Okay Fai, I really don't get why you can't agree that the point of this arc was Ichigo getting his power back ... I think it's quite plain, actually: If the last arc finished with the main chara losing his power, the next one will lead to, or move through, or at least involve the main chara taking it back, one way or another.
I never ever talked about portrayals or any such complicated thing: in one arc the main chara loses his power, the next one(s) will be the arc(s) which he will get some power back. There's almost even no need of reading that(those) arc(s) to be sure about it ...
That is, put briefly, an "arc whose point is the main chara getting his power back" ...
I really don't understand why you have to disagree about that .... =(
About Ichigo being the strongest: ElMorty said:
I'm yet not that sure that Ichigo is the strongest in the Gotei 13: I don't know much about SS hierarchy, but captain grandpa should be part of it, and captain grab-ass and captain tuberculosis are surly in it! And I wouldn't be that sure that Ichigo is stronger than them!
ElMorty said:
If he can't use the form he used against Aizen, well sure he's not the strongest.
And if he can, why make it so tragic when he did use it losing his power?
(note that the form I was talking about was Dangai Ichigo)
I think that's a big if, the one I ponted out in those two posts of mine ... If you have reasons to think that Ichigo will be able to pull it off again, please tell me why! ^^
Regarding your theory about SS being against Ichigo and Gotei 13 being split between those supporting him and those supporting SS's condamn: wow, those that Rukia's heard saying back then are very few words on which you are building your theory... I mean, I've never had any reason to think that SS was the bad guys: Aizen was quite a badass foe, with wrong principles, whereas SS represented order, even though in a rather strict way ... What reason do you have to think it's the other way around? O___O
If you were right, that would be a very fascinating theory!
But I really don't see your reasons, so to me those words by Rukia don't make any confirmation of your theory, so far...
( also, why should the soul king "aka the thing that is connected to the entire universe" be the bad guy? .-. )
Please explain, you've made me curious! ^^
About Ginjou being that hybrid he himself said Tsuki had killed back who knows when ... nicely thought! I didn't see it, but it makes perfectly sense!
A last question: which arc was kurakara's? Gotei 13 vs Aizen and his espadas?