Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25360536-20140920031731/@comment-24282510-20140924220449

TennoHaineko wrote:

I wonder if Ichigo's shikai and/or bankai lost any abilities since then, because Ichigo's bankai broke and it would theorically "never be the same", we have seen a good side of it, with a weird new Double Getsuga Tensho and maybe Quincy powers, but it has to have a new weakness or something! It even shouldn't have a good side, it should be less-powered because Zangetsu's bankai has broken, so what has Zangetsu lost? Or how could this be explained?

Ichigos old zanpkato broke. But remember Ōetsu Nimaiya forged a new one.

Unless you think that a zanpakuto and a zanpakuto spirit is the same. A zanpakuto weapon is more of a medium for the zanpakuto spirit.