User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-10630156-20130710053807/@comment-10630156-20130712021854

also earlier on Nimiya said to Ichigo that he has no zanpakuto for fake shinigami before he sent him back to the human world this would mean that now that he has got a zanpakuto from Nimiya he is a "real" shinigami. So now Ichigo might be a true Shinigami I guess. Somewhere in there he has to have given up his human side