What did you think of the biggest battle of cour 2 so far? Were you impressed with Kenpachi's long-awaited Shikai reveal, and did Kenpachi vs Gremmy live up to the hype? Let me know your thoughts!

It's crazy we get a full explanation for Gwenael Lee and how his power works but not for Robert and BG9's Schrifts 💀

Personally, my head cannon is Gremmy the brain utilized Gremmy the body so long that they mentally became the same thing. Fully united through the Visionaries power. So once Gremmy's construct body was killed, Gremmy the mind thought it was killed as well (since it views them as the same thing) thus making it so. I think of it as being akin of a psychosomatic effect.

kenpachi immediately understood the Visionary powers of Gremmy. that's why he also used psychological warfare against gremmy. the reason why he never lost is because gremmy was passively imagining Kenpachi to be an unstoppable monster. kenpachi was actually getting buffed through the fight

Love how this fight is between a kid who is a brain and a monster who is a kid. It's like two kids creating absurd powers to counter each other. "Well I have a million machine guns so you're dead. No I created a giant stone wall just in time to block it. Fine now there's a giant meteor and only I will survive pssssshh boom, you're dead. NUH UH I CUT CAN CUT ANYTHING. SO IT'S DEAD. UGGHH FINE I SEND YOU TO SPACE!"

What I liked about Gremmy was how he paralleled Kenpachi. His power is so broken it meant there was nothing that could challenge him and he felt bored. But Kenpachi is able to bring out the thrill of battle in Gremmy and being engulfed in that bloodlust is what ends up being his undoing. At one point Gremmy nearly imagines his own defeat in battle and at the end imagines possessing Kenpachi's strength and being torn apart as a result

I really like how Yachiru's one fight is so reminiscent of Kenpachi's fight with Tousen in the SS arc. Up against an invisible enemy? Get slashed a few times before getting the hang of fighting on instinct, at which point they take a massive slash to the chest.

A comment I completely agreed with on Reddit: I'll do my best to explain Gremmy, his powers and limitations. First regarding Gremmy himself, he was locked up (mentioned in the manga) due to his power. In the light novel we learn that he wasn't exposed to the outside world and most likely got only general knowledge. He lacks combat experience and his isolations hinders his creative potential. He was told he's the strongest and believes it but nobody ever really challenged it. As a result, he was easily pressured by Zaraki to try and fight more with his imagination. For his powers. you need to remember he's still more or less a Quincy. He has to absorb reishi and uses that to fuel his imagination. The reason why he needed 2 bodies for the meteor is because a single body's reishi isn't enough to fuel what he wants to imagine. Things he create with his thoughts will stay even if he stops thinking about it. HOWEVER, this does not apply to trying to effect other people. Fights are a battle between reiatsu and when Gremmy is trying to manipulate another, it's his reiatsu going against his enemy. If his reiatsu is strong enough, he can manipulate their body in the case with Yachiru. Even being able to change their body, Gremmy still has to maintain focus because if he doesn't, his reiatsu weakens and the enemy body's reiatsu can push back and regain their original form. For Kensei and Rose, because they were so weak at the time, Gremmy just imagines them dead and there is no reiatsu left to fight back. Zaraki's reiatsu is so great that Gremmy cannot even effect Zaraki at all. One misconception people seem to have is that Gremmy buffed Kenpachi by imagining him a monster. This isn't true given what I said earlier and also it was Kenpachi's theory that Gremmy made him out to be a monster which Gremmy later corrected. Gremmy's defeat simply came from not being able to imagine a body to contain Kenpachi's power so he blew himself up and with that he basically exhausted his mental capacities and couldn't maintain staying alive anymore.

Most of the cuts weren’t that big of a deal, but the ones just before the meteor hits were criminal. I felt it while watching the episode that the meteor just doesn’t feel as impactful as it did when I read the manga.

When Kenpachi called Gremmy a fool, it was so well done and so sympaethic. Loved this progressions arc from Zaraki. Bleach is simply top teir right now.

The whole Yachiru thing is why I am a firm believer that Gremmy cannot just imagine people to die because he would have to focus on that imagination of a person dying. Also, that person has the willpower to fight back as well thus it can make it harder for him to just think it.

