Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5218928-20140305213023/@comment-8986886-20140308163604

YoraeKaiser wrote: this Bloodwar arc says that Hollows are poisonous to Quincy and if Ichigo is one, then how could he HOLLOWFY so easily back then? He didn't get sick putting the mask on so many times...

Well, Ichigo's Quincy powers, aka the old man, did its best to suppress the inner Hollow from the beginning. You claim Ichigo Hollowfied easily, but before his fight with Grimmjow, his mask would only last for eleven seconds, even after training with the other Visored. All the other Visored could Hollowfy for at least three minutes at a time.

As for the poisonous part, I'd like to think that since Ichigo was born with both Hollow and Quincy powers, he developed immunity, or at least a strong resistance to the poison, while the Hollow was still dormant and less potent. Constant exposure to a toxin over several years will do that.

YoraeKaiser wrote: there's also the whole issue of how Hollow Ichigo came to be: at first he was born when Ichigo's chain of fate eroded (the mask stuff spitting out of his face, remember?). Then the voice taking over during the Byakuya fight ... next he heard it again in his room and how Hollow Ichigo would take him over.

When the chain of fate is completely eroded, a Soul will indeed become a Hollow. However, as I mentioned before, the reason why the Hollow was unable to take control of Ichigo at the time, or more than a few times later in the manga, was because the old man was suppressing it from the very beginning.

YoraeKaiser wrote: there's also the whole end fight with Aizen and Ichigo using that Saigo no Getsuga Tensho which should have exhausted all his power: so WHAT power exactly did he exhaust, his then-unheard-of Quincy powers? His Shinigami one? And he got back his Shinigami powers in the Fullbringer arc because all the captains in the Gotei 13 pulled off a Genki Dama, so how does THAT work with everything else?

After using Saigo no Getsuga Tensho, Ichigo lost the top layer of both his Quincy, and his Shinigami/Hollow powers; the last two being one and the same. His powers then lay dormant, until he trained with the Fullbringers. Ginjo then stole the top layer of Ichigo's powers, before Rukia stabbed him with the Reishi sword and restored them yet again. The last part shouldn't really surprise you, since the manga started with Rukia transferring her powers to Ichigo.

YoraeKaiser wrote: It's just that Ichigo is one Gary Stu: he's a Human/Shinigami/Quincy/Fullbringer/Visored/(Hollow?) ... that's doesn't make much sense.

Well, winning the lottery, or surviving a plane crash, doesn't make much sense either. Even so, it still happens from time to time. I personally think that the way Kubo has explained Ichigo's past, and progress, makes perfect sense.