Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Wow, Ichigo VS Byakuya really was a complete Naruto rip-off. I even think that some of the poses themselves were copied, I'm too lazy to take a screenshot, but when it zooms in on Ichigo and he says something like "Yet I can go much faster", he looked EXACTLY like Rock Lee when it zoomed in on him and he said "There's more!". Look it up [img][/img]

Good stuff.

Hinamori's hair bun is so fugly.
Yeh, also, as mentioned before, Byakuya's controlling his Flower Petals with his hands was just like Gaara's Sand Coffin jutsu. Ichigo racing around like Rock Lee...

Finally, I honeslty am praying that the DB mentioning of 22 weeks of Bleach filler are just their weak attempt at a joke. It's not very funny... not at all... I do appreciate the speed with which that group releases their subs, but they are almost all dickheads and I think their quality is pretty poor sometimes... Too bad I'm so impatient...

Also, as far as the whole "is Bankai a summon or not" subject:
Renji, Captain Buckethead, Hitsugaya, Tousen and Captain Mayuri's Bankai's have all been pretty clear summons. Byakuya seems to just increase his sword power and split it up into pieces... I'm not sure if i'd call that a summon...

But Ichigo does seem to BECOME Zangetsu when he did Bankai... Not quite a summon, more like a morph technique. (I was sorta hoping he'd look more like a Hollow than Zangetsu, but oh well). But was Byakuya or whoever wrong when they said that Bankai is summoning the Zanpaktou spirit into the world? I don't think he was wrong. I just thing that The Form the Bankai takes may be external (Buckethead's giant Steel Samurai) or different form of the Zanpaktou (Renji, Byakuya) and finally, in Ichigo's case, the wielder becomes part of The Form itself...

I wonder if doing a Bankai that changes ones actual person have any permanent side effects?...