User blog comment:HollowKing17/Vacant Captain and Lieutenant positions/@comment-8051005-20130609164233/@comment-10630156-20130610021034

I am interested in seeing what having a Asauchi does to Ichigo I have some weird sense that this will make his shinigami-hollow self become more powerful than his Quincy-Human self in which case as is stated by most people up until now he is not a shinigami proper but if his Shinigami-Hollow powers (Hicigo) where to overpower his Human-Quincy (the imposter Zangestu maybe?) then I feel as if Nimaiya is going to say something like "congrats you are now a actual shinigami"

This is just what i think is going to go down anyway and it might explain why people have said he is not a shinigami. to put it simply my prediction is that when he gets his zanpakuto reforged that his dominant side will become Hichigo (shinigami-hollow) and his old dominant side (the Imposter Zangestu/ Human-Quincy side) will be suppressed this would leave ichigo with more dominant shinigami traits than ever (his zanpakuto will change because of the more pronounced shinigami side which is the complete opposite of what everyone else has been saying) this in theory will make him age as a shinigami and not a human. so his life would not be taken away in that sense (maybe this is why The shiba's said Isshin would be angry before Ichigo left to the soul king palace because Ichigo would stop being human after all this and it wasn't having to explain how he met Masaki like everyone thought)

Sorry for rambling on my theories are generally pretty long