>>23249272>>23249689>>23248224Spaniards and portuguese were two of the best sailors and shipbuilders of that era. Lots of spanish-portuguese words are loanwords in japanese language (bread = pan).
There were lots of successful spanish pirates (Amaro Pargo, Iñigo de Arieta, Cabeza de Perro) but they were much less celebrated so today they remain uknown because they were criminals stealing from their own country while the british had "patentes de corso" that made legal for their criminals to steal from other countries, so they proudly embraced those kind of criminal acts.
She's fighting other pirates in her MV, but I doubt the choice of waving the spanish flag was based upon those historic details, we were just an important player in the Age of Discovery and Spain has good reputation for being a fun and exotic country to travel to between japanese people.
Festival a spanish flag in her bio.
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