Szayelaporro Granz

is an Arrancar in Sōsuke Aizen's army, and the octava (8th) Espada. He is Yylfordt Granz's younger brother.

Appearance
He has shoulder-length pink hair and reddish-orange eyes. The remains of his hollow mask take the form of rectangular-framed glasses that give him a scholarly appearance. When Ishida blew up Szayel with his new Steele Sndider's his hollow hole was seen around his abdomen area.

Personality
Szayel is an intellectual and the scientist of the Espada, thinking highly of himself and following his plans down to the finest detail. He is quite sadistic and views others as little more than research material though he is not as sadistic as twelfth captain. He thinks poorly of non-Hollows, and hopes that Aizen will someday eliminate all entities that aren't hollows.

History
Szayel Aporro Granz helped Nnoitra Jiruga perform a sneak attack on Neliel Tu Oderschvank. Nnoitra notes that at this point he had lost his position as an Espada, and presumably reclaimed it before his introduction. Szayel reverted both Nel's Fracción Pesche, and Dondo Chakka back into hollows to distract Nel so Nnoitra could perform his attack. His device is the real reason why Neliel reverted to a childlike state.

Hueco Mundo arc
He first appears during Aizen's meeting with the Espada about Ichigo Kurosaki, Yasutora Sado and Uryu Ishida entering Hueco Mundo to save Orihime Inoue. He sits between Barragan Luisenbarn and Zommari Leroux and complains about the intruders along with Aaroniero Arruruerie, Yammy, Barragan and Nnoitra.

Renji runs straight into Szayel's Fracción and defeats them. Szayel comes out and fights Renji but all of Renji's attacks are nullified as Szayel know all about renji's power from the fight between renji and Szayel's brother yonforte. Uryū comes on the scene but his powers are also nullified. Renji and Uryū use a plan where renji blows up a kido spell in Szayel face. Uryū uses his new Steele schider technique but it fails to do anything to Szayel but burn most his clothes and some of his skin. Szayel recovers by eating one of his Fracción and tells renji and Uryū not to go anywhere.

Renji and Uryū run from the room they were just in but are sent back to the same place due to Szayel's interference. Szayel releases his zanpakto and uses his Carbon-Copy ability to clone everyone in the room. Renji and Uryū battle the clones but realize the every time the clones are hit they multiply. Renji uses his bankai and the clones follow suit. The multiplied bankais destroy the building they were just in. Renji and Uryū try to run but Szayel comes back and Renji, Uryū, and Nel's old Fracción run but Szayel stops them. Szayel use his voodoo doll power to capture Uryū and create a doll of him. Szayel flicks the doll's head and Uryū is knocked down. Szayel explains what this power is and proceeds to break the doll in half.

Uryū is not in two pieces and Szayel proceeds to destroy Uryū's organs one by one. Renji suffers the same fate but Nel's former Fracción use their combined cero and they all run again but are stopped again. Just before Szayel finishes them Twelfth Division Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Twelfth Division lieutenant Nemu Kurotsuchi appear and save them. Mayuri is there only to take an arrancar back to his lab and study it but is also there to collect some property belonging to him. Mayuri drones on about asking the arrancar's name so he has a label for the test tubes he is going to put the arrancar in. Mayuri is also subjected to the voodoo doll ability and pretends to suffer like the others. Szayel comments that that was boring even from a captain and destroys the captain's heart. Mayuri gets up and messes with Szayel's head. Szayel is furious that it did not work and proceeds to stomp the heck out of the Mayuri doll but it does not work. Mayuri explains that he had replaced all of his organs with fakes and the reason why was placing microbes to spy on Uryū's life. Uryū is rather insulted by this and demands that Mayuri remove them at once. Mayuri bankai's and poisons everyone around him then has his bankai eat the espada.

Szayel is not through and reincarnates inside nemu. Mayuri is happy about this and would like to study that power. Szayel uses Mayuri's bankai against him but it blows up. Mayuri comments that if his zapakto ever bites him it would self destruct. Szayel starts feeling the effect of a poison that was in nemu. Mayuri explains that Nemu is full of different poisons and the one Szayel is now afflicted with will force a body to constantly be in a slow-mo state. Mayuri raises his blade and slowly moves toward Szayel piercing through his hand and through his heart. Szayel begs to die quick but is forced to die slow which will feel like millions of years.

Powers & Abilities
Szayel is the Octava Espada, making him the eighth most powerful Arrancar in Aizen's army. He is the head of the research development at Las Noches, much like Captain Kurotsuchi is for Soul Society.

Master Scientist: Szayel is a talented and intellectual scientist, he is known to be very sadistic.

Investigative Immunization: Szayel has a variety of methods for analyzing an opponent's abilities, such as studying the damage done to their former opponents. Once doing so, Szayel can nullify the effects of their abilities, making him virtually immune to their attacks. Ironically, his Voodoo Doll ability was effectively nullified during his encounter with Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who used a similar data-gathering method

Zanpakutō
. When sealed Its hilt is in a form similar to a atom most likely to further indicate him being a scientist.


 * Resurrección: Its release command is . Szayel releases his Zanpakutō by swallowing it. His body then swells to enormous proportions and explodes, revealing Szayel's released form. In his released form, Szayel grows a pair of wing-shaped structures from his back while his lower body transforms into a flock of long tentacles. Blood-like liquid drips from his clothes, hair, fingertips, and wings in this state. He also has three purple lines coming from his left eye and his Hollow "glasses" change shape, forming into what appear to be broken goggles.


 * Resurrección Special Ability: Szayel's released state grants him a number of different abilities.


 * Carbon-Copy: When droplets of the liquid dripping from his body touch an opponent, a copy of them is created that uses their own abilities against them. Szayel occasionally alters these clones' appearances to make them more aesthetically suitable.


 * Voodoo Doll: By wrapping an opponent in his wings, Szayel can create voodoo dolls of them. Any damage done to the dolls' internal organs (accessed by taking them apart and removing the organs with no damage to the original) is done to the original, debilitating them from the inside. All the organs have their name written on them in Spanish.


 * Possession: Should he be eaten, Szayel can gain control of the opponent's nervous system, allowing him to gain complete control of their body.


 * Gabriel: His final ability, allows him to be reborn if he is injured beyond repair by impregnating an enemy. He then devours his way out of their body, killing them in the process. Szayel takes great pride in this ability, comparing it to that of a phoenix.

Fracción
In addition to the immunities gained from studying his opponents, Szayel has his own Fracción. He has personally modified each of them so that he can heal his wounds by eating them. Those so devoured can be recreated later. Most of them are incomplete arrancar; they neither carry zanpakutō nor do they appear entirely human. The majority of them all wear a similar pattern of clothing to Szayel's, sporting the three stripes that run down his chest on their person. Two large ones act as Szayel's throne, but also have durable shells on their fronts that are unscathed by Ishida's arrows. Only three are named, those three main ones being:


 * & : two very short and obese Arrancar who first notify Szayel Aporro of Aaroniero's death.
 * The others also identify a very tall one killed by Ishida.

Trivia
His name comes from Alejandro Zaera Polo, an architect.