Zaraki is always a delight whenever he shows up!! And his smile while cutting the meteor showed how he was enjoying himself 😂

My Only complaint is the removal of all of the reactions to the meteor. It makes the entire fight so much more hype and serious IMO. Other than that absolutely phenomenal episode! Easily my favorite episode of the second cour.

My personal theory as to why Gremmy died is it’s kind of like Gerard’s cross. The brain is the core, but can’t really do anything without the body, including making new things with imagination.

I think Gremmy believing Zaraki to be a monster is what caused him to lose. His strength was literally his main weakness.

Gremmy's power is amazing...but difficult. You are at the point where high level characters are at least near light speed. It would be hard to vividly imagine anything useful in the time it takes them to close the distance. On top of that, morbid curiosity could be fatal.

This is one fight that definitely needed to be spread across 2 episodes. They could have Atleast left in the reactions from the shinigami but even more importantly the sternritter’s reactions to the meteor. That added so much weight and depth into how powerful Gremmy truly is.

First taking on the role of Yachiru’s surrogate brother/father-figure, and now “coaching” Gremmy in what it truly means to be the strongest. Kenpachi is surprisingly good with kids.

Kenpachi's true strength is so OP it literally damages his own body while he turns into an uncontrollable beast. A perfect match for Gremmy. This was a wild one and it really shows the insane and terrifying depths the war is getting to. Yeah maybe it for the best humans remain blissfully unaware of all of this and Spirits as a whole.

"There is nothing in this world that I cannot cut" - Zaraki kenpanchi Gremmy is a character that can mess up and win against most characters in the show but it's too bad that the first enemy he had to fight was zaraki, a monster that cuts through anything.. Also the power of imagination is busted but at the same time it can backfire

This episode was spectacular. I didn’t want the fight between these two monsters to end. I’m glad you mentioned the "reiatsu" effect that we haven’t seen since the og anime. I didn’t even realize that Arumaki was one of the shinigami cheering on Kenny. They are cooking with the cgi in the TYBW. The guns Grammy imagined were animated so well. Of course the Nozarashi reveal was awesome, but the missing reactions to the meteor hurt the scene so much.

I think it would’ve been awesome if they had split the fight up into two episodes with the first episode ending with the creation of the meteor and Zaraki speaking to Nozarashi and then the second episode opens with everyone panicking about their impending doom, finishing the fight, and then when Zaraki gets ganged up on, ending on the cliff hanger of Ichigo showing up and talking to a near death Zaraki! Either way, just lucky to have this animated but this was what I thought might have been a good alternative for the pacing issue! Love the content!! 😁

It's a huge shame that the Pepe/Askin dialogue and the meteor reactions were cut. Seeing both sides panic would definitely help flesh out the scene more and give us a bit more context to what the other quincy think of Gremmy. However, I understand why they cut these scenes. I feel that even if they included these scenes and maybe some more extended combat scene, I can only see maybe an extra 5 min of content that could be added from it. Trying to add this would mess the pacing of the future episodes and where those would want to leave off and maybe extra content that is more deserving of being shown. Overall, it's a fine episode but didn't achieve it's full potential and for manga readers, is a bit disappointing in what it could have been. I just hope what we see going forward will surprise even manga readers.

What if since yachiru is the bankai spirit and obviously knows all the abilities and has access to them and as we seen even regulates them. The "shikai" we seen her have is actually a sword ability Zaraki has but not quite yet. 🤷🏿‍♂️ since he just started having his sword abilities.

Aside from Aizen, Kenpachi is my favorite character. Glad to see him emerge victorious, but Gremmy should have imagined himself intangible. His potential is off the charts, but he didn't have any battle experience because everybody was scared of him.

Nozarashi in it's shikai form looks so good it's like a huge butcher knife,it connects with the character of zaraki. Also the fact that he had gremmy panic and also scream that zaraki is a monster in a panicked tone speaks volumes on how monstrously strong zaraki really is.

