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*Innerhell* · May 19, 2008, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Flclking22

but the fact that kenpachi could just do the same training as Ichigo.... and get his bankai, makes me wonder. not only that. But I don't think that Kinpachi's zan-pakuto is in its skikai. I think that its stuck in blade form. because he has not even seen the face of his zan-pakuto, so he couldn't have possibly released it in the first place.... T-T... you need to know the name of it to call it out. I think that that manga just proves that ichigo doesn't realize that its two completely different situations.

No, both Ichigo and Kenpachi's situations are exactly the same aside from Ichigo's actual knowledge of Zangetsu's name. Both Ichigo and Kenpachi have unusually large amounts of reiatsu. In both cases, they have far too much for themselves to contain. Whereas both just leave their Zanpaku-to unreleased, Kenpachi uses that special reiatsu-eating eyepatch to limit his own reiatsu.

As for the name issue, the concept of knowing the name of your Zanpaku-to gives your Zanpaku-to more options such as compressing it's size to a more easier-to-handle state as well as evolving it to the point of Bankai.

The idea that Kenpachi doesn't even know the name of his Zanpaku-to is relevant to it's current permanently released state. By not knowing it's name, his Zanpaku-to is uncontained, unrestricted, and unleashed at it's purest to the point where it's size is ridiculously large in comparison to a regular Shinigami's Zanpaku-to. If Kenpachi had known it's name, he would have had the ability to contain it's energy in a compressed and sealed form.

Yes, in most cases, a Zanpaku-to shouldn't even be able to awaken if it's user doesn't even know it's respective name, but you're forgetting that Kenpachi -like Ichigo- is a special case with more reiatsu than normal.