I always play the Fake Karakura Town episodes, especially when the Vizards make their entrance because those scenes were some of the best well-written parts of the anime. Especially the episode where Hisgai fights the crab guy and completely slices him apart.
Was that Findor? Not that it's important. It was a great fight, one of my all time favourites, especially the part in which Hisagi releases his Shikai by a lengthy intro talk.
Yeah that's the one. I remember fanboying so hard when he released his shikai and just went ape shit on everything that Findor had. "Half my mask is gone so now I'm at VC level. 75% of my mask is gone so I'm at captain level now!" And then Hisagi laughs at him for thinking that's how strong a captain is and slices him apart. Bravo, Hisagi. Bravo.
To be honest I don't think his shikai is hax to that extreme. It is without a doubt a dangerous ability however I am under the impression that the manga itself hints at a few flaws in the ability. I have pointed out before that aizen has never actually attacked anyone without that person noticing the attack in the last second. Basically the illusion seems to wear off right as aizen is actually going to commence his attack. We did not see that against harribel because he attacked from behind however there are also the instances when aizen attacked komamura at SS arc and yamamoto. Aizen became visible to komamura exactly as aizen was about to use his kido and yamamoto actually noticed aizen behind him and took the change to grab him. On the other hand captains have shown they can actually react to attacks which they see coming in the last second and dodge them even if only barely. Take hitsugaya when he fought gin, he had shinso a millimeter away from his eye and barely saw it coming (given that it came from gin's haori) and he still got to dodge it. We have seen other roughly similar situations involving shunpo or really close attacks and in most cases captains can actually deal with those. So why is it so different with aizen and his shikai? Aizen simply has an overwhelming amount of power compared to everyone else except perhaps yamamoto. Its not that KS was an overwhelming ability that couldn't be fought against, the issue is aizen having so much power that his shikai appeared to be that hax. Aizen was the sort of guy that could stop a bankai with his bare hands with no consequence whatever at large... I mean, he stopped ichigo.s bankai with his bare hands, more than easily speedblitz multiple captains including ichigo with and without his mask even though ichigo was by no means under the effect of KS. Aizen was by no means a one trick pony with an overwhelming ability, he was an insanely powerful guy that could make his most basic sword ability made a massively powerful military organization bend over.
It's not like Aizen disappears. He just is somewhere else. Of course he'd be visible for Komamura. Was it the real Aizen, though? Yamamoto could tell it's Aizen only because Aizen stabbed him. I don't think it's any feat to grab a guy who's stabbing you. Zaraki could dodge attacks because he felt them touch his skin and avoided fatal wounds. Yamamoto was stabbed, and then he grabbed it.
Fooling whole SS (Unohana excluded) about him getting killed, made G13 believe some guy was him during TBTP, in FKKT fought whole G13 and survived because he used KS. He didn't escape with his power. His KS IS overkill and hax, but it's not made for simple 1v1 battle. It's made to fool lots of people at once. Hell, he could create his image and make Ichigo fight illusion, then stab him like he did Hallibel. Then he just needs to run away from his range and use his ability again. Nothing easier. Remember what he did to Barragan? He made it look like Gin and Tousen are just standing there, while they exterminated his army. Which doesn't mean it sux in 1v1. It's not giving him any direct advantage. But if he makes someone fight an ilusion... Or make his Kyoka Suigetsu a fake Aizen (as he did when he met Unohana), he can make anything, against anyone. He could even fool Juha.
We don't know if he presented his Shikai. He presented KS, and if it's Bankai, he presented his Bankai, but made it look like it was flowing water-type. I don't believe myself that Aizen showed everything, it'd be too lame. He'll be the final villain after all, he needs to mindfuck a little. Yeah, I think Juha won't be the final boss.
As for the bold part, that was pretty much my point. In a battle it is just an ability with its own flaws and limitations. Aizen being able to use it as effectively as he did is merely because he was that much more powerful than everyone else.
Which doesn't make that ability just overpowered and hax. And mindfucking. And the ultimate troll.
Aizen didn't go for a kill, though. He had to make nice expression to fit the panel, and then attack. But it's irrelevant. xd
Correct me if I'm wrong, he just explains KS's ability, but never states it actually IS his Shikai. He always goes "Kyoka Suigetsu's" "My Zanpakuto's" "Ohmaygawd it's awesome and can make a dragon fly by a person or something"
Release? I'm pretty sure "Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu" breaks off the illusion. Unless his Bankai is complete hypnosis, and activating Shikai destroys that illusion (because there is different ability), I don't think it's his command release. If KS's Shikai hypnotizes, why does the illusion disappear when he says "Scatter Kyoka Suigetsu"? It was the same with Barragan.
Well, Imma quote my idol, Trollzen. "Since when did you think I'm not using it?". How can you see him releasing his Bankai or reiatsu boost? Does reiatsu boost/explosion happen in ability-based Bankais? While it is true for Ichigo or Renji, I don't think Kyoraku's or Ukitake's Bankai will be accompanied with huge reiatsu release. Yamaji Bankai also didn't have any reiatsu boost. Even so, why do you think he's not in "Bankai" already? :P He activated it before he started fighting in FKKT, he was using it all the time during TBTP, he was using it all along in SS arc, his fake corpse was made with it. Why wouldn't he say "Bankai"? Because you never saw him release his Zanpakuto. He performed the ritual when he was in *some level of Zan release*, then made illusions shatter. In both FKKT and SS he didn't do anything. He haven't said "Bankai" because we've never seen him release.
Yeah, or maybe he doesn't have a Bankai, at all. Why doesn't he have Bankai? Easy, because he would be too strong and would be ostracized further. Finally, when he wanted to get stronger, he researched something else than "simple" next level of Zanpakuto, if his Shikai was plenty. He wanted to transcend Shinigamis. But he did say he mastered ALL Shinigami Arts, Zanjutsu included, so he does have Bankai. So I'll still think KS is his Bankai and wait for some troll from Kubo. xd Also, if he has Bankai and it's NOT KS, why didn't he use it against Ichigo? He almost died, his Zanpakuto crumbled, he then got sealed. Why didn't he use it against Yamaji or G13? Why did he keep it a secret to the very end? Or he did use it... as Kyoka Suigetsu, who knows. It's a crackpot theory, don't expect me to know what I'm talking about, I'm making shit up on the spot.
