Quote Originally Posted by Somewhere View Post
Wait, which have been the most similar pairs of zanpakutoh abilities? I'm sitting here thinking that character design being the one thing that Kubo loves to do (...ok, in addition to drawing busty ladies), he wouldn't hit the low of recycling powers.
Well, there's a difference between "similar" and "identical".

If I were to pull out other similar ones, though:

* Renji's zanpakuto turns his weapon into a giant monster which attacks people. This is quite similar to Mayuri's (although Mayuri's differs in spreading poison instead of itself) and Werewolf's (although Werewolf's heals naturally and shares injury with him).
* Gin's poison dust is similar to both Matsumoto's murderous ashes, in that both weapons dissolve, turn into dust, and then kill enemies from the inside.
* Hinamori and Kensei apparently both use their shikais to gather spiritual energy and fire it as bolts of power.
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