User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/418: Deicide 20/@comment-3039936-20100904175658

It would be cool if Masaki was a quincy, making Ichigo the son of a shinigami and a quincy. Some people say that Aizen was probably going to say that he's half-hollow, but that wouldn't make sense and we already know that his inner hollow is form his accidental hollowfication in Shattered Shaft, not from his birth. Ichi's mother being a quincy would also explain how Isshin knows Uryu's father and why he had to leave Soul society to be with her- she was going to be executed. A REALLY cool plot twist would be if Masaki was a Bount! (though that wouldn't happen, since the Bounts are only in the anime)