Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4310945-20131229044249/@comment-26420452-20131229073241

You are right. Theoretically, since a Shinigami could gain fully Hollow power through the Hogyōku, the inverse should also be true. That's what I thought when I first watched Tōsen vs. Komamura.

The only thing wrong there: Visored are not closer to Hollows than to Shinigami, it's the contrary.

And a slight mistake: the ones who created the Hogyōku were Aizen and Urahara, not Ukitake.