How would you rank the top 10 strongest Bankai? Let me know in the comments!

Also: Kyoraku's Bankai and Shikai are about the duality of his Personality: He's Childish on the surface, but Melancholy and brutal underneath

So basically if Mayuri appears, it means you’ve lost, because he only appears once he has a plan to defeat you.

Yamamoto’s Bankai is honestly so unfair. He literally just kills you by existing. I remember it being mentioned the flames are hotter than the surface of the sun. Not only that, it’s not even real flames, it’s literally just his REIATSU. Freakin nuts that guy.

I think it also should be mentioned that Mayuri's Bankai is reactive, whereas Urahara's Bankai is proactive. Urahara changes the battlefield to suit his plans, whereas Mayuri analyzes the battlefield and uses what he's learned to form a plan. Both geniuses, but the way they fight is different.

East: Offense West: Defense South: Support North: The End

Mayuri is like Batman, give him prep time and he wins.

The difference between Mayuri and Kisukes bankai is that Kisuke earns and has a relationship with his sword whereas it’s been said that Mayuri forces his sword to Achieve things. The reason kisukes is so Strong is the harmony he has with his sword; something that a lot of these other wielders don’t have.

I think for Hitsugaya people tend to forget that he'd likely only had bankai for maybe 20-30 years because he was only a third seat when Isshin disappeared. He's still young in terms of other Captains who have had much longer to learn to control their bankai. In comparision Gin and Byakuya have easily has double the amount of time to learn to use their banaki and Byakuya's bankai still grew within the series. I think Hitsugaya's bankai is still only in it's early stages of developement similarly to how Rukia's is. I think his abilities being so diverse is him still learning his bankai and how it works that's why it isn't seen to be as deadly as someone like Byakuya's bankai. I'd want to see his banaki after 50 or even 100 years.

Aizen popped bankai. It's bringing dreams into reality. The return of Bleach

I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Gin's bankai. He died so long ago, I forgot just how brutal and devastating his abilities were

Toshiro's bankai ability to shut off other people's powers already makes that OP. The writers never allowed him to kill anyone as most of those characters were met to be killed by others or stay alive.

I've always saw Kyoraku's Bankai's fourth stage as a sort of tribute to Yamamoto's Zanka no Tachi North. Both are mega slashes that instantly defeat any enemy they come in contact with. And it makes sense, since Yamamoto and Kyoraku had a teacher-student relationship and Kyoraku was very curious about Old Yama's true power, one that Yamamoto himself calls "demonic" when talking about his painting of 1000 years ago. So, when Kyoraku gets serious upon releasing his Bankai, his own demonic, ruthless side comes out. Finishing off in a single, merciless slice.

Shunsui sure ranks up there. What also adds to it is his willingness to drop his affable element and get deadly serious when things get intense with either an opponent or the battlefield at large. The fact that he plays it like a game adds a sinister element to it all. Shunsui is definitely someone to be friends with and definitely not an enemy, luckily all you have to do is buy him a drink.

Shunshui and Urahara have such abstract powers and it’s fun to see them use it. One is based on “play” and the other “construction”. The Shikai are small but the bankai is broken.

Loved the video and the analysis, but what I REALLY loved was when you said Kisuke's bankai was one of your favorites. I thought it was a perfect fit for Urahara and just looked amazing. Seeing him come back from losing his eyes was phenomenal. Great list!

I think Yamamoto’s bankai doesn’t necessarily remove things from existence, but more like the flames are so hot and intense, whatever it touches instantly disintegrates into ashes.

Just as I planned it....

Shunsui is such a dope character to me in fiction in general. Def reminds me of the “drunken master” stereotype seen throughout kung-fun films. I feel like his Bankai made a lot of sense, not just with the dichotomy of seriousness vs the children’s games of his shikai, but with his character as an author in the Seireitei and a very laidback, yet introspective and reflective individual. His bankai is basically a living literary device

Kenpatchi was smart enough to be like "I need to finish this fight as I'm bleeding too much. Guess I'll use two hands"...

“Years of training“. *Shows the one guy that didn’t do years of training*

I always thought the theme of Shunsui's zanpakutou is that his shikai brings childrens' games to life and his bankai brings adult games to life, ie theater. I though that was pretty neat. I think he probably has a set of "plays" that he can use, the same way he can use various children games in his shikai. so that's why this was so situational, it's just one of the very situational options he has. we just saw only one 'sequence', or play

Great list. I expected Aizen to be number 1 but then realized that he never actually used his bankai and it just made me realize how op Aizen was.

