User blog comment:MrHatNClogs/Shinigami origins???/@comment-2060504-20100517233941

Well old man Yama-jii does say, when he is fighting Kyōraku and Ukitake, that the two of them where the FIRST students that graduated from the academy that Yamamoto himself created. As far as the main topic basicly what im trying to ask is why the shinigami constantly refer to ichigo as HUMAN, and how suprised they all are that a HUMAN could have such imense spiritual power? Even though he is not dead he IS still in the same soul form that he would be in if he were dead. So are the Shinigami beings who started there existance in the Soul Society then? Are they born in the soul society or created some other way?