User blog comment:Godisme/Everything But The Rain/@comment-1489595-20130228040423

I'll stop my bitching for now. This was a good chapter and something we needed to see for a long time. Let's keep on a roll, please!

First I've heard about the Shiba connection with Isshin, but then I don't follow Bleach much beyond the manga and this website. It works for me. Isshin had to come from someplace and why not the Shiba clan? Might explain why they are social exiles.

I do find the sidenote rather odd but I guess its basically true since Ichigo's shinigami powers were triggered & refined by Rukia & Urahara. And its true that Ichigo is related to the Quincy. But it seems to be going out on a limb to declare what Ichigo did and did not inherit from his old man. At least as far as the manga is concerned since it didn't yet clarify that matter.