Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-15519592-20130815082945/@comment-15519592-20130816192056

No, Showlong was not the one telling anyone anything about hollow evolution during the panels before Grimmjow mets them. Had he been the one telling the story of evolution they would have used his voice actor in the flash back in the anime, which they did not, further supporting he is, in fact, not the one talking during those earlier panels.

As the leader of the group, of course he's the one doing most of the talking, and thus would be the one to inform Grimmjow they give up.

All Menos Grande have the same mask, except for that single one that we see in the flash back. For all we know ALL MENOS GRANDE that keep their minds and eventually evolve into Adjucus HAVE THE SAME MASK AS WELL! That would actually even make sense when you think about it, seeing as how uniform they all look.

Other than Grimmjow and his fraccion, we see none of the other Arrancar as Adjucus, unless you want to count the filler they snuck in of Harribel's past (which I heard Kubo had wanted to do, ran out of time, and was consulted on so I would feel safe calling it quasy cannon).

Lets take a look at those Adjucus forms and if they resemble their Arrancar states:

Grimmjow: Eh, kind of but not really. I doubt his mouth was actually open like that 24/7 while he was an Adjucus and he was only shown that way for the audience to make the connection. Even then, the teeth in both forms really don't look THAT much alike. Like comparing say, a horse's teeth to a lion's.

Showlong: you can see the resemblance to his Adjucus form in his Arrancar Mask.

Edrade: is wearing a pair of glasses....... yeah, no where near his Adjucus state

Nakeem: His is really close, pretty much looks like it's been sheered in half.

Yylfordt: Looks nothing at all like his Adjucus state. Kind of looks like a bonnet now instead of a bulls head actually.

Di Roy: Pretty dead on

Harribel: (Arguably she was Vasto Lorde level, I believe Kubo said the top 3 Espada were) Her Arrancar form looks nothing at all like her previous state.
 * edit had Adjucus instead of Arrancar. DOH!

Appachi: well, she still has the horn so I would say a small resemblance.

Mila Rose: no where near her Adjucus state. She's got the equivalent of a balloon hat now.

Sun Sun: Ehhh, not really. I suppose you can kind see a small resemblance when the pictures are side by side.

Thus, not all of them look like their previous forms. Some do, but not all, thus you can't throw out a blanket statement that says "looks like so must be" when not all of them do.

Never once was that Menos Grande named, people are only declaring it's Showlong because they happen to have similar facial features. There is no source that straight up says this is Showlong. If you wand to play "looks alike so it must be" than you might as well go right ahead and say something like: the quincies got a hold of Showlong's corpse and revived him as BG9.

Hell, you might as well go over right now to Grimmjow's profile and slap in that we already saw his return, or his arm at least. It sure looks like his arm, so it must be his arm, so we might as well throw that down as fact. We all know it's him, but it hasn't been CONFIRMED yet.

There is no confirmation it's Showlong. It should not be written down as fact any more than we would throw in Grimmjow's return until the source material confirms it; regardless of the fact it's pretty damn obvious it's him.