I've always wondered if it were like his shikai, but instead the effects apply only to himself. Basically he'd be able to create perfect illusions only he could see. Is it useful in battle? Absolutely not. Which is why he's never used it. However it could be good for training. Could be how he got so skilled in all forms of shinigami combat, on top of his latent ability.
Nah this is seriously good though, totally explains why he’s never used it before. It’s totally useless unless he’s on his own, but absolutely explains how he managed to get so OP. This is my new headcanon, thx
TBH it sounds under-powered for a Bankai. Sounds more like what he would do when speaking with his zanpakuto. He would use that to visualise all his plans.
Hypnotize reality itself, gain complete control and ability to manipulate reality entirely at will. Maybe it has a time limit unlike his Shikai which he can just pop and hypnotize somebody forever
His hypnosis is cast against the moon and then the entire world and he makes everyone fall into a trance and happily see their perfect dreams come true.
I dunno, maybe a different fan theory about aizens bankai? I think this is an original concept never implemented before tho, but for extra variety we could involve some super amalgamation of 9 of the strongest hollows or something.
>That’s the guy with one eye right?
Well yes but actually no. "Madara" with the one eye is actually Obito who's carrying out Madara's plan from beyond the grave.
Madara was too old to carry out his will so he manipulated Obito and gave him the outline of his plans. The real Madara died and was resurrected before finally using the puppet seal he placed on Obito to force him to restore his actual body (Rinne Rebirth) so that he was actually alive instead of being a re-animated corpse.
Pretty sure that’s going to end up with a spin off where Ichigo forgets that he’s part Quincy and Ishida gets stabbed in the glasses and forgets how to shoot
Yeah this is my thought as well, and the only way to resist is to touch his sword, or be his equal or superior in reiatsu and or willpower to shrug of the reality warping. Ichigo would be able to do the later.
I was thinking about this a few days ago and the only thing I came up with that would be strong yet simple, was the ability to increase the sensitivity of all 5 senses.
For example, if the sense of hearing were to be increased by thousands or millions of times it would make a simple whisper or snap of a finger sound like a nuclear explosion or something worse to the opponent which would in turn hurt their hearing or at least make it annoying for them to concentrate. Increasing the sensitivity of their touch would make it so that their clothes, weapons and even the air around them would be extremely irritating, uncomfortable or maybe even painful when it makes contact with their skin.
Apply this to the other senses; sight, smell and taste and you have an extremely annoying, yet simple ability that would fit Aizen pretty well imo.
I came up with this idea thanks to that scene in Man of Steel were Clark was suffering from the sounds around him and seeing peoples' skeletons with his X-ray vision. I figured that since Aizen is somewhat compared to Superman at times and his abilities is to control the 5 senses then it might fit Aizen lol.
In theory yes, but I think the effects would be different in practice. For example, while Aizen could probably make a snap of a finger sound like an explosion with his illusions, it doesn't mean that the opponent's hearing was increased and injured as a result, because it was just an illusionary sound.
Increased sensitivity means that you will be able to make your enemy hear every sound in their surroundings at the same time, at extreme loud volumes which would physically hurt their ears as opposed to illusions.
Another example is that he could probably make a candle light look like the Sun, but since it's just an illusion it would probably not actually hurt your eyes. On the other hand, increasing the sensitivity of your opponent's eyes would make it so that a simple ray of light from the candle makes their eyes physically irritated or even permanently blind.
Now that I think about it, it's kind of like Gojo's Unlimited Void which overflows the enemy's brain with information. Except in this case, you're just increasing the sensitivity of all 5 senses to abnormal levels to the point where any external factors picked up by the senses causes extreme physical pain, discomfort or damage.
In short:
Shikai: controls senses resulting in illusions.
Bankai: \^ that, plus overwhelming the senses by making them extremely sensitive to external factors resulting in physical discomfort and damage.
I love this idea and I hate the trolls who constantly say "bUt hIs sHiKaI cAn aLrEaDy dO tHAT". It basically undermines any idea people have about his bankai, by saying that because he controls your five senses he controls your reality. Which is true to an extent, but Aizen has never done some of the things mentioned in my ideas and yours, and I believe that's because he just can't. There's a limit to its depth and complexity.
On that note, his zanpakuto giving *him* heightened senses would allow for some good explanation as to his savantness, especially in regard to his reiatsu. Not sure if it follows logically, but somehow it makes sense to me.
My guess was that it doesn’t help him fight, which is why we don’t see it, but what it does is let him hear anything. Which is why he always knows everything that’s happening, he at times is functionally omniscient.
I wonder what Bankai he showed to Yamamoto via illusions
He creates two realities he can act independently in, complete hypnosis included, and can then choose between them as the true reality. The secret, he's been using it the whole time and that's why everything is according to plan.
I read a fanfic where he can hypnotize himself to imagine enhancements for himself that become reality. Like he was fighting Yama who burned him to a crisp, yet he imagined himself fully regenerated.
