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StarSky55 wrote: Towards the end of the anime, Ichigo's soul reaper robes look like they have combined with his fullbring. If Ichigo wanted to only use one at a time, would he be able to? By that I mean-Could he still use fullbring without soul reaper, and soul reaper without fullbring?

No. I don't think so.

We now know, and even at the time Kubo was already hinting on, the fact that Ichigo's hollow and shinigami powers are one and the same. So Ichigo fullbring would always possess traits from both shinigami and hollow aspects.

To me the main problem with Ichigo fullbring final form was the shape of it. It looked and felt, off. Maybe if it look more like Tatsumi's Incursio advanced form, from the manga Akame ga Kill, or similar to the White black arnor only white, it would've worked better. But seeing it was never in Kubo's plans to use aspects from that "armor" to his normal aspect, at this point it doesn't really matters that much.

The Fullbring phase served mostly to apparently remove Ichigo's need to use a hollow mask, and show that Ichigo's hollow and shinigami powers were and are the same thing.