Filler? I don't even know 'er! aka the fuck-Bleach [SPOILERS] megathread!

[Aerozord]

So it just hit me, Urahara is basically Batman

No I didn't predict this, I just have two dozen back up plans

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

So it just hit me, Urahara is basically Batman

No I didn't predict this, I just have two dozen back up plans

He pretty much is at this point. Also Kenpachi is back up and I think we might get to see his Bankai soon. That or he's going to get floored again.

[Aerozord]

Byakuya's comment got me thinking.

"maybe there is no such thing as a continual release type"

This implies something. Remember it was said Ichigo's was a constant release type.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

New chapter and it seems we finally found out what Yachiro is and where she went.

The world is not ready for Ken's Bankai.

[Arcanum]

I like how Kubo went out of his way to convince people Yachiro wasn't Ken's sword by showing us her shikai way back when. I feel like this could mean one of two things.

1. Kubo is deliberately obfuscating things, essentially doing the opposite of foreshadowing, which is a stupid thing to do. You know what readers love? When you hint something early on, or leave in small details that people can go back and find that lines up with the end result, and go "oh wow that's clever, good job" or "holy shit I totally spotted that, that's awesome." You know what readers don't like? Telling them something is an apple, cutting it open and showing you that it's an apple, and then 100 chapters later go "haha no it was really an orange."

2. Kubo is making shit up as he goes along. I can't help but feel this is the most likely, and that Kubo has no real overarching plan. He just goes "okay here's the big bad, he's going to do this, and Ichigo needs to stop him" and then just makes shit up every week on the spot. And if he can't figure out how to resolve/prolong a conflict for that week, no big deal, he can just jump to one of the six fights happening at the same time to buy himself some time.

Regardless, I'm ready for Ken's bankai to be a massive disappointment. I just feel like Kubo will fail at creating something that lives up to what makes Kenpachi great.

[Aerozord]

I really never wanted to see him get a bankai, its been trivialized enough as is.

My bigger issue isn't the foreshadowing or the lack of sense it makes. Its because Yachiru is more interesting as a small child that befriended a murderous psychopath and became one of the strongest soul reapers in her own right.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Ken's bankai is very fitting for him. Simple, Oni, violent, powerful, no words only fighting.

[phil_]

It looks cool, and that's all that matters.

[Sithdarth]

The awesomeness that is Kenpachi has returned me from oblivion. He is truly the baddest of asses.

Also now that I'm here:

Originally Posted by Aerozord

Byakuya's comment got me thinking.

"maybe there is no such thing as a continual release type"

This implies something. Remember it was said Ichigo's was a constant release type.

Wasn't it established way back when Ichigo was getting his zanpakuto fixed that the Zangetsu he had originally met was his quincy powers masquerading as his soulreaper powers to keep him from becoming a full soulreaper. Which by the way kinda explains is propensity for chucking energy blasts. There was this whole thing about how Zangetsu looked like Yhwach and how since Ichigo had never had an Asauchi he didn't really have a true zanpakuto. Of course no one but Ichigo and a small group of others that were there for the (re?)forging probably know this.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

New Chapter:

Now there's the 3 way ass kicking I was looking for. Toshiro's full power bankai is basically his bankai x10 now with faster deeper freezing. And Kenpachi is not only not dead but able to trip Gerald (who's a giant right now by the way) with one arm, while still missing the other arm. And Byakuya has reminded all of us that his Bankai is still all kinds of terrifying.