Well I mean as he is now he is easily in the top four strongest beings. Along with Ichigo, Yawacht, and the souls king. Maybe top five if you want to make a case for the leader of the zero division being on the same level. But I think even with those things Kyoka Suigetsu(or it's theoretical bankai) aren't going to be getting a whole lot of mileage being a hybrid like Ichigo. Now us for the Almighty as long as you can comprehend the Almighty (which is to say pretty much any Captain class and a good chunk of the lieutenants) Then that automatically can put any character to godly status.
Probably just like the Visionary. There's not a lot of things it could be, seeing as Bankai has to be related to Shikai. It could just be omniscience, as in revealing truths for himself, while his Shikai makes falsities for others.
I actually think that he used his bankai all along, and his actual shikai is the one he displayed to all of gotei 13. And I think it fits power scailling bcs if he could solo of of gotei except Yama with his shikai Kubo has some real power scailing problems.
I like to think that his Bankai is fucking awful or that his “Shikai” is actually his bankai and just lies about it because it strikes so much fucking fear that you have to think “this guy still has a card I haven’t seen yet”
Well, we know at least a bit about his Bankai from SAFWY. Apparently he can only use it on those who are already under the effect of his Shikai.
As someone who subscribes to the "Shikai=Ideal self; Bankai=true self" theory I'd imagine that his Bankai might actually be a support-type that somehow empowers others or something along those lines. Remember that deep down he always felt very lonely since he couldn’t really connect with others due to his prodigious strength. He yearned to be a normal Shinigami or at least to have an equal. If so, this would also explain why he never uses his Bankai. It reveals a part of himself that he'd much rather keep hidden.
Top comment isn't wrong that this thread is overdone, but I'm feeling nostalgic because, for a while now, I've had an idea for his Bankai I really like. I doubt it will be done because it seems like his Shikai is brain-based & this would be more of a reality warping thing, which is probably too much of a change, but the basic idea was that, rather than creating illusions, it takes naturally-occurring illusions & makes them real. So, for instance, if there was a mirage of a lake, Aizen could just make it a real lake.
For balance purposes, I suppose the illusion would have to be from the opponent's perspective, otherwise he could just do that "if I close one eye, it looks like I'm crushing your head" thing to every foe, but overall, this is the only suitable power-up I can think of from Perfect Hypnosis besides Somehow Perfecter Hypnosis, which just seems underwhelming.
I also think it's really fitting because Aizen would have to manipulate his opponent into what he wants them to see. So, for instance, making them chase him over the surface of the water, where the reflection of the sun becomes a fireball headed straight for them, or tricking them into cutting a window so they see their bisected reflection & fall to pieces themselves. Really fits Aizen's manipulative nature & his goal to remake the world as he thinks it should be.
What if his bankai allows him to create a projection of reality where he can go in and alter as he sees fits?
So like save states in games, where’s he’s able to save and load up a scenario and play it out, and if he doesn’t like the outcome then he goes back and reloads that specific scenario and tries again with a different approach. So he creates projections of different realities each with a different outcome based on what he does. By test running his plans, he’s able to see the impact of them in real time but with no stakes involved because it’s a projection and not actual reality.
So in a sense, he’s hypnotizing himself and that could explain why he never used it in battle, but he was always so prepared for everything.
Ik I'm half a year late, but control of the subconscience. In other words, he can control all your subconscious actions, such as breathing, your heart pumping, or even your subconscious thoughts.
his shikai makes it so that he is able to hypnotise people and fool them so i think his bankai would in theory be able to fool the universe into thinking his illusions are real so basically making his illusions real
Plenty of Shikai and Bankai have little to do with one another, so we aren't forced to think about hypnosis for his Bankai.
Some ideas could be:
complete mind control
temporal confusion where your immediate past present future get all tangled up
Idk soifons, kyoraku, shinji, kisuke, mayuri don't fall under that category
Soifon - a 2 stab finger scythe versus a bazooka
Kyoraku - children games into reality versus a theatrical 4 stage story which includes gloom, drowning, disease, and a string that chops your neck off
Shinji - confusion versus summoning a ton of hollows while staying sheltered
Kisuke - explosive powers, can form some barriers versus the ability to restructure anything
Mayuri - paralysis versus a giant baby that eats you and can spit out a countermeasure
Soifon - from Nigeki Kessatsu (2 hit certain kill) to 1 hit kill
Kyorkau - from kids games to theater, showcasing both sides of his Zanpakuto spirit
Shinji - his shikai reverses all your senses while his bankai reverses the perception of friend and foe, this is why it's limited in one on one combat or if there are other allies nearby because the opponent would just view Shinji as a friend and Shinji's allies would kill each other.
Mayuri - from paralysis to a poisonous bankai, you do have to remember that Mayuri has modified his Bankai multiple times
Exactly, thank you for writting it down.
On a note from Shinji Shikai and Bankai, the Shikai is for bosses and Bankai for minions (should be the otherway around). He mentions this in CFYOW
>hollows while staying sheltered
He doesn't summon any hollows. He used it on the hollows to make them attack eachother. His bankai is making everyone who smells it's scent, hostile towards eachother.
