Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25360536-20140920031731/@comment-26091912-20150612135714

Ok, I'll try to explain things in layman's terms from now on, if that makes it simpler for you.

You are trying to prove something as much as I am trying to disprove something, meaning we are both responsible for evidence to our own arguments. If you say that the cross is absolutely required then you have to prove that. Same as if I say something must be then I must prove that. To say only one party is responsible for proof is rather ridiculous thinking. I asked for proof on the cross being a requirement because I have not seen definitive proof that it is mandatory and was hoping someone else may have come across it.

Funny, you demand evidence for something; yet at the same time you're reluctant to provide any evidence yourself. And when you are provided some, you dismiss it as 'not 100% certain', as if that somehow invalidates it. The amount of evidence is irrelevant to form a theory. Well that's true insomuch when something is vague, or open to interpretation. Not if it contradicts established fact (Zanpakuto is still a Zanpakuto; which has a soul of it's own, and is made of reiryoku, not pure reishi).

You've contradicted yourself multiple times in this response, but that's of no importance. If you still cling to the notion that Zangetsu was "structured" like a reishi weapon, then it begs the question (actually a plethora of questions):

-If Shinigami can only manifest their Zanpakuto inwardly using reiryoku, how can Zangetsu have been structured like a reishi weapon?

-If a Quincy spirit weapon is made of pure reishi, how does Ichigo exert pure reishi?

-How could Ichigo form Zangetsu to look metallic like that, if his skill in reishi manipulation is sub-par?

-If Zangetsu was a reishi weapon, why does it have a bankai form?

-If Zangetsu was a reishi weapon, then when it broke in bankai, why couldn't it be reformed like any other reishi weapon?

-Why did Nimaiya have to reforge Zangetsu, if it was made of pure reishi?

-Why did Nimaiya say that 'White' was created similar to his Asauchi?

-Why did Nimaiya say that 'White' is Ichigo's true Zanpakuto?

-How do we know that the 'true shikai form' of Zangetsu is also not a pair of reishi weapons?