User blog comment:Tinni/Distorted Perceptions: The Soul Society Arc vs Arrancar Arc/@comment-1454424-20100129055756

I thought I had replied to this but apparently not.

@Grimmjow: I wouldn't base your judgement of the Bleach verse on filler junk. That scene with the Kenpachi and the one hall was inserted by the anime team to pad that episode out. It didn't happen in the manga and therefore it should be taken for what it is. The anime studio pulling their usual deal of throwing up a random hollow and making it do stuff.

That being said, that centerpedy thing was rather large and probably did qualify as a menos. But like I said, because it was a random filler hollow, we can't use as a basis of hollow or shinigami strength. The studios stock standard trick is to make unseated shinigami look weak so as to give the captains, vice-captains and the "important" people an excuse to strut their stuff.