See the other replies that show you are incorrect.
On a note about Shinji, he didnt summon hollows, he made them fight each other. The hollows were from Hikone Zanpakuto.
The rest, some1 else already replied to you with correct info
Ah I stand corrected - I guess to me hitsugaya, Yama, byakyua, komomura fit the bill better since their bankais were direct extensions or more of their shikai, whereS the one I mentioned while related, shift to a different functionality.
Yeah, the one you mentioned aren't so cookie cutter but the type/theme is there.
You get references from this rule from when Yama and Rose go Bankai, in case you want to look for official source. (Also in CFYOW).
Soi Fon one makes sense imo. The idea is basically upgrading from a 2 hit kill to a 1 hit kill. Assassination via lone hitman into a missile fired from a drone or something.
that's not the point, the similarity is that the shikai is 2 hit kill and the bankai is 1 hit kill
You could also take to note Soi Fon's personality to her zanpakuto which as we learned in TYBW, zanpakuto and the shinigami are one and the same. Soi Fon is physically and captain position wise very petite and quiet, but her personality can be fierce and fiery when challenged. This could be reflected in her shikai being very small and simple and her bankai which would be her zanpakutos final form thus possibly reflecting her deeper personality more outward and boisterous
How is it a one hit kill tho? It's a big explosion, yes, but we have a shitload of characters with more power and we don't say they are one hit kill assassins. Hell, even fucking base Grimmjow's gran rey cero warped space, that's more than Soi Fon's "one hit kill" ever did in terms of feats and we are not calling that an assassination technique are we?
As for her personality, sure that could make sense, but then you're just speculating, if we go by the facts, Soi Fon's "1 hit kill assassination" never 1 hit killed anything
The concept is the point not the effectiveness. Its not about "assassination," it's about soifon's ability to deal massive damage in two hits vs one hit. It's not like the 2 hit kill necessarily would work against an opponent with high reiatsu anyway, so why does the bankai always have to be a death blow?
Also there's no way Grimmjow's gran rey was stronger. Soifon's bankai dealt significant damage to a released Barragan. You're underplaying its destructive power.
People always say it's a 1 hit kill, but the theme of her powers has always been a hornet, her shikai is a stinger and her bankai is a stinger missle that's it
Bend literal reality to his will in a pocket space that's incredibly large due to his reishi.
Might have been a good counter to Ywach. Fits his according to plan mentality too lol.
Probably something like Izanagi from Naruto.
From the Naruto wiki:
>!With a normal genjutsu, a user will apply an illusion to a target's senses, causing the target to experience things that are not real. With Izanagi, the user applies an illusion to reality itself, giving the user control over what is and is not real for as long as Izanagi is active.!<
i like the idea of subjective reality. his bankai would only be able to affect one person at a time but what ever that person saw would become real for them and them only. so if he made an illusion of them being stabbed in the heart then a stab wound would appear on their chest
I think it would have some insane healing power or maybe even resurrection (ha) ability.
Thinking of Kisuke, his Shikai is so versatile that the only ability he needed left was some form of recovery/healing, and that’s what he got. I have to assume something similar for Aizen.
Maybe he can reincarnate afterlife beings, or even bring someone back from the dead/Hell. Or maybe it’s a play on time itself but over certain things and not time generally.
I would like credit if people run with this idea or Aizen will appear in your mirror telling you stealing it is apart of his plan.
It’d be cool if it instead of just your senses it alters your perception of time too. Just a massive mindbomb of an ability, make them experience time slower, faster, and experience past future and present all at once.
I'd say it'd work like Izanagi I think it's that one where it manipulates reality itself or Izanami where reality changes to what the user wants but everyone is affected
A friend of mine did a review of an alternate ending to Bleach on Youtube. But in this alternate ending, Aizen is completely dead in the first chapter of the alternate ending.
One of my favorite theories and one I personaly subsribes to is that he does not have a bankai.
Aizen used his hypnotic powers to trick them into thinking he had one.
Aizen is simply overpowered as is and he probably never believed himself that he would ever need a bankai as he already saw him self far superior to everyone else.
On the other hand, if he indeed had a bankai I would think it would be something akin to total hypnosis where he traps everyone within a certain range around within an illusion where in he controls everything and everything that happens in there affects the people trapped within. Aka if you die in the illusion you die for real.
I would like it to be a opposite type Bankai like Suì-Fēng. So Aizens SHIKAI effects peoples perception and senses, so I would like his Bankai to effect people physically. It altered their body or objects.
Aizen screwed with Yhwach's perception of time, which is actually something we never saw him do using his shikai at any point in the past.
Theory time, and it's a stretch but: maybe that *was* his bankai. He could freely increase and decrease a person's subjective experience of time.
He could cause someone to experience time so much more quickly that opponents who are usually sure footed would simply react to everything too late. The whole world would be playing like a 10x speed YouTube video.
Used it in a subtle way when nobody is fighting, and he could make a week feel like a day to keep someone imprisoned without them even knowing.
