Ragix said:
Kenpachi does not have shikai. The shikai is the released form of a zanpakuto and Kenpachi's zanpakuto refuses to work with him since he's only treated it as an instrument to kill.
...I think his sword is always in shikai, just like Ichigo's, but Zaraki can't use the full power of his shikai (or bankai) since he doesn't know his sword's name.kizu-kun said:
I still wonder how kubo plans to touch on all the things he's been foreshadowing up until now. It just seems like there is to much stuff to fit into a single arc w/o rushing through them or dropping them entirely. A lot of it would require breaking away from the current plot and giving a few chapters of flashbacks/explanation. So far we have...
1. The newly mastered bankai's for renji/ and possibly toushiro
2. Mayuri's findings in HM
3. the "importance" of Ichigo's birth
4. what grimmjow has been up to
5. what happened to hiyori at the beginning of the arc
6. Uryuu's importance to the vandereich
7. what is the spirit king exactly
8. and isshin/ryukens' back story. (This intrigues me the most because i read an interview that said Isshin appearance in SS now would reveal something to the characters so kubo is leaving him out of the war.)
9. Juhabach's back story
Some of these things probably tie in together but it still seems like there would need to be a second "turn back the pendulum arc"to do itDon't think there'll be another arc like that, but there have been a lot of smaller flashbacks lately. There should be at least one more flashback for Yamamoto in the next chapter, if he's truly dying...