Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-9826910-20130618064245/@comment-36761202-20180909210153

Hollow Ichigo is indeed Zangetsu; he is Ichigo's Zanpakuto. He is also Ichigo's inner Hollow. This is because he melded with Ichigo's latent Shinigami powers, which the Zanpakuto is a manifestation of. I have no idea why the Quincy powers thingy is called Zangetsu, ever. Zangetsu is the name of Ichigo's Zanpakuto, and that has to do with Shinigami. Not Quincys. Do other Quincys have an inner manifestation of their Quincy powers? Or did his Quincy powers meld with his Shinigami powers as well, making another, separate Zanpakuto spirit that Zangetsu could not meld with? I don't know.