Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24593407-20140227000341/@comment-957629-20140517143649

Harribel's back story was Anime-Only, it was really only created to give Kubo time to keep writing and drawing!! She was betrayed in the end, was willing to sacrifice her life for Aizen and he betrayed her so it fitted to give her some drama in a filler episode there!!

Starrk's back story would have been much more complicated to write, they more than likely would have had to designed Starrk/Lilynette into how they were before separation!! Starrk's motivation was simple, he hated being alone so joined up with people who could survive being surrounded by his Reiatsu!! Wasn't much more to it than that!! An episode based on ho w lonely those two were would be really boring, even by Bleach anime-only standards and that is saying a lot!!