I'll give my take on Yachiru's powers here: As she's Kenny's Bankai Spirit akin to fused Tensa Zangetsu, the powers that she's demonstrating are Kenny's zanpakuto techniques and abilities in the same fashion as they would normally use in a shinigami's inner world when they mediate with their sword for an extended period of time. Kenny's zanpakuto, in my opinion, is clearly a blade with the effect that alters cutting ability and has the aesthetic and symbolic signifiers of "demon" specifically Japanese oni. Even with a sealed blade, Kenny's battles have often fixated upon cutting ability, be it the ability to cut through someone's overwhelming spiritual pressure, cutting someone you can't perceive, cutting through someone who's skin is neigh-indestructible, cutting someone in half or just being able to cut someone period. When Kenny says he can cut through anything Gremmy imagines, I believe it is because Nozarashi's ability is to amplify the cutting ability of the blade. This may seem a little simplistic, but I think a straightforward general ability like that fits Kenny pretty well. Being known for his monstrous spiritual energy in battle with an opponent with a monstrous ability like Gremmy, Kenny takes some level of confidence in his ability to cut anything Gremmy can conjure because Kenny is confident in having more raw power to work with in conjunction with his blade. In a sense, Yachiru's "I can cut you even if I miss ability" is just an extension of Nozarashi's ridiculous cutting power amplified by the fact that she's the evolved form of it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kenny could learn to use that ability in shikai if he were to train to. As for the onis Yachiru summons, I'd guess that "in cutting you when you're out of reach" could extend to "my blade's edge is longer than my reach" or "my blade exists in a place beyond my reach as well as my hand." Seeing as Kenny's bankai turns him into a demon, and a bankai is a sword release, I'd reason that Kenny's bankai can turn what's holding the blade into a demon, so... if the blade exists beyond its current location, it could turn the space surrounding the conceptual blade into a demon as well with the user's spiritual energy. My only real trip up here is that Yachiru can manifest 2...

Loved it on the whole, specific pacing issues aside. Bleach has been on a roll these last few weeks and next episode will no doubt continue that!

I feel it was better to introduce Gremmy's inner dialogue and focus on his own as a character rather than the conversations between Askin and Pepe, because they think of him as a monster and how they feel he should be locked up, but since the sternritters don't show any care for each other I doubt they wouldn't be saying that about any one of them. The reactions to the meteor dropping should have been kept in though.

The way Kenpachi’s inner shield up as he cut the meteor and release his Shikai was not just epic, it was also a big foreshadow of his Bankai

Yes sir love the long review keep it coming lets get one of these to 2 hours

The visionary is very powerful but it still has a limit as we seen Gremmy needing a perfect clone of himself to create a meteor and even more to create the vacuum of space

I absolutely agree with some of the criticism! When I voted in the poll over at the Bleach subreddit, most people were incredibly impressed with the episode, and I felt almost like a fish out of water because, while many things were awesome like the animation and voice acting, I just couldn't overlook its flaws. You have explained it perfectly well in the entire video: the pacing was borderline insane and it's really a shame that some nice worldbuilding elements were sacrificed in order to fit so many manga chapters in a single episode. I certainly enjoyed the battle, but I can't love it like I did with Rukia's fight.

I think there has to be a limit on Gremmys power, when it comes to being able to imagine people dead or doing something that directly causes death. Because Yhwach gave him his Schrift. Surely Yhwach wouldn't give someone like Gremmy the capability to kill him by just imagining it? Or doing something like erasing his Sternritter on a whim. I think Gremmys power has a lot more nuances then people tend to think about. He can't have negative emotions about himself, because he can affect himself. He is also locked up, so he shouldn't have enough experience in the world to be able to think quickly enough and have enough imagination. Also the dude put Kenpachi in space and it didn't matter? Like what is he supposed to do? A black hole? He would need about 30 more clones to imagine that and Kenpachi would still cut through it. 😂😂😂

Aizen survived Soi Fon's shikai because his reiatsu was stronger. I think Kenpachi couldn't be affected directly by Gremmy's power due to his high level of reiatsu. Gremmy had to create exterior threaths (like a meteor.) Yashiru's reiatsu was presumably weaker, so he could affect her directly, by transforming her bones into cookies. I think Gremmy can't impose his imagination onto Kenpachi. His high reiatsu reinforces Ken chan's belief in himself and his own personal capacities to overcome challenges.

i believe gremmy didnt create a new body because he believes that if his physical body dies then he would actually die, so basically he imagined his own death because he truly believed that his imagination was reaching its limit when it really was not

I've always felt he didn't affect kenpachi directly because his high spiritual pressure prevented it.

Once he became Gremmy he eventually forgot his original self making Gremmy the new identity of the brain and once that persona died he can’t think anymore.

