User blog comment:Skitzo1/So Ichigo is like a hybrid perfect being?/@comment-5398287-20130505164657/@comment-4822693-20130507231337

The last few chapters have all but explicitly stated that his powers were all inherent. Tite Kubo doesn't plan his plot far in advance, so while at one time the information available stated that his hollow powers were created by the shattered shaft training that is clearly not true any more. This has happened quite a few times in Bleach, where a previously indisputable fact is later proved wrong. For example Ichigo was quite clearly not a quincy (or part quincy) this was later revealed to be false. Also at one time it was made clear that the last quincy was Uryu, but this too was proved to be wrong. Finally when you say that he can't restore his powers whenever you are ignoring how he regained his soul reaper powers. He basically had to undergo some kind of transformation to get them back. Ichigo has never been able to restore his powers "willynilly", even the most recent time it took the spiritual pressure of numerous captain level shinigami as well as a special device developed by Urahara.