Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25360536-20140920031731/@comment-8986886-20140930045733

StealthBlade98 wrote: I have a question: if all normal soul reapers Zanpakuto swords are based on the Asauchi, why is ichigo's the exception? Outside of renji's situation which had him go and reforged his. When Aizen created the Hollow White, which later infected Masaki, he all but copied the method which Nimaiya uses to create Asauchi. That characteristic must have survived when the Hollow finally merged with Ichigo's innate Shinigami powers, and Zangetsu was born.