This fight is like Wolverine beating Franklin Richards to me. I didn't know how to feel lol

6:51 Rose catching strays damn tommo 😭😂

Ya, i feel the same as someone who read the manga and saw all the hate this arc got back when it was being released and now seeing it get so much love especially with the new added/extended scenes is a really great feeling. I hope and cant wait to see what more kubo does to expand and or add to this arc, especially with the 2nd half of this cour now going forward. It's actually really amazing to see and have bleach back after so many years.

Next episode will be kubo's favorite group of girls The Bambi's I'm actually really hyped by least hope we get the aftermath of the meteor being destroyed everyone's reactions after

Awesome video, as always! I didn't really mind most of the cuts, honestly, I just wish they'd kept the reaction scenes in there at least. As for Gremmy's death; it never bothered me too much because I always assumed that he just ran out of rietsu and died that way. Maybe it's a bad assumption, considering how weird his abilities are, but I figured it made sense since everything in this world works off of spiritual pressure. I just assumed that he needed the raw power to use his ability, which is why he needed a clone to make the meteor and needed multiple clones to send Kenpachi to space. He also seemed out of breath/tired after the combo of meteor+clones+outer space+bombs+healing. Just my 2 cents.

lets go baby, another 50+ minute Bleach discussion from MrTommo, goodbye to the next hour

Just caught up to the anime the other day and gotta say. I love the way the anime introduces the titles card of the episode

The fight was of course great. The dialog is really good. I like that he finally starts to fight. But again, the way Kenpachi breaks down how he could never imagine losing to him. and that totally crushes Gremmy was really great. It also shows how much Kenpaci has grown. I also loved the dialog between Kenpachi and Isane. That was brilliant.

Plot-armor so thick Gremmy couldn't even imagine winning

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I personally think the brain just accepted its death upon being unable to handle his imagination of Zaraki's power. It clearly broke him, he accepted defeat, and as a result, he imagined his own death. Heck, I personally think Gremmy had a bit of a death wish based on his poem and last words. It seems he longed to go somewhere he could no longer imagine anything. That, or the brain requires a shell to actually move around and live, and the destruction of the child Gremmy's body actually killed him in that way.

Thank you so much for your consideration of us anime only fans and spoilers I cannot overstate that, I enjoy your breakdowns of Bleach but there is still a lot I have not seen so I try to be careful.

Awesome video like usual! I think the fight showcases kubo's style of writing the best in the series. He said he thinks of cool scenarios for his characters them makes the fight around it. What better way for a fan favourite like kempachi to return with an out of the box fight like this. About kempachi cutting space, I highly doubt it. It opens too many plot holes down the line. Cutting space is the same as warping it. This would invalidate the 45 or so chapters when they need to reach the palace later on, as kempachi could just cut a way there.

Reiatsu determines everything in battle. Kenpachi's reiatsu eclipses Gremmy's, so the latter's powers cannot affect Kenpachi directly, only what's around him.

I believe gremmy died because he overused his imagination. After he tried everything he could think of and imagined something that he wasn’t capable of. I think he basically overheated his abilities, killing his brain

I apologize if this has already been stated. But it simply comes down to the fact that Kenpachis power is unimaginable. It's why he couldn't create a body that could contain it. And this monster being something that he couldn't imagine, he was broken and defeated. Utterly destroyed. How very existence can't live if there is something beyond his imagination

My guess as to why the brain didn’t create another body could be because while the body that died was a product of his own imagination, before creating the body, Gremmy hadn’t really truly gained consciousness until then. It was just that a brain, and giving himself a body made him into a fully loving being. But now Gremmy, the being it came to be known as, is dead.

The removal of the entire battlefield's reaction to the meteor really diminished the scope and the intensity of what was about to happen and a shame. Somehow it made the meteor look like a cookie. When I read the manga nearly a decade ago, I remembered this scene in epic proportions, but in the anime, I could imagine Zaraki simply slicing the meteor in half simply by removing his eye patch and not needing to release his shikai.

The fight made Gremmy seem much weaker than the source material. Rushed through all the high points.

Didn’t even realise mini moustache was in this ep! That’s a nice little touch

I know that this has nothing to do with the video but could your next what if video be about what would happen if Byakuya and Aizen had a fight. Obviously we all know who would win but I would love to see your take on how it would go as well as your thoughts on what Hinamoris Bankai could be

I wish the anime had added scenes earlier with some of these characters. Teasing their powers or showing people like as nodt actually using Senbon Zakura. Making this whole second invasion feel less random and on the fly

"where'd you come from kid" as Yachiru reaches out and touches the blade, amazing touch.

