Kuchiki Byakuya

Senbonzakura

* Spirit: Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa

Senbonzakura's shikai.

Byakuya Kuchiki's zanpakutō is Senbonzakura (千本桜?, literally "thousand ceri, cherry blossoms"). Its shikai is triggered oleh the command "scatter" (散れ, chire?). In the English komik jepang the phrase is translated inconsistently; at the start of volume fourteen it is translated as "die", though later in the same volume "scatter" is used instead. When manifested in the anime Zanpakutō Unknown Tales arc, Senbonzakura resembles a masked man in samurai armor with a half-cherry blossom decoration on his helmet.

In its shikai, Senbonzakura's...