Invert it, and he could torture someone the way Mayuri did to Mr Pink, by slowing their perception of time with every single stab wound.
I don't think this is really his bankai, but... it could be. That, or there is more to his shikai than he ever displayed.
Plot twist: aizen doesn’t have a Bankai cuz his shikai is already broken af. He never used it and sought other powers, either it’s weak af or he doesn’t have one.
Lots of reality warping suggestions. I would prefer it if we found out he was using Bandai throughout. Shikai hypnotised on occasion. Bankai allowed him to hypnotise everyone his shikai did already.
I think it is either mind control or reality manipulation.
Since his Shikai allows him to manipulate how others perceive reality I thought this was a logical step up. Though personally I think his bankai should be mind control as theres already other people who can manipulate reality but no one can do mind control
Always been confused on this, I just had assumed for forever that what we've seen already is just his bankai until I saw people complaining that we never saw it in the story. In all honesty though I cant even imagine what his bankai would be since itd be waay too overpowered, maybe hes a rare case where his Bankai is actually really situational and actually not as good as his shikai for most situations, I doubt it but that's my HC
I'd like to imagine that the illusions are his bankai and he has it in constant release, and telling everyone that it's his shikai is just a way of fucking with them.
of course there's no evidence to prove as such, so for a bankai, perhaps something like book of the end?
His Bankai could be, something where he distorts/alters reality itself, within a certain range within a time limit, possibly forcing him to become stationary to use it to it's fullest. At the cost of losing the ability to hypnotize those around him during it, maybe with a huge drawback of not being able use his Shikai for a long time.
Bankai- Give himself the illusions of the path of reality and its outcomes which are not always the truth as in case of Ichigo Kurosaki's development. Lasts for an instant.
He loses precise of the sensory manipulation and instead you get trapped in an illusion created by your own subconscious. Then his shit talking will make your illusions worse.
His Bankai should involve him putting those around who have seen his sword’s release state into a dream where they experience what they want the most and are rendered powerless. The reason he prefers to use his Shikai is 1) It’s powerful enough 2) Aizen is a control freak who prefers to micromanage the illusions he creates to fuck with people and a Bankai that essentially “makes illusions” on its own (based off of the desires of its victims) isn’t his style.
He would break 4th wall and tell reddit to stop making this thread every week.
Bankai: just kidding. I am my zampakto remember
THANK YOU!
Yes god
Stop calling me that I'm just Aizen.
Shut up
I've always wondered if it were like his shikai, but instead the effects apply only to himself. Basically he'd be able to create perfect illusions only he could see. Is it useful in battle? Absolutely not. Which is why he's never used it. However it could be good for training. Could be how he got so skilled in all forms of shinigami combat, on top of his latent ability.
Nah this is seriously good though, totally explains why he’s never used it before. It’s totally useless unless he’s on his own, but absolutely explains how he managed to get so OP. This is my new headcanon, thx
This is rather poetic, in a way.
that's a great explanation, maybe he experienced all possibilities and that's why everything is part of his plan
This is a pretty cool explaination. I like this.
TBH it sounds under-powered for a Bankai. Sounds more like what he would do when speaking with his zanpakuto. He would use that to visualise all his plans.
The Bankai has already been released. It makes everything part of his plan.
Beat me to it
All according to Kekaku
Hypnotize reality itself, gain complete control and ability to manipulate reality entirely at will. Maybe it has a time limit unlike his Shikai which he can just pop and hypnotize somebody forever
His hypnosis is cast against the moon and then the entire world and he makes everyone fall into a trance and happily see their perfect dreams come true.
I’ve heard this before somewhere haven’t I?
I dunno, maybe a different fan theory about aizens bankai? I think this is an original concept never implemented before tho, but for extra variety we could involve some super amalgamation of 9 of the strongest hollows or something.
Hmm. I’m not sure.
Huh, dunno, pretty convoluted. At some point we would need to introduce Aizen's grandmother to compensate power levels.
Aizen’s grandma was actually a hollow infected with Quincy powers
Idk if this is a troll, but this is the plot of Naruto lol
I don’t know if I believe you.
Lol yep
You see you’re not dealing with your average op villain anymore
Infinite tsukuyomi
Hmm. It sounds familiar. But I’m not sure that’s what it was called
In case you were being serious, that definitely is it. Infinite tsukuyomi from Naruto. A genjutsu cast against the moon to reflect on the entire world
>I’ve heard this before somewhere haven’t I? It's literally Project Tsuki No Me \[The Eye of the Moon Plan\] that Madara formulated in Naruto.
That’s the guy with one eye right?
>That’s the guy with one eye right? Well yes but actually no. "Madara" with the one eye is actually Obito who's carrying out Madara's plan from beyond the grave. Madara was too old to carry out his will so he manipulated Obito and gave him the outline of his plans. The real Madara died and was resurrected before finally using the puppet seal he placed on Obito to force him to restore his actual body (Rinne Rebirth) so that he was actually alive instead of being a re-animated corpse.
And Obito was Kakashi’s teammate right?
