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Is it unpopular to have Cirucci Sanderwicci as a favorite Espada? If you ask me, I feel like she is a Privaron because her crime was serving an illegal amount of cunt 🙂‍↕️

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You know who was really cool in Bleach and doesn’t get a lot of love? Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio. He’s just got so much going on with his design that I absolutely love, but I think a lot of it is easy to miss in his fleeting appearance(s).

The most obvious is his devilish and classic villainous hair, taken from classic “el diablo” aesthetic, but is itself taken from various depictions of the character Mephistopheles. But it plays right into Kubo’s Spanish language gimmick with the Arrancar. His appearance as the start of the real Los Noches fight marathon for team Ichigo was also a real “Welcome to Hell” moment for upping the stakes on this new conflict.

His kind of laughably long name btw isn’t random, it’s a reference to classic American actors and their typecast role of The Latin Lover that was prevalent in the 1930s-40s. It was basically the film adaptation of the literary “tall dark and handsome” trope, epitomized in Spanish, Mexican, and sometimes Italian foreigners; smoldering, passionate macho seducers.

It wasn’t actually meant to be a particularly harmful character type originally, but taking the creative reigns on “male lover” character writing away from the women pining for him, and putting it into the hands of men who were prone to being existentially threatened by him, resulted in them being morphed into predictably moralizing cautionary tales against white american women fucking darkskinned foreigners… because that’s just what this shit always turns into…

Anyway… Point being is that some of the big names in this type were men like Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro, and Gilbert Roland, all of which were working names for the silver screen. Their actual names were, Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, José Ramón Gil Samaniego, and Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, respectively.

Then there’s his flamboyant posing, his high collar, chest pulling at the “buttons” of his uniform, tasseled sleeves, long hip sash (i don’t know why Kubo chose the weird fluffy looking fabric for it tho…) and his metal plated shoes(some sort of combat tap shoes) all of which pull from Flamenco dancing. Although the posing isn’t used very accurately the broad sweeping arm motions and the fingers together hand gesture make the reference pretty clear.

Then there’s his Resurreccion, which I’ve talked about before, but it bears repeating… The name Giralda is the Spanish word for “weathercock” a weathervane obviously shaped like a rooster. It’s why his release cry is “whirl” and his Resurreccion is bunch of whirling tornadoes with bird beaks, and the spinning motion is also a reference to the Flamenco dancing again. But there’s more! The rooster theme is also spun into a reference to cockfighting, which is frankly kind of a broad reaching practice but has some notable history in Spain, by proxy Mexico via colonialism, and Thailand.

I mention Thailand because Dordoni’s kick-based fighting style seems to have some strong kickboxing and/or muay thai influence behind it. The cockfight theme generally falls back on kicking because, obviously, roosters fight largely with their talons, often equipped in cockfights with razors to expedite fights. (Pokemon knows what im talking about) But the muay thai fighting style is also known for its use of elbows and knees, and that lines up with the Flamenco high knee poses already in use for Dordoni. It’s a super fun mix of aesthetics, and a really fun way to turn Dordoni into a dance fighter.

And then just as a tiny little cherry on top, when Ichigo kind of earns the respect of Dordoni and Dordoni tells Ichigo to leave while he handles the Exequias, we get a little Spanish bullfighter tossed in there!

He’s really just got such a cool character design going for him, and Kubo clearly put a lot of careful thought and bits of research into it. It’s more than he seems to put into a lot of side characters, so it’s kind of a shame that I don’t think that effort gets particularly recognized, and he’s not exactly a fan favorite. He feels to me almost like Quilge does to the Sternritter, where if someone had to be THE poster child for their faction, it’d be them.

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