User blog comment:Darknesslover5000/Is Ichigo going to lose his Hollow Powers?/@comment-1982694-20100704054550

Not necessarily. Despair is related to power, but getting rid of despair doesn't always tie in with losing power. More often than not, getting rid of despair and attaining peace, in anime at least, often means mastering the power you do have. I'll admit it. I've seen a lot of anime where a guy or girl has a lot of power with a low amount of control over it and has nothing but depression in their personality. And in almost every instance it resulted in the mastering of said power. Just because the despair is gone doesn't mean his power disappears. As for whether that's actually true or not is left up to Kubo, but I don't think he's going to get rid of Shirosaki that easily.