User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 366 Review: Goodbye for Now/@comment-387500-20120327195345/@comment-387500-20120328165827

Why would he put his own sword across somebodies grave? This is ridiculous. He did not have a Zanpakuto when his friend died, it was her death that made him become a shinigami. Just a theory would be that the death of a soul reaper leaves a blank soulless sword, I doubt its impossible for another shinigami to imbue his own soul within.