Manolo Sánchez

Manolo Sánchez is the main protagonist of the 20th Century Fox and Reel FX Animation Studios' 2014 computer-animated feature film The Book of Life.
He is the son of Carlos Sánchez, the longtime best friend of Joaquín Mondragon, and the best friend and love interest (later husband) of María Posada, as well as a bullfighter and guitarist. He also is the arch-nemesis of Chakal the Bandit King.
He is voiced and sung by , who also portrayed Cassian Andor from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story & Star Wars: Andor, and voiced Krel Tarron from Tales of Arcadia, Chip from DC League of Super-Pets, and Prince Zatz from Maya and the Three.
==Physical Appearance==
Manolo wears a black Traje de luces decorated with hearts, winged hearts, and corazón del santos, skulls with crossbones, and gold chaquetilla with a pink corbatin and taleguilla. Also Manolo wears black zapatillas and appears to have pink/red espadas. The sleeves of his chaquetilla have curls protruding from the elbows.
Manolo has dark brown and black hair tied back into a ponytail which curls at the end. His bangs and hair curl upwards into a curly swirl.
Manolo has olive skin textured like wood with silver, metal joints in his points of articulation. His eyes are brown with a glossy texture to them. He has a white highlight that comes from usually the top of his cornea to the middle of his pupil.
==Personality==
Manolo has always been a very musical character at heart, being passionate, bold and voracious. He loves to play the guitar and has dreamt of becoming a musician ever since he was a boy and uses music to express how he is feeling or relieve stress. But his father has always pushed him to become a bullfighter like everyone else in the Sanchez family and ignore his talents for music, leaving Manolo feeling like he doesn't belong anywhere. Compared to Joaquín while battling for María's heart, Manolo is the more humbled and deals with awkwardness and low self-esteem, shown during his song where he sings that he is a "creep", a "weirdo" and that "he doesn't belong". His greatest fear, however was ultimately being himself, which the spirits force him to overcome. Instead of delivering the final blow to the anger-fuelled bull, he apologizes to the beast using music, accepting himself as not just a Sanchez man but as his own person.
Manolo's very loving as he was even willing to let himself die so he could be with Maria for eternity. He was also the first Sanchez in the long family line to understand that killing the bull was wrong.
==Relationships==
===Maria Posada===
María and Manolo have always been best friends since they were children. Manolo has always been in love with Maria, He vowed to always play from the heart due to what she engraved on his guitar. He loved her so much that he was willing to die to meet her in the Land of the Remembered. Ten years later Maria and Manolo end up marrying each other in the near the end of the film.
===Joaquín Mondragon===
Joaquín is Manolo's other best friend since they were children. Their relationship dwindled somewhat due to being pulled in different directions by General Posada and Carlos Sanchez expectations for the boys. Not much is shown of their relationship, but it is certainly a strong friendship, as 10 years of rivalry for Maria's love hasn't set them apart.
===Carlos Sánchez===
Carlos is Manolo's father and husband to the deceased Carmen. Carlos wanted his first born and only son Manolo to follow and continue the Sanchez family tradition of being a bullfighter, but Manolo instead wants to become musician than become a Sanchez bullfighter like almost all Sanchez family bullfighters before him. Carlos truly thinks and believes that a bullfighter must always kill the bull in bullfighting, which causes an even greater rift between father and son.
===Carmen Sánchez===
Carmen is the deceased wife of Carlos, the mother of Manolo, and the daughter- in- law to Luis Sanchez. She never wanted Manolo to take on the family role as a bullfighter, despite what Carlos always told Manolo. Carmen was always willing to help Manolo, and she had love and kindness plus fierceness and toughness all in one heart.
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