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I believe that he's a shinigami/quincy hybrid with hollow powers. From the start of the series, Ichigo was made a substitute shinigami. Then, we find out that Isshin is a former shinigami captain of the 13 court guard squad in episode 111, where Grand Fisher also mentions that Ichigo is a true, which we still don't know what that means. Next in episode 296 Aizen mentions that Ichigo is a human and a .... Isshin interupts before Aizen saids anymore. In episode 59, Ichigo's hollow powers awakens, which he learns to control in episodes 123-125. And now, we find out that Masaki, Ichigo's mom, was a quincy. However, we still don't know if Ichigo's inner Hollow and Zangetsu are still one being. In episode 309, they both disappearred after Ichigo used the Final Getsuga Tenshō. But Zangetsu was restored when Ichigo got his powers back in episode 361. So he's inner Hollow returning is a complete mystery at this point, but yeah. I believe when you think about it, Ichigo is a shinigami/quincy hybrid with hollow powers, if he still has his inner hollow powers.