User blog comment:Arachne sama/Shinigami Skills Heredity/@comment-6245676-20130619133601/@comment-8051005-20130619200548

Zangetsu is totally still in the game, Deveros, we just don't know his exact abilities, and we know that the old guy that was communicating to Ichi in his inner world was not Zangetsu. We also know the techniques - like Getsuga Tenshou Ichi was using were all his, but just reduced in power by the Quincy guy in his inner world.