Cloning Arrancar

An unnamed Cloning Arrancar that attacks Karakura Town during the time that Tōshirō Hitsugaya was sent to protect it. He only appears in the anime.

Character Outline
Unique to anime, this unnamed, armadillo-like Arrancar is created naturally, though still imperfect, after he devours an unusually powerful girl named Yui as a Hollow. In addition to giving him a new form, the girl’s spiritual energy gave him the power to create numerous copies of his Hollow form to do his bidding, collecting souls remotely and transferring the power back to himself. After realizing that the girl’s brother, Shunta, had similar high spiritual energy, the boy beam the Arrancar’s main target. Fortunately, Rangiku Matsumoto and her team intervened and saved the boy, forcing the Arrancar to change tactics. While the Arrancar kept the Shinigami occupied by dealing with his clones, he used the soul of Yui to create a perfect clone of hers to lure Shunta out. Eventually, the truth was discovered. With assistance from the Department of Research and Development, the Arrancar was forced out of its hiding place, forcing it to fight directly. After a heated battle, Rangiku (along with Shunta who wanted desperately to save his sister) was able to destroy the Arrancar.

Powers & Abilities
Despite being an imperfect Arrancar, he was considered a huge threat to the living world from how quickly and effectively he could gather souls and increase his power. In addition to his new and more powerful form, the Arrancar gained several additional abilities:

Cloning: Of the Arrancar’s most noticeable abilities was his power to create seemingly limitless copies of his Hollow form to do his bidding, collecting souls remotely and transferring the power back to himself.


 * Shapeshifting: In addition to his clones making it easier and safer for him to gather souls or out number his enemies in battle, the clones also have the power to transform into perfect copies of any souls they devoured. While transformed, the clones can perfectly imitate the said soul by playing in its memories and emotions. This also allows the clones to move undetected by Shinigami by masking their hollow presence. However, a strong enough soul can temporarily resist the clone’s control.

Musical Possession: Perhaps by drawing from Yui’s love of her ocarina, the Arrancar is also able to manipulate souls through an ocarina-based musical tune to force pluses to walk themselves into the jaws of his clones.

Dimensional Barrier: The Arrancar himself can hide within a small pocket dimension to mask his spiritual power while maintaining the clones, making it nearly impossible to kill him.



Zanpakutō

 * his Zanpakutō has a very standard appearance with a square guard a black sheath and a dark green hilt.


 * Resurrección: The release command for his Zanpakutō is . After releasing his Zanpakutō, his form changes drastically; his arms and hands turn to large club-like extensions, each with several spikes. A large, snake-like entity also forms above him, which can attack remotely. In this form, he somewhat resembles Grand Fisher in his original arrancar form.

Trivia

 * If someone watches a TV with closed captioning, when his duplicated Hollow form speaks, the captioning will call him "Mock Arrancar".