Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31283382-20140611172614/@comment-25801533-20150708064310

1. Not all people with Quincy blood are able to see or sense spirits. e.g Yuzu.

2. White was created in a similar manner as the asauchi, many souls folded over each other many times over. White is created with a shinigami base and many hollows folded together. This is why it's hollow hole is filled in.

3. White cannot be removed. It ceased to be when Ichigo was born. What was left is Ichigo being a Human Quincy Shinigami Hollow hybrid. The hollow fused with the shinigami powers and became Zangetsu(hollow ichigo). The old man is a manifestation of his Quincy powers and Ichigo is human. This is the only way that he can be balanced. This is basically how the vizored were saved. The shinigami were infected with hollows and the only way to halt soul suicide was to introduce a perfect opposite to both the shinigami(human) and the hollow(quincy).

4. After Ichigo used the final getsuga tensho he should never have been able to get back his powers and that is why zangetsu was saying good-bye. (Turns out Ichigo is far too badass to have his powers taken for good).

5. Ichigo recognizes both his inner hollow/shinigami powers and his quincy powers together as zangetsu.