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Kyūkyoku KON wrote: Also this was early in the Arrancar arc. It was implied that their new powers were still not complete. I don't really know the exact timeline of how things went in Hueco Mundo. We know Aizen had been there long before he staged his own murder, killed Central 46, and ultimately fled the Soul Society, gathering and creating the Arrancar. I have no idea when the Privaron Espada were created, or how long ago Nel left their ranks. I certainly don't count ANY fraccion as being Vasto Lorde class. And numbers >10 had nothing to do with power but with order of creation. Basically I get the impact Kubo was going for, but I can also let it go if it turned out to be too much trouble for him to deal with later and he just decided to write around it.

I imagine that this would be the case. The Arrancar arc, Hueco Mundo arc, and Fake Town Karakura were all very sloppily written at times, not at all consistent with what he was going for in the first two arcs and what he continued with after Aizen's defeat.