Quote Originally Posted by anime nomad View Post
Gins Bankai is impressive - he deliberately got everyone to focus on the fact that in shikai it extends for 100m and in bankai it extends for 13km, and drew attention away from the fact that while its length had increased exponentially - the speed of its extension (and retraction) had also increased at presumably the same rate.
If the speed was affected as well, then I of course admit the bankai did bring a huge improvement (even if the full range still is highly impractical). Maybe you are right. After all, in the SS arc the shikai speed hardly seemed like that of a bullet.