Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35233810-20180418165518/@comment-35233810-20180419183003

Well honestly though guys, you are forgetting something. Subsequently, you are forgetting that the Captain Commander came to the Human World to give each of the people that are close to Ichigo Soul Tickets that would allow them access to the Soul Society whenever they want to visit him. So even if he had stayed in the Soul Society, he would still be able to see his friends because of those tickets.

Moreover, I meant it only as a hypothetical; consequently, at the time I wrote that in the General Discussion I had just read the Novel Can't Fear Your Own World where it had reveal the reason(s) Ichigo was allowed to return to the Human World:

1. He was of no more use to them cause they had Yhwach take the place of the Soul King. Originally, those Tickets that was handed to his friends were for the event this happened to him.

2. Aizen. Since he was the one who originally created the hollow that is inside Ichigo, those in charge deemed it a risk to let him stay with the Soul Society in fear Aizen might try to gain control of it thus allowing another great disaster.

Therefore in that regard, I knew he was never gonna become a captain. But it is always good to speculate what could have been.