I agree with most of the items in this list but Hitsugaya's mature bankai is a lot more powerful than the 9th place its been given here. It's nullifying ability is one of the most powerful hax in the series. The only reason Gerard survived because he is basically unkillable. Since Kubo used Hitsugaya for a lot of fights, people seem to underestimate his mature form's bankai.

How fitting for Rangiku and Gin to have swords that shatter into particles of something

I wanted Kenpachi to say Bankai: Yachiru Kusajishi. Shunsui shikai makes children’s games real, his bankai makes adult games real. I think that’s one of the reasons the woman sits with him but the girl isn’t there in the bankai. The girl is the shikai and the woman is the bankai. Also I thought Komamura turned into a dog because he felt vengeance in his heart? I don’t think it had anything to do with his bankai so I don’t think that’s a drawback of it. His final bankai was actually good, I agree.

Ichigo's true bankai was his final swing at Ywach. It was the the sword that could cut through anything. It was the original Zangetsu something we haven't seen since Aizen's arc. While we thought it would break again it literally unsheated from its sheat. The thick metal ontop of it was just a sheat all along

I think it's possible that Kyoraku's bankai can tell more than just the one story, similar to how it can play more than one game. I'd imagine that the story he told was the first to come to kind using his bankai

What if Aizen's Bankai is making you think that "Complete Hypnosis" is only his Shikai?

I believe Kyoraku's Bankai is reminiscent of his Shikai in that he can bring Japanese Folklore (legends/myths) to reality, just like he does with japanese children's games.

Knowing what Gin's Bankai does, he could've killed Ichigo a few times. Practically with every cut Ichigo could've died if Gin's only wanted it. That's insanely overpowered.

I think if you were considering the wielder as well in this list, putting Toushirou's bankai where you did definitely makes sense. It's a key point throughout the series how Hitsugaya is always holding back for fear of accidentally damaging his allies. We see that fear get removed when he is a zombie and with a single swing of his sword in what I assume is shikai just release a MASSIVE wave of ice. He, unfortunately, didn't get to do much with his bankai against Mayuri cuz it's Mayuri and he has an answer to everything BUT the point I want to make here is that if Hitsugaya didn't actively hold back or if Hyorinmaru had a different wielder with more killing intent, then perhaps the bankai would be able to actually strike killing blows. It IS considered the strongest of the ice types after all, if Hitsugaya wanted it to kill I think it could.

Kenpachis unofficial bankai name: HELLBOY

Ichigo's Bankai is the strongest , yhwach didnt fear any bankai before..and he always did face them with mere strength , and he wasn't merged with the Soul king , not even ichibei's bankai affected him after he awakened...but at his full power + him absorbing all of the Quincies and the Soul king...he feared ichigo's bankai to the point that he had to change it's futur for it not to be released...

Kisuke’s bankai seems like a great reflection of his personality. We are talking about the guy who created the Hogyoku in order to collapse the boundaries between reapers and hollows. Dude loves to rewrite reality.

I still remember when Yamamoto went bankai all those years ago, that final panel of the chapter, i absolutely lost it. Never had i been so hyped to see a bankai and i honestly thought we never would see it.

12:20 That is what I love about Gin. He does the thing everyone with at least two functional brain cells would do... HE LIES! It's kinda like that Ricky Gervais movie "The Invention of Lying", where the mc is the only person on the planet with the ability to lie, and he takes advantage of that!

I'm just happy to see Gin on the list and I agree that I would place him at around the same level as Byakuya.

I feel like Shunsui's bankai is insane and may be worth being higher if we get better answers about it. From the ability of his zanpakuto to hide Nanao's sword releases, it may be able to change with the whims of Shunsui and the bankai we saw is high favorite way to fight an enemy.

I think the fact that Urahara Kisuke didnt use his Bankai vs Aizen says something about how vulnerable Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame is at the start of his Bankai - she's a sitting duck and Aizen would have easily destroyed her IMO - making his bankai very dependant on the element of suprise / distraction.

I think we are all wrong. After rereading the fight at the end, Yhwach states that his ability is no different than the abilities Ichigo and Orihime have. The only difference is that he can change the future of all the realities he can see. So, Orihime, we learned from Aizen can ‘Reject’ the reality in front of her, i.e.: Whatever is within the range of Santen Kesshun’s shield. So, I’m assuming that Ichigo’s ability is to break his fate, as many assumed when the chapter first came out

The fact that even Yvatch didn't even want to contend with Ol'Man Yama's bankai should speak volumes on how absolute broken it is...

I personally think byakuyas bankai deserved to be at a higher number, it's very versatile and has high damage output too being extremely difficult to defend against.. on the other hand, kenpachi's bankai is just brute strength and no hax and more often than not hax wins against brute force.

