User blog comment:Marijuanna/Rare Zanpakutou/@comment-1393830-20130117171523/@comment-957629-20130119225624

I see Morphy-boy's point on the matter!!

So far the information we have been recently receiving is conflicting with the information Kubo gave us in the beginning!! there was never any mention of these basic swords, the only time we seen them were when Renji, Izuru and Momo had some on an early training trip!! Of course at the time, we assumed they were just swords given that Ichigo automatically acquired a sword both (and the third) times he had powers within himself awoken!!

We also have to think about cases like Hitsuagay, Zaraki, Ikkaku and Yumichika who had evidence of Shinigami spirits before joining the Gotei 13!! Hitsugaya while a kid and the latter three were mentioned to be seasoned fighters before joining the Gotei 13 and given there is no mention of them going to the Academy, I assume they developed their swords on their own!! Of course it is speculation to assume but there are clear exceptions to "I created Zanpakuto"!!

We need more information but he's dropping it out only every other page, with the others filled with "Love this...so wrong" stuff!! It's like trying to get information from Killer B, just say it!!

But yeah at this point we are speculating!! Perhaps these swords are not needed but perhaps facilitate weaker individuals into better harnessing their powers allowing an increase in numbers of the Gotei 13 and allowing for more Shinigami to carry out their main function, Konso and purifying weaker Hollows, keeping the balance!! It may be that Nimaya was around in the early days when the Gotei 13 were merely "demons" which may have been due to less numbers of extremely powerful individuals!!