Ichigos Hollow Mask's Evolution (possible spoilers in it depends where ur up to)

David Walker

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Right i was curious as to the specifics of ichigos hollow power(s)/ mask evolution - because i hadnt looked at the 'old' manga for ages - so i trawled through my memory for when ichigo got a new feature on his hollow mask(s) and thought id be nice and share it


Initial one is when he regains his shinigami abilities. Simple - 2 bands on his forehead

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During the battles prior to ichigo rescuing rukia on sogyoku. He hasnt yet learnt to use his hollow powers yet but the mask appears and protects him from (potentialy) fatal blows against renji/zaraki.

(Note: Extra black line on his forehead and across his cheek)

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This is his outer appearence when ichigo is battleing his inner hollow - shirosaki w/e in his inner world and the Vaizards are battling his hollow controlled/transformed body

(Note the 2nd marking across his cheek)

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This is him in hueco mundo battling...:confused:...cant remember his name xd the guy with snakey bird things made of wind...il edit this bit some other time :D

(Note: He has an extra band across his forehead which causes them all to be merged. In a similar way the 2 across his cheek are merged )

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This is him vs Grimmjow Jeagerjaques in hueco mundo

(Note the third band across his cheek, and the three bands on his lower jaw which are all linked)

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This is him Vs ulq. Post cero to the chest

Note his change of mask shape (Horns duh :rolleyes:)
The 6 bands that splay out from the "hollow" hole in his chest
2 of which appear to go up his nech onto his face (Lower jaw - cheek and forehead) There is also extra small ones beside them on his head :eek:

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This is him (post plotkai victory against ulquiorra) vs Yammi - our favourite espada :cool:


The picture shows him with 2 bands - one on each side of his mask - that go across his entire face.

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Now im too knackered having done all that to make a long comment with my opinion in it.
But note the number of episodes it took him to develop extra bands merging etc...and then think about the mask he pulled out against yammi and how much further its got to go to get to the one that owned ulquiorra.

Also if the bands on his face go down to his hollow hole - what does the extra mini bands on his face in the ulquiorra fight indicate. Extra extra hollow ups...xd

By the way if i have missed any part of the evolution out - shout it out or better yet put the photo in ur reply and il edit it into my initial one at a later date
 

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Very good. I never even noticed that. The more he would use his mask the more stripes he would get. Very good, keen eye I see.
 

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Wow...epic. I wonder what the significance of the changes were based upon.
It's like an experience bar in a game filling up. Almost half of his mask was full of black, and guess what, he evolved and got new mask, now those marks on his new mask will prolly increase little by little, and his powers will grow.
 

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It's like an experience bar in a game filling up. Almost half of his mask was full of black, and guess what, he evolved and got new mask, now those marks on his new mask will prolly increase little by little, and his powers will grow.
Experience huh?

*Folds arms, tilts head and thinks*

"Ichigo wants to learn a new move.
However, Ichigo already knows one move.
Delete a move to make room for *something else for him to spam for another 300 chapters*".

*Stops thinking*

Anyway, nice read and thanks for pointing out the times his mask change's.
I wonder what's next.
 

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Experience huh?

*Folds arms, tilts head and thinks*

"Ichigo wants to learn a new move.
However, Ichigo already knows one move.
Delete a move to make room for *something else for him to spam for another 300 chapters*".

*Stops thinking*
lol at the pokemon quote :cool:

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ur all welcome guys.

i was just going over the manga quickly for my own benefit :p. and just linked the pics + commented...

besides the inactivity in the bleach discussions was irritating me :p

aizen overpowered. ichigo getsuga spam-shou :rolleyes:
 

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i noticed this as wel, but do you think he has to conquore his hollow side everytime his mask wants to evolve?

hmm i dont know it seems logical ...but... his progress hollow wise would just be one big repittion (boring and i dont want that xd)

if u compare the way hes attained his hollow powers to his shinigami powers - they seem almost polar opposites.

he beat down shirosaki to master the use of the mask...learnt to communicate with zangetsu to pull out his sword (sexual pun intended ;))

Now for his shinigami powers he had to do different things to attain shikai/bankai

so id like to think there would come a point where hes got to do something different to advance his hollow powers. The question is what :eek:


At a "guestimate" Id say that the hollow uber-ness we saw in the battle with ulquiorra was a glimpse of his hollow powers equivilant of shikai level,

and that atm hes just running around like a headless chicken... merely using his hollow power side to bolster his shinigami side
 
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i was looking at the pictures and it almost seems like is inner hallow went from being the first lvl of hallow when ichigo was training for the hallow mask to becoming a espada type hallow when he was fight ulquioria
 

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Or you could have read chapter 379 page 6 :)

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xd damit missed that. as i said i just glanced through the whole manga quickly...

:rolleyes: still i gave a nice narration, and perhaps pointed out some specifics about the number of lines/merging lines etc

so not a complete fail :eek:
 

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No one noticed that with his new mask his eyes are not hallowish like the vizards and his old mask. (I can't link posts on this site yet but when his first fight with yammi and second with Aizen his eyes are the same)
 
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