Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25199543-20140719134821/@comment-28861328-20140723192421

You say you build the database based on what is fact, but what is fact is that a Zanpakutou cannot be released without the Shinigami knowing its name. That is both on and referenced in the Zanpakutou state. People tend to forget, with manga, that the characters are not the author's mouthpiece. They lie, they aren't all-knowing, and the fact is that Zaraki's new ability to call out his Shikai is proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt that he was wrong when he was first introduced. He himself claimed to know very little about his Zanpakutou, so why are you treating his words waaaay back then, when he knew neither his Zanpakutou's name, nor could hear its voice (as stated by Zangetsu), as encyclopedic fact?

Again, this is literature. The characters aren't all knowing. They are flawed. When one fact appears that refutes a statement someone has made, then revisions need to be made. Its one thing when Zaraki's word of mouth was all we had, but now we have seen that he is wrong.

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.