User blog comment:RyftLord/Hollow Ichigo-Will he come back?/@comment-1747976-20110409113726

The question you posed begs another question and it is this: Even though they share the same body in Ichigo, does the same catalyst bring about the awakening of both. For example, Ichigo's shinigami powers are obviously a product of being related to Isshin and having strong spiritual power in his own right so thats one thing. Then there is him releasing his hollow in the shattered shaft and that was a separate incident. Incredibly, people think that just because they combined in his inner world during his application of 'jinzen' and Tensa Zangetsu informing him that he would lose his shinigami powers with the FGT that his hollow is gone. Just simply because of the aforementioned evidence, I beg to differ and this is not a crack theory either. Ichigo obtained those powers separately so why is theory that he lost them all at once acceptable?? In any event, this was just an observation of mines and just like Godisme said, only Kubo Tite knows.