User blog comment:SaxyAndIKnowIt/Sui Feng's Shikai and Bankai. What's the similarity?/@comment-44061-20130220030628

I think one important factor is being overlooked. There is this erroneous assumption that Sui-feng's zanpakuto is in any way understood on the level of say Ryujin jakka use of fire or Hyorinmaru use of ice. Her's is far more complicated. To simply state there is an issue based simply on size would not be correct. Fact is we just don't know the mechanics of its operation to say if it is or if its not the same in shikai and bankai. What we do know is that the statement is canon and so is her shikai and bankai. so therefore in one way or another its all fact regardless of what can be currently determined by us.