Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44061-20130307153642/@comment-1393830-20130309153725

Will-O-Wisp wrote: Lemursrule wrote: Narutokurosaki547 wrote: I really hope you're right, Will. Dealing with Shinigami and Quincy aspects is much easier than Shinigami, Quincy, and Hollow. Ichigo is not a shinigami quincy hybrid. His father was no longer a shinigami at the time he and Misaki conceived Ichigo. This was stated in almost every translation of the chapter, and it is not physically possible for Ichigo to be part shinigami because A) A shinigami is a human soul and it would not be physically possible for a soul to have sexual intercourse with a living human and B) As stated before during the start of the arrancar arc, it was stated that Isshin had lost his powers 20 years ago. At that point of the series Ichigo was 16 years old, therefore there is no way Isshin could have been in Shinigami form, have sexual intercourse with Misaki and have his son inherit some of his spiritual abilities. All of Ichigo's powers are inherited from his mother, end of story. Then how do you explain Ichigo has Zangetsu's spirit in his inner world, as well as his own Soul Reaper powers?

Okay people really really really really really really need to get this straight. Ichigo did not inherit any Shinigami powers from his father. None whatsoever. Isshin lost all of his powers 20 years ago, making him not a Shinigami. If a person is not a Shinigami, they cannot pass on Shinigami powers to their child. Ichigo is not the son of a Quincy and a Shinigami, he is the son of a Quincy and a Soul residing in a gigai, making him little more than Human.