Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-27458826-20180215031237

Calling Nimaiya the god of zanpakuto is a bit of a stretch. He forges them and if I'm not mistaken he said something to the effect of that he knows the location and state of all of the zanpakuto and that Ichigo did not have one. I don't like the idea of just saying that anything is just a mistake made by the author. I don't think it ever said that one has to say bankai in order to use it. Some of the soul reapers use a release command when using their shikai but we know that it isn't necessary once they obtain bankai yet they still do. And like I said before to obtain bankai a soul reaper has to force their zanpakuto spirit to materialize out of their inner world and force it to submit. Ichigo never did this. Vizards are different than Ichigo. They were soul reapers who already had a zanpakuto when a hollow spirit was forced into them. Ichigo inherited his hollow powers from white who had implanted itself in his mother's soul white = Ichigo's inner hollow = Zangetsu. Not all zanpakuto have a special ability that is unique to them. Squad 11 is full of people who don't have any special abilities and they frown on those who do. When did they ever say that his first sword was a substitute for the Asauchi? Kisuke's doll was designed to pull out a zanpakuto spirit but since it was suppressing his soul reaper powers the old man came out. The reason that he had a sword is just because white was created by Aizen using a method similar to the method used to make an Asauchi