I want a book that tells the story of Aizen when he is still a kid which tells us why he became the way he is and how he eventually became a captain

So Kyoraku’s bankai fits his character and his shikai. It’s adult entertainment instead of kid entertainment. And adult life is usually sad which is why the play was somber. On top of my guess is the play isn’t the same and he can change it based on his own ideas much like the children’s games he plays. It’s gotta be more then top 4.

I feel like Chojiro's bankai was a Top 10 bankai. It's hard to prove it. But just the fact that Yamamoto had so much respect for Chojiro makes me think that the true strength of Kōkō Gonryō Rikyū was no joke.

I'm pretty sure Gin's bankai ALWAYS transforms to dust when expanding and contracting, and he can always decide to leave just a bit of that dust behind.

I wouldn't say Hitsugaya has no killing ability, but it's not as immediate as other high-level zanpakuto. It's mostly based on suffocating enemies rather than freezing them to death. If they can't get out of the ice then they're going to die from lack of oxygen eventually. Ryuzenka can shatter an enemy and Sennen Hyoro causes extensive crushing damage - enough to knock a low-level espada out of his resurrection form, which is the only time I believe we've seen that done to an Arrancar. But the main thing with Hyorinmaru is it's best suited for large-scale fights with many enemies as opposed to 1-on-1's. The main reason Hitsugaya holds back in most of his fights is because he's worried about accidentally killing his allies if he loses control of his own power, even if they're far away. It's area-of-effect capabilities are massive to the point where if he goes all-out he could accidentally kill a lieutenant who's 5 miles away, and that's at the beginning of the series.

Most of this list: “it’s such a shame”

The only thing which I can argue about is that I dont think hitsugayas bankai lacks of kill potential. The bankai itself I think is alot stronger than the rest of the under 5th rank for me, its just basiclly our boy is not strong enough himself to use it in full potential. Lets say if that yama wields that sword and hitsugaya wields ryujin jakka, wouldnt be the outcome be the same(ranking the bankai)? Probably it will be different story. The thing that im trying to say, if we really want to rank the bankais by their own power and criterias, we should think a little bit outside of the box, as putting them in equal "hypotetical" user. Not sure if you will understand my thought. BUT after all its up to our imagination or the author what he claims. P.S. I love your videos, im one of your first batch subscribers (before 1k) and all I can say thanks for the content, its aways entertaining (1st time commenting on your video) P.S.S. Im not a fanboy of hitsugaya, its just a thought of mine which came up while watching the video.

I really appreciated Kubo-san essentially bringing Renji back to the forefront with his new bankai. Before the tybw arc Renji was merely a punching bag. But with his bankai overhaul Renji was brought back to badass status. Kudos to Kubo!

I’m glad you were able to mention Kenpachi’s actual ability to think and strategize. I also think Toushiro’s bankai is versatile because even he said it, as long as there’s moisture in the air, Daiguren Hyorinmaru can reactivate and strike; also, it is mentioned that Hyorinmaru by Izuru Kira that it is the strongest ice-type Zanpakuto. Maybe Toushiro doesn’t strike to kill first, he strikes to freeze first and then strike down.

To be fair his lack of"killing power" is due to the fact that he mostly face the top tier enemies and, as in the last arc, literal gods, a good old case of too much bad matchups The man can freeze and nulify reatsu itself the only other shinigami that displayed this power is yamamoto, but with fire, remember what is Hyōrinmaru known for, the strongest ice zanpakutou in soul society

if kyoraku shikai makes children's games a reality, maybe his bankai makes adult games or worse scenarios a reality

1. Yamamoto's bankai (Zanka no tachi) 2. Shunsui's bankai (Katen kyokotsu karamatsu shinju) 3. Kisuke urahara's bankai ( kannon biraki benihime aaratame) 4. Unohana's bankai ( Minazuki) 5. Ichigo's bankai ( Tensa zangetsu) 6. Zaraki's bankai () 7. Gin's bankai ( kamishini no yari) 8. Byakuya's bankai ( senbonzakura kageyoshi) 9. Hitsugaya's bankai ( Daiguren hyorinmaru) 10. Komamura's bankai ( kokujo tengen myo-oh) / kuchiki rukia's bankai ( hakka no togame).

The thing with zanka no tachi is that it facilitates Yamaji being a kenjutsu Master. We've seen how strong Kenpachi gets when he uses a lil bit of Kenjutsu, Imagine Yamaji having both of his arms intact

I know Sui-Feng doesn't appear here for obvious reasons but still, I have to say it's amusing to picture the fiercely dedicated assassin who uses a WMD waiting in line at Orihime's bakery for cakes because of Yoruichi's sweet tooth. The postwar novels are full of surprises.

