Yorouichi's zanpakutou

[itadakimasu]

OK. I'm curious and didn't see any other threads about this. Where is Yorouichi's zanpaktou? what is it? I dont think that she could go without one having been a shinigami. all i can think is that maybe she's merged with it to give her super fighting skills. idk

[Assassin]

I do believe this came up once before, though it was most likely in an episode discussion thread.

We've never seen yorouchi's zanpaktouh, and there's never been any indication that she hides or or lost it or whatever. I've always figured she never really had one. Or rather, she had some other manifestation of her soul (or whatever a zanpaktouh is) instead of a sword. The shikai and bankai of the various shinigami usually seem to represent thier inner selves, and the actual sword is just a container or sorts (remember, even the lower shinigami have swords. they just dont have shikai's).....for yorouchi, i suppose that inner power is well.....in her. Maybe the whole turning into a cat thing is her shikai? i mean, no other shinigami seems to be able to do the shit she does. That power had to come from somewhere.

Another possible (and more probable) theory is that she never had a sword as she's not really a shinigami.....atleast not in the normal sense. If i remember my bleach history correctly, she was the captain of the black-ops squad or something. Not the same as the gotei 13, like all the other captains. I dont think she or any of her squad ever went out hollow hunting like the rest of the shinigami. They purpose was something else (i dont know if it was ever stated what they actually did).

[Kraco]

Soi Fong, who inherited Yoruichi's position, is a captain of the Gotei 13, though. That would indicate Yoruichi was as well. If I recall correctly, it looked like those black-ops were some sort of a police force to keep internal order in the Seireitei. I guess in practice they rounded up drunken shinigami and put them in cells to sober up...

[Munsu]

Not sure, but I think that section wasn't part of the Gotei 13 when Yoruichi was around... so proabably she wasn't Captain either.


Anyways, wikipedia has a picture of her with a zanpakutou from the anime:

[Necromas]

I believe she was probably a captain at the time seeing as she had the white captains jacket, didn't she?

-If she was a captain, then she must have a bankai, because we know that: A. Kenpachi is the only captain who hasn't achieved bankai, and B. Yorouichi does have a zanpakuto as shown in the picture.

-Perhaps her bankai is a non-combat one, which is unlikely since she is a close combat type, unless it is something that helps her train in some inhuman way, thus allowing her to master her god of flash techniques.

-It could also be something that's continuously active. (if it's a continuously active one, the shikai effect could be the cat form and the bankai effect could be something we haven't seen yet).

-We can be pretty sure that we haven't seen her bankai since nobody in the series so far has been able to use their bankai without shouting bankai to activate it.

-A reason she didn't use her bankai against Soi Fong could be that she was worried about killing her.

[Honinbou]

Hmmz
In SS saga she did do bankai. If I recall correctly, the thing on her finger that causes a Black butterfly on some1 the first hit.. and 2nd hit would be sure death..
so I think that was her zanpaktou's Bankai... Look back to that episode and you'll see her zanpaktou I presume... might be some sort of dagger or so..