I always took the death scene as Gremmy trying to imitate Kenpachi's power but couldn't. When he realized he couldn't then he basically gave up on living.

Love ur videos man ur so amazing and im a huge fan of ur content. Zaraki is one of the main reasons i love the show, i was very disappointed how they brought him back in this episode especially like u said the entrance was very bad no music no sense of power at all especially now that he is returned so much stronger. the whole zaraki part and his new sword was very disappointing. Atleast play horrifying music and add effects to give him the entrance that he deserves. i was thinking he comes back very sad after Unahana died, and make Zaraki silent and only show his new power but.... he talked so much and i also think they shouldn't of showed him being shocked or afraid of anything. That's the Zaraki we know :(

Zaraki has been one of my favourite captains ever since his first reveal, bonus was he had the same voice actor as Jiraiya

I've always thought that Gremmy's death was due to him imagining himself a dead man. Gremmy went all in, his last attempt to attack Kenpachi was out of cope, by that point Gremmy probably figured out he would never defeat his opponent and he himself would die as a consequence, either in combat against Zaraki or punished by Yhwach's hand.

Ayyy let's go!

keep in mind trhat adding scenes and VA for the characters costs lots of money too and probably the budget for the episode was already too high

51:43 Reio's brain has plot armor confirmed.

Shoutout to Maki Maki for being one of the smartest lower seat officers.

Since yachiru is a zanpakuto spirit I'm pretty sure sanpu kenju are just spirits who hang around with her

Anime is adapting well, but it ends ups highlighting one of the main flaws of the source material: lack of development of the Quincies. They're pretty much villains of the week. Weekly manga kinda masked this (8 chapters for this episode, for example), reading all at once made it clear, but the anime just throws it on our faces. Again, as an adaptation, Anime is going great. I hope they can give us more of the extra story parts that Bleach needed, for us at least feel like there is a plot. Biggest flaw in Bleach manga was not what was in it(although there are problems in that too, especialy all the convenient powers like Nanao's sword and Uryu's and Hashwalt's Uno reverse showdown, i.e.) but what wasn't (mainly Reio plot).

Interesting thing is is on Twitter a animator on the anime Sakai I think his name was who is a veteran in effects actually showed a sketch/animation of yhwach’s reaction of the meteor which obv didn’t make the ep. Did they just not have enough time to add more scenes in because of the chapter count or is it because they didn’t want to and it was intentional.

im just glad i can finally see this fight animated

The destruction of the shell isn't what leads to the death of his brain, his body and brain both shut down because he fully *couldn't* imagine himself winning. After facing the truth of Kenpachi's strength and power, all he could imagine was losing. So The Visionary made it come true, his body returns to reishi and his mind stops. He imagines being unable to imagine things anymore, and it comes true.

The only thing that was cut that I missed was the reactions to the meteor.

I thought it was great but yeah would have loved to see some more crazy stuff Gremmy was capable of.

Ack, I can't believe we only have six left. Time is flying by.

I believe that abrupt and uneventful end to the fight was pretty much perfect as well as the lack of background music throughout the episode. Kenpachi is about to realize that from this point forward, he will stand at the top unrivaled, lacking Challenge and purpose, in other words empty and lacking something. From here on out, every single one of his fights will be like this (once the absolutely bullsh*t hax characters are either retired or defeated oc), being reflected in this episode. No idea if this was done on purpose but i do like this idea.

Gremmy being locked up is a something that was first mentioned in Can't Fear Your Own World. it's just a short history of the guy and how dangerous he is that Yhwach himself sealed him away and only brought him out to fight

I think it's safe to assume with yachiru description that sanpo kenju are sword spirits of other shinigami or even dead shinigami that follows yachiru as they met her someday in the past. Like in the zanpakuto fillers we saw lots of stray zanpakuto spirits so I always assumed that's what they were especially since they have shikai zanpakuto...

I always thought Gremmy ended up imagining a world where he couldn't imagine anymore, and thus made it a reality, killing his own power himself

@MrTommo2304. Do you think that the Visionary is the most broken ability that can beat The Balance, The Miracle, and The Almighty?

