User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 651 - The Theatre Suicide SCENE 5/@comment-1338810-20151112102922

I'm flashing back to Buffy fighting Glory with the troll hammer; "If you want to fight [a self-proclaimed messenger of God], use the weapon [designed to kill gods]." Now I wish Nanao had had the chance to go up against Gin's Bankai to see which is the ultimate god-killing weapon in this universe.

What a creative use of language last issue, however mistranslated. When we thought Kyōraku was saying, "I will return your Zanpakutō, Kyōkotsu," it was really "I will return your Zanpakutō. Kyōkotsu," with the last word being directed at Okyō as a command to bring out the Ise Zanpakutō.

Also another neat reference I never got before: Nanao "Ise", as in the location of the shrine of Amaterasu, wherein lies a divine mirror. Clever Kubo.

So is it Hakkyōken or Hakkyōen? If it's the latter, it rankles because it's a little close to the Zanpakutō I imagined for myself, "Hakushinen." So far I've been lucky enough that all of my fanmade Zanpakutō have been far and away from any of the actual swords from the series, and I wanted to keep feeling original.