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Wri-El wrote: Stefan (Shikai - &quot;Rust &amp; Shatter&quot;) wrote: Also his Getsuga Tenshou. It's nature seems more quincy than shinigami. After all the basics are the same. A quincy gathers reishi and uses his or hers reiatsu to compress and manipulate the reishi to form the bow and arrows. Ichigo zanpakutou fed on his reiatsu compressed it on the sharpest point of the blade and then released it in a linear attack. It was only during bankai that his Getsuga Tenshou acquired hollow traits, just like Ulquiora pointed out when he compared black Getsuga Tenshou with Cero Oscuras.

Don't forget that Isshin also uses Getsuga Tenshou and he doesn't possess any Quincy or Hollow powers (afawk anyway). That means that Ichigo's Getsuga originates from his Shinigami powers and is fundamentally a Zanpakutou technique.

Isshin is also a strange case. Remember that he didn't even used Engetsu shikai or bankai form. He simply used Getsuga Tenshou.

And he was spiritually linked to Masaki that was a quincy with the power of a hollow sealed inside her, there's no telling what effects that could've had on him.

At this point it's all pretty much speculation. Which is sad actually. Kubo should've already answered all this questions and more. And not simply leave it hanging.

I've been away for awhile, but here i am; back again, and starting with my favorite thread. ;)

I hope this thread doesn't get closed, because i'm thoroughly enjoying everything about this one.

And i hope i'm not the one to get it closed, but i wanted to reply to this quoted string of comments, even though it is bit off topic.

Anyway, i agree with Wri-El's comment at the end of my quoted section; he actually was right on with what i was thinking. It's possible that being linked to Masaki has given a Qunicy influence or small infusion to Isshin's own powers. This actually coincides very well to another theory of mine, involving Isshin and the FGT (user DarkMuse616 commented this very suggestion within that thread).

Anyway, i wanna share my own thought on the quote by Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter").

We've seen a glimpse in the EBTR flashbacks, showing Isshin's Getsuga Tenshou as appearing more like a flame-type attack. (This is a debatable subject, though.)

I think Ichigo inherited the GT technique from his father, but Ichigo having Quincy mixed in with his DNA, and the Quincy suppressing the true Shinigami/Hollow nature, the original GT was intercepted and modified with the suggested Quincy aspects.

This can also pertain to when we saw Isshin use GT against Aizen. It didn't look like fire, quite like how it looked in the EBTR flashbacks. It looked more like Ichigo's GT. Which brings us back to the theory that maybe Isshin's original power has been manipulated (even if only slightly) by the Quincy nature in result of being linked to Masaki.

If it turns out that Isshin's GT was actually just the same as Ichigo's (or rather, vice versa), then i'd say Old Man Quincy just got lucky with it coincidentally being similar to Quincy traits, naturally.