That moment when a fake sternritter gets a splash screen but two members of squad zero don't. edit: Regarding Gremmy's brain form, I'm guessing you could compare it to waking up from a dream, or perhaps the reverse, or maybe even going comatose. If it's still alive, there's nothing to link it to the external world. I'm hoping we'll get a short scene of someone carrying it off remarking on it having no reishi left or something, and what a grim existence that must be.

I still hope they show it in next episode speaking of the meteor reaction the episode was amazing, visually stunning only that

Maybe they're going to show aspects of the fight during other fights later.

This might just be me but I always loved how the first thing Gremmy did after being released from his prison was create a mountain of candy and food with Liltotto to eat

GREAT VIDEOOOOOO, AGREED with pretty much everything:) last weeks rukia vs as noidt is phenomenal this was was great but not as spectacular as i hoped but am still happy. enjoy ur night

That fight was epic

the two spirits ive thought before were perhaps of other zanpaktou spirits, maybe even were representing for rose and kensei.

Regarding the brain : I believe that Gremmy envisioning Kenpachi's power didn't just wreck his body, but went as far as negating the visionary. I believe that when Gremmy takes in Kenpachi's power, he takes in his monstrous reiatsu. We know that in Bleach, reiatsu trumps all. Now, one might argue that nothing tops SK reiatsu, but I'll take my chances with Kenpachi's (who in the novels is almost on par with Ichigo) reiatsu being able to surpass the reiatsu that a part (just a part, not the whole) of the SK possesses. If that is the case, then Gremmy absorbing Zaraki's power destroyed him, while making the visionary nul and void. To conclude, the brain's power is temporarily knocked out, and it will take time for it to reform a body (except we know Tokinada takes it). It is also possible that the brain couldn't imagine anything more powerful than Gremmy, or something along this veine.

I also miss the reiatsu crushing effects but I think Kubo toned it down because most characters involved are captain level at that point. Only Ichibei and Yuha could crush people like that by now and Ichibei would rather giant hand people away and Yuha just blasts people with actual reiatsu blasts. The last scene that kinda showcased reiatsu pressure was Yama's bankai on Royd and Hashwalth

I wished to see everyone's reaction to the meteor as in: oh shit this will turn the war around

Now that I’ve seen the fight animated I actually like it less. Gremmy could’ve been way more creative with his abilities and could’ve defeated Kenpachi without having to actually imagine him dead. I think Kubo was a bit generic with how he handled Gremmy’s creativity but I do like the way he is defeated. That was good.

6:51 Not rose catching a stray 😭

I think “What Can You See in Their Eyes” was the perfect song for the Gremmy fight but that they definitely missed an opportunity with the reactions. Having the lyrics: ‘Far too strong to resist, there is nowhere to hide from the force that will tear them apart and banish their souls.’ playing over scenes of others reacting to the meteor would have really drove the message home about how terrifying Gremmy really is/was.

Haschwalth’s reaction is by far the most important one, you would never cut that, the point is that everybody’s afraid, the Quincy king is not in his ultimate form i.e. even he’s at risk, that’s the point, this guy is unbelievably powerful!! Hell he doesn’t even have a holy form, he’s Kenpachi, he has unlimited potential w/o the needed disposition or loyalty, which makes him the ultimate wildcard. By removing the reactions, you totally watered down the threat that he poses, the tension of the scene and the stakes of the battle. PS- Yachiru’s battle scene was awesome

It's a difficult thing to try and cram all of the cut content in. If we remove Guenael we lose that important character building and intrigue around yachiru. Do we remove the issane scene? Then we just never bring up unohana. If the fight is split between 2 episodes then it could lessen the impact as well since we would move onto other things. At the end of the day the episode was great and was given Kubos blessing since he is so involved this cour.

I always wondered why Gremmy didn’t just imagine Kenpachi’s head exploding right when he arrived. That would’ve been quicker, and he could’ve bragged that he killed one of the special war powers in a matter of seconds. You know what, I’m gonna stop right here. When dealing with abilities like this it’s better to not think about it at all.

The complete lack of mentioning Gremmies imprison was crazy

Given the potential hint we get with Zaraki's Beyond Bankai form in brave souls, I'm under the assumption that Sanpo Kenju is an ability of either Nozarashi or his bankai that he has yet to learn personally. Just like how Zangetsu was able to use Getsuga Tensho in bankai before Ichigo, it stands to reason that Yachiru can use all of her own abilities even if Zaraki himself can't yet.