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Khaotic Twist wrote: Kakorat wrote: Khaotic Twist wrote: Rule 1 of Zanpakutou: "There can never be a Bankai unrelated to it's Shikai." Let's see suzumebachi is a zanpakuto that kills any opponent it hits with poison and Jakuho Raikoben is a zanpakuto that is a gigantic rocket launcher.... COMPLETELY RELATED!

Suzumebachi and Jakuhō Raikōben are based around a hornet's sting. While Suzumebachi takes the literal sense of it, Jakuhō Raikōben acts as a stinger missile(it's just another Kubo pun). They both involve blowing up the target; but Jakuhō Raikōben takes it one step further by eliminating Suzumebachi's need for getting close to the target and striking them twice to take effect.

In fact, Sui-Fēng has a lot of stuff in reference to hornets; such as her braids she used to have that resemble hornet antennae, and her Mukyū Shunkō which resembles of hornet's wings just like her Hōmonka marks. How is killing something with two hits 'blowing it up'? Just because something is based off of a pun doesn't mean the powers are related. Look at Zangetsu, it's Shikai is just plain but it's bankai has everything to do with speed. How does something go for having nothing to do with speed (except for natural speed) to having everything to do with speed. That's not similar. The rule doesn't stand.