Curly Dadan

Curly Dadan is Monkey D. Garp's friend. She is the Mt. Corbo mountain tribe boss of the Dadan family. Garp entrusted her to take care of Portgas D. Ace shortly after the boy's birth. Later, Garp also left Luffy in Dadan's care. Dadan lives on Mt. Corbo near the Windmill Village.

Appearance
Dadan is a rather tall and overweight woman with long, curly hair and a big face. In her appearance in Luffy's flashback, she was seen smoking. She wears a shirt, a beaded necklace, chequered trousers held up with a dark-coloured belt, and black boots.

History
As Dadan was a criminal noted to have performed countless crimes, Garp blackmailed to arrest them if they refused to take care of Ace and Luffy. As the Dadan family accepted Garp's offer, the Vice Admiral kept the Government's eyes diverted from the bandits' actions.

Though Dadan is shown to be angry when Ace nearly killed people who offended his heritage, Ace did seem to like her.

Translation and Dub Issues
Dadan's full name has yet to be officially romanized by any source. Neither the official English editions, (FUNimation, Viz) nor anyone on the Japanese side of production (Oda, Shueisha, Toei) have given any official spelling of the name. Thus, "Curly Dadan" is only a fan transliteration, with other possibles being "Kaari" "Carly", "Karly", "Kurly", etc. Until an official spelling is written, nothing is technically "Correct" much in the same way Oars' name was similarly misspelled early on (as Oz, Odz, Odr, etc). Still, the kanji of her name is the same for the mother godness from the hinduism, Kali.

Trivia

 * The mayor of Luffy's hometown, Woop Slap, knows about her, as he states "Does Dadan know!?"
 * Just before he dies, Ace asks Luffy to tell Dadan "goodbye" for him.
 * The Dadan Family seemed to be a notorious group of mountain bandits as Garp claimed their crimes were "more than the stars"

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