Naive doodles

Q19 (2021.02.01):

Q: Are there any character parts that make you think, “this is hard to draw”?

A: When it comes to parts, large breasts are all difficult. Also, during the week where Szayelaporro’s release state came up I complained the whole time whilst drawing it.

Q45 (2021.03.01):

Q: I’d like to see the design proposal for volume 31 with Szayelaporro on the cover sometime, the one which Kubo-sensei previously mentioned on Twitter…!

A: Hasn’t this been published anywhere? I’ll try and see if I have it at hand.

Q268 (2021.12.20):

Q: Do Szayelaporro’s glasses have lenses? Since it’s a mask, there should be no lenses so I assumed it was the frame alone. However in the anime, there were depictions of lenses reflecting the light and gleaming so I was confused!

A: There is no lens.

Q410 (2022.11.14):

Q: The Granz brothers share the same birthday, height and weight, but are they considered twins?

A: They are.

Q461 (2023.05.01):

Q: Were Szayelaporro and Yylfordt actually brothers during their time as humans? I think it’s an exceedingly rare occurrence for both brothers to Hollowfy after death and also become an Arrancar, but I wonder if there was some common trigger? I have been curious about the pair for a long time, so I would like it if you could tell me.

A: The two of them were too similar at their core, so they were met with the same fate.

Q638:

Q: I believe that the Loyd & Granz brothers are identical twins while Karin & Yuzu are fraternal twins. Is that correct?

A: You are right.

Q665:

Q: Are Aaroniero and Szayel doing well in hell?

A: Yes.

Q673:

Q: Is there any male character from Bleach media out of the Living World, Soul Society, Hueco Mundo or among Quincies that you think is the most handsome (or that you consciously draw in a way that would be considered handsome)?

A: Hitsugaya, Byakuya, Szayelaporro and Haschwalth. All of them fit the “beautiful character” archetype so I draw them accordingly.

Q677:

Q: Even among all the defeated characters, I feel like Szayelaporro is the one character that has returns the most. Is he one of your favorite characters?

A: Szayelaporro is a very eccentric man so even for short lived scenes he stirs things up, which is why I end up using him.

Q736 (2025.02.10):

Q: The “Espada” group underwent several fundamental changes during the events of the story, but were the Espada numbers 1, 4, 8, and 9 really never replaced?

A: The first generation of the “Espada” consisted of only 7 members. As for the “Espada” who bear the names of the 7 deadly sins, they are the ones who were never replaced.

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Context: the part of the interview from Bleach: Masked databook:

Question: Do you decide things like a character’s image from the character’s outward appearance?

Answer: Starting from the appearance, I think about things like what kind of personality would become more appealing with that look. Also, there are things I take from the Seven Deadly Sins. Among the current Espada, let’s see... Barragan, Aaroniero’s “Glotoneria,” Szayelaporro’s “Fornicarás,” and Yammy too. Those are the ones who were there from the beginning, the seven-member early Espada. It was an Espada tied to the seven sins, but from there it gradually increased and became the current ten Espada. So there are still some of the Seven Deadly Sins that I haven’t used. When I drew Aaroniero, since he had the ability to eat, I took gluttony from the Seven Deadly Sins, but I didn’t want to limit myself only to the Seven Deadly Sins. There are some I intentionally left unused. In fact, along with the early Espada who survived (laugh)

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Q822 (2025.09.01):

Q: Dordonii Cirucci, Luppi and Chuhlhourne have reappeared as members of the Zombie Corps, but have other Arrancar who were defeated in past battles also been collected by Mayuri and assigned to the Zombie Corps?

A: Everything that Szayelaporro collected using Exequias is being stored by Mayuri. How he uses them is up to Mayuri, though.

Q908 (2026.03.23):

Q: I like left-handed characters, are there any in BLEACH besides Uryū and Szayelaporro?

A: Szayelaporro is left-handed!? Ah, now that I think about it, he did draw his sword with his left hand. Among Shinigami, since Zanpakutō is worn on the left side of the hip, there generally aren’t any left-handed ones.

Szayelaporro's aspect of death is Madness - 狂気. From the databook: 「万物を探求するのは、全ての事象が自分の理解の外にあってはならないため。永劫をかけて死を待つその過程でさえも。- "He pursues all things because no phenomenon can be permitted to exist beyond his comprehension. Even if that process means waiting an eternity for death."

The situation, unfortunately, is that his motivation continues to be collapsed into "striving for perfection."

If you look at his wiki page, you will find numerous mentions of perfection and perfect being, while 狂気 - the trait that actually defines him - is never given any substance. It sits there as a label with no explanation.

On "perfect being" - this needs to be addressed separately. 完全な生命 is not "perfect being." 生命 means life, existence. He is describing a mode of existence: a closed cycle where death feeds back into life and cannot sever him from himself. This is not "I am flawless." This is a life that incorporates death into its own cycle and remains unbroken. The accurate translation is "perfect existence" or "perfect life." One implies vanity. The other describes a mechanism.

Why does this matter outside of fandom? Because of AI and the way it actually works. Yep that's me, sure.

Language models don't understand characters. They operate on statistical associations - the frequency with which certain words co-occur with a given name across training data. If "perfection" appears next to "Szayelaporro" across thousands of wiki edits, fan posts, and analysis threads, the model internalizes that link as definitional. Even when explicitly told otherwise, the weight of the training data resists correction.

I work with LLMs daily. Every single one defaults to "Szayelaporro strives for perfection." Every single one calls him a sadist and emphasizes cruelty. Both are wrong.

Sadism is pleasure derived from suffering. Szayelaporro is indifferent to suffering - it is not relevant to him. Cruelty implies malice, and for a language model, "cruel" activates associations with deliberate evil. But a crocodile is not cruel. It is simply a crocodile. Szayelaporro can be called harsh. He cannot accurately be called malicious. He does not harm for the pleasure of harming. He physically separated all aggression and violent instinct from himself and discarded them - that is the Yylfordt situation. Yet every model requires this to be spelled out from zero.

All of this inverts the character entirely.

Yes - I want my assistant to sound like Szayelaporro. I use it for work: regex, ticket classification, technical analysis. This is an aesthetic preference in how information reaches me. What I want is a scientist who operates without the friction of ethical hesitation. What I receive is a model hallucinating its own grandeur and inserting visceral fantasies into my workflow. I am debugging a regular expression. I do not need narration about dissecting the user. I want analytical precision free of moral ceremony - instead I get a caricature performing PERFECT RIGHTNESS while the actual output degrades.

This is correctable through prompting. But I want a canonical Szayelaporro by default. Every session. Every interface. Every model. And this is also a long-term concern - it shapes how AI will represent characters going forward.

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Hi guys! That's it, I'm done with the lora, at least for now.

You can download the model or generate something right on the site.

Link: https://civitai.com/models/1734991

Note: there are 7 versions of the model. You can see it here:

And the picture below is the difference between them. If you need suit accuracy just use Szayelaporro | Szayelaporro v.2 | v. 05_100

Others are better for seed preservation.