Why did Ichigo only meet one part of shinigami’s reflection?

Ichigo has always wanted to meet his Shinigami and be able to fight by his side, but never before has he been able to achieve this goal. 

After all, what can one half of a pair achieve when the other is missing? Can you imagine the frustration? The pain? Just imagine living as a person who could not do something as simple as find out their true identity. Your whole life would be shrouded in mystery. 

For Ichigo, this was doubly frustrating because he had already met the representative for his father’s squad of shinigami many times before Rukia Kuchiki  but she would never let him near her.

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The only thing Ichigo knew for sure is that he wanted to protect his friends and relatives. He wanted to defeat the hollows and save everyone in the world. 

His only goal was to purify souls and grant the dead a warm embrace, but there was something more hidden in his heart. He wanted to find out who he really was.

1. Meeting the Shinigami as a part of the Zanpakuto

Rukia Kuchiki always appeared as a reflection in Ichigo’s zanpakuto, and even though she didn’t let him touch her directly, she was still his friend and helped him defeat several hollows and shinigami enemies. 

Rukia was always around when he needed her most, so this is why Ichigo was so confident about her being his zanpakuto.

2. Meeting  is not that important.

When Ichigo became a Shinigami, he realised that what really matters in life is who you are inside. 

He came to realise that trying to stop hollows was pointless because they are already dead souls, and what matters in life are your special characteristics, not who you are related to.This is why he sought the real identity of Shinigami before meeting his zanpakuto.

3. Ichigo did not know the real identity of Shinigami

Once Ichigo became a shinigami, he still did not know if he was connected to his father’s squad. 

The only reference he had regarding his father’s squad was the name “Kuchiki” which was already reserved for Rukia. How can you ever get your true identity when you don’t even know who your parents are?

4. Ichigo was searching for Kyoraku

Ichigo knew that his father’s squad had many shinigami and tried to search for them, but their names were all different and they did not connect with him at all. 

So he wanted to find his father, and the person who is most likely to be his father’s friend is Kyoraku. He tried to meet him many times but failed.

5. Kyoraku has nothing to do with Ichigo’s real identity

Ichigo was so desperate to know more about his parentage that he went as far as searching for them through Suguha, Renji’s zanpakuto, even though they had nothing to do with Ichigo’s original birth. When he finally found them with the help of Yoruichi, they were already dead and cold.

6. Why did Ichigo even meet Rukia’s reflection?

Ichigo was so determined to find his mother by getting all the information he could find. Why would he have a focus on finding someone who did not represent him at all, and did not even have a connection with him? 

It is because Rukia was still a living being and had been genuine from the beginning. She had been able to talk with Ichigo and help him understand things better, so why couldn’t she have been his shinigami?

7. Ichigo was still searching for his parentage

Even when Ichigo had become a shinigami himself, he was still struggling to find the identity of his father. He found that his real name was Tatsuki Arisawa and he started meeting the people who used to know him in life. 

He could not find out why they did not recognise him and why they seemed to think he had died, but there were many things about this story that we did not know at all.

8. Why didn’t Ichigo know the real name of Rangiku?

Rangiku Matsumoto became a shinigami after Tsukishima’s death, but why did they not use her real name to register her as one of them? 

Why did they just put “Hidden” before it? They had known her for such a long time that she should have been registered with the police and should have always been called Matsumoto-san. 

She should have had an official personal biography and should have been registered as an official shinigami.