User blog comment:Godisme/belIEve/@comment-955994-20111123083037/@comment-957629-20111123175024

Im in agreement with Salubri here, shinigami and their powers are the essence of the story!! Ichigo is not solely human, its clear he is a Hybrid!! Everything in the story is constant challenging to the Soul Society, be it their hierarchy or their rules and conduct!! The Soul Society keep the balance and before he was given the "evil" badge, Ichigo was turning everyone close to him into Spiritualists, there has to be some measure of control to protect them!! This is a poor revelation as Ichigo was never controlled he went to Hueco Mundo on his own didn't he?? Stupidly almost left his hometown to the mercy of Aizen and it was a shinigami that had to remind him to go back!! Hope there is more to this because I am finding Kugo more pathetic by the day and this Yami-Kugo is driving me up the wall!!