Mythological Creatures and Apex Predators of Soul Society?

Soul Society itself is home to no Hollows. Such creatures would have been hunted down and killed. Even the wilderness is absent of Hollows, not simply because it's dangerous for them, but also because there's nothing there that they want.

Soul Society does have monsters, actually! Fuuyuko Suwa being the most dreadful of them all.

That's not what I asked XD. I know there are no Hollows (Okay technically there are occasionally. But they are hunted down and killed, and are a very rare, rare, occurrence.)



I'm asking about Mythological/Fantasy Creatures. Or what creatures would be considered Apex Predators in Soul Society.





    XD. Lolz. That's actually pretty funny. 

Newts.

Be nice to axolotls. :C

Oh I'd be nice to axolotls. They are a little cute (like an IRL Pokemon), but if one ever drank a growth serum, or was as big as a crocodile. It'd be a pretty scary predator, even if smaller ones are adorbs.

ApexNewts

Yoish!

Mostly I'm asking the OP question because as a character who spent all her life out in the wilderness. She'd live among those. Mostly was thinking it'd have normal one's like Ligers, Grolar Bears, and Aligator Gars (aka the Fish that that can walk on land, and eat you). But thought it might be cool if there were mythological creatures. Since there are mythological creature hollows. Could be interesting.

But yes, ApexNewts. Those are the win.

Soul Society has mundane creatures, but nothing mythological and nothing that would really prey on human souls.

If there even are anything like bears, wolves, etc. (we've never seen predator animals in franchise canon) I doubt that the citizens of the Rukongai, together, couldn't handle what's thrown at them. Way more people than those things, that's for sure.

But freak accidents can happen, I'm sure.

Kubo does absolutely no world-building whatsoever. We are aware of Mimihagi from the manga, which is essentially a Shinto myth, but Kubo, again, does not world-build. You could probably assume there is a more or less 1:1 tale about anything normally found in Shinto with the exception of ghosts. (in the Soul Society)

But otherwise, no. Just folk tales made up by random Rukongai denizens to kill some time around a fire at night.

The Manga did confirm that there is a chikushudo from whence hengeyokai (Komamura) exist. Makes sense, as the other 5 realms of shinto-budhism exist even in our site's canon. It's where animal souls go when they die.

Oh definitely not in the city for sure. After all that's human territory, and even in the outskirts, probably nothing to much for a district to handle. But people eat meat there. So there are animal souls that pass over. So it's not unlikely that every predator that ever existed and didn't reincarnate / die of old soul age. Passes through there.  



Well ... Kubo did at least attempt to World build with the warewolves ... In typical Kubo fashion (make stuff up, make it violent and dues ex-y, and hope no one notices any lack of substance). Who was Mimihagi though? I only know of Saijin and his elder. As the only non-normalish souls in Soul Society.


As for things in Shinto ... that actually in interesting and something I can work with.

No, what Kubo did is not world-building. He vaguely elucidated a character's backstory and then abandoned it/him.

Genuine world-building is establishing information for the sake of thematic clarity, having nothing direct to do with a specific character and instead only providing structure and framework from which to refer and classify. So like, a list of the last 20 Captains of the Third Division, would be world-building. Not "How Miyuki Wakahisa got appointed to be Captain", which may include information about a previous Captain or two. Does that make sense?

Eastern spirituality doesn't need clarity because it's traditions are retold by poetry, not prose. This has nothing to do with our site, which is prose driven and why there are several elements of manga we don't include.

If you use elements of it, you need to confine it within our established world. The hengeyokai could just be the minions of a rogue shinigami with a furry fetish and a big ego. It makes more sense for our site than "the realm of animal souls". Of course, if you keep it vague for a few years it becomes less cumbersome to introduce to our canon gradually.