Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24499616-20140203040252

After starting to re-watch the anime I noticed something awesome about Ichigo in his younger days that I wouldn't have noticed if I had not been current with the Manga. When he and Uryu are talking about Ichigo's reiatsu, Ichigo states "If my spirit power is really so bad ass, maybe its always on full blast!", I realized that, thats exactly what is happening with Ichigo. When he is in Shinigami form he is emitting his soul pressure at full blast constantly so in order to compensate for that his quincy powers absorb reishi from the surrounding environment, thus causing Ichigo to never run out power. You might say he can be weakened, but I think he's not being weakened by the enemy, but by his own self. This is because he has not fully come to know the full extent of his powers and is emitting soul pressure at a rate at which his quincy powers can't keep up. So to solve that issue, he would start by balancing all three of his abilities in perfect harmony. He would then train to use his shinigami and hollow powers for offense and healing while his quincy powers would be used for for defense (Blut vene) and replenishment (reishi absorption).So in other words, with the right amount of training he could become immortal.

I'm sure there are plenty of flaws to this theory. But I thought it would be interesting to see what people would come up with to either contribute to this theory or to contradict it.

 