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Well, you said so yourself. He had Fullbring powers and he is also a Quincy. Quincy are, by definition, Human. He is a Shinigami by profession, since he possesses latent Shinigami powers. And as a Visored, he has Hollow powers for the very same reason he had Fullbring.