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Except it did. He lost his Shinigami powers and was residing in a gigai. He may not have been Human, but he was not a Shinigami at that point. He was a soul living in a gigai much as a human soul lives in a human body. Ichigo was born to a Soul and a Human, not a Shinigami and a Human.