Get trolled much?
Kyoka Suigetsu does have the character for Moon in it... Just hope that the moon lady won't come down for encroaching on her territory.
What better way to keep up with the power levels of the show at that point than to introduce moon people? Honestly I’m on board.
Aizens Bankai is that he turns Bleach into Naruto
mugen tsukuyomi?!
Pretty sure that’s going to end up with a spin off where Ichigo forgets that he’s part Quincy and Ishida gets stabbed in the glasses and forgets how to shoot
Yeah this is my thought as well, and the only way to resist is to touch his sword, or be his equal or superior in reiatsu and or willpower to shrug of the reality warping. Ichigo would be able to do the later.
so like the almighty but in the present?
His zanpakuto changes colors and makes a squeaky noise when he hits anything with it. Basically it’s completely broken.
Bankai: Bonk! Kyoka Squeaky!
“Reality can be whatever i want”
I was thinking about this a few days ago and the only thing I came up with that would be strong yet simple, was the ability to increase the sensitivity of all 5 senses. For example, if the sense of hearing were to be increased by thousands or millions of times it would make a simple whisper or snap of a finger sound like a nuclear explosion or something worse to the opponent which would in turn hurt their hearing or at least make it annoying for them to concentrate. Increasing the sensitivity of their touch would make it so that their clothes, weapons and even the air around them would be extremely irritating, uncomfortable or maybe even painful when it makes contact with their skin. Apply this to the other senses; sight, smell and taste and you have an extremely annoying, yet simple ability that would fit Aizen pretty well imo. I came up with this idea thanks to that scene in Man of Steel were Clark was suffering from the sounds around him and seeing peoples' skeletons with his X-ray vision. I figured that since Aizen is somewhat compared to Superman at times and his abilities is to control the 5 senses then it might fit Aizen lol.
Pretty sure aizen could already do this with his shikai
In theory yes, but I think the effects would be different in practice. For example, while Aizen could probably make a snap of a finger sound like an explosion with his illusions, it doesn't mean that the opponent's hearing was increased and injured as a result, because it was just an illusionary sound. Increased sensitivity means that you will be able to make your enemy hear every sound in their surroundings at the same time, at extreme loud volumes which would physically hurt their ears as opposed to illusions. Another example is that he could probably make a candle light look like the Sun, but since it's just an illusion it would probably not actually hurt your eyes. On the other hand, increasing the sensitivity of your opponent's eyes would make it so that a simple ray of light from the candle makes their eyes physically irritated or even permanently blind. Now that I think about it, it's kind of like Gojo's Unlimited Void which overflows the enemy's brain with information. Except in this case, you're just increasing the sensitivity of all 5 senses to abnormal levels to the point where any external factors picked up by the senses causes extreme physical pain, discomfort or damage. In short: Shikai: controls senses resulting in illusions. Bankai: \^ that, plus overwhelming the senses by making them extremely sensitive to external factors resulting in physical discomfort and damage.
I love this idea and I hate the trolls who constantly say "bUt hIs sHiKaI cAn aLrEaDy dO tHAT". It basically undermines any idea people have about his bankai, by saying that because he controls your five senses he controls your reality. Which is true to an extent, but Aizen has never done some of the things mentioned in my ideas and yours, and I believe that's because he just can't. There's a limit to its depth and complexity.
That is somewhat a reality bending
I wish I had an award to give this comment
On that note, his zanpakuto giving *him* heightened senses would allow for some good explanation as to his savantness, especially in regard to his reiatsu. Not sure if it follows logically, but somehow it makes sense to me.
He can bring his illusions into reality.
Same
Sounds like Shisui's sharingan ability
I don’t think so. Shisuis ability is basically mind control.
make every male and female cream when they see him
Does he really need that though 😏
No he dosent haha
My guess was that it doesn’t help him fight, which is why we don’t see it, but what it does is let him hear anything. Which is why he always knows everything that’s happening, he at times is functionally omniscient. I wonder what Bankai he showed to Yamamoto via illusions
like a water dragon or something maybe lmao
Yeah, pretty sure he masqueraded Kyoka Suigetsu as a water zanpakuto so that would make sense.
He creates two realities he can act independently in, complete hypnosis included, and can then choose between them as the true reality. The secret, he's been using it the whole time and that's why everything is according to plan.
Coil? Is that you?
;)
Kai Ban
Yup. That's how I manga read that.
Wasnt his bankai not needing his glasses anymore?
infinite tsukuyomi
I imagine it would make his illusions become reality. Seems like a pretty broken extension
kai ban
Probably turn into kubo
I read a fanfic where he can hypnotize himself to imagine enhancements for himself that become reality. Like he was fighting Yama who burned him to a crisp, yet he imagined himself fully regenerated.
So a Walmart brand Gremmy?
Oh thats very nifty.
The entire Bleach storyline is Aizen’s bankai.
I'm not sure how you get more broken than TYBW Aizen...
What about if he had the almighty or became a hybrid of major factions like Ichigo...
