User blog:Salubri/Zanpakuto Break Down

Here is the breakdown I formalized for the Zanpakutō that we currently know about in the series.

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto

 * Ryūjin Jakka:
 * Flame Blade = ability to sheath his sword in flames allowing him access to a variety of abilities.
 * Fire Manipulation = Yamamoto can create, shape and manipulate fire, the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products, flame being the visible portion of the fire.


 * Zanka no Tachi:
 * Flame Armor = ability to create armor around the user's body from fire.
 * Incineration = user can utilize high temperatures to incinerate almost anything, reducing it to ashes. High level users can control what part of the target they want to incinerate, and destroy the target so completely that absolutely no byproduct is left, not even ashes.
 * Firestorm = The user can create firestorms conflagrations of intense temperature, incinerating any and everything in the path.
 * Ash Servants = ashes of former victim given life by the fires of the blade. Creating servants that carry out all commands.

Chōjirō Tadaoki Sasakibe

 * Gonryōmaru:
 * Kōkō Gonryō Rikyū: Lightning Storm - Ranged

Shunsui Sōzōsuke Jirō Kyōraku

 * Katen Kyōkotsu:
 * Rule Creation (via Children Games) = Shunsui can create physical laws to bend others to the boundaries of the rule. When the rules have been set then the victims have no chance of escaping them. Unless the victims abide to the rules, it's hopeless for them.

Suì-Fēng

 * Suzumebachi: Death in Two Strikes - Melee
 * Jakuhō Raikōben: Single Missile Attack - Ranged

Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi

 * Kinshara: Music Manipulation
 * Musical Spell Casting = Rose can use his zanpakutō to cast spells and manipulate reality in a small area. The user can summon objects and creatures from the sky, enhance or debuff the abilities of others in the area, and empower the player. The instrument can also kill or heal targets around the area.
 * Omnidirectional Sound Wave (via Music) = ability to release powerful omnidirectional waves at once in a wide area


 * Kinshara Butōdan:
 * Psychosomatic Illusions (via Hypnotic Music) = can create illusions that are so realistic and powerful they can cause physical effects (cuts, bruises, burns, etc) to appear on the target and affect surroundings as they were real.

Izuru Kira

 * Wabisuke:
 * Weight Increase: Kira can manipulate the weight of anything his zanpakutō making it very heavy and impossible to move. The user can make the object so heavy it can break through almost anything.

Retsu Unohana

 * Minazuki: ?
 * Minazuki: ?

Isane Kotetsu

 * Itegumo: ?

Shinji Hirako

 * Sakanade:
 * Inverted World (via Smell) = creates a optical illusion that seemingly negates the laws of reality and make everything appear backwards or inverted. The user can cause the enemy to be confused and throws them off balance. The user can even launch attacks that are coming from a reversed direction so that the enemy cannot see them coming or cannot defend because everything is reversed.

Momo Hinamori

 * Tobiume:
 * Fire Balls = ability to create and launch fireballs.

Byakuya Kuchiki

 * Senbonzakura:
 * Blade Manipulation = can shape and otherwise manipulate shards of his sword in single or multiples.


 * Senbonzakura Kageyoshi:
 * Advanced Blade Manipulation = can shape and otherwise manipulate a even larger number of shards of his sword in single or multiples, and have exceptional proficiency with swords to use telekinetically control them and attack with how ever he pleases.

Renji Abarai

 * Zabimaru: Whip-Blade Elongation - Ranged
 * Sōō Zabimaru: Snake/Baboon Empowered Armor - Melee

Sajin Komamura

 * Tenken: Giant Appendage Manifestation - Remote
 * Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō: Armored Giant Manifestation - Remote

Kensei Muguruma

 * Tachikaze:
 * Air Attacks = user can release/use air/wind to attacks of various shapes and/or intensities, either projected, used as a part of melee attacks, etc.
 * Air Bomb Generation = is able to form compressed explosions of air into shapes such as spheres, allowing them to be projected or thrown. With the bomb comes into contact with a target, the air is released with force, from sudden gusts to hurricane force winds. With training, the user could be able to detonate the bombs at will or have several orbit the user.
 * Air Blades = user is able to use air itself to slice objects, focusing a current of wind, or in some cases sound, to the point where it takes on a sharp edge which the caster launches at foes. If the pressure wave is strong enough, it can split the air itself to create a vacuum shock-wave sharp enough to slice through anything in its path.


