Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36952851-20180918223113/@comment-36952851-20180920070048

Thanks for that. I'd actually forgotten whether Toshiro being a reincarnation was Canon or not.

I'm glad for this sentence you wrote, that using Ichigo as the basis for any discussion on zanpakuto is not the best way to make a point. That IS the whole point of the discussion.

For many years we used Ichigo as an example and extrapolated a great deal of assumptions about all the other shinigami, which even made it into the wiki. It was completely reasonable since bleach left us high and dry for a long interval before its continuation. Given those final reveals however, and how much they changed our perspective of the story, is it really okay to ignore the rest of the implications?

I thought we could try to isolate this head-fanon or whatever it's called and just be left with facts about the story that somewhat make sense.