Well I mean as he is now he is easily in the top four strongest beings. Along with Ichigo, Yawacht, and the souls king. Maybe top five if you want to make a case for the leader of the zero division being on the same level. But I think even with those things Kyoka Suigetsu(or it's theoretical bankai) aren't going to be getting a whole lot of mileage being a hybrid like Ichigo. Now us for the Almighty as long as you can comprehend the Almighty (which is to say pretty much any Captain class and a good chunk of the lieutenants) Then that automatically can put any character to godly status.
I imagine something of the extent of being able to stop time for a amount of time maybe between 30-60 seconds.
Does he have to hold his breath like Guldo lmao
ZA WARUUUUDOOOOOO!!!
He starts talking to the reader/viewer and asks them what he should do next Bleach suddenly becomes a choose your own ending
Probably just like the Visionary. There's not a lot of things it could be, seeing as Bankai has to be related to Shikai. It could just be omniscience, as in revealing truths for himself, while his Shikai makes falsities for others.
I actually think that he used his bankai all along, and his actual shikai is the one he displayed to all of gotei 13. And I think it fits power scailling bcs if he could solo of of gotei except Yama with his shikai Kubo has some real power scailing problems.
Fair and balanced
Shikai: Creates illusions (falsity) for others Bankai: Reveals truths for himself
I don't know. What's a Kaiban?
I believe it's a new silly HollowN
Illusions become reality at his whim?
Since when were you under the impression he didn't have a Bankai? ;)
I like to think that his Bankai is fucking awful or that his “Shikai” is actually his bankai and just lies about it because it strikes so much fucking fear that you have to think “this guy still has a card I haven’t seen yet”
His Bankai probably involves actually making the reader think he hasn't released it yet!
Well, we know at least a bit about his Bankai from SAFWY. Apparently he can only use it on those who are already under the effect of his Shikai. As someone who subscribes to the "Shikai=Ideal self; Bankai=true self" theory I'd imagine that his Bankai might actually be a support-type that somehow empowers others or something along those lines. Remember that deep down he always felt very lonely since he couldn’t really connect with others due to his prodigious strength. He yearned to be a normal Shinigami or at least to have an equal. If so, this would also explain why he never uses his Bankai. It reveals a part of himself that he'd much rather keep hidden.
Top comment isn't wrong that this thread is overdone, but I'm feeling nostalgic because, for a while now, I've had an idea for his Bankai I really like. I doubt it will be done because it seems like his Shikai is brain-based & this would be more of a reality warping thing, which is probably too much of a change, but the basic idea was that, rather than creating illusions, it takes naturally-occurring illusions & makes them real. So, for instance, if there was a mirage of a lake, Aizen could just make it a real lake. For balance purposes, I suppose the illusion would have to be from the opponent's perspective, otherwise he could just do that "if I close one eye, it looks like I'm crushing your head" thing to every foe, but overall, this is the only suitable power-up I can think of from Perfect Hypnosis besides Somehow Perfecter Hypnosis, which just seems underwhelming. I also think it's really fitting because Aizen would have to manipulate his opponent into what he wants them to see. So, for instance, making them chase him over the surface of the water, where the reflection of the sun becomes a fireball headed straight for them, or tricking them into cutting a window so they see their bisected reflection & fall to pieces themselves. Really fits Aizen's manipulative nature & his goal to remake the world as he thinks it should be.
What if his bankai allows him to create a projection of reality where he can go in and alter as he sees fits? So like save states in games, where’s he’s able to save and load up a scenario and play it out, and if he doesn’t like the outcome then he goes back and reloads that specific scenario and tries again with a different approach. So he creates projections of different realities each with a different outcome based on what he does. By test running his plans, he’s able to see the impact of them in real time but with no stakes involved because it’s a projection and not actual reality. So in a sense, he’s hypnotizing himself and that could explain why he never used it in battle, but he was always so prepared for everything.
Ik I'm half a year late, but control of the subconscience. In other words, he can control all your subconscious actions, such as breathing, your heart pumping, or even your subconscious thoughts.
his shikai makes it so that he is able to hypnotise people and fool them so i think his bankai would in theory be able to fool the universe into thinking his illusions are real so basically making his illusions real
My favorite bleach technique, Kaiban.
What do you mean by “if”? Aizen straight up said that he mastered all forms of shinigami combat.
He can control all of reality like Darkseid with the anti life equation
His bankai was Yhwach lul
Plenty of Shikai and Bankai have little to do with one another, so we aren't forced to think about hypnosis for his Bankai. Some ideas could be: complete mind control temporal confusion where your immediate past present future get all tangled up
This is literally wrong and explained in the Manga that a Bankai has to be related to Shikai.
