User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/423: Farewell Swords/@comment-28861328-20101007061423/@comment-1248963-20101008023137

I doubt Ichigo will cease to be the protagonist. There are too many loopholes around him. And Kubo has said that Bleach is the story of Ichigo and it will always be. The most likely is that he'll somehow regain his powers. Isshin did it, even if we don't know for certain how he lost them in the first place, or how he got them back. So Ichigo can definitely regain his powers.