He uses the Gintō technique Heizen to remove the Menos Grande's left arm, but the Hollow simply regenerates it. Uryū begins to run away from the large Hollow, so it proceeds to give chase. Having noticed the Hollow just as it had arrived, the Quincy manages to leap out of the way, with the tongue destroying the pavement he had been standing on. The Menos Grande discreetly enters the Human World through a dimensional tear, and before even fully emerging from it, proceeds to shoot its tongue out at the nearby Uryū Ishida. Template:Clear Plot Arrancar arc File:The Menos Grande Chasing Ishida.png The bottom half even has its own small Hollow hole, along the inner rim of the top. Because a portion of its "face" is broken, one of its eyeballs is visible the eye hole covering the other one is intact. When separated from the upper body, the top of the lower body is exposed, revealing its mouth and eyes. The bottom portion of its body, actually a separate being in itself, greatly resembles a top, which spins as the Hollow moves across the ground. It has a large Hollow hole, right on the center of its chest.
The upper parts of its arms are bulbous, but its forearms are very slender, with Human-like hands. A large, pointed, hood-like structure envelops its head, while a two-layered, mantle-like extension of its flesh covers the area around its shoulders. It has an extremely long tongue, which often hangs out of its mouth. The mask almost completely covers its face, but appears to be broken towards the bottom of the left side, exposing its pale, human-like mouth and chin. The vast majority of its body is light gray, as opposed to black, and rather than having a mask with a pointed nose like the typical Gillian, it has one that more closely resembles a skull. The bottom portion of the Menos Grande's body.ĭespite being a Gillian, it does not have the uniform appearance of its kind.
Interesting to see that apparently a US company has bought the rights to produce a live-action version.Appearance File:The Menos Grande Bottom.png Overall, it’s an entertaining, albeit macabre read, and certainly not for the squeamish. Conversely, however, when they do get the balance right and we see the group become stronger than the sum of its parts, the execution (a little dark humour of my own there…) could almost be called brilliant. Often they seem to fade into the background as the plot becomes more complex and it sometimes feels as if they become bit players in their own story. If I have one criticism it lies in the lack of character development. After all, you’d expect a body to be naked on the autopsy table. That said, both in terms of the story, as well as the art work, it’s not overly graphic, but presented in a clinical, matter-of-fact style. Despite the supernatural theme of the stories, it essentially boils down to a detective series, as the team combines their powers, to solve the mystery behind the lost souls and help them reach final peace.Īlthough some of the set-ups are dazzlingly original (the actuary who can calculate not only how many will die, but also the who and when the funeral home offeringĪ ’special’ service to the families of crime victims and then there’s the episode with the snails, that’s put me off escargot for life!) others seem to get lost within themselves, becoming overly wordy and meander clumsily to an end.ĭespite its humourous undertones (with comic relief provided by the foul-mouthed sock puppet) this isn’t a manga to be taken lightly (I believe it comes with an 18 age restriction), as it does feature nudity, violence and more dead bodies than you can shake a big stick at. Luckily, Otsuka gets it right more often than not in this strange series.
Lay it on too thick and it becomes a dirge, lay it on too thin and a farce results. Black comedy is an incredibly hard genre to pull off.
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