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 hollow 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 it 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.

Main point is that, Shinigami > Hollow 95% of the time, with the other 5% being made up of Menos and Hollows with special powers like Shrieker and Grand fisher. But when you focus on just captain class shinigami it's more like Captain-class Shinigami (including vice-captains) > Even Menos hollows 99% of the time. But I am convinced that someone like Yama-jii in his prime is > 100% of all hollows, arrancar etc. Of course Yama-jii is no longer in this prime :(