User blog comment:Insistente/Zangetsu - The Impostor/@comment-1043846-20130607043248/@comment-2211792-20130607071628

Apparently, Quincy powers are dominant in Ichigo, and that's why Old Man Zangetsu was the first to appear. And then, after Ichigo had found his zanpakuto in his inner world and crawled out of the Shattered Shaft, Hichigo emerged. See the pattern? Zangetsu appears - Ichigo finds the zanpakuto - Hichigo, his true zanpakuto spirit, appears. What I don't understand is why Zangetsu decided to teach him Soul Reaper powers, not Quincy powers. Well, looks like it's about to change, because I'm sure it was Zangetsu who activated Blut Vene during Ichigo's brief fight with Yhwach.