Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25199543-20140719134821/@comment-28861328-20140723194843

Xilinoc wrote: Ten Tailed Fox wrote: Yumichika is a very poor example, too, btw, because he knew his Zanpakutou's name and purposely called it another to provoke a different response. Zaraki, when he made those statements, neither knew its name nor could hear its voice, so he couldn't even do that. Just want to step in and clarify that we're not comparing Kenpachi to Yumichika because we think that their Zanpakuto operate the same way, we're just doing so because Yumichika is proof that not all Zanpakuto can work the same way in terms of being released.

True, but an absolute fact about Zanpakutou is that they cannot be released at all until the user can call out their name. That's basic Zanpakutou 101, which Kenpachi was by his own admission, terrible at. Yumichika knew his Zanpakutou's name, so he could call it into Shikai, and also piss it off by using a nickname he knew it wouldn't like (because it told him so). So again, why are you (collectively) taking the words of Zaraki, who admitted himself he knew nothing about Zanpakutou at the time, and has now been proven wrong?

Furthermore, why are you (again, collectively) using word of mouth evidence as equal to what we've seen happen? That's not how factual information is recorded in the real world, and in fact, word of mouth is considered the worst form of evidence, especially in literature.