Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-27458826-20180404151713

I've been watching bleach again and was about to say something about Tosen. His power is the closest to Ichigo's. More so when you consider Vizards. Again like I've said several times Vizards already had zanpakuto before being hollowfied and their soul reaper powers are separate from their hollow powers. While we don't know how much sentience their inner hollow have ( if any at all) it is heavily implied that their inner hollow is different from their zanpakuto. This is shown when they are fighting arrancar and are still able to use their zanpakuto's ability. Obviously we know that tosen had a zanpakuto with both shikai and bankai before hollowfying. He also has 2 hollow forms just like Ichigo. When he is fighting komomura he hollowfied twice. The 2nd time he referred to his power as a resurrection. Tosen didn't use his bankai after being hollowfied or even his shikai's special power. We can also assume that his inner hollow and his zanpakuto are one because the name of his resurrection was also the name of his bankai. Tosen never used used his zanpakuto's ability after hollowfying this could be because he can't. If you will recall he says he has a resurrection like an arrancar. And an arrancar release is supposed to return them to their original (hollow) form and their zanpakuto are not sentient like a soul reaper's. So theoretically it would mean that his zanpakuto lost its sentience when he hollowfied leaving him unable to use it's unique abilities or bankai. While we know where Ichigo's inner hollow came from we don't know anything about how Tosen was hollowfied we can assume it was probably similar to Ichigo's. Most hollow are basically mindless creatures the more powerful ones either keep or retain their intelligence. Not knowing how strong or unique a hollow was used to hollowfy Tosen it could be a hollow that lacked intellect which upon merging with the zanpakuto spirit causes it to at least temporary lose it's sentience and abilities while white was a mindless creature in the beginning over the 15-16 years of being sealed within Ichigo's mother and then Ichigo himself his soul likely imprinted on white the same way as one imprints upon an Asauchi granting it intelligence. How does this relate to Ichigo? Let's start with his"zanpakuto" again. He didn't have one or rather it is more like an arrancar zanpakuto than a soul reaper. They call it a constant release zanpakuto but there are no other characters with such a zanpakuto. The fact that he can't revert it to it's original form is because it never had an original form. In the beginning he was using rukia's soul reaper powers and that first sword wasn't Zangetsu. Only after his "training" with kisuke and awakening both his inner hollow and soul reaper powers did he have a sword that was his. Since we know how a soul reaper zanpakuto is created from Asauchi it is safe to say that Ichigo's isn't the same. An arrancar zanpakuto is made by an arrancar condensing their power into a blade. This is very similar to what happened under Kisuke's store when he was training Ichigo. So Ichigo's shikai isn't a shikai it is the sealed form of his hollow powers and his bankai is a resurrection. Not all zanpakuto have a unique ability. Again squad 12 looks down on people whose zanpakuto have strange ability. Ikkaku's shikai and bankai are just powerful weapons. As far as the dragon waking up he says that it is lazy and he has to exchange blows with an enemy to wake it and when it does wake up it doesn't Grant him any unique ability it just increases his spiritual pressure