@Daz:
THE GRAND RUNDOWN OF ICHIGOS REPETOIRE OF MOVES
-Getsuga Tenshou! A horribly generic flying slash that in any other shonen series would be a fragment of a swordfighters arsenal, but here is the underwhelming crux of Ichigos unique swords unique abilities. So unique in fact that his dad has it too, and Byakuya referred to it as, wouldn't you know it, a standard technique. Sometimes works as a slash, sometimes just an ill defined smear of energy
-Black inkspill Getsuga Tenshou! Same as above, but done while in Bankai, so makes it different!
-Keeping the energy from his Getsuga inside his sword, adding oomph to his generic swordslashes! Such a crucial technique that it was never named, and has been used all of once!
- Cero! A DBZ energy beam, which the GT sometimes is, but not always, also this is shot from other fingers and stuff so totally different. Was only used when Ichigo was in berserker hollow mode (and that…other, somehow different berserker hollow mode during the Vizard training), and for all we now he can't do it anymore.
- FINAL Getsuga Tenshou! For all its dramaticness, this boiled down to using up a whole lot of energy for a really REALLY big Getsuga Tenshou! Only this time there didn't even seem to be any slashing involved, just one colossal fart of black energy all over the place. Only useable once...maybe? Sorta? I guess not after all?
- SWASTIKA BOOMERANG! Pretty much a Getsuga Tenshou again, but shot from his badge in the shape of a SWASTIKA BOOMERANG
- Super Sentai Fullbullshit Getsuga Tenshou! Its white this time!
- Two Getsuga Tenshous AT THE SAME TIME!
Subtracting all the lesser variants and lost moves of Ichigo, that totals at two moves. A flying energy slash…and two flying slashes at once. If we're lucky we might even get to see a Getsuga Tenshou barrage before the series ends! Had Kubo written One Piece, we'd only have gotten around to Gum Gum gatling in the new world
Fuck, has GT ever actually been effective? Most times people just emerge from Ichigos inkspill energy splooges a little charred. The diagonal torso slash, thats where the danger is at.
Or let's compare Ichigo's swordplay skills with Zoro's, since apples with apples and all that jazz.
Flying slashes, vertical slices, horizontal cuts, quake slashes, propeller secret slash (sanzen sekai), sheathe and draw (iai).
Also comes with delicious puns.