2013-09-11, 03:26 AM
CommanderJinn Wrote:Compared to the amount of ice his bankai can create, I would say it is an extremely small amount. From a giant football field sized ice flower/skyscraper sized ice column to an ice wall is a large difference in ice.
I kept referencing him freezing the whole room when he fought Aizen, but I remember now that he was actually using bankai. He's really only showcased his shikai against Gin, hasn't he? I was speaking more about the poor amount of ice he was shown to produce (the thin ice), rather than his claim that his shikai produced extremely small quantities of ice, but I later realised that this was probably part of his new technique. He just had to make that "extremely small amount" claim after his squad members and Buzz-B talk about how little ice he was making.
It wasn't just his claim of "extremely small amount" that threw me off, but how weak he seemed with his thin ice. It didn't help that his squad members were all concerned for him and Buzz-B was commenting on how thin it was. I actually thought all his abilities somehow got weaker when his bankai was stolen. Remember when he started getting back to the basics and trained his sword techniques? I now realise that he did it to make up for his loss of power by strengthening other areas, but it just added more to the confusion at the time. Then Hitsugaya tells Rangiku that he couldn't control "it" well. Considering his ice was so thin... I was thinking he was referring to his shikai.
While it hasn't been confirmed, this is my justification: that he was referring to the multi-layer vacuum ice. He can actually use it by himself, but he needs to thin the ice down to do it properly. Plus, he needs even more help from Rangiku's Haineko to make sure it works (it got broken with ease when Rangiku wasn't helping—but it still protected his squad members. They said that it was a miracle that he managed to do it, but it seems to me that he was actually using an imperfect upon imperfect version of the multi-layer vacuum ice already, which explains why his ice was so thin). I'm going to assume that he'll be able to use the multi-layer vacuum ice passively once he masters it, and permanently strengthen his ice without anyone's help and without the need to thin it down.
And I'm sure that he lost it a while ago (maybe Xcution or FKT arc), but why did his chain with the crescent moon disappear?