User blog comment:TheBody84/Ichigos father being the former Kenpachi/@comment-1654562-20091026083007

that being said, the best conclusions could be one of the following: - Isshin was on some special mission in order to take care of the Vizard activity, going into the real world, and got mixed up with them somehow - Isshin went to the real world on normal assignment and got mixed up with a woman, and left the Soul Society to make a life with her - Isshin was a Royal Guard, who somehow got mixed into something that he didn't want to be in, therefore changing his name, and lived in the real world to try to escape "something".

there could be other explanations i just can't seem to see them at the moment. We know the following so far (and thanks to Ljonynja for pointing out more): - no mention of banishment - he is not used to being called Kurosaki from his "prior life" - he is unbelievably strong, and captain lvl *by far* - possibly from 10th division because we know least about that one - Captain Commander either knows about everything (which is highly unlikely because it seemed like from the get go, ichigo breaking into SS to save Rukia, the captain commander has been very weary of Ichigo, sometimes just trying to kill him) or he still hasn't put two and two together? or there is something out of the ordinary in it all... - Isshin knows about Ichigo's hollowfication, and the Vizards, and Aizen and his plot/actions. - we still have to wait until we get direct answers from the writers before we know all about Isshin Bk1217 08:30, October 26, 2009 (UTC)