User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-11477779-20130710094013/@comment-11051098-20130711050611

Looking at Kenpachi, he's a captain, and he only likes to fight, slash and kill. But he "killed" his way to a captain post, though. He even stated once that he dislikes doing captain's reports and stuff like that, and therefore skip it.

Ichigo had the power to become a captain even before his Dangai-training, as Unohana stated while they rushed to FKT through Garganta, that he had captain-level reiatsu even with just half of his shihakusho remaining. So he will definitely be more than qualified on that area now.

The question is if he wants to become a captain, if he wants to live permanently in SS at all, and if he has any other qualifications at all beside power and care for others.