I would only say the characters who have stronger bankai would be characters like Yamamoto, Aizen (if we get a reveal), Kenpachi, Shunsui. Hope the enemy team does a little more explanation of Kisuke's bankai. But honestly even if they don't explain it they need to do more than Kubo's out of nowhere 2 panel spread😂 Have a nice one Tommo

What I take note of is that the alterations from Kisuke's bankai seem to be permanent. So, my question is, did Kisuke use it to enhance his own intelligence?

Does Ichibei's ink ability really "erase names from reality"? When he covered Yhwach in Ink, no one else forgot his name. They still called him Yhwach. Only Yhwach himself forgot his own name. Perhaps Ichibei's Bankai ability only affects the mind of a specific target covered in ink?

Will you cover Senjumaru’s bankai, Shatatsu Karagara Shigarami no Tsuji?

Might you do a match-up between Kisuke and Ulquiorra?

That's to show u mayuri is a mad genius, IQ is 💯

and yet light years behind urahara@@henrypeterkin7825

​@@henrypeterkin7825no... it's to show you that what comes naturally to Kisuke takes effort from Mayuri to replicate.

​@@revenantronin8377 it shows their different approaches as scientists. And perhaps this concept of restructuring the world around you instead of modifying yourself to try and become an even better version is what Mayuri lacked to understand the Hogyoku, a device that alters the reality itself to fulfill the user's wishes

@@hyacinth5040 I agree... and that's the point I was making. Kisuke is the type of prodigy that can do anything the first time he tries it, whereas Mayuri the type that has the potential to do much better but there's a process of trial and error. For example, Kisuke created a kido seal that could completely seal Aizen's power and it worked in one try. Mayuri had already been experimenting for possibly tens to hundreds of years with Kenpachi's reiatsu suppressing eyepatch seal, and he could only improve it further whenever Kenpachi's reiatsu would render the current eyepatch useless. And that is the same technology he used to keep Aizen suppressed, and he used the information he got from it to further improve it whenever Aizen would get stronger. The chair only kept his reiatsu close in order to overwhelm the seals so Mayuri could further improve them. See the difference. 10 years later and I bet you, Mayuri's seal technology can completely suppress the old Aizen (I say old because Aizen keeps getting stronger). And that's how his bankai also works. His genius needs challenge/change to blossom and push past his previous limits, whereas Kisuke's genius creates change and has no limits which is also reflected by his Bankai. So in a way, Kisuke's existence is what pushes Mayuri to be better and better. Even in their final fights, this is shown. Mayuri has to constantly change and adapt to Pernida's increasing dangerous attacks. Whereas Askin needs to constantly change his attacks because Kisuke overcomes anything he does easily. Basically, Pernida had one ability that required a long process to fully overcome by Mayuri. Askin had multiple abilities that required a short process to overcome each one immediately. So if Kisuke would have fought Pernida, he would've rendered the nerves useless after being hit by them just once, whereas Mayuri would be in the process of figuring out one poison, only to immediately be hit by another and another and get overwhelmed. That's the difference. They are equally geniuses capable of doing the same things, but Kisuke just does things seemingly easily whereas Mayuri has a hard time. edit: Kisuke is the type to solve calculus by inputing the problem in a calculator and writing down the final answer. Mayuri is the type to slowly break down the math step by step, defining the processes as he goes without using a calculator. Basically.

Iirc, he calls his defence ability "blood mist shield". Which would imply that he is reconstructing his own blood for the shikai abilities, which would definetly fit his theme.

@tobidobidu1129 That's right. So I guess he reconstructs internal substances, like blood and his energy, and the sword is the conduit that brings it out.

Brilliant analysis, its true, he defends the status quo with a zeal. He doesn't have the ambition to build a better world. He just adapts to survive, finishes the job, then leaves everything as it was. Its one of his biggest flaws, he has tremendous intelligence and is empathetic, but is too paranoid of breaking things.

​@@KaiserAfinithat's really shallow and contradicts itself when he helps Ichigo, he's the one who introduced advanced technology and better living standards to the soul society saying he doesn't break the status quo is incredibly naive and mis-informed especially when his actions say otherwise, hell he was the one who brought up a treaty between Hollows and shinigami. The guy doesn't need to tell anyone he's breaking the status quo he just needs to show results, if everyone was like Aizen boasting and trying to one up everyone we'd all be here thinking what Hitler did was somewhat alright. He didn't use the hogyoku cause of the very reason that he's just repeating the same mistake as the original Shinigamis hell Aizen repeated the same mistake and look where he is now? He doesn't even want the position anymore.

