User blog comment:Zwann/Vasto Lordes in the Espada/@comment-1511643-20091002105959

- Harribel, although has a humanoid face and human body, has some skeletal pieces attached to her body. Basically how I classify humanoid, is based on their X-ray skeletal form. What looks human in the x-rays, are humanoid to me. -

That's just armor if you ask me. It's human'oid', not exactly-human.

We don't know precisely where the line is draw. Only possessing some extra wings, I'd include Ulquiorra too, let alone Harribel, and there's an extremely outside chance that Nnorita and Grimmjow quality- Grimmjow went from 4-legged jaguar to humanoid, and Nnorita is just human with extra arms, and did do something to make a 3-stage jump in rank. Needless to say, 7 and lower are right-out.

Personally I put the top three as very certain, Ulquiorra as only a little less so (but countered by the one VL pic looking like him), Nnorita and Grimmjow as unlikely, and anyone else as no chance.

-This is just my point of view, not meant to offend anyone. Vasto Lordes exist inside the Espada. It is an evolutionary stage, not a rank.-

Yes, this is a very good point. Let us also not forget that 'adjuchas' range from Nakeem Greendina, killed quickly by unreleased Rangiku, to Nnorita, able to stand toe to toe with Zaraki. A Vasto Lorde may represent quite a range too. Conceivably, a VL could even be weaker than a sufficiently powerful adjuchas, just as a gillian espada overranks many adjuchas.