User blog comment:Xilinoc/Everything but the Rain op. 10 - "Prinz von Licht"/@comment-4957813-20130515162549/@comment-8051005-20130515170428

He didn't absorb their souls, just their powers. But I was going to ask the same about Ichigo :) - why didn't he absorb his Quincy powers? (Although, on a second thought, we have no evidence at this point Ichigo has them, yet he should - to maintain his own complicated existence of a human Quincy hollow Shinigami.)