Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27565137-20160320024419/@comment-27392440-20160403183704

Wri-El wrote: The main problem with hollows. And your choice of becoming a hollow would be the requirement to achieve the Menos Grande state.

Has said before, hollows become Menos Grande by entering a frenzy state of mutual cannibalism. Where they fuse together. And during some time at least. All those independent personalities become mixed until one rises above all others. And once it does so it's compelled to feed on other Menos Grande, more precisely, Gillian.

And that's one of the things I believe it would be one hell of a risk. If Kubo had implied that there were two methods to achieve that state. The easy one being the mutual cannibalism and another where the hollow fed on so many other hollows that it to would evolve into Gillian, with the exception of not having to wait for your personality to emerge. Because your personality would be all there ever was.

Also even if there were those hypothesis, there would still be the risk of devolving. Has you know, hollows only continue to evolve as long as they don't let any part of their bodies be devoured. Once that happens. Hollow evolution stops. And according to what we've seen there's only one way to stop that devolution... Becoming a Arrancar.

Yes. Hollows possess amazing abilities, but those that do, are the rarest. After all in Aizen army of Espadas, there were only four hollows of Vasto Lord level. Starrk, Barragan, Harribel and Ulquiorra. Yammy we can only guess what he was, and Nnoitra as shown during his flashback and the rank he possessed, I believe he was only an Adjucha.

In some ways even being a Fullbringer would be better. At least there you wouldn't risk losing yourself.

True but I kind of like the sense of accomplishment hollows must feel after defying the odds and proving they're the strongest, I'd risk the threat of devolving no guts no glory after all. I believe that you could start growing again if a part of you was eaten by taking that piece back into yourself by fully eating the hollow that took a bite out of you. Though it would be monstrously hard and would require mostly strategy and planning I have a way to fast track my evolution into a vasto lorde...eat hollows higher than you in their evolutions (like an adjuchas eating a vasto lorde), I bet if as an adjuchas if you eat a few vasto lorde you could reach vasto lorde yourself (even if you did it while they were weakened, tricked, or just by taking advantage of a weak point in their power set I can't imagine you not evolving if you ate the rank above you)