Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27086661-20151114145816/@comment-1429792-20151213183357

DarkMuse616 wrote: remember, he's not necessarily truly gone. hollow ichigo counts as a zanpakuto spirit, so it's possible he was just purified and will be reborn in seireitei (likely as a monstrously powerful potential shinigami with potentially dormant super vizard powers). He was killed by a Cero. Cero does not purify anyone. Only the zanpakuto does - the physcial sword, not Ichigo's transformation.