@@yamatonoryuujin4871 You could read it as it being that interacting with Ichigo for so many years made him aware of his own shortcomings, hell... he probably felt that after having to run from SS after Aizen screwing with him and the others. But it doesn't mean shed all his opinions, he still is an adherent of the status quo, he prefers to play with and around the "strings" that already exist instead of breaking them, still a strength and weakness. The thing with Bleach is that one of its strengths that are a weakness too, is that it doesnt really say how things really work in the verse, we have hints, we know details, we are shown a few answer, but none really answers all, which can be seen as it being that some things are just too complex and ever changing to try and explain, but is frustrating as a reader to have to deal with and we can see that some of those are just copouts.

When were you under the impression that Kisuke isn't a villain? 😏

​@@SpikeSpiegelSpacecowboyto whoever he's willing to sacrifice, then yes he's a villain.

​@SpikeSpiegelSpacecowboy he's not a villain

I think I heard that he was the villain originally

@@faiyoake It's true, he was created to be the villain.

I really can't picture kisuke not fully understanding zapakatpu , "the sword is me" and all that.

@@MrDJAK777 i think its more he had no ways to safely use it until then. i mean the only opponent kisuke ever fights that might warrent bakai usage, is askin, which he did. or his two meeting with aizen. the first round, kisuke couldn't he wouldn't have had time to fight aizen AND save the vizards. and the second round he knew what aizen's shikai did to him, and thus his bakai is WAAAAAAY too dangerous to use, kisuke could become an instant kill weapon used against his own allies at that point.

@@MrDJAK777 yeee if he didnt fully understand zanpakto then how could he creat faster way to get bankai and use it by himself and then teach others xd

@@einjharrelraca i dont think its about safety because his bankai doesnt affect others if urahara doesnt want this just like when fighting aski... he just knows that if he uses it then enemy will know about its power and when they fight enemy will alfready be prepared and thats why he could outplay askin because no quincy knew about his bankai.. they didnt even know he has bankai

I’m looking forward to seeing his Bankai most in the anime because I think they’re gonna really deliver with his fight against Askin. Cant wait for all the extended scenes and additions.

Yea that’s what I think, because the portal he makes to let Grimmjow inside the dome barrier was way past where Askin was standing meaning the range was in fact larger than Kisuke was letting on. Although, perhaps the ability to reconstruct other beings has a limited range and inanimate objects can maybe be manipulated in a larger range. I’m sure the anime will clear some things up though.

To me it was true, it initially has a limit; but that can be restructured as well lol. He's not the type to lie outright, but mislead

@@nailinthefashion your comment is a genius i agree, kisuke doesnt lie he just withholds the truth haha

1000%. Kiskue shouldve been the #1 threat to Ywach not Ichigo.

@@thediaz07 Kisuke was the #1 threat to Aizen. Ichigo was just the one to deal the blow, at the cost of everything, but without Kisuke's involvement he wouldn't have been able to.

​@@thediaz07he is. Te hnicalky if urahara is as psychotic as aizen he is ywach worst nightmare. The uy will probably use hogyoku to gain power and use hallow power against ywach. Hallow are poison to quincy

Good catch or idea!

I need more stories from his Squad 2 days holding down the Maggot’s Nest.

@@TheLevelsEdgetbh from what we’ve seen of him getting promoted to captain to getting outcasted I doubt it’s that much he did during the time of being a captain

@@crownedking_cj8890 No doubt. Just under 10 years in Turn Back the Pendulum.

@@TheLevelsEdge I think the only thing he really did during that time would be working on the hogyoku in terms of plot relevance, cause the substitute soul was done after he was outcasted which would be another plot relevant thing we never saw the creations of

I don’t know how they can take each other’s word for it when it comes to enemy abilities. Why clue them in on anything? Only one i understand is Kyoraku’s The shikai, iirc, only works if both parties know the rules…

Mayuri not being able to get his own head out of Urahara's ass will be his ultimate limiting factor. We all know Urahara _doesn't give a shit_ about what anyone else has going on.

​@SinHurr mayuri is simply the best 😁 but is fierce competition with urahara is kinda a layoff for him

I think Mayuri is the funniest Shinigami in the series despite his evil appearance.

Does that basically make Urahara Gremmy with experience? Frightening

@@rwbyab7423in a way I guess you could say that but the visionary is just utterly broken. Gremmy could have easily been promoted to the elite Quincy if used better.

Yup. Add to this that Benihime resembles Senjumaru somewhat and also the fact that Kisuke has extensive knowledge on the Royal Palace.

Then that means kisuke got to suckle on senju mama... "it should've been meeee!"

No no that's stupid

There’s lots of theories about lots of things out there. Like the moon being made of cheese

Yeah, they didn’t show much, Kisuke was able to restructure his own body so it would make sense that he could restructure his own immune system, if i’m not mistaken he couldn’t do much because the summoning process put already a strain on him.

