User blog comment:Fandomized/True Form Creator/@comment-25987810-20140721214125

(Won't let me reply) and actually it's the later, being as how bankai is just the full form of the "zanpakuto sword" and not the "zanpakuto spirit" example: renji's bankai is that giant skeletal snake/dragon thing but the spirit that gives him that power is a the baboon with a snake for a tail