Forum:Edit Zanpaktuo Article

Whenever I read this article it always irritates me that, for some unknown reason, Senbonzakura is not listed as a projectile type Zanpaktuo? Even though it is possibly the best example of a projectile zanpaktuo in Bleach? Why is it still listed as "Unknown type" and why is the page locked to prevent this being corrected?

Senbonzakura is NOT a projectile Zanpakuto. A zillion blade fragments that can cut you to shreds that are CONTROLLED MENTALLY/PHYSICALLY just can't be called projectiles. Do Senkei, Gokei and Shukei look like projectiles?

What I'm saying is, projectile is a very vague description for Senbonzakura. I can understand if you call Soifon's Bankai a projectile (it's not much of anything else, really). I would call Senbonzakura an extendable melee type Zanpakuto or something to the same effect. But since I can't actually do that, it remains under 'Unknown'. BlazeUchiha (Talk)  15:31, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Actually if you check out the description and think about the abilities of Jiboro Ikkanzaka's (spelling?) Shikai then Senbonzakura is a very much advanced version of that, as is Haineko. Fair enough about shukei but we're not talking about Bankai just the shikai release.

In fact by your explanation the only "projectile" zanpaktou i can think of is Zangetsu. that has a single attack which fires a cresent shaped projectile at opponents, so why is it melee? Wolfwood (Shoot)  16:06, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Amusing but horribly incorrect. The "projectile-type" zanpakuto classification comes from Kubo and Kubo himself ONLY applied it to Jirōbō Ikkanzaka. In the databook where the whole "projectile-type" was introduced, Kubo could have classified Senbonzakura as a projectile-type as well, since by that time we had seen Byakuya's shikai and bankai. He chose not to. We are not classifying Senbonzakura as projectile-type, when Kubo himself did not do so. That is all that there is to it. You lot can discuss it until the cows come home, but the zanpakuto page stays the way it is. Tinni  (Talk)  16:11, June 29, 2010 (UTC)