Forum:Zanpakuto Forms

What has been interesting the most is the various zanpakuto releases in the series. The development and change we have seen with some of the recent releases are really refreshing not to mention the abilities they possess, such as:


 * Yamamoto - (shikai) katana {oldest zanpakuto and most powerful fire}
 * Chojiro - (shikai) Rapier
 * Soifon - (shikai) Stinger {poison} - (bankai) Missile launcher ? 
 * Omaeda - (shikai) flail
 * Gin - (shikai) extending blade
 * Kira - (shikai) hooked blade {weight multiplier}
 * Unohana - (shikai) manta ray creature
 * Isane - (shikai) tri-bladed sword
 * Aizen - (shikai) katana {absolute hypnosis}
 * Momo - (shikai) jutte sword {fire balls}
 * Byakuya - (shikai) {thousands of tiny blades} - (bankai) {millions of tiny blades}
 * Renji - (shikai) extending whip sword - (bankai) Huge snake tail whip
 * Komamura - (shikai) katana {materialized appendages} - (bankai) {giant samurai}
 * Iba - (shikai) wide blade w/ pick
 * Shunsui (shikai) Chinese falchion {Turns childs play into reality}
 * Tosen - (shikai) katana {unconsciousness tone, multiple blades} - (bankai) katana {sensory depriving sphere}
 * Hisagi - (shikai) twin inverted kusuri-gamas on chain
 * Hitsugaya - (shikai) katana {ice dragons} - (bankai) katana {weather/ice/water manipulation}
 * Rangiku - (shikai) {ash}
 * Mayuri - (shikai) tri-pronged sword {paralysis poison} - (bankai) katana {giant poison spewing caterpillar creature}
 * Ukitake - (shikai) spear-sword attached by rope {Energy Redirection}
 * Rukia - (shikai) katana {ice manipulation}
 * Ichigo - (shikai) cleaver - (bankai) long katana {physical enhancement}
 * Love - (shikai) kanabo {fire}
 * Rose - (shikai) whip
 * Lisa - (shikai) spear
 * Hiyori - (shikai) cleaver w/ serrated blade
 * Kenshi - (shikai) bowie knife {wind manipulation}
 * Ikkaku - (shikai) three-sectioned naginata - (bankai) three oversized blades
 * Yumichika - (shikai) split sickle {reiatsu absorption}

Which is the best form so far and i wonder what others will be present. But even more so what do you think can be so cool ones for the future or even for bankai's we have yet to see. So in a speculative sense any thoughts?Salubri 14:24, September 27, 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see a halberd, A Ring blade like Tira from Soulcalibur or a chakram. I would like to also see more living creature type zanpakutos, I thought of one where the blade detaches into flesh eating insects when released and overwhelms you and slowly eats you to kill you! That would be a truly sadistic zanpakuto... Tinni 15:23, September 27, 2009 (UTC)