User blog comment:Godisme/Everything But The Rain/@comment-1747976-20130301204345/@comment-1393830-20130301204750

How can you inherit something from your father when your father is not that? What I put up there is not my opinion, its fact. Isshin was not a Shinigami when Ichigo was conceived. It would be like saying I am italian on my father's side but my father is not italian at all. Isshin was a Soul, not a Shinigami when he conceived Ichigo. If you want to say that Ichigo was born of a Soul and a Quincy, you can say that, but you cannot say that he was born of a Shinigami and a Quincy as Isshin was not a Shinigami.