KingofConquerors said:
I still can't accept the fact that chojiro had bankai, never....chojiro having a bankai is one of the biggest most gigantic asspulls Kubo has ever come up with (aside from Kenpachi beating nnoitra, i mean wtf, Ichigo had to acquire Bankai and Hollowfication to barely win against Grimmjow while Kenpachi killed off nnoiitra without any power-ups at all!). No matter how secretive he was about his bankai, any sane SS officer would have unleashed their true power throughout the winter war (Aizen pretty much fucked up the entire captains)....
Chojirou would have soloed the first and third espada single-handedly if he had joined in the fray....-__-So Renji and Ikkaku have bankai, why wouldn't Sakakibe, the oldest vice-captain and the oldest captain candidate, have bankai? In the fight against Aizen every captain faced an Espada and the Vizard came to help, so Sasakibe didn't really have any job to do at that time. He's also a captain-level Shinigami, he couldn't defeat the 1-3 Espada because they were above captain level.
Speaking of Ichigo vs Nnoitra, Ichigo was fighting with Grimmjow before Nnoitra and was kicked around a lot (because he was being emo, Inoue was afraid of him..etc), and he lost a lot of reiatsu, so he couldn't stand a chance against Nnoitra. In Kenpachi vs Nnoitra, Kenpachi was about to die if he didn't use that Kendo technique, so that's kinda a power-up. But how did Kenpachi defeat 3 Quincy? There was a mistake in translation in Mangapanda's version. If you read the mangastream version you'd notice that there are at least 6 Quincy that are above Captain Level, which means the number of the stronger Quincy haven't been mentioned exactly yet, so Kenpachi killed the weaker ones. There will probably also be some other explanations that's coming in this arc about Ichigo & Kenpachi.
