Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4317207-20130313085814/@comment-1387259-20130413193405

Lonalex00 wrote: They're blood related cousins, or rather, they are second cousins. Masaki confirmed in the latest chapter that her and Ryuken are cousins. The first genuine hint to this was during the Fullbring arc when Tsukishima inserted himself as a distant cousin of the Kurosakis who they last met 10 years ago during the funeral of a certain grandfather Rin, incidentally Souken Ishida died around that time. More to the point, Rin can be a nickname. There are a few problems with your theory. One, no blood relation was ever explicitly mentioned. Masaki was adopted by the Ishidas because her family was killed, and she was the last of the Kurosaki Quincy line. Who better to take care of her and make sure she doesn't meet the same fate than another family of Quincies? You're also over-thinking the "grandfather Rin" part. There's no proof, or anything even suggesting, that this could be Soken.