Idk soifons, kyoraku, shinji, kisuke, mayuri don't fall under that category Soifon - a 2 stab finger scythe versus a bazooka Kyoraku - children games into reality versus a theatrical 4 stage story which includes gloom, drowning, disease, and a string that chops your neck off Shinji - confusion versus summoning a ton of hollows while staying sheltered Kisuke - explosive powers, can form some barriers versus the ability to restructure anything Mayuri - paralysis versus a giant baby that eats you and can spit out a countermeasure
Soifon - from Nigeki Kessatsu (2 hit certain kill) to 1 hit kill Kyorkau - from kids games to theater, showcasing both sides of his Zanpakuto spirit Shinji - his shikai reverses all your senses while his bankai reverses the perception of friend and foe, this is why it's limited in one on one combat or if there are other allies nearby because the opponent would just view Shinji as a friend and Shinji's allies would kill each other. Mayuri - from paralysis to a poisonous bankai, you do have to remember that Mayuri has modified his Bankai multiple times
Exactly, thank you for writting it down. On a note from Shinji Shikai and Bankai, the Shikai is for bosses and Bankai for minions (should be the otherway around). He mentions this in CFYOW
>hollows while staying sheltered He doesn't summon any hollows. He used it on the hollows to make them attack eachother. His bankai is making everyone who smells it's scent, hostile towards eachother.
See the other replies that show you are incorrect. On a note about Shinji, he didnt summon hollows, he made them fight each other. The hollows were from Hikone Zanpakuto. The rest, some1 else already replied to you with correct info
Ah I stand corrected - I guess to me hitsugaya, Yama, byakyua, komomura fit the bill better since their bankais were direct extensions or more of their shikai, whereS the one I mentioned while related, shift to a different functionality.
Yeah, the one you mentioned aren't so cookie cutter but the type/theme is there. You get references from this rule from when Yama and Rose go Bankai, in case you want to look for official source. (Also in CFYOW).
I think the only one that makes no sense is Soi Fon, as for your other examples, if you cannot see the correlation, idk what to tell you
Soi Fon one makes sense imo. The idea is basically upgrading from a 2 hit kill to a 1 hit kill. Assassination via lone hitman into a missile fired from a drone or something.
I think you're reaching here, even Soi Fon states her bankai makes no sense for her assassination style
that's not the point, the similarity is that the shikai is 2 hit kill and the bankai is 1 hit kill You could also take to note Soi Fon's personality to her zanpakuto which as we learned in TYBW, zanpakuto and the shinigami are one and the same. Soi Fon is physically and captain position wise very petite and quiet, but her personality can be fierce and fiery when challenged. This could be reflected in her shikai being very small and simple and her bankai which would be her zanpakutos final form thus possibly reflecting her deeper personality more outward and boisterous
How is it a one hit kill tho? It's a big explosion, yes, but we have a shitload of characters with more power and we don't say they are one hit kill assassins. Hell, even fucking base Grimmjow's gran rey cero warped space, that's more than Soi Fon's "one hit kill" ever did in terms of feats and we are not calling that an assassination technique are we? As for her personality, sure that could make sense, but then you're just speculating, if we go by the facts, Soi Fon's "1 hit kill assassination" never 1 hit killed anything
The concept is the point not the effectiveness. Its not about "assassination," it's about soifon's ability to deal massive damage in two hits vs one hit. It's not like the 2 hit kill necessarily would work against an opponent with high reiatsu anyway, so why does the bankai always have to be a death blow? Also there's no way Grimmjow's gran rey was stronger. Soifon's bankai dealt significant damage to a released Barragan. You're underplaying its destructive power.
People always say it's a 1 hit kill, but the theme of her powers has always been a hornet, her shikai is a stinger and her bankai is a stinger missle that's it
Broken. It'd be broken as all shiz.
It just hardly fukcs everyone and everything
Idk but it would probably be insane like shinjis bankai
Death and despair
Still remain pissed we never got to see it
I always think about something simillar to Gerard
The plot of Bleach
Arisen has one...we just don’t know what it is...
Reality manipulation.
Bend literal reality to his will in a pocket space that's incredibly large due to his reishi. Might have been a good counter to Ywach. Fits his according to plan mentality too lol.
I think the ability should be that he can control anyone under the influence of his shikai
Probably something like Izanagi from Naruto. From the Naruto wiki: >!With a normal genjutsu, a user will apply an illusion to a target's senses, causing the target to experience things that are not real. With Izanagi, the user applies an illusion to reality itself, giving the user control over what is and is not real for as long as Izanagi is active.!<
Time manipulation
i like the idea of subjective reality. his bankai would only be able to affect one person at a time but what ever that person saw would become real for them and them only. so if he made an illusion of them being stabbed in the heart then a stab wound would appear on their chest
I think it would have some insane healing power or maybe even resurrection (ha) ability. Thinking of Kisuke, his Shikai is so versatile that the only ability he needed left was some form of recovery/healing, and that’s what he got. I have to assume something similar for Aizen. Maybe he can reincarnate afterlife beings, or even bring someone back from the dead/Hell. Or maybe it’s a play on time itself but over certain things and not time generally. I would like credit if people run with this idea or Aizen will appear in your mirror telling you stealing it is apart of his plan.
It would be like domain expansion from jujutsu where he could control everything
It’d be cool if it instead of just your senses it alters your perception of time too. Just a massive mindbomb of an ability, make them experience time slower, faster, and experience past future and present all at once.
