (Byakuya for instance) should, in theory, be a loss for him—but Aizen showed that all of that is meaningless. Got enough spiritual pressure? Negate anything. I see your Bankai and raise you the middle finger.
I’ve posted before that Byakuya should be a bad match up for Kenpachi, the difference now is the rule that was originally introduced when Kenpachi blocked Zangetsu with his chest. At a certain level of power it would be possible for him to walk through the petals without getting cut. Even without the eye patch though I don’t think anyone though that the raw power difference between Kenpachi and Byakuya would ever be great enough for that to happen.
