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Baileyboy125 wrote: So in the beginning we find out that Zangetsu is Ichigo's Zanpaktou spirit. We then find out that there is another spirit that is Ichigo's inner hollow that resides with Zangetsu. Next we find out that Zangetsu and Hollow Ichigo are one spirit. Now I'm hearing that the Hollow Ichigo was actually the Zanpacktou and Zangetsu is a quincy??

Can someone please explain this mess! Old Man was always Ichigo essence of his Quincy powers. From the very beginning. But Old Man did not wanted Ichigo to become a shinigami so he suppressed the majority of the real Zangetsu.

The real Zangetsu was always Hollow Ichigo, now called by some as White Zangetsu. White Zangetsu is the fusion of Ichigo's shinigami and hollow powers, inherited from his parents. Isshin gave him the shinigami powers, and Masaki gave him the quincy and hollow powers. Sometime after Ichigo was conceived, the nature of the hollow power sealed inside Masaki -that had been created by Aizen using shinigami souls to infect other shinigamis with hollowfication- eventually fused with the shinigami power and the two became one.

When Nimaiya Oetsu was crafting Ichigo asauchi, it's revealed that Old Man was never Zangetsu. And Old Man himself admits he isn't Zangetsu. But Ichigo chose to accept Old Man has also being part of Zangetsu. That way creating those two blades. The smaller one representing the Quincy Zangetsu and the larger one representing White Zangetsu.

So Ichigo power is that he's a Quincy, but also a shinigami and hollow hybrid.

By admitting that he'd been suppressing the majority of the real Zangetsu power, Old Man raised a lot of questions. What was that initial zanpakutou, a mere fraction of the real Zangetsu blade or not Zangetsu at all? Has Ichigo ever really used a real shikai and bankai? And what exactly are Ichigo powers and limitations? Answers I hope we're gonna get answered now that Ichigo is finally going to fight Yhwach.

Hope this helped out.