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StarSky55 wrote: I see what y'all mean, and I agree. I just wanted to know because Ichigo's fullbring looked so cool to me. And if part of it still remains, he could probably still get it back, but he probably chooses not to because it's not as powerful as his soul reaper powers, or he's more powerful because they are already combined.

Actually you're a little mistaken I believe. Ichigo as been using his fullbring even after Rukia used the reiatsu sword to rexharge his powers.

The X tattoos, the marks on his hands, even the new shape of his zanpakutou were all remnants of his fullbring. But because Ginjo had drained most of Ichigo's fullbring powers he only got the part of them that were already fusing with his natural power.

Even now, after he awoken his full power. That white armor thing with a X on the front, is again a remnant of his fullbring. It's like I said before. I believe Kubo wanted to ditch the need for Ichigo to use the mask to gain access to his hollow powers. And so he used the fact that fullbring is at its core a form of hollow power, to show that Ichigo is already using his hollow powers.

Of course we haven't seen him use Sonido, Cero, High Speed Regeneration, or anything like that, in fact we haven't seen Ichigo do much of anything up until this point. And that might very well be because a) He's deliberately holding back his true powers b) He's not even in Shikai but the dual blades are actually the sealed form of Zangetsu c) Even if he's in shikai maybe his hollow powers only truly manifest during bankai or resurreccion d) Ichigo at this point doesn't have neither Shikai or Bankai, and as moved beyond such things.