Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5551986-20181227102057/@comment-5171765-20190106215232

Timjer wrote:

It's strongly implied that all Fullbringers are born with a piece of the SK in them, which is where their unusual matter manipulation comes from. ... nature of Fullbring... That flies in the face of what we were told the Fullbringers were - it means that somehow all Hollows are related to the Soul King unless we completely reject the original story in favor of this? We had a reasonable (by manga standards) explanation of what they were already in the manga and now theyre contradicting/retconning that? That peice of the SK had to come from somewhere and its not just floating out there at random in the living world (where the SK is not) but its either in the mothers that were attacked already (I suppose thats possible but unlikely) or its related to the Hollows?

That said I actually prefer this explanation even if it doesn't make sense and wish Tite had gone this route in the first place. Im sure he could have crammed one or two sentences in when he showed the Fullbringers given all his time wasting.

It also confirms that Gremmy is a part of the Soul King and indeed the strongest Sternritter.

So Gremmy who was revealed to be nothing but a brain was actually part of the soul king (presume his brain, but Im sure we saw a scene where the SK was awake). That would make Shaz a bit more believable if they had bothered to include it in the Shaz story. Now, its too little and too late to make that bit credible.