User blog comment:Bringer18/Ichigo's powers/@comment-5147109-20131029192942/@comment-5147109-20131031165356

@Brother Ban-Kai

The swordmaster technically stated that the way that Ichigo's inner hollow exists is virtually the same as a Shinigami's Zanpakuto spirit, not so much that all Shinigami have a hollow within them but that Ichigo's inner hollow and Zanpakuto spirits are basically the same thing so the process of imprinting Zangetsu (Hollow Ichigo) is the same as the process for any other Shinigami.