Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44061-20130307153642/@comment-1351982-20130309161451

No, unless Isshin had some special shinigami sperm at the soul sperm bank, there is no way Ichigo can have authentic shinigami abilities. His powers are possibly from either his mother's spiritual abilities he inherited, or as Godisme pointed out, Ichigo recieved some of his powers in Bizare, but logical circumstances.