Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24919788-20140509022515/@comment-4551377-20150203235932

Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") wrote: AvalonFlow wrote: Not to mention that the general aesthetic theme is that of a hornet, hence, Suzumebachi. Yeah, I guess you can picture the Bankai as the entire hornet, launching itself at the enemy, while the Shikai is merely the hornet's stinger.

Finally somebody gets it with Sui-Feng's Zanpakuto!! It isn't the tiny things like how it is killing, but the big picture and concept that her shikai and bankai BOTH relates to a Hornet. Hornets can have poison stingers, which is how her shikai works primarily as and her bankai is how some hornets are capable of shooting their stinger from their abdomen to his a distant target. Some can possible regenerate another one to use again; henceforth Sui-Feng's own self-precaution on how she can only utilize that bankai once a day and doing a second attack makes her overexert.