User blog comment:Kartik "k2"/Comparision between regular shinigami/Hollow and Vizards/Arrancars/@comment-5551986-20140918202200/@comment-10497166-20140919131102

First about hitsugaya.. He may be a relatively new captain and inexperienced but still he would atleast have known about the true strengths of a vasto lordes from other captains that have fought it like ukitake or shyunsui as it would be foolish not to keep a member of your top military might aware of the strength of the enemy.Also i dont think either of the senior captains would exaggerate such a thing as it would give false info.So even if he's not fought any he must still have info from a pretty reliable source like senior captains or mayuri. About his abilities, agree that he was lucky to get an opponent whose powers gave him an advantage but still the esparda should also have an advantage as she could use water to melt ice. also since the other 2 lieutenants came in pretty later on and didnt really do much you can pretty much say that hitsugaya was able to match hallibel or at least keep up with her and that is where the inconsistency is ,he shouldnt be able to do that.Hallibel was in fact defeated by his final technique and would have died if not for wonderwiess' involvement. I dont have anything against hitsugaya, he's one of my favs, but once a hierarchy of power is established in the story, i believe it should be maintained. Now if your theory about hallibel makes me wonder that if she didnt eat any hollows she should have regressed to adjuchas but she didnt and i do recall that she actually felt it was wrong to eat other hollows.Maybe she was arrancarised before she could regress? Anyways you do make some good points and maybe u are right or maybe we are both just wasting our time and its just really a mistake that the author made. Sorry about such a long ans but i thought i had to write it to get my opinion across.