 * Tekken Tachikaze:
 * Explosive Contact = Kensei can cause anything or anyone to explode when they touch his knuckle blades.

Shūhei Hisagi

 * Kazeshini: Melee

Tōshirō Hitsugaya

 * Hyōrinmaru:
 * Ice Generation = Hitsugaya can generate and project ice from his zanpakutō.


 * Daiguren Hyōrinmaru:
 * Ice Manipulation = Hitsugaya can create, shape and manipulate ice, water frozen into a solid state and appears naturally in forms of snow, hail, icicles, ice spikes, pack ice, frost, and cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things colder, for various effects and combinations
 * Cold Weather Control = Hitsugaya can sense, generate and manipulate all cold aspects of the weather such as snow, hail, blizzards, cold air, freezing rain etc.

Rangiku Matsumoto

 * Haineko:
 * Ash Manipulation = Rangiku can manipulate ash that forms its blade, which as already burnt matter cannot be burned again granting the user immunity against all fire-based powers (i.e. Fire Manipulation). At the same time, it can contain residual heat, causing temperature-based damage.

Ikkaku Madarame

 * Hōzukimaru: Melee
 * Ryūmon Hōzukimaru: Melee

Yumichika Ayasegawa

 * Ruri'iro Kujaku:
 * Reiryoku Absorption = can absorb spiritual energy from the soul itself. He can channel the energy to enhance his physical condition or even augment his own powers.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi

 * Ashisogi Jizō:
 * Paralysis Inducement = can immobilize target completely, causing them to be left without movement. Making motor functions and muscle movement unavailable, the victim may freeze on the spot or crumple to the ground.


 * Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō: Monster Manifestation (Poison Gas) - Ranged

Jūshirō Ukitake

 * Sōgyo no Kotowari:
 * Energy Redirection: Ukitake is able to absorb energy and energy-based attacks into his zanpakutō and release it in a more desirable direction, even faster then when it was originally fired.

Rukia Kuchiki

 * Sode no Shirayuki:
 * Temperature Reduction = Rukia can create, shape and manipulate cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things colder, ranging from subjective feeling of cool to absolute zero. (Cryostasis, Ultimate Freeze, limited Ice Manipulation)


 * Hakka no Tagome: Unknown

Gin Ichimaru

 * Shinsō:
 * Blade Elongation = is able to extend the length of his sword to that of 100 sword lengths.


 * Kamishini no Yari:
 * Advanced Blade Elongation = is able to extend & contract the length of his sword 13 miles at 5x the speed of sound.
 * Molecular Poison = blades particles contain a molecular poison that breaks organic material down as the cellular level upon activation.

Sōsuke Aizen

 * Kyōka Suigetsu:
 * Absolute Illusion (via Visual Hypnosis) = able to generate illusions perceiving unreal things to people. The illusions look very realistic to the point where the user can confuse all the senses of the enemy, forever making them live in alternative reality.

Love Aikawa

 * Tengumaru: Giant Fireball - Ranged

Kaname Tōsen

 * Suzumushi:
 * Sound Manipulation (Induced Unconsciousness), (Vibration Duplication)


 * Suzumushi Tsuishiki: Enma Kōrogi:
 * Sensory Deprivation (via Sound based Area Effect) = Tōsen is able to numb/decrease the senses (sight, taste, hearing, and smell) of others temporarily when they are within his area of influence.

Isshin Kurosaki

 * Engetsu: Reishi Energy Blasts - Ranged

Ichigo Kurosaki

 * Zangetsu: Reishi Energy Blasts - Ranged
 * Tensa Zangetsu: Hyper-Speed Combat, Reishi Energy Blasts, Power Embodiment - Ranged/Melee

Kisuke Urahara

 * Benihime: Energy Manipulation - Ranged

Kaien Shiba

 * Nejibana: Water Generation - Melee