​@@The_Omnipotent_LurkI think its gonna require a lot of reiatsu to "modify" his immune system for Askin's Poison. Askin can change and adapt to the reiatsu he's receiving (Yoruichi's fight) so I guess it would take a toll for Kisuke to constant readjust and reconstruct his "resistance" to Askins Poison

@@The_Omnipotent_Lurk yep that's why I think him beating Lille and Gerard is too much, he didn't have Shunsui's speed to cover distance and Lille's Volstanding I think those blasts would have been too much for him deal with. unless he could use his bank to heal like Wolverine, but I don't think he could do that repeatedly and with stamina like that.

​@@FGame2starKisuke has speed equivalent to Yoruichi in Cat Form, that definitely wouldn't be the problem.

@@samyl9579 not sure about that, but Shunsui seems like the fastest shinigami since his shinkai gives him the shadow teleport. honestly Kisuke DOES not beat Lille, Gerard maybe knowing that he has that heart thing that Kubo said can be destroyed.

This. Bleach is hardly perfect in its writing, but it still solid, and one of things that we kinda forget... is that every single Bankai works with its own rules, some simple and direct, others force even the user to stay at their toes. Hell, at this point we know that the zanpakutous are just a medium for a shinigami to access their inner power, it comes with permanent aspects sure, but it is at its core just a "interpretation" of how "magic" works in this story.

​@@Alacaelum Exactly! And my memory may be fuzzy but I could've sworn I remember Urahara telling ichigo that his sword Benihime could be very temperamental or not very nice. So the idea alone of Benihime willfully strengthening anyone other than its wielder seems to off the mark for me to believe it capable of doing so.

@@AstronoMETV Katen Kyōkotsu would screw Kyoraku over ten times over if she felt even the slightest disrespect.

@@Alacaelum That's a good point. Might be why he keeps a respectful demeanor whenever she manifests herself around him. I also think of vice captain hisagi and his Kazeshini because it's so erratic and fickle that both he or his allies have a high probability of being hit by one of its swings just by being put to use, let alone the zanpaktou manifesting in the real world.

Restitch the threads of fate, cowards!

He restitched Aizen's plan.

I think its power works like this The bankai took the muscles and tendons from Askins arm to restructure them and fortify Kisukes own arm.

@@24zawisza but it restructured kisukes eyes first. Also askin pulled out of the “range” and his arm was returned to normal. I don’t Urahara managed to do anything in the amount of time he had the fingers open. And then it wasn’t until several panels later when Urahara was about to throw a punch that he buffed his arm

Seconded. I love Momo, and it'd be nice to imagine her as more of a peer to Toshiro

@@taylor_green_9 So do I, I can see her bankai being a large tree with fruit that holds different abilities

This is something that always irked me, where are the shinigamis with powers that can build sections of soul society? Where are the shinigamis with powers that can feed people, or power things? The only thing that comes to mind is unohanas shikai being used to heal people.

​@@gratedradish6699to be fair minazuki is only a healing ability in shikai. Bankai it's a nightmare come to life

he probably used it to save the vizards after their hollowfication, and perhaps even to create the hogyoku

Not a bankai but Gremmy’s shrift did that…

You mean like use his bankai in housing construction or building construction? Or if someone’s bankai made roads. I mean, it’s not combat effective but everyone needs roads.

Good that his Bankai have nothing to do with her, all Bankais are unique and not related to other captain or Shinigami.

Mayuri might even create a restructuring konjiki from his new bankai to counter urahara's own 🤷🏽‍♂️😂😂

It's not like there was anyone else actively calling his name, though.

He doesn't make you forget names in a conventional sense, he just makes anyone outside of himself be able to say it. This is why zangetsu couldn't tell ichigo his real name and why Yhwach couldn't say the name of his sword.

@@MrGksarathy - In the manga, they do some cutaways to other characters after Yhwach is covered in Ink. They didn't call him the "Black Ant" name. Ichibei didn't rewrite reality for everyone. That's why I suspect Ichibei only affects one target. Not everyone.

@@TheBigExclusive But did they attempt to call him "Ywach"? I don't think so. Otherwise, they would have been unable to say it.

In the manga, after Ichibe gave him the name "Black Ant" and crushed him, he immediately opened his Almighty as he was falling. During that time frame, no one called out to him. It was only when his eyes were revealed that Jugram started explaining what happened, and he referred to him as "His Majesty". So we can't say for sure if the names Ichibei erases are in general terms or only for the target cuz a situation like that hasn't happened yet.

Great way of putting it. I couldn’t agree more. We only see a hint of it’s true power but I know we’ll get more when the hell arc resumes.

@@gammafrost Thank you! Yes, I do hope we get to see more of it in the Hell arc!

