>>281753657
Actually this deserves a giant rant. THE ENTIRE CHAPTER / EPISODE IS CALLED
>the blade is me
IT'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS BY EVERYBODY AAAND... The exact opposite happens.
HE STOPS BEING THE BLADE. He learns that all this time he didn't have a real sword and had been creating it all with his own energy which is cool as fuck, but now he gets forged a real sword to contain his powers and cries when it gets broken.

That's absolutely a downgrade in my opinion. Like Kubo, nigga, you were getting somewhere and then decided to make Ichigo a normal boring Shinigami.

Pic related is what should have happened. If
>The blade is me
Then let him regenerate his own blade an unlimited numbers of times. You can't separate him from his Zanpakuto because it IS him.