Thread:Zf6hellion/@comment-24318314-20150913021945/@comment-18812574-20151008141039

Uh... you are getting Souls in the Soul Society confused with souls in the Rukongai. Yes it has been shown that some souls that pass on to the Soul Society retain their memories (like bird kid), but this doesn't mean that all souls retain their memories. It is actually probably more likely that a person would forget their past life as a human once passing on to the Soul Society. I mean, we've never seen Renji or Rukia or any of those guys mention their lives before the became souls in the Soul Society, so either they were born as souls or they forgot during the transmigration between worlds.

I should also point out that only souls in the Soul Society, if they have spiritual power, get hungry. If the soul hasn't passed on yet (remember the soul-burial ritual?) from the Human World and becomes hungry, that is very very bad, because it means that particular soul is beginning to undergo Hollowfication. Hueco Mundo is just, in very general terms, a detour in the cycle of reincarnation/transmigration of souls. A side-path that a soul can take before making it to the Soul Society, let's say. When Chad, Orihime and Uryuu went to the Soul Society, they were still in their physical forms. They didn't become souls: if they had done that they would have died. Urahara invented a converter that changed their physical bodies to spiritual ones, and then converted them back when they returned. It is NOT in any way the same thing as transmigration.

As for Quincy: well, this is the part that is still being debated. Remember that the Wandenreich wasn't actually IN the Soul Society, but in the "shadow" of the Soul Society: that is, Schatten. Now the question is where Quincy go once they die. Do they re-enter the cycle of reincarnation since they are human? Or are their souls "called back" by Yhwach and they end up in Schatten? Or does Yhwach use something similar to what Urahara used and convert living Quincy (i.e., Uryuu) into spiritual form before taking them to Schatten/the Soul Society?

The answer is.... We don't actually know. I am of the impression that the Quincy we see in the Wandenreich, with the exception of Uryuu, already died way back when in the Human World and were called to the Schatten to be part of the Wandenreich. But then there is Sokken (Uryuu's grandfather) to consider: where did he go? There is also the theory that Quincy in the Human World are essentially immortal due to Reishi absorption that greatly slows the aging process. But... *shrugs* It's up to you really. Just make sure whatever explanation you pick is a believable one.