Sadi

Sadi-chan is a Chief Guard of Impel Down. Her name comes from the word sadism. As such, her entire character motif is based on sadomasochism.

Appearance
Sadi-chan has long unkept orange hair that covers her eyes. She resembles a dominatrix in design.

She dresses in a very skimpy red (hot pink in the anime) devil-themed outfit. Her outfit covers only the top half of her exposed breasts with laces that hang down that are also featured around her waist. She has long sleeves that slope into stylized rips. Around her neck, she wears a scarf-like cape that is white on the outside and pale pink on the inside. She carries around a pitchfork and wears a headpiece that resembles horns. She wears candle-shaped earrings and high-heeled shoes that come to a curved tip decorated with spikes.

Personality
Sadi-chan is a sadistic person who enjoys bringing pain and torture to others, including Marine allies, and can't seem to get enough of their screams, getting sexually excited hearing them. She also seems to have extreme pride in the virtually perfect defenses of Impel Down, and refuses the assistance of the Marines.

She also tends to add "mmmmm--!?" in the middle of her sentences, and insists to be addressed as Sadi-chan, much as a dominatrix would insist on being addressed as "Mistress".

Abilities and Powers
Sadi-chan is a chief guard of Impel Down with some authority over lower ranking subordinates. Being in command over the Four Demon Guards, she is considered "stronger than four of them combined", much that they cower in fear whenever the sadist gets angry. During her fight with Ivankov, she was shown to have amazing evasive abilities and was able to keep up with the okama's speed.

Weapons
The pitchfork she carries around conceals a custom-designed whip which she can use adeptly. With it, she took out a section of the thick stone bridge over the Pool of Blood during Luffy's and Iva's mass breakout.

Attacks

 * Kofun no Geki: Akamamuchi (興奮の檄 赤魔鞭): Sadi-chan whips at her opponents with her pitchfork-concealed whip. This attack is strong enough to smash the stone bridge in Impel Down's Level Four. In the Viz Manga and FUNimation subs, this is called Manifesto of Excitement - Red Viper Whip.

Impel Down Arc
Sadi-chan was first seen standing outside the gates of Impel Down, refusing the assistance of the Marines in capturing Monkey D. Luffy, and ordered them to fortify Impel Down's outer defense instead. When Impel Down's forces were gathered in Level 4, she was shocked after hearing the Minotaurus' defeat, and was later assigned to guard the entrance to Level 5, where Magellan deduced Luffy will head, with the assistance of three remaining Demon Guards. She was then seen serving sake to them while waiting.

After Luffy's capture, she went to Level 3 and ordered the Demon Guards, as well as her other subordinates, to hunt for Mr. 2 Bon Kurei, who slipped to Level 5 with them unaware. Sadi-chan became very angry over the Demon Guards' failure to locate him, violently whipping them as a punishment.



After Luffy, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Jinbe and Crocodile escaped from Level 6, she was ordered by Hannyabal to go down to level 4 to confront them herself. She is seen with the other guards showing shock after Luffy, Jinbe and Crocodile effortlessly defeated three of the Demon Guards. Angered over this, she goes on the attack herself, using her whip to knock out a huge amount of prisoners, taking out a chunk of the bridge over the Pool of Blood in the process. Luffy nearly attacks her, but Iva throws him over the Chief Guard and battles Sadi-chan herself.



In their battle, Sadi-chan further demonstrates her abilties, capable of dodging most of Ivankov's attacks with extreme agility while destroying the environment around her, whipping with formidable strength. Despite her efforts, Ivankov managed to steal her whip and she was revealed to have lost the fight and, among other injuries, has had her back broken. Having been tied up with her own whip hanging from the ceiling, Magellan ordered his subordinates to untie her.

Later, after her recovery, she wakes up the Demon Guards by lashing them and orders them to go up to Level 1 to stop the riot on that floor.

Marineford Arc
Although the Blackbeard Pirates broke out of Impel Down as well, it is unknown what happened to Sadi-chan and the rest of the Impel Down staff.

Major Battles

 * Sadi-chan vs. Impel Down Prisoners
 * Sadi-chan vs. Emporio Ivankov

Early One Piece
In One Piece Green: Secret Pieces, an early concept of Sadi-chan was revealed. Instead of her current outfit, she had a so called "witch-like theme" along with a cape, and a strange mask that covered half of her face.

Translation and Dub Issues
Like Boa Hancock, Sadi-chan has also received edits to her clothing so that the bottom of her chest is no longer visible in Viz's Shonen Jump. Her top instead fully covers her chest and the frills are removed. This edit was discontinued in later serialized chapters.

Trivia

 * If one assumes the "Chan" is a part of her name, that makes her the second character to have a Japanese honorific problem with the word "Chan" in the name, the first being Hatchan who caused fan confusion over whether or not his name was an honorific.

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