Talk:Zanpakutō

Constant reversions
Why does SunXia keep reverting all recent edits to this article? I checked out like the last five and they contained valid information supported by the manga. Xfing (talk) 20:53, July 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * I undo anything that violates our policies. Let's not be dramatic on the matter. If you add information prove that it is true.

Definition of Sword
(Note: please excuse the poor quality of this message; I was working on a much longer, neater, and more detailed one, when Wikia figured out it would be a perfect moment to "time out" on me, costing me the entire article worth of text)

Recently, SunXia has reverted my edit on the article of Shinken Hakkyōken:


 * Shikai: Shinken Hakkyōken takes the form of an ornate medium-sized sword with a short, wide blade with no cutting edge, and a flat end . Its "blade" is decorated with four inlaid diamonds, resembling the design commonly found on the wrapped hilt of a katana, and its forte possesses a tassel on either side. Instead of a tsuba, there is a ornate band guard covering an inch of the blade with tassels hanging from either side of it. The handle of Shinken Hakkyōken is only somewhat shorter than the "blade", and possesses two tassels attached to the ring at its end.[1] Overall, the design of Shinken Hakkyōken is similar to macuahuitl.

(The green text are the parts that were added by me, but reverted by Sun)

Now, my beef with this is that Shinken Hakkyōken is not a bladeless sword. A sword without a blade is like a spear without a tip or an axe without a head: just a piece of wood. Shinken Hakkyōken is actually a sword without edge.

Part of Sun's reasoning for reverting this was that a blade and the edge are one and the same. This is incorrect. The edge is not the synonym of a blade, but its part. That would be like me calling your entire arm "thumb" simply because it's a part of it.

Parts of the sword are pre-named and pre-defined, and not something for us to decide on. Every sword has a blade and a hilt. Other parts, such as pommel, crossguard, rainguard, handguard/basket, edge, and tip are completely optional, although the lack of an edge makes the sword a blunt weapon.

Second, less important part is how I noted that Shinken Hakkyōken resembles macuahuitl. If you were to put the two of them side-by-side, you would see the uncanny resemblances in the basic design: both have a wide and unorthodox blade, no crossguard or pommel, and no real tip.

For comparison, I made similar comparison for 'Fuji Kujaku, comparing it with a shotel and no one seemed to complain.

My reason fow writing this is that there may be more Zanpakutō articles that are in need of editing, and as no one seems to bother, I wish to tend to it myself. I only wish to avoid conflicts and disagreements that might arise in that process.

 Helel ben Shahaar  ( talk ) 14:35, April 28, 2018 (UTC)


 * While I agree that edgeless works better than bladeless due to the apparent definitions of sword parts (see here), I dont agree with the claim about resembling the Macuahuitl, its not very similar at all judging from that picture. --StarCrossKnight (talk) 21:25, April 30, 2018 (UTC)