Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10786787-20130613005503/@comment-5417900-20140608201634

"IF" those comments are aimed at me (Mohrpheus and Demotivator), I never said melee-type shikais have special abilities. Because after I said "If it didn't offer any ability, then it wouldn't be a shikai," I said "Although Houzukimaru doesn't offer an ability, the sword still transforms," meaning that if someone were to bring up Houzukimaru as a counterclaim to say that Kenpachi's shikai can be like Ikkaku's, then that would be the reason that it isn't because I don't know what zanpakuto would just transform into another regular looking sword. But this is just "IF" those comments were aimed at me.

But your theory might be right, because we have no idea how short his blade was in regular form. @Demotivator