Yylfordt Granz

, sometimes romanized as Ilforte Grantz, is Arrancar Quince (15) in Sōsuke Aizen's army and one of Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez's five Fracción.

Appearance
Yylfordt had long blond hair worn in a similar style to Byakuya Kuchiki's. What remains of his Hollow mask is on the top of his head, and looks like a broken helmet. He also wore the standard Arrancar uniform.

Personality
Yylfordt is a sarcastic, effeminate Arrancar. He commonly refers to other characters as "brother" when speaking. He is the older brother of Szayel Aporro Granz, the 8th Espada. It is unclear what his relationship with his brother was, but it seemed less than positive, given Szayel's cold disregard of his death.

History
Yylfordt Granz was part of a group of Menos formerly led by Shawlong Kūfang. They wandered Hueco Mundo looking for a way to continue their evolution into Vasto Lorde. One day, the group came across an Adjuchas by the name of Grimmjow and after seeing his power, Yylfordt and the rest of his group pledged allegiance to him, stating that he would become their king in a fellowship of Adjuchas working to become Vasto Lorde-class.

After some time had passed, Yylfordt as well as the rest of his group noticed that they were not advancing in their evolution (not realizing that a Hollow's growth stops the moment any part of a Hollow's body is eaten by any other Hollow). When Shawlong announced this, Grimmjow sneered at their giving up and said he would leave the group. Shawlong however asked Grimmjow to eat a piece of them each so he could grow stronger and that they would not regress back to Gillian. Grimmjow granted their request and the same five would eventually become his Fracción.

Before going to Karakura Town with Grimmjow and his other Fraccion his younger brother, Szayel Aporro Granz, used spirit-recording insects to heal him, and these insects remained in his body to record everything that he saw.

Arrancar arc
When Grimmjow leads the second invasion of Karakura Town, he, Shawlong Kufang, Edrad Liones, Nakeem Greendina, and Di Roy Linker, split up and begin to find people with spirit energy, to kill without hesitation. Yylfordt heads over to Urahara's Shop, only to encounter Renji Abarai. After Di-Roy is defeated by Rukia Kuchiki, he senses his death, and remarks to Renji on how lucky his opponent was, and how he wasn't a skilled fighter at all.

During the fight, Yylfordt was over powering Renji's Bankai, not using much effort at all, along with easily injuring him. Renji, then recives assisstance from the Mod Souls Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba. Ririn uses illusions, while Kurodo shapeshifts into Renji, and is teleported around by Noba. Ririn then makes another illusion, to make it seem that there are many Kurodos. After Yylfordt gets mad, and finds a way on how to get out of the illusion, he releases his spirit energy. This gets him out of the illusion. Once freed, he quickly despatches of them by using Sonido, and slashing them with his sword. In both the manga and the anime, Jinta Hanakari is seen watching the battle from a roof top. Ururu Tsumugiya comes out, and seemed strangely effected from the Arrancar's reiatsu. She jumped off the roof top, and began to treat him as a threat. She kicked him back, and grabbed him from the neck, claiming that he is an enemy, and that he should be killed. While in Genocide Mode, she punches him, and begins to heavily injure Yylfordt. Her brute strength causes Yylfordt head injuries. He is forced to go into Resurrección form in retaliation.

With his main power released, he brutally stabs Ururu, quickly dispatching her from battle, he was even hit by Jinta's bat, and took no damage from the hit. Renji then intervenes and saves both of the children, but Yylfordt's horn stabs through his bankai, and Renji. Thinking that the battle was over, and that Renji was defeated, he gave his rank. However, Renji releases his limiter and shows how his power is five times stronger than when it was in the beginning of the battle. Yylfordt is unable to hold back Renji's attacks, which proves that he is five times stronger. He hold's back the mouth of Zabimaru, but resulted in loosing an arm. Shawlong on the other hand, realizes that they are no match for their opponents, now that they have released their limiters. He orders the remaining of the fighters to retreat, but ends up being frozen by Toshiro Hitsugaya, while Nakeem is quickly killed by Rangiku Matsumoto's Haineko, and Yylfordt is obliterated by Renji's Hikotsu Taiho.

Powers & Abilities
Expert Swordsmanship Specialist: Yylfordt has shown to be very proficient in swordsmanship. He is even able to effortlessly wound Renji Abarai using Bankai at 20 percent power.

Hierro: Yylfordt also has strong Hierro. Even though he was distracted by Di Roy Linker's death, he was able to deflect Renji's Shikai with one hand and no effort at all.

Sonído: Yylfordt can use Sonído at least on par with an average Números.

High Spiritual Power: During his fight between Renji, The Mod Souls, and two of Urahara's workers, he was shown releasing huge amounts of spirit energy.

Zanpakutō
. Yylfordt's Zanpakutō looks like a regular katana, except that its guard is diamond-shaped.


 * Resurrección: the release command is . When released, Yylfordt's upper body enlarges and is covered in armor shaped like a bull's head and torso, while his mask seems to completely regenerate and give him long, thin horns in the process. In this form, he walks on four legs and uses his horns to skewer opponents.

Quotes

 * "So what's your plan now, brother?"