Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5405361-20130408110659/@comment-10630156-20130619103723

Nitram86 wrote: that a good twist a dual zampakuto interesting...now i whant know if the 2 spirit are the same "hollow ichigo" look exacly the same but "zangetsu" look a little different (maybe the bankai version is the real zangetsu) There was a lot of hints to the dual zanpakuto, the chain on his Bankai that went to nothing (which was unusual) and the way hollow ichigo used zangetsu when he used hid "deadly darts" which always would leave him defenseless, why would a being like a hollow-zanpakuto make a mistake fighting like that?

One of the zanpakuto is similar to Zangetsu's Shikai and the other is a smaller version of it with a guard protecting the fingers and maybe this might be used as a knuckleduster. The Bankai looks like it could be an extension to the original with the second blade at the end of the chain and Ichigo could use one of these blades like the "deadly darts" ability while defending with the other

As I have stated with the use of the blades like I've said (one defensive one offensive) it is likely he never had many offensive abilities because the original zanpakuto was only the defensive one if this is the actual fact then most likely the smaller zanpakuto has the offensive abilities (Hollow Ichigo) while the larger one is the defensive (Old Man)