Summary

• Some Zanpakuto in Bleach don't just pack a punch but completely twist reality, making fighting incredibly difficult.
• The ice-powered Sode No Shirayuki and lightning-controlling Koko Gonryo Rikyu showcase the sheer power of some Zanpakuto.
• From deadly illusions to unimaginable flame powers, the swords in Bleach, like Kyoka Suigetsu and Ryujin Jakka, are forces to be reckoned with.

You can't talk about the hit anime Bleach without talking about all the cool swords. It doesn't matter if they're good or bad; everyone seems to be swinging around a sword with some pretty wicked powers. These Zanpakuto have souls of their own, and each one is unique both in their released shikai and their true bankai forms.

It's quite 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a long series with the later addition of Thousand Year Blood War, but throughout Ichigo's adventures, some of the Zanpakuto he comes across do stand out above the rest. Weird, unique, or just plain deadly; here are the strongest Zanpakuto in Bleach.

This list contains potential spoilers for Bleach up to anime episode 392 (or 26 of Thousand Year Blood War) and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:through manga chapter 609.

10 Sakanade

A Dizzying Experience

It may seem cheap, but Sakanade’s abilities are actually quite effective, especiall🎶y mixed with Shinji’s aloof and often sarcastic s𒐪tyle of fighting. Sakanade’s released form is a rather peculiar shaped sword that releases a mist at times.

Upon inhaling the mist, the combatant finds their world entirely reversed. Up is down, left is right, and even the words people speak are reversed. This means fighting is incredibly difficult, something that Sh𓄧inji often mocks, to the point where he has learned to speak backward to mꦛake sure his opponents hear him clearly.

9 ♛ Sode No Shirayuki

Chill Out

While it’s taken her time to perfect, Rukia’s own Zanpakuto has proved to be one of the most po🤪werful in the🍸 series. Even though it’s only been shown in its bankai form rather briefly, it’s been enough to stick in the minds of fans all over the world. Sode No Shirayuki is an ice-typed elemental Zanpakuto, much like Captain Hitsugaya’s.

The bankai of the sword lowers the♊ wielder’s body🔴 temperature to a deathless state, and then expands those dropping temperatures to the battlefield. It’s powerful enough not only enough to freeze an enemy’s blood but even shatter stone and freeze entire city blocks.

8 ♎ ⭕ Koko Gonryo Rikyu

The First Captain's Own Lieutenant

The Zanpakuto of the late Chojiro Sasakibe was a powerful sword that could even control the weather around it to som🍬e extent. It took training with Captain Yamamoto to perfect it, and in their last session, Chojiro even used it to give Yamamoto the scar on his forehead. It takes the form of a rapier that calls down threads of lightning.

Its attacks can sum🧔mon lightning from the sky to attack its opponents, but its most powerful attack occurs when Chojiro connects the lightning to his bladeꦓ. This shoots him forward suddenly with a single strike, which is often enough to critically wound enemies. What else would you expect from a First Lieutenant?

7 Kyoka Suigetsu 💫 ♓

Bad Guys Have Cool Swords Too

Not all the powerful Zanpakuto are wielded by the good guys. In fact, Sosuke Aizen has one of the most clear-cut yet devastating Zanpakuto in the series. Kyoka Suigetsu is a rather simple sword in theory:🧜 anyone who sees its released form can, at any point, be put under an illusion that Aizen controls completely.

It allows for total control of someone’s senses, which means his opponents can fight hours-long battles against Aizen, just to find out they’ve been fighting nothing at all. Or, even worse, they can find out they've been fighting an ally the whole time.

6 Sayafushi

The Sword Of The Swordsmith

As the creator of all Zanpakuto and master swordsman, Oetsu Nimaiya should have a pretty impressive sword, and he definitely does. The sharpness of a sword is an important aspܫect, but even more so when a sword is sharp enough to cut through anything.

That’s🅠 the basis of Sayafushi anyway, a sword so sharp that it has to be kept in a large special sheath made of jelly that way it ꦜdoesn’t cut through it. In the hands of Oetsu it’s a force unlike any other.

5 🔯 Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

Roses Aren't The Only Flower That Cuts

The🤡 sword of Captain Kuchiki, Senbonzakura is a sword with a unique but deadly form, and it’s one that he is more than willing to use when someone gets in his way. The release form of the sword turns the blade into a handful of cherry blossoms each of which is razor sharp, and Byakuya has complete control over.

The bankai version of this increases the amount of the blossoms to the extent that they can ♔surround him like a tornado. This makes it an incredible force for▨ both offensive and defensive capabilities, cutting up opponents in mere seconds.

4 Zangetsu

The Sword Of A Substitute Soul Reaper

This list would be amiss without discussing the Zanpakuto of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the protagonist himself. Ichigo’s Zangetsu is surprisingly versatile, with many forms as he goes through the series. His shikai gives zangetsu a drastic makeover, turning into⛄ a large sword that seems straight out oꩵf Inuyasha.

In Ichigo’s earlier exploits, his bankai turned Zangetsu into a thin black katana, but that was in part due to his Quincy ancestry. Now that he has been reestablished as a soul reaper, his bankai takes the form of two swords with wide, cleaver-like blades. It’s a sword tha꧂t may seem simple enough, but with a getsuga tenshou that can cleave buildings in two.

3 Nozarashi

Kenpachi's New And Improved Sword

Through most of Bleach, Kenpachi Zaraki’s Zanpakuto isn’t much to look at. It’s pitted, chipped, and Kenpachi swings 💖it at anything and everything with abandon. It is, however, one of the strongest swords in Bleach. Even without a shikai or bankai.

Kenpachi has used his sword to defeat enemies that even gave Ichigo and Byakuya a hard time. Although, now his sword has revealed its name to him, and Nozarashi takes🌱 the form of a giant cleaver which is perfect for swinging at everything that comes near him, including meteors. Which is exactly what he’s going to do.

2 𓂃 🅷 Ryujin Jakka

Destructive Power

There are few Zanpakuto as downright powerful as Ryujin Jakka, but that makes sense considering it’s First Captain Yamamoto's sword. Ryujin Jakka is an elemental Zanpakuto with the ability to wield flame.

In the first few times you see it, you will be blown away by the sheer might of the flames. It wasn’t until the Thousand Year Blood War arc that everyone got to see what it could really do. Through training he has created four different mode🧸s for his bankai, each named after the cardinal directions, and each is as powerful as a bankai in itself.

1 Ichimonji

What's In A Name?

Ichibe Hyosube, as the leader of the infamous Squad Zero, you would imagine hi꧙s Zanpakuto would be powerful, and you’d definitely be correct. But how else would you expect him to protect the soul king from people like Yhwach one-on-one? Ichibe was the one who named Zanpakuto and gave soul reapers the power 🍃to unlock their abilities by knowing their true names. As such, it only makes sense that Ichimonji gives him the ability to alter the names of things.

Either in its brush form or its short glaive bankai, it can produce ink that can rename and unname things. Each of these can be as simple as putting up an illusion or completely removing something's power by removing its name entirely. This means its powers are nearly as limitless as Ichibe’s imagination.