It doesn't necessarily mean that if he reconstruct his body with his bankai, once the bankai is deactivated, his body will then fall apart. That wrong. Any modifications that's done on his body will merely be undone, not that his body will fall apart. If he makes his body 10 times stronger with his bankai, once he deactivates his bankai, the 10 times will be off and his body will be back to normal. Buh, there's some arguments to that tho. If you notice, after Kisuke collapsed and got his bankai deactivated, normally, everything that got stitched up using his bankai should have been off as well, buh if you noticed, the hole he made on Askin gift ball was still very much open and Nel was shown thinking of entering the gift ball using the hole. So, what's the deal here? Is tye effects of his bankai truly temporal or really permanent?

@josephbabatundeisaac yeah without a clear explanation from kubo can't really understand it but there's that one panel after he collapses that shows the stitches he made on himself after he reconstructed his arm started bleeding, which leads me to think it's similar to surgery where if a doctor cuts you open and then stitches you back up your fine but when the stitches are remove you open back up and bleeding so if benahima is like the doctor what ever she cut and stitches is fine until she deactivates then the stitches come undone but the wound stays. Because urahara wasn't cut on his arm prior to him modifying himself so he shouldn't have been bleed from his modification once benahima ended if that makes sense

I think you're on the right track with this bc to me, we know that female sword spirits with male welders seem to be more aggressive/intense when it comes to the effects of their bankai as shown with shunsui's bankai, its abilities are shown to affect both him and his opponent almost equally, with both of them being so similar in their darker realistic views on life, the bankai's greater power comes at the cost of the user and it lines up with both kisakes personally and the reason why he ended the fight so quickly, for the more he alters himself the greater the likelihood of death

I mean, Ichigo's issue was that he didn't have a proper Zanpakuto to begin with. And Renji didn't have a strong connection with his. Didn't even know the full form. I think the issue wasn't the method.

I don't think Renji used Urahara's method. He'd been training for Bankai for a long time and was already on the brink of achieving it. He simply trained in the same place as Ichigo for a couple of days

Good take. I agree the anime team will do his bankai better justice. I really do hope we get at least a few applications for it

I almost wonder if the short time was on purpose, showing how much Bankai Kisuke outclassed Askin. Once activated, a fight where Askin had the slight advantage gets turned on its head and becomes Kisuke's. Askin's abilities don't seem to work after the Bankai is activated and the ability to seemingly remake everything seems to be near limitless, weakening enemies and empowering Kisuke. Range is weird, whether Askin is right or Kisuke basically felt it wasn't needed, he basically held the modification to himself and to the battlefield. The rest of the Sternritter either countered the Bankais by reviving after them into new forms, but Askin never had that ability. Once activated, the fight became one sided for Kisuke and the short showing actually showed it. An interesting question is whether he can alter the enemies and potentially cut their powers. The gift ball was activated before Bankai and the self destruct mechanism seemed like an inconclusive ability, so could Kisuke have actually stopped it before activation or reconstruct their shrifts or if it only works on physical bodies.

if he touches pernida or pernida touches him, pernida gains his bankai ability

@floppa731 I could never tell if that was how Pernida worked or if it was the concept of change that the left arm was supposed to be. Pernida was supposed to represent change, continually growing through the fight. There was also the statement that Pernida gained information during the fight from those he used his nerves on. The weird part is I think it goes beyond just stealing the ability, I think he can deliver counters based on what he learned. The skin speeding he may have gotten from Mayuri, but it was for a freezing agent, not the nerves. And that bankai was made to counter the nerves ability, so that really wasn't its power, it's ability was to counter everything, something Pernida was already doing. The question is whether being remade would counter Pernida or if Pernida could counter the reconstruction.

@@bwill887 you made some really good points and now I’m even more interested in seeing a fight between urahara and Pernida. I wish it could be an anime only addition but we’ll see. I was kinda surprised Pernida didn’t use vollstandig against Mayuri.

And all they wanna do is ‘help’ but truly, it’s all selfish at the end of the day until it’s too late and you realize you have a conscience

Did you skip parts? The video just came out like 2 minutes ago.

​@@gammafrostdefinitely did cause I'm like 3 minutes in😂

@@Iamabutt5000yeah I was like wtf. What’s the rush 😂

@@gammafrost nah i just clicked early.

@@bobowon5450not possible considering you commented when the video was barely out for 3 minutes. You definitely skipped. I just found it odd.

Then, if that's the case, does that means the effects of his bankai are permanent and not temporal as most suggest??? Cos, if he made the hogyoku with his bankai, shouldn't the effects be off once he deactivated his bankai?

@@Fur_gene i think the effect actually remains as we can see after winning he just fall on the ground but they didn't show urahara after the battle so it still a mystery