Okay, does ANYONE have any idea what Engetsu might've looked like as a Zanpakuto Spirit? Zangetsu is just a photo-negative of Ichigo, and that's cause it's like a Hollow implantation melded with what would've been his original zanpakuto. And the OTHER Zangetsu just looks like a younger Yhwach. So we have NO CLUE what Engetsu would've looked like, or what Ichigo's Zanpakuto spirit would've been like had his mother been a normal, non-implanted human. I mean, a Zanpakuto spirit is kind of like a patronus from Harry Potter. Everyone gets their own patronus and you're just like, oooh, I wonder what mine is! But Ichigo's spirits are just copies of other people. Like, he's the MC, and I want to know what his Zanpakuto would've been like! But there's little hope of that, because we don't even know what Engetsu looks like. So I'm not asking what Zangetsu would've looked like. I just want to know if maybe their is a little description of hint of what Engetsu would've looked like. Maybe if we knew what the other -getsu Zanpakuto spirits were like from some of the Shiba clan, that could provide a similar, albeit much weaker, hint. I say "-getsu" because obviously that, like the Getsugou Tensho, are passed down in the lineage. So I'm thinking maybe appearance is passed down somewhat as well. If Karin or Yuzu ever become Shinigami, and are prominent enough to have their Zanpakuto spirit be shown, then perhaps that could provide a hint as well.
That is a good point and has occurred to me. After I wrote this post. But enough about that. Engetsu is the only lead we ever could have on what Zangetsu would've looked like had Ichigo not inherited Hollow powers nor Qunicy powers. Anyways, whatever happened to dead Quincies? Did they just lose their powers? They have spirit energy at least, so I imagine at least some of them would become Soul Reapers so they can still kill Hollows. Or do they retain their powers? After all, Kurotsuchi was still interested in experimenting on dead Quincies. I'm asking this because we never see other Quincy powers Zanpakuto spirits. As far as I'm concerned, they don't make any sense. Zanpakuto are expressly Shinigami related. They have nothing to do with Quincy powers. Anyways, back to the topic at hand.
Just because someone's in the same clan doesn't mean their Zanpakuto's very alike. But if your father has a Zanpakuto with a name that close to your own, with a move that has the same name (Getsugou Tenshou) that works the same way, then it's safe to say that the appearance would be similar, too.
This may sound silly but Ywach is based on Zangetsu not the other way around. The thing is that Tite Kubo makes shit up as he goes, this is common for most Mangaka but Kubo took it to a new extreme. So Zangetsu is what Ichigo's Zanpakuto Spirit would and should've looked like. Hollow Ichigo was just that, his Hollow inside him, but when Kubo added the BS that Ichigo was Quincy and Ywach was inside him as Zangetsu then all this BS began. Hollow Ichigo is now a Shinigami spirit and ALSO a Hollow?! That makes 0 sense even with the contrived Aizen's modified Hollow BS that was inside his mom and is now your Shinigami/Hollow powers...wat. Zangetsu is now his Quincy powers? even tough he taught him how to find his Shinigami powers, use Bankai and all that, because apparently he can do that?
Yea it's all a cluster fuck of BS just like the rest of the Manga. Original Zangetsu is Ichigos Zanpakuto's spirit end of story.
I mean, Kubo started planning the final arc after Soul Society and things like the inner Hollow being Zangetsu and Ichigo being a Quincy had been hinted at/foreshadowed hundreds of chapters in advance, but go off and die mad about it I guess.
Oh yeah, and Old Man Zangetsu is half of Ichigo's power, which they said in the manga.
Say what you want, Zeriel, but Ichigo's true nature was heavily foreshadowed since the Soul Society arc. That salty people just choose to ignore it is their own fault only.
lol you guys do realize that Tite Kubo said in an interview that he didn't know who Aizen's murderer was during the SS Arc right? Do you think he planned ahead Ichigo being a Quincy since then?
The way Mangakas work, they have to finish one chapter per week. They sleep 4 hours a day and work 7 days a week. They usually don't have time to plan things out that far in advance and Bleach was originally supposed to end right after the SS arc.
No, pretty sure Kubo said that he only fully planned out the story by the time he figured out how to continue from Aizen's "death". There's a HUGE difference.
"Bleach was originally supposed to end right after the SS arc."
I'm even more sure that that's just an Urban Legend. Just like how Toriyama apparently wanted to end DBZ after the Namek arc.
I've never heard of Bleach being planned to end after the second arc, and that sounds pretty ridiculous. As for this "mangaka don't have time to plan" thing - Eiichiro Oda and One Piece. Your argument is invalid.
And if you want evidence of the foreshadowing for Ichigo being a Quincy, I just came across what's likely the first instance in the very first arc - when he's explaining the Quincy to Rukia, Urahara explicitly compares Ichigo's powers to theirs (Chapter 36, page 13) rather than to, say, Shinigami. And later still, it's pointed out that Ichigo's Bankai doesn't work like the rest of them by condensing power inward rather than releasing it outward, in direct parallel to how Quincy and Shinigami form their weapons, respectively. But sure, he just pulled it out of his butt 30 chapters into the final arc.