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Personally, I hope Ichigo no longer has to "hollowify" to power up. You know the saying "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." That's what I hope Ichigo has become. One being, completely integrated with all his powers. A good way to end the manga since if he truly has reached the pinnacle of his powers he should be so bad ass that any new enemies after Yhwach is defeated would be ridiculous. As an aside, I also think the defeat of Yhwach will NOT involve a battle of brute strength. It'll be something like Ichigo NOT killing him and preventing anyone else from dying (he does like to protect after all) thus starving Yhwach of the returning souls he needs to survive.