Kenji Hiroshi/Racial status

Kenji, although born an average Soul with innate potential towards the Shinigami arts and an amazing growth rate, has become one of the strangest occurrences in the current time. Although a Shinigami at his core he also possesses an Inner Hollow, which allows him to access Hollow-like abilities by donning a Hollow mask, as well as possessing Quincy-like powers due to his union with Kyoaku. Due to this Kenji is considered to be a Tsuji, even admitting to being one against Oda.


 * Kodairei was a term used by the old Yuengiri practitioners to refer to the highest echelon of their order; a rank which Kenji currently fills as the last remaining one. The term means Ancient Soul, which Kenji thought apt, because the first Shinigami-Quincy hybrid he knew of was Kyoaku, who had been sealed within Kenji as an infant. He now uses it as a racial tag to describe himself.


 * Tsuji was what Kusaka, Kazuma and Ino became after they where experimented on by Kagura and Bansui. Kenji, as he had powers similar to theirs because of Kyoaku, was labelled one alongside them; though it was a rare term. He did however refer to himself as such when engaging Oda for the final time, which clarified Kenji's own racial status in the process.

Previous classifications
Kenji has been called a number of things throughout his lifetime:


 *  is perhaps the term used most readily to describe Kenji's racial status, albeit it is an outdated one relevant only to his youth. He did class himself as such however up until he trained with the Visored.


 *  was the second term applied to Kenji, though it, like his Shinigami title, is only relevant to his youth as it became apparent he was much more than an individual who'd undergone Hollowfication. Kenji doesn't even refer to himself as such anymore.