Red Haired Pirate Crew
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The Red Haired Pirate Crew (赤髪海賊団 Akagami Kaizoku-dan?) are a fictional pirate crew from the anime and manga One Piece, led by Captain Red-Haired Shanks (赤髪のシャンクス Akagami no Shankusu?).
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[edit] Crew information
The Red-Haired Pirate crew spend most of their time partying and having a good time, as they are seen on most of their appearances. Their crew strength is considerably high, considering their captain is one of the Yonkou.
[edit] Notable members
[edit] "Red Haired" Shanks
Captain
- Seiyu:Shūichi Ikeda
- Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment): Tom Souhrada
- Voice Actor (FUNimation): Brandon Potter
Shanks is Monkey D. Luffy's childhood hero and a former member of Gold Roger's Crew. Despite having few appearances, he plays a major role in the series. Shanks has three scars across his left eye, inflicted in a battle with Blackbeard.[1] Shanks is missing his left arm, which he lost while saving Luffy from a Sea King. Shanks and his crew are almost always seen partying and drinking alcoholic beverages whenever they make an appearance as the Captain's favourite pastimes are attending and hosting parties and banquets. Shanks' fighting abilities are formidable; he was considered a rival of Mihawk prior to losing his arm, and he regularly clashed with Whitebeard's crew while serving under Gol D. Roger. His monstrous "spiritual intent" is so great that junior members of the Whitebeard crew pass out by merely being in his presence.
When he was still an apprentice he and Buggy the Clown worked on the same ship, although they were big rivals and disagreed on everything.
According to Oda, Shanks is the one character that resembles himself the most out of all the One Piece characters, because of his fun-loving partying nature.[2]
- Romance Dawn
Shanks appears in the One Piece pilot Romance Dawn, very similar to the final version of his character. The major difference is that his arm is eaten by a shark, instead of a Sea King.
[edit] Benn Beckman
First Mate
Seiyuu: Kazuyuki Sogabe (Luffy arc), Aruno Tahara (later)
- Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment):
- Voice Actor (FUNimation): Sean Hennigan
Ben Beckman (ベン・ベックマン Ben Bekkuman?) is the first mate in Red-Haired Shanks' pirate crew, he possesses astonishing wisdom and strength, and acts as an advisor to his captain. When first seen in the manga and anime, he wears his black hair in a ponytail, and is never seen without his rifle nearby or a cigarette in his mouth. Later in the series, his hair has turned grey and is cut short, and he has a large X-shaped scar on his left temple. He appears to be a lot less fun-loving than the other members of the crew but a lot more relaxed, acting as the level headed member. It appears he is quite strong, wiping out a large group of Higuma the Bear's mates rather quickly.
According to Eiichiro Oda, Ben Beckman has the highest IQ of all the characters introduced in the East Blue saga. [3]
- In the First Japanese Character Popularity Poll announced in volume 6 of the manga, Ben Beckman is ranked the 6th most popular character in One Piece.[4]
- In One Piece RED: Grand Characters, his name is written as "Benn Beckman" in Latin alphabet by Eiichiro Oda. This is also the spelling used in the English manga published by Viz Media.
[edit] Lucky Roux
Lieutenant
- Seiyuu: Jin Domon
- Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment): David Brimmer
- Voice Actor (FUNimation): John Burgmeier
Lucky Roux (ラッキー・ルウ Rakkī Ruu?) is the fat member of the pirate crew and is always seen eating a rack of meat. Lucky is also the first person to actually kill someone in One Piece and sets the stage for the series; a pirate's life is a dangerous one.
[edit] Yasopp
Sniper
Seiyuu: Michitaka Kobayashi
- Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment): Jason Anthony Griffith
- Voice Actor (FUNimation): Scott Freeman
Yasopp (ヤソップ Yasoppu?) is a gifted sharp-shooter said to be capable of shooting the legs off an ant at 100 feet without harming the rest of it. He is the father of Usopp and was one of Luffy's favorite members of the Red-Haired pirates. In his first appearance Yasopp wears a headband with his name on it. In his most recent appearances he has dropped the headband and grown dreadlocks.
In the anime only, Yasopp had a duel with Daddy the Father. Daddy lost against Yasopp and wanted to be killed, but Yasopp let him live after seeing a picture of his daughter.[5]
In the English Dub by 4Kids, Yasopp and Usopp have similar voices and are done by the same voice actor.
[edit] Rockstar
Miscellaneous Crew
- Seiyuu: Daisuke Gōri
- Voice Actor (FUNimation): ?
(94,000,000 beli bounty) Rockstar (ロックスター Rokkusutā?) is a newer member of Red-Haired Shanks pirate crew. Shanks sends him to deliver a message to Whitebeard, which the pirate captain promptly ripped up, going along with Shanks' prediction anyway. Rockstar wants to fight Whitebeard to reclaim his honor, but Shanks tells him it was no big deal and to pull back.
[edit] Pirate flag
Shanks's flag is a standard Jolly Roger, similar in appearance to the flag of Calico Jack. It has 3 slashes on the left eye and two swords in place of crossbones.
[edit] Ship
The Red-Hair Pirates ship is called "Red Force"[6], a large dragon-themed vessel.
[edit] References
- ^ One Piece Manga - Chapter 434, Blackbeard is revealed to have given Shanks his scars.
- ^ SBS questions: One Piece Manga - Vol.24 - Chapter 221, Fan question: Who is most like you Oda?
- ^ SBS questions: One Piece Manga - Vol.8 Chapter 65, Fan question: Who has the highest IQ?
- ^ Appendix of One Piece Manga - Vol.7 Chapter 60: Results of the 1st One Piece Character Popularity Poll
- ^ One Piece - Episode 50 - Yassop and Daddy's duel
- ^ One Piece databook - Yellow" Name of the ship belonging to Red-Haired Shanks
[edit] See also
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