Why does ichigo still have the chain at the end of his sword when he uses fullbring shikai?
The chain at the end of ichigo's sword has only ever been something that was present while he was in bankai whether that be: bankai ichigo, hollow mask ichigo, Vasto Lorde ichigo, fullbring bankai ichigo, dangai ichigo or true bankai ichigo. Whenever ichigo wasn't in bankai like when zangetsu was in his original large zanpakuto form or when he was in his fullbring form or when he uses his "false shikai" or even true shikai-which came after fullbring shikai, the chain was never there. And you can see that even when ichigo used horn of salvation+true shikai the chain still wasn't there but the second he switched to horn of salvation+true bankai it immediately was. This has all been extremely consistent and definitely indicates that the chain at the end of ichigo's sword is something exclusive to his bankai his form yet somehow he still has it in fullbring shikai 😬🫤🤷! Which is the only exception to the rule. It doesn't make any sense; Did kubo just forget? Or was he not paying attention? 👀
Edit: Also I just noticed that for some reason even the appearance of the chain itself is inconsistent: ichigo doesn't have the chain during the final episode of the anime or the correlating chapter of the manga, chapter 479 for some reason even though it can be seen in chapter 474 (the last chapter he used fullbring shikai in before 479) and in the anime just before he uses fullbring bankai for the first and last time, as well as after that in tybw for both. And even the length of the chain is also inconsistent but that applies to his other chained forms as well 🤦😵💫🤷👀.