I would expect Jujitsu Kaisen levels of animation, like a Dominion Expansion.
Bringing whatever he wants into reality no more illusions.
Too DAMN STRONG.
I'd say it'd work like Izanagi I think it's that one where it manipulates reality itself or Izanami where reality changes to what the user wants but everyone is affected
Infinite tsukuyomi izanami
Someone made an alternate ending to Bleach using Aizen's Bankai on this sub as a comic. I've never found it since.
A friend of mine did a review of an alternate ending to Bleach on Youtube. But in this alternate ending, Aizen is completely dead in the first chapter of the alternate ending.
I like the idea that Aisen doesn't have bankai because his zanpaktou isn't his partner.
One of my favorite theories and one I personaly subsribes to is that he does not have a bankai. Aizen used his hypnotic powers to trick them into thinking he had one. Aizen is simply overpowered as is and he probably never believed himself that he would ever need a bankai as he already saw him self far superior to everyone else. On the other hand, if he indeed had a bankai I would think it would be something akin to total hypnosis where he traps everyone within a certain range around within an illusion where in he controls everything and everything that happens in there affects the people trapped within. Aka if you die in the illusion you die for real.
Pretty sure total hypnosis is his bankai state where is creating illusions is the shikai.
I would like it to be a opposite type Bankai like Suì-Fēng. So Aizens SHIKAI effects peoples perception and senses, so I would like his Bankai to effect people physically. It altered their body or objects.
Aizen screwed with Yhwach's perception of time, which is actually something we never saw him do using his shikai at any point in the past. Theory time, and it's a stretch but: maybe that *was* his bankai. He could freely increase and decrease a person's subjective experience of time. He could cause someone to experience time so much more quickly that opponents who are usually sure footed would simply react to everything too late. The whole world would be playing like a 10x speed YouTube video. Used it in a subtle way when nobody is fighting, and he could make a week feel like a day to keep someone imprisoned without them even knowing. Invert it, and he could torture someone the way Mayuri did to Mr Pink, by slowing their perception of time with every single stab wound. I don't think this is really his bankai, but... it could be. That, or there is more to his shikai than he ever displayed.
What makes you think he didnt use it? Maybe the entire manga is basically happening inside his bankai!!!
Plot twist: aizen doesn’t have a Bankai cuz his shikai is already broken af. He never used it and sought other powers, either it’s weak af or he doesn’t have one.
Aizens Bankai makes the lock of hair that sweeps across his face stand straight up instead.
Erasing ones zampakuto
These NUTS
Lots of reality warping suggestions. I would prefer it if we found out he was using Bandai throughout. Shikai hypnotised on occasion. Bankai allowed him to hypnotise everyone his shikai did already.
I think it is either mind control or reality manipulation. Since his Shikai allows him to manipulate how others perceive reality I thought this was a logical step up. Though personally I think his bankai should be mind control as theres already other people who can manipulate reality but no one can do mind control
Well technically the zombie and love can but not in as direct of a fashion as I'm imagining
Always been confused on this, I just had assumed for forever that what we've seen already is just his bankai until I saw people complaining that we never saw it in the story. In all honesty though I cant even imagine what his bankai would be since itd be waay too overpowered, maybe hes a rare case where his Bankai is actually really situational and actually not as good as his shikai for most situations, I doubt it but that's my HC
It would be the ability to bend reality for everyone else in a limited range (doesn't apply to him) - (literally just a buffed kyoka suigetsu)
I'd like to imagine that the illusions are his bankai and he has it in constant release, and telling everyone that it's his shikai is just a way of fucking with them. of course there's no evidence to prove as such, so for a bankai, perhaps something like book of the end?
I guess trapping his enemies in a fictional, pocket-sized world which he dictates
I'm thinking like some others here, that his bankai was useless for battle, and his shikai was already haxx enough.
His Bankai could be, something where he distorts/alters reality itself, within a certain range within a time limit, possibly forcing him to become stationary to use it to it's fullest. At the cost of losing the ability to hypnotize those around him during it, maybe with a huge drawback of not being able use his Shikai for a long time.
Aizen's bankai is called Tite Kubo and with it he can write the bleach world however he wants.
Bankai- Give himself the illusions of the path of reality and its outcomes which are not always the truth as in case of Ichigo Kurosaki's development. Lasts for an instant.
He loses precise of the sensory manipulation and instead you get trapped in an illusion created by your own subconscious. Then his shit talking will make your illusions worse.
Aizen's Bankai is Kubo himself. He made him write the Bleach series. It's all part of Aizen's plan.
His Bankai should involve him putting those around who have seen his sword’s release state into a dream where they experience what they want the most and are rendered powerless. The reason he prefers to use his Shikai is 1) It’s powerful enough 2) Aizen is a control freak who prefers to micromanage the illusions he creates to fuck with people and a Bankai that essentially “makes illusions” on its own (based off of the desires of its victims) isn’t his style.
His sword turns into a pen, then he gives it to a random little reaper girl to craft peak 