Senbonzakura
* Spirit: Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa
Senbonzakura's shikai.
Byakuya Kuchiki's zanpakutō is Senbonzakura (千本桜?, literally "thousand cerise blossoms"). Its shikai is triggered par the command "scatter" (散れ, chire?). In the English manga 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 animé 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...
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