User blog comment:Godisme/Everything But The Rain/@comment-4243147-20130228070534

Godisme, regarding your side note, I have an issue with it. I'm subscribed to Weekly Shonen Jump, and the site with the best translations compared to Shonen is Mangastream. According to Mangastream, what Isshin actually said is," The thing is ... you're not really a Shiningami ... but you aren't a mere human either ... Ichigo your mother was ..." What I understand from this is that Ichigo isn't a Shiningami in the truest sense, although he did inherit some of his Dad's ability. I understand that Isshin had lost his powers when Ichigo was conceived, but that does not mean Isshin had stopped being a Shiningami. Isshin was and still is a Shiningami, him losing his powers will never change that. I know that Bleach is not a story about the Shiningami but Ichigo, but I do feel that completely dismissing the fact that Ichigo is part Shiningami is wrong because that is who he is.