Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-15519592-20130815082945/@comment-15519592-20130815173426

Yes, the one under 'History,' not the one of Showlong as an Adjucus. And, again, just because they look similar doesn't mean it is him (look at Starrk/Shunsui as an example, and a good number of the vandervich look like redrawn copies of other characters as well, one I almost mistook for Orihime at first and had to reread the page because it confused the hell out of me for a moment). There are only so many different ways to draw a Menos Grande to make it look different from the rest. In this case I believe it to be more coincident than because it is him. Kubo does have a small habit of reusing base models, much like Akira Toriyama, whose art you can recognize a mile away.

In the end, the creature in that picture was never named any more than the nameless hollows displayed in the first phase of the evolution. The entire story was about Grimmjow's past, so it would make far more sense to assume that all of the hollows (from the basic ones eating each other at the beginning of the flashback to the panther type Adjucus we KNOW is Grimmjow that emerged at the end) is his story of evolution. But since we were never strait up told WHO those hollows were, we have no way of knowing who they are.

You might as well have said, before the information was revealed of course, that Kaien was Ichigo's previous incarnation because "they look alike." Again, there is little to have made the Menos look different from the others while still keeping it looking like a Menos. Until a piece of source materiel actually tells us WHO that Menos is, it is purely speculation and should not be written as fact.