Fai said:smokes said:
meh ichigo is excusable, but his father.. that is a proof of uncreaitivity..come on, if he is his father that doesnt mean they need to have the same attacks, or the same family zampaktou thing..
Of course just being related does not mean you have the same sword.
However IF kurosaki family IS/WAS a part of one of noble clans or even something more royal, it would make sense.
Disciples of famed martial arts schools usually inherit the same techniques of their teachers.
Warrior-centered families both in east and west alike would have the firstborn inherit the family heirloom - be it a weapon or a jewelry or an item.
Certain castes in african tribes go to very far lengths to separate themselves from commoners.
Secret societies, castes, gangs, clubs, organisations usually separate themselves from others by wearing same style of uniform, having an unique handshake, etc.
Royal families usually are recognised by their coat of arms, used to separate them from others.
Having a speciffic style of sword and sword techniques to separate yourself and your "bloodline" from commoners works perfectly.
smokes said:
if ichigos father doesnt have any other attacks, that means the Zangetsu is the lamest zampaktou from the series...
We know next to nothing about -getsu type of swords.
For all we know they can have thousands of different variations of one attack, or seeral attacks centered around similar things or several entirelly different attacks or be pretty much Full-str-warrior style weapons.
Isshin arc is coming up, I am sure(considering kubo confirmed that after this whole aizen stuff we will get Isshin/Ryuuken arc and then the whole hell society, royal realm, etc arcs.)
smokes said:
about the inventing thing ( i mean from the start, kubo should've had in mind to create more attacks.. when he created Zangetsu, and when poweruping, using new attacks not using the hollow mask
Ichigo WAS inventive with the use of GT as of lately. he tried surounding his sword with gt, he tried doing nuke attacks with it, hollow ichigo even used it as a whip.
The problemwith being ivnentive is that GT ichigo is using right now is VERY wild and unstable/explosive.
BakaKawaii said:
And apparently learning new techniques is hard for Ichi not only because he doesn't have time to train, but because his sword is cranky and doesn't want to "teach" him anything, but if his teaching of skills is anything like his teaching of "how to breathe" I'll be happy :)
No. Every sword (or ever -getsu) is like that.
Its just that most of shinigami spends hundreds of years doing jinzen and learning stuff from their sword(heck we saw most of real world shinigami do that during the first karakura invasion).
He does not need to "train" he needs to learn. All ichigo is, thats unrefined power(as shown by the nature of his gt, the whole ball gathering during kukaku stuff, inability to open the gates, inability to "hold the path", etc).
Reiatsu is not a problem. Its already implied that Ichigo can have as much, if not more reiatsu than Aizen has.
The problem is everything else.
Its like giving sharpest and best samurai blade to hungry weak farmer who never held any weapon in his life.
Ichigo's inner world is in mess.
The split personalities of his power/sword/soulare reluctant to work with him and he has yet to earn their full respect(see the eyes of Tensa when he is "unmasked" ? Thats some serious "you are trash" look directed at ichigo).
He has yet to learn the powers or special moves granted in his bankai form.
Even his general GT is unrefined and explosive, unlike focused, concentrated, sharp gt of Isshin.
Heck, even his reiatsu is fluctuating, leaking and changing constantly.
Ichigo needs to learn how to control and properly use on what he has/can have.
As he was before this training, the only thing holding his pwoers together was a duct tape.