User blog comment:Epzilon/The Eleven Supernovas come to Bleach?/@comment-3030647-20150924063723/@comment-5778280-20150924070043

Well, if you look back to the points I made toward Shonen, and some of the things I discussed in my talk with Brave, you'll see that I'm not limiting this to juse Shinigami. Humans, Quincy, Arrancar, Shinigami, Bount, and many other races can partake in this; it's not something that can be limited to just one specific ethnic enclave. Also, as to who would be giving such a title, that's something I wanted to leave to the people who wanted to get involved. That, and I currently have no real basis for that, as the idea was just something I hoped to refine along the way. By the way, the Gotei is essentially Soul Society's Military. I don't know about you, but I've had several friends be recruited into the United States military solely because of their aptitude, and outstanding performance. So, if Gotei behaves anything like an actual military, I'm sure they'd be lookign for Soldiers; it's only logical. As for standing out as a mans to become a Supernova, that's essentially the idea. Everybody is unique, Ash, and everybody has something to bring to the table in almost any group, organization, enclave, cultural environment, and so on and so forth. Is being recruited into this (or labeled, in this case) due to standing out bad?

As far as I'm concerned, though, it matters not tome who would grant such a title. It could be the Gotei, the Yonko, the Royal Guard, the Espada, the Sternwriter; anyone with an actual reason to have a successor. Y'know, nobody lives for ever. Sei also said tha the didn't plan to keep Seireitou as the Yonou of Hakuda forever; isn't it more logically to think of the outgoing generation the ones responsible for the naming? Also, who is not to say that the previous generations didn't already have this, and simply ended up branching off into what we know as the Gotei, Yonko, Royal Guard, Espada, and Sternwriter? There is so many possibilities for the initial creation of this group, and it's origin; I'd rather we all contribute to that aspect of this paradigm, though.