Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-26912075-20180215170218

If they don’t need to say Bankai in order to use it, then why has every person who went Bankai in the entire series said Bankai before going Bankai. There is no example of someone going Bankai without saying the word, so it is safe to assume that they need to say it in order to activate it. Uh, both Zangetsus have already submitted to Ichigo in the past, so don’t know what you mean by that. Vizards are different but Ichigo uses his hollow powers in the exact same way (even went through the same training to do it) which means his powers must work in a similar way with added bonuses like the Vasto Lorde form. Every Zanpakuto has a special ability, even if it isn’t so special. Squad 11 particularly doesn’t like Kido type Zanpakuto, but their Zanpakuto have special conventional abilities like Hozukimaru. Ok, riddle me this. If his sword wasn’t a zanpakuto then why does it act so similar to one? Kisuke trained him and gave him a Shikai, then Ichigo went to ss and used a training method specifically used to give him Bankai and he got Bankai. If his sword isn’t a zanpakuto, then why does it have two releases? If his sword isn’t a zanpakuto then what is it? It works exactly the same way as a Zanpakuto, yet it isn’t? Then what is it?! It has to be something akin to one that was never shown before in the series. If it isn’t in the series, then this theoretical blade is just that THEORETICAL. All the evidence points to it being a Zanpakuto, so we can safely assume it is one. Oh, and there is no debate on if his final arc Zangetsu is a zanpakuto, as Nimaiya forged it exactly like he forges all the others.