Hollows
A hollow is a bad spirit, which resembles a monster. Hollows come in many different forms with many different
abilities, but they always have two distinguishing features: 1) white masks covering their faces and 2) holes in
their chests where their chains of fates used to be. Hollows are instinctual
beings and are hungry to fill the emptiness in their hearts by eating high density souls (in other words someone with
high spiritual powers). They first go after their family members and after that will eat any high density spirit,
living or dead, they come across. If a hollow is cut by a soul cutter then it
will be cleansed of its sins after death and go to Soul Society, where it can
live as a normal spirit. A plus can become a hollow if its
chain of fate totally erodes away, if a hole is forced to open in its chest where
the chain of fate connects to its body, or if it is not protected from a hollow.
Turning into a hollow is a very painful. Usually it begins with the spirit deconstructing and reconstructing
elsewhere and then forming a mask over its face.
This page contains a list of all the known hollows which have featured prominently.
Acid Wire
Family:
Orihime Inoue (younger sister). Other family not known.
Power: Can shoot acid out of his mouth.
Bounty: None
Voice Actor:
Yuuji Ueda
Used to be Sora Inoue. He had an unusual scaled tail that is difficult to cut.
This hollow chose to cut himself using the soul cutter of
Ichigo Kurosaki and go to
Soul Society so he wouldn't hurt his younger sister.
See the entry on Sora Inoue for more information.
Earth-Bound Spirit Hollow
Powers: It can run up walls and spit goo that hardens instantaneously.
Bounty: Unknown
Voice Actor:
Susumu Chiba
This hollow is neither smart nor very dangerous. It used to be an
earth-bound spirit at the
abandoned hospital in Karakura until
"Ghost Bust" was filmed there and
Misao "Don" Kanonji excerbated the hole in its chest. Afterwards it was cut by
Ichigo Kurosaki and sent to Soul Society.
Fishbone D
Powers: None
Bounty: None
Attacked Ichigo and his family at his house before he became a
shinigami. This hollow was cut by
Ichigo Kurosaki and sent to
Soul Society.
Grand Fisher
Power: Has a lure attached to its head which can be made to look like a person, luring those who can see it
closer to the hollow so it can eat their souls. Its claws can let it look into someone's memories and then it will
make the lure look like whoever that person cares about the most (and thus cannot hurt no matter what). If the
hollow's main body is damaged, it can retreat into its lure. It can also shoot out its hands for an attack and
hair-like fibers to bind others.
Bounty: Unknown
Voice Actor:
Chafurin
This old hollow prefers the souls of women over men and is responsible for the death of
Masaki Kurosaki. It has killed many
shinigami and is extremely dangerous. After being injured by
Ichigo Kurosaki it had its mask removed, though this was not shown in the
anime, and became an allankar. This
hollow was cut by Isshin Kurosaki and sent to
Soul Society.
(!) This hollow has evaded
shinigami for 54 years and is still at large.
Hexapodus
Powers: None
Bounty: None
Not very dangerous. Attacked a child plus at
Karakura Park. This hollow was cut by
Ichigo Kurosaki and sent to Soul Society.
(+) Hollow Ichigo
Powers: Can use
Zangetsu
Bounty: None
This hollow is actually part of Ichigo Kurosaki and does not have a
name. At first Ichigo was unaware of its existence as it lives in
his mind like the physical manifestation of Zangetsu, but over time
it has been growing in strength and is threatening to overwhelm
Ichigo and take over and has managed to come out once when
Ichigo was in danger. It looks exactly like him except it wears white
shinigami clothes and the whites of its eyes are black. Most
likely it is also responsible for those times when the hollow mask has saved
Ichigo from getting killed. Each time this hollow saves
Ichigo its mask gains a black stripe.
See the entry on Ichigo Kurosaki for more information.
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(+) Huge Hollow
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Menos Grande
Powers: Cero (a beam of energy shot from its mouth) and eating other hollows.
Bounty: Unknown
This giant hollow stands as tall as skyscrapers and is made up by thousands of hollows piling together and mixing.
It usually takes an elite force of shinigami to kill one of these, but one
was injured singlehandedly by Ichigo Kurosaki and forced to retreat.
Octopussy
Powers: It can shoot seeds out of its head, which bury into humans and allow it to control them against
their will.
Bounty: Unknown
Voice Actor:
Youko Zawaumi
This hollow is very dangerous. It was sliced in half by Orihime Inoue after it
injured and took control of many of her classmates, including her friends
Tatsuki Arisawa and Chizuru Honsho.
Shrieker
Powers: It can fly and make dog-like companions (shown in the second picture) that are filled with explosive
leeches. The leeches only explode when it vibrates its tongue like a tuning fork.
Bounty: 5000 credit
Voice Actor:
Hisao Egawa
He was a serial killer in life and continued as one in death. He is extremely cruel, in particular torturing
Shibata Yuuichi because he was responsible for the hollow's death. It has
killed two shinigami. This hollow was cut by
Ichigo Kurosaki and it descended into Hell.
Unnamed Hollow 1
Powers: Its tentacles can stretch and the tips are sharp enough to cut.
Bounty: Unknown
For some unknown reason this centipede-like hollow attacked some students at
Karakura Primary. This hollow was cut by
Ichigo Kurosaki and sent to Soul Society.
Unnamed Hollow 2
Powers: None
Bounty: Unknown
This hollow is neither smart nor very dangerous. It was punched to death by
Yasutora "Chad" Sado.
(+) Unnamed Hollow 3
Powers: Once a day it can shatter
soul cutters and it can also take over the bodies
of others. If it is a spiritual body, the hollow will absorb the mind and memories of its victim and they will
become inseparable.
Bounty: Unknown
This hollow has killed many shinigami and is extremely
dangerous. It is the result of experiments in
shinigaminization by
Sousuke Aizen and is known to have caused the death
of Kaien Shiba's wife and her entire squad, as well
as shattering Kaien Shiba's
soul cutter
Nejibana and taking over his body. Afterwards
Rukia Kuchiki cut the hollow in
Kaien Shiba's body, killing both.
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