2010-12-16, 06:30 PM
I always thought the hollow half mixed with the shinigami half completely during the final getsuga. Which is why tensa zangetsu looked the way he did when fighting ichigo. I mean I could argue that the hollow half only appeared after Ichigo lost his powers the first time. He was still a Shinigami before he was half hollow. So the hollow half was derived from the shinigami half. The hougyoku proved that hollows and shinigami are just 2 faces of the same coin, which is why they can have each other's powers.