User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 592 - Marching Out the ZOMBIES 3/@comment-11446176-20140806073523/@comment-24282510-20140806200804

@DareStar

Ahhh this again?

Engetsu is not a freaking fire type. This has been asked many times already. And it has been at least for the time being proven to not to be a fire type.

Reasons we have seen Isshin use Engetsu to fight Azien in the FKT arc. He used Getsuga Tenshō. Getsuga Tenshō is not a fire attack, but condensed spiritual energy.

It has been stated and more or less proven that a zanpakuto can not have more then one type of power (i.e. a ice type can not have fire or lighting).

Yes it looks like fire but it is spiritual energy.

Yes his release command is "burn" but does release commands always have to do with the zanpakuto power? No

I am going to just be listing names of the zanpaktos (has i am taking them from the zanpakuto page so i don't have to jump around for the release commands). Just copy and paste the names to the sreach engine here and you will find their pages.

Look at Haineko its release command is Growl. Which would imply Haineko is a sound type but its not.

Ok this one is a bad example has we never seen him fight (if you call it that) in shikai but Gonryōmaru's is "Bite" yet his bankai at the very least is a lighting type.

Tsuchinamazu is "Good Morning" but his appears to be a earth type. Has we only saw one attack from it.

Sōgyo no Kotowari is "All Waves, Rise now and Become my Shield, Lightning, Strike now and Become my Blade" which implies a water and lighting type but his is energy redirecting"?" not sure what to call it but it seems right.

Katen Kyōkotsu's is"Flower Wind Rage and Flower God Roar, Heavenly Wind Rage and Heavenly Demon Sneer" which implies plant or smell and wind type. But his is child games.

Benihime is "Awaken" hers isn't whatever awaken implies. It is a kido type.

Tenken's is "Roar" but its just melee.

While not all zanpakto have release commands that have nothing to do with their powers it just goes to show you that a zanpakto have to have a release command that is with their powers.

The only way Engetsu could POSSIBLY have fire and spiritual energy is if it had a theme (like Katen Kyōkotsu) of maybe massive destruction.