I've heard mention of a marine named this… but I can't remember him at all. Any help?
According to the Marine rank guide, he's the same ranking as Garp.
EDIT:Ah, I found it. He's the guy yelling at the Marine troops after Luffy had a bounty put on him.
http://www.romancedawn.com/marinha/John.html
His name was only mentioned in OP Blue. Anything else about him?
I know he reads announcements but I don't know his official position. I have it typed up on a private list at home. If nobody answers by the weekend (which they will) I'll let you know.
I don't remember him being there in the main story, might've been mentioned somewhere or maybe on a cover story. though it does mention about Big John being in volume 11. take a looksie.
He shows up in the part where the crew just left Kokoyashi Village; this Marine HQ is located in East Blue, so I guess this guy's rank is below Aokiji. He is Vice-Admiral, right?
With the Gorosei and Admirals like Aokiji, I don't think there's enough space for John Giant to fit in the roles of the "uber elite and powerful marine/world government officers".
Originally posted by changsho@Apr 26 2005, 07:10 PM
He shows up in the part where the crew just left Kokoyashi Village; this Marine HQ is located in East Blue, so I guess this guy's rank is below Aokiji. He is Vice-Admiral, right?
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Actually the Marine HQ is located on the Grand Line. Well that´s just half true actually it is located on the Red Line. It´s that part of the Red Line that you get to when you´ve crossed the first half of the Grand Line. After Aokiji saw that the Strawhat´s next destination is Water 7 he said to himself that they are getting pretty close to the HQ.
Originally posted by changsho@Apr 26 2005, 02:10 PM
With the Gorosei and Admirals like Aokiji, I don't think there's enough space for John Giant to fit in the roles of the "uber elite and powerful marine/world government officers".
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Why not?
There needs to be an intermediate level between the three Admirals and the various Captains.
Let's see…
1 Chief Admiral
3 Admirals
5 Gorosei
7 Shichibukai
If there are nine Ancient Weapons, that might mean that there are thirteen Vice Admirals. We know that there's at least five of them because of the Buster Call, but you'd think that a single military operation wouldn't require all of them.
Isn't John Giant a Vice-Admiral? If the Buster Call got executed, then maybe we'll see him again.
But why would there be 13 of them? Enlighten me, please…
Originally posted by changsho@Apr 26 2005, 07:51 PM
**Isn't John Giant a Vice-Admiral? If the Buster Call got executed, then maybe we'll see him again.But why would there be 13 of them? Enlighten me, please…
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The way I see it John Giant is "just" a regular Admiral. Somenoe who´s above Vice-Admirals but below Supreme Admirals.
Originally posted by Ivotas+Apr 26 2005, 10:07 PM–>QUOTE(Ivotas @ Apr 26 2005, 10:07 PM)
John Giant is a chuujou, a vice-admiral (same as Garp).
the bigot who thinks being an asshole is actually worth shit
Originally posted by Cap'n Carter@Apr 26 2005, 09:22 PM
John Giant is a chuujou, a vice-admiral (same as Garp).
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Thanks for clearing that up. The only "official" I´ve read so far was Admiral in the german version. And since there have already been lots of mistranslations I didn´t want to mention it.
By a freak twist of nature I came home for about 5 minutes and during that time I remembered to check on this. That is indeed his rank. It also notes (as I mentioned) that he is the one who makes the charge of 'JUSTICE' to the Marines. There's no other available information on him.
Ah, thanks.
I rewatched 45 to hear his and Brandnew's voices, and I swear, the Marine officials look more damn criminal than most pirates we've seen. I wouldn't doubt it, knowing how this particular government works.
I really like Brandnew and John Giant, not to mention some of the other miscellaneous Marines. I really hope we see more of them later, it'd be a waste to not see some more of these cool character designs.
Originally posted by changsho@Apr 26 2005, 02:51 PM
Isn't John Giant a Vice-Admiral? If the Buster Call got executed, then maybe we'll see him again.
Depends on what his job is; his entire role in life may be to announce to the Marines that a bounty has been assigned on a person. If so, he probably wouldn't be in a Buster Call.
But why would there be 13 of them? Enlighten me, please…
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Hmm… actually, that should be eleven rather than thirteen, I guess I wasn't really paying attention when I wrote that.
Anyway, people have a natural desire to group things into easily remembered numbers; prime numbers are most common used.
Consider Tolkien for instance:
1 Ring to Rule Them All
3 Elvish Rings
5 Races (Ents, Elves, Men, Dwarves, and Hobbits; Orcs and Trolls are bastardizations of the Ents and Elves)
7 Dwarven Rings
9 Rings of Man/Ringwraiths/Members of the Fellowship
It's just a side-effect of having a human mind as this sort of thing pops up just about everywhere.
So far, we've seen, in the World Government alone:
1 Chief Admiral
3 Admirals
5 Gorosei
7 Shichibukai
9 Cipher Pols
The next number in the sequence would be eleven.
Vice Admirals might be next in the sequence, so there's a good chance that there's at least eleven of them.
The way I see it, Vice Admirals seem to have DF powers or special abilities of their own, because they seem quite formidable.
Smoker could've been one if he wants too (which I doubt he does). That guy's a Logia, for heaven's sake!
i just have a feeling that smoker will stop being a marine. ever since what they did after alabasta
Brandnew uy is one that looks like Mr. 5?
If so, in the brazilian verison of One Piece his name was something like Fanjyu, Fanyu, Foujyu, don't remember, have to check.
I rewatched 45 to hear his and Brandnew's voices, and I swear, the Marine officials look more damn criminal than most pirates we've seen. I wouldn't doubt it, knowing how this particular government works.
I mean damn, look at these guys!
http://onepiece.animemanga.de/media/pictur…2F045%2F028.jpg
http://onepiece.animemanga.de/media/pictur…2F045%2F021.jpg
