So after the long time, and encountering actual good fics (IMO) of Bleach, plus playing the game and with Jump Force on the horizon I actually re-read Bleach, was better than I remember but my god I have many questions...
1.- Ok I kind of can accept the new lore of Asauchis being key to a Shinigami developing their own powers... But if that is true, what was Urahara thinking about the whole Encroachment thing? The first phase was for Ichigo to regain some reiryoku with a death or life situation, the second to acquire his Shinigami powers, but unless he had an Asauchi laying around what was he expecting to happen? And why didn't he actually put the finger on the fact that Ichigo wasn't using actual Shinigami powers if Nimaiya noted that even Renji knew that Ichigo wasn't a full shinigami.
2.- Isshin is a bigger white elephant on the room that we thought. So the novels shed some light on the timeline (one could argue that they are not canon but Kubo revealed the info so some of the things could be considered canon) So here is the thing, in the new semi-lore Isshin became the leader of the Shiba family after Kaien's death (some people argue this point) the "evidence" is that Isshin took a patrol on Karakura (a city under the 13th division) because they were mourning Kaien's death (Isshin even talks about how he wanted to confort Rukia but his mission made it impossible), so how the hell didn't Rukia recognize Isshin a freaking Captain living on the same roof that Ichigo, and now you could argue that she didn't actually recognize him, but Matsumoto or even Toshiro?!!! two people actually under his division and actually knew him personally, they were in the human world for many days to not actually met him (they even repelled two arrancar attacks).
3.- What was the plan of Aizen after defeating Yamamoto? Even if he managed to make it to the Soul King's Palace, I don't see any of the Arrancars surviving a bout with the Zero Division, and I seriously doubt he could actually defeat Ichibei, hell Nimaiya supposedly knows everything about all zanpakutos, so he should know how negate kyoka suigetsu, also he claimed that he wanted to rework the world, but we know that the process to make a Soul King is horrible and in theory he wouldn't be in any condition of changing anything.
4.- Apparently there weren't always hollow? Now this one comes from inference, supposedly Shinigami already existed in some form in Soul Society Yamamoto being the first to organize the band of "murderers" (we know Unohana was on the first generation and the drawing implies the healer guy was also there) so that means Ichibei and Nimaiya are actually older than them because they had Zanpakutos and the King was already created by the 5 families? Yamamoto founded the school 2,000 thousand years ago, but the seventh espada talked of only fighting Shinigami 1,000 thousand years ago, either way Yamamoto created the modern Shinigami to fight Ywach (who was born 1,200 year ago) and not actual Hollows. Other reasoning to my believe is the commentary of "Burn the witch" where one of the witches complains that the east branch simply kills all their "dragons" but in no place on Bleach we see any inference of actual spiritual activity beyond hollows (plus the whole 5 families betraying the king shows that we don't actually know all the truths behind Bleach)
5.- Was Ywach trying to liberate his father? The whole restructure that he was trying sound a lot more heroic after we see the implied process of the creation of a Soul King, plus we know that the form it works now wasn't always the same (my theory is that Hollows were born after the process of creating the soul king in the same way Ywach was born with the wish to destroy soul society).
6.- Are gods actually common? Because the Shihoin are guarding their treasures and the clan of Nanao have a weapon to actually destroy them, maybe there was an actual Pantheon? is the SK the same that Izagami?
I have other doubts but more based on concepts and timelines that actual storyline, my only wish now is that we could see a full powered Ichigo (Shinigami/Hollow + Fullbring + Quincy) on all his glory instead of the glimpses we saw, that some plot lines weren't abandoned and that Ichigo retained some sort of independence instead of being just a puppy following the lead, also sorry for the necromancy I just wanted to clean my thoughts and see if you have your own theories
1.- Ok I kind of can accept the new lore of Asauchis being key to a Shinigami developing their own powers... But if that is true, what was Urahara thinking about the whole Encroachment thing? The first phase was for Ichigo to regain some reiryoku with a death or life situation, the second to acquire his Shinigami powers, but unless he had an Asauchi laying around what was he expecting to happen? And why didn't he actually put the finger on the fact that Ichigo wasn't using actual Shinigami powers if Nimaiya noted that even Renji knew that Ichigo wasn't a full shinigami.
2.- Isshin is a bigger white elephant on the room that we thought. So the novels shed some light on the timeline (one could argue that they are not canon but Kubo revealed the info so some of the things could be considered canon) So here is the thing, in the new semi-lore Isshin became the leader of the Shiba family after Kaien's death (some people argue this point) the "evidence" is that Isshin took a patrol on Karakura (a city under the 13th division) because they were mourning Kaien's death (Isshin even talks about how he wanted to confort Rukia but his mission made it impossible), so how the hell didn't Rukia recognize Isshin a freaking Captain living on the same roof that Ichigo, and now you could argue that she didn't actually recognize him, but Matsumoto or even Toshiro?!!! two people actually under his division and actually knew him personally, they were in the human world for many days to not actually met him (they even repelled two arrancar attacks).
3.- What was the plan of Aizen after defeating Yamamoto? Even if he managed to make it to the Soul King's Palace, I don't see any of the Arrancars surviving a bout with the Zero Division, and I seriously doubt he could actually defeat Ichibei, hell Nimaiya supposedly knows everything about all zanpakutos, so he should know how negate kyoka suigetsu, also he claimed that he wanted to rework the world, but we know that the process to make a Soul King is horrible and in theory he wouldn't be in any condition of changing anything.
4.- Apparently there weren't always hollow? Now this one comes from inference, supposedly Shinigami already existed in some form in Soul Society Yamamoto being the first to organize the band of "murderers" (we know Unohana was on the first generation and the drawing implies the healer guy was also there) so that means Ichibei and Nimaiya are actually older than them because they had Zanpakutos and the King was already created by the 5 families? Yamamoto founded the school 2,000 thousand years ago, but the seventh espada talked of only fighting Shinigami 1,000 thousand years ago, either way Yamamoto created the modern Shinigami to fight Ywach (who was born 1,200 year ago) and not actual Hollows. Other reasoning to my believe is the commentary of "Burn the witch" where one of the witches complains that the east branch simply kills all their "dragons" but in no place on Bleach we see any inference of actual spiritual activity beyond hollows (plus the whole 5 families betraying the king shows that we don't actually know all the truths behind Bleach)
5.- Was Ywach trying to liberate his father? The whole restructure that he was trying sound a lot more heroic after we see the implied process of the creation of a Soul King, plus we know that the form it works now wasn't always the same (my theory is that Hollows were born after the process of creating the soul king in the same way Ywach was born with the wish to destroy soul society).
6.- Are gods actually common? Because the Shihoin are guarding their treasures and the clan of Nanao have a weapon to actually destroy them, maybe there was an actual Pantheon? is the SK the same that Izagami?
I have other doubts but more based on concepts and timelines that actual storyline, my only wish now is that we could see a full powered Ichigo (Shinigami/Hollow + Fullbring + Quincy) on all his glory instead of the glimpses we saw, that some plot lines weren't abandoned and that Ichigo retained some sort of independence instead of being just a puppy following the lead, also sorry for the necromancy I just wanted to clean my thoughts and see if you have your own theories