Just a little side-note I’ve always wanted to discuss. Assuming Gin is actually telling the truth and he does not possess the longest zanpakuto, what *is* the longest zanpakuto???

Yamamoto's Bankai can literally end the world or destroy life just by being ON too long. Remember, Unohana was sitting by in the med bay and a glass of water was evaporating just due to prolonged exposure to the heat. It's been mentioned it could eventually just burn everything away

The 1000 year blood war arc showed so many new things with everyone coming out from training with new things like their bankai and even evolving their bankai to being 1 with them (Renji)

I've always liked to think that Aizen's bankai is that he can turn his illusions from kyoka suigetsu into reality essentially allowing him to create or destroy anything he wants

"Years' worth of training" *Laughs in Ichigo*

Honestly the most i have ever been entertained with an anime ranking list ever. Instant sub

It was nice that you pre-emptively stated that the list just include 'Manga-only', Senjumaru's Bankai in the anime recently would have mopped with anyone jn this list

The thing is about rukia there was a 10 year gap and she now has a full mastery of her bankai Thts why she could move in brave souls because Thts how she can use it at the end of the series

Can't wait for a reaction, review, and post discussion for every single episode of the final season!!!!

I imagine Ichigo’s true bankai is just Mugetsu without the drawback of losing his shinigami powers. It would make sense seeing as he is in complete control of all his powers. Just a more powerful Mugetsu.

I think Shunsui's bankai fits him. His shikai which brings children's games to life is similar to one aspect of his personality as with most if not all shinigami, he has a childishness to him however, he can also be a serious adult when the need arises. And his bankai shows that. It's almost as if the he grows up children the children's game and now finds himself in a grownup world with grownup problems.

The true nature of Senbonzakura is multiplying or scattering. That's why his current shikai looks like his old Bankai. The blade fragments from his current Shikai multiplies itself to gain more blades. Most people don't know this, in Chapter 569, Byakuya said he was able to study senbonzakura again from it's very core. The CORE ESSENCE of Senbonzakura is scattering or in other words multiplying.

Urahara's Bankai 'Kannon Biraki Benehime Aratame' really fits him and for me the most versatile due to its limitless modification that can be applicable both to himself and to his opponent.. Its just to sad that it has been showcased for a short moment in the manga but still hoping for atleast a sidestory for this one.

After Cour 2 I think we all know who #1 really is now.

I’ve always felt that Hyorinmaru was the counter part to Ryujin Jakka, just that Hitsugaya doesn’t have the experience Yamamoto has with his blade.

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Good job MrTommo2304, amazing work on the reasoning and explaining, keep it up !

Your number one supports my theory that in future toshiro will be captain commander. Hes got an incredibly versitile zanpakto, hes really strong already and hes young, his TRUE bankai allows him to nullify abilities, seemingly like yamamotoa erasing them from this plane

“It takes years of training to achieve banksi” ichigo: “three days, take it or leave it”

I feel like if Kira ever got Bankai, his sword wouldn’t change... it would simply increase the weight of EVERYONE in a certain circumstances so they had to assume the position! Then, he’d just walk around taking heads!

what could possibly be aizen's bankai? here's my theory: aizen only uses his shikai against Yhwach which bothers me. this makes me believe that aizen's bankai is a non-combat ability. like it doesn't inflict damage to the enemies. however, it gives him the insight of the unknown. he just knew that ichigo would be able to defeat yhwach that's why he knew of every single perfect situation he should attack. like future insight or ultimate cognition. if he uses his bankai, all the unknown variables reveal themselves before him. thus, enabling him to create a perfect plan. this is also the reason why he was able to perfect his experiment with the hollow white. he somehow knew that masaki would appear out of the blue and get entangled with his experiment which will eventually create the ultimate being that is Ichigo. he somehow knew that urahara knew of a way to surpass the limits of shinigami and that is through hogyoku. he somehow knew that rukia is the perfect shinigami to go to karakura town which eventually led to her meeting ichigo. he knew that gin is gonna betray him. that's the reason why he procrastinated and pursued ichigo's friends instead of going straight into disintegrating the real karakura town. he's waiting for gin to strike him. and he knew that he would be resurrected by the hogyoku no matter what. just like how he resurrected back when he was cut in half by mugetsu. however, this doesn't take away from his abilities as compared to others. aizen is already so broken even without releasing his shikai. i mean, the way he defeated the captains one by one in the fake karakura town arc. remember when he negated the effects of soi fon's shikai with just mere amount of reiatsu. i'd like to think of this concept as the opposite of perfect hypnosis - the revelation of all truths.

