Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-3030647-20141118114022/@comment-18812574-20141119202746

I knew what you meant. If the entire fifth division of Squad 2 was wiped out in the war then it would be all new members. And while it does seem unrealistic for Shunsui to send out Gotei 13 members while they're so low, it also seems unrealistic for him to only send out new members for such a vital task. I would suggest off-setting the newbies in the faction with a few veterans, but that's just my opinion.

I know this is off-topic bu it's been bugging me for a while... Speaking of "wiping out," if you look at the stats it isn't too realistic: (not that this affects anything, plus it's Bleach, hah hah.)

There are 153,000 deaths per day in the in the world (56.0 million deaths per year). We don't have info on the Soul Society, but if we follow the rough estimation of Edo's population in the "shinigami" era, there would be about 29 million in the entire Soul Society. To be generous, we could say Hueco Mundo holds three times that in Hollows, so about 87 million. Then we counter in a few Pluses here and there, let's put it at 10% of that 56 million people who die (which is probably a huge over-estimation.) and you get 5,600,000 ghosts running around the world. ... Okay well.... We could say that it takes an average of two-four years for a ghost to become a Hollow and filter into Hueco Mundo. But they probably even out their own numbers by eating each other, so the vast majority of those 87 million Hollows are probably new-borns and really weak.

Now here's where things get messy. If only five and a half million souls get redirected to Hueco Mundo, (since Bleach sort of dropped the whole "purge the Plus" element we can assume they're very unsuccessful at this task) the population of Soul Society should be much larger, but it is not. In order to then "restore the balance" Shinigami would have to purge all Hollows (as has been discussed here=boosting numbers in SS) or kill humans.

Now as far as the Quincy go, even if they killed all 87 million (or whatever) Hollows in Hueco Mundo, that would still only be 1.24% of the world's entire population of 7 billion. So it seems the real problem is where do all those excess 114 million souls go?

Of course this is WAAY over simplified. I didn't calculate the fact that peeps in the SS live forever, so their population would just continue to mushroom. But, like I said, a rough estimate for the numbers that we see in canon is 29 million, and that seems fairly stable. A true imbalance is caused by the fact that the SS seems to be redirecting  most of the dead souls in the world in order to keep the SS under-populated and beautiful. Either that or maybe there's a leak in the dangai or something. Heh.

Now, be aware this is me going overboard and this is all hypothetical. This is fantasy after all. Also, I suck at math so the numbers are most likely off. But, I especially like the idea of Shinigami having to be sent to kill Humans b/c of the imbalance, not just Hollows.