User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Shonen's Regimen and Tonic: February 2016/@comment-27097773-20160301190730

I am enjoying the battle alot. I loved Yoruichi's new form and I really hope Kisuke's bankai is something totally awesome and badass. But I dunno, I though Shunsui's bankai was done really well. Me and a friend were talking about it a month or two before it was revealed and she speculated that where his shikai made children's games real, his bankai would do the same but with "adult games". Of course we were thinking about gin and card games but hey, it's close. If you really think about it, that is sort of what it actually does. I believe his bankai tells a story. Ichidanme: Tameraikizu no Wakachiai tells of a war, were both sides suffers grievous wounds and losses (Shunsui and whomever is caught sharing wounds), Nidanme: Zanki no Shitone, in Shunsui's own words, tells of a soldier who felt shame over inflicting wounds on his enemy on the battlefield, causing him to collapse in shame and become incurably ill, Sandanme: Dangyo no Fuchi tells of how the soldier fell into a deep depression like a raging sea, never reaching the surface no matter his efforts, and finally Shime no Dan: Itokiribasami Chizome no Nodobue tells of how the soldier took his life. The symbolism is strong in his bankai, at least that is what I believe.