Post by Admin Account on Jan 28, 2009 10:31:21 GMT -6
The Visoreds are Soul Reapers who have obtained hollow powers. The associated process is referred to as "Hollowification" (虚化, horō-ka?), which was caused by Sōsuke Aizen. To gain access to their hollow powers, a Visored dons a hollow mask. This allows them to augment their Soul Reaper abilities with hollow powers, as well as giving them access to some of the generic hollow abilities. The Visoreds have not shown any sort of hierarchy, seeming to prefer a loose-knit organization. While the term Visored is spelled in the manga using kanji meaning masked army (仮面の軍勢, kamen no gunzei?), it is pronounced as the English visored (ヴァイザード, vaizādo?), an archaic meaning being "masked". Earlier English translations used "vizard", which instead means "mask".