User blog comment:Godisme/The Lost Agent/@comment-44061-20101027181918

Well one I have to disagree Ichigo had his badge in his bag and gave it to Mizuiro before he went after the thief. Also it has no string or anything on it, where the new guy had a chain on his and it was falling out of his bag, it wasn't like he put it in his bag. He has no reason to steal something as worthless as a depowerd substitute shinigami badge and its ridiculous to think that it could give Ichigo's powers back at this point, its to unimportant and from what we know of it to make that conclusion. As for the mention of the Visoreds for Cjett92 im not making a connection on how they are even involved with this remotely. Yes Ukitake gave him the badge and said that there were others in the history of soul society who have had the position. Where as the Visoreds feature no part in this conversation with the badge either in the manga or currently. So this isn't redoing anything we know nothing of substitute shinigami besides the fact that Ichigo carried the role for sanction purposes. There was never any real detail given and this is a new character with a new backstory and a new arc. This isn't a redo of anything and there isn't room to state it as being a Substitute shinigami never was a real plot point and as far as the information we have ichigo is the only one we have ever known specifically. Considering the rare circumstance to be in a position to become a substitute shinigami, this is entirely new to bleach.