Kisuke's Bankai works almost the same as Overhaul's Quirk in Boku no Hero Academia, and that is SO DAMN BROKEN.

I actually understand Shunshui's bankai better due to your explanation, def my favorite character of the show.

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I think another problem with shunsui is that while the ability is strong. I have reason to believe that its a one hit kill and afterwards you die.

Agreed on the number 1. Yamamoto Ganryu's bankai and even his whole character is one of oblivion. However, the downside to Yamamoto is that he is very straightforward and head strong BECAUSE of how powerful he is. He overestimates his power sometimes and has been outwitted before by others that were more cunning (Aizen with wonderweiss, Ukitake and Kyoraku when they brought in Unohano, and even against Yhwach who outsmarted Yamamoto by making him use all of his power against someone else, hell even that guy that could control time windows gave Yama trouble by absorbing his attack and directing it back at him). 1 vs 1, strength vs strength no one beats Yamamoto, but, if you have help and can direct Yamamato to use all of his power for something else, or exhaust him somehow, he can and has been beaten. Basically, Yamamoto must be deceived in order to be beaten because he cannot be overpowered.

When I first saw Kisuke’s Bankai, it honestly scared the crap outta me all those years ago…😳

Saying Toshiro Bankai #9 strongest Bankai I find kind of hilarious... you greatly underestimate him. Being able to freeze all matter, also being able to freeze something stopping all of its abilities like (freezing hope itself)

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for me, i think unohana's bankai is to be put into perspective since it melts everything In her domain. Kenpachi was revived several times just to see how powerfully her bankai was, to get the real kempachi out.

Ice has never been my favorite of abilities in fantasy fighting shows. Its versatility can be awesome but like Toshiros ability it can either one shot or stall. Actually i take some of that back a good representation is Esdeath. Thats how you use some damn ice.

I respectfully disagree with your opinion on Ichigo's bankai. Tensa Zangetsu is without question the strongest bankai in Bleach. No one on this list (nor in the entire series from what we've seen), has a bankai that gives them the ability to actually fight bankai Ichigo equally, let alone defeat him. And although poorly portrayed, the fight with Yhwach is enough evidence to cement this fact. Yhwach at his strongest with Soul King absorbed had to use the hax ability of the Almighty to go into the future to pre-emptively disable Ichigo's bankai because he feared its power. And we later saw why. Even after getting his hollow plus quincy powers drained, the bankai had the power to literally one-shot Yhwach not once, but twice. Yes, Yhwach was distracted in both instances but that doesn't detract from the point. The fact that Tensa Zangetsu has that much raw power puts it in a league far beyond anyone else in the series. And as Ichigo himself said, he didn't even have mastery over his powers when he challenged Yhwach at the final battle. To top it off, Mayuri outright says in the Can't Fear Your Own World novels that no one is stronger than Ichigo. My personal belief for why Tensa Zangetsu's abilities are so poorly shown at the end is that Kubo kind of wrote himself into a corner by making Yhwach so strong with hax abilities and then having Ichigo, as it turned out, be far stronger than that even. So he had to come up with some way to "add tension" rather than Ichigo coming in and just one-shotting the Big Bad from the start.

feels like there's so much room for the captains to be major villains if they ever turn, like Mayuri or Kenpachi. Reverse is true for Komamura (regaining his power or turning into something greater). Also, I love the idea of the ULTRA POWERFUL ICE GOD zanpaktos showing up as the ULTRAPOWERFUL FIRE GOD zanpakto is "lost" seems like someone discovering that would be a huge arc on its own.

Hi! Loved the top 10. It’s just that. I’m kinda like hoping that Minazuki of Unohana Retsu should have at least a spot… not sure though.

Polite reminder that 5th Anniversary Ichigo was actually a better design for his post-Royal-Palace Bankai rather than “old Shikai Zangetsu in a white sheath.”

I truly hope that come the revival of the anime, we get to see more of all these fights and bankais and characters who is potential was wasted. That includes ichigo and his bankai and what his power truly is.

What has been forgotten about Shunsui's bankai is that it affects everybody within a radius.

Shinjis bankai is also very op, even though it's never shown in the manga

This is the my list 1. Ichigo 2. Yamamoto 3.Shunsui 4.Kenpachi 5. Mayuri 6.Kisuke 7.Byakuya 8.Rukia 9.Renji 10.Gin

Ichibe was clapping YH’s cheeks with his bankai. Dude should get way more credit.

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