One Piece Red: Grand Characters

One Piece Red: Grand Characters (ワンピース　レッド　グランド　キャラクターズ) is the first One Piece databook. It was released on January 5, 2002 and covers material from Volume 1 to Volume 21, comprising all of the East Blue Saga and most of the Alabasta Saga.

As its subtitle suggests, One Piece Red is concerned almost solely with character data. Roughly half its content consists of in-depth profiles on each of the first six Straw Hat Pirates, with the rest mostly consisting of shorter write-ups on all the other pirate crews (and Marines) encountered thus far. Much of its information is drawn directly from the manga (and/or Eiichiro Oda's SBS columns).

Contents
The contents proper are preceded by several full-color illustrations:
 * A reproduction of Chapter 1's color spread
 * A collage compiling the following:
 * Luffy from a Volume 1 inset
 * Zoro from Chapter 12's color spread
 * Shanks from Chapter 41's color cover
 * Usopp from Volume 5's cover
 * Sanji from Volume 7's cover
 * Nami from Volume 9's cover
 * Chopper from Volume 16's cover
 * A reproduction of Chapter 100's color spread
 * A reproduction of Chapter 137's color cover

Monkey D. Luffy
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 178's Gomu Gomu no Baku Baku; and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Shanks
 * Makino and "Sonchou" (the as-yet unnamed mayor of Foosha Village)
 * Portgas D. Ace

Roronoa Zoro
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 194's Shishi Sonson; and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Mihawk
 * Johnny and Yosaku
 * Kuina
 * Tashigi

Nami
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 193's Tornado Tempo, and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Bellemere
 * Nojiko
 * Genzo

Usopp
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 186's Uso-Cho Hammer Suisei, and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Yasopp
 * Dorey and Burogy
 * The "Pirate Groop Usopp" (Ninjin, Piiman, and Tamanegi)
 * Kaya

Also features Usopp's personal listing of the world's top five liars (himself, Crocodile, Don Krieg, Nami, and Mr. 2 Bon Clay, with Luffy and Alvida as honorable mentions).

Sanji
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 189's Veau Shot, and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Zeff
 * Patty and Carne

Tony Tony Chopper
History section, catalogs all techniques up to Chapter 186's Horn Point, and includes mini-profiles on:
 * Dr. Hiluluk
 * Dr. Kureha

Proper Check
Concluding the Straw Hats' profiles is the Proper Check (適正チェック) personality test, featuring many branching paths resulting in nine possible types:
 * Luffy (A)
 * Zoro (B)
 * Usopp (C)
 * Nami (D)
 * Sanji (E)
 * Vivi (F)
 * Chopper (G)
 * Arlong (H)
 * Mr. 2 Bon Clay (I)

Pirates Report

 * Red Hair Pirates
 * Alvida Pirates
 * Buggy Pirates
 * Black Cat Pirates
 * Krieg Pirates
 * Arlong Pirates
 * Baroque Works
 * Other Pirates (Whitebeard Pirates, Blackbeard Pirates, Giant Warrior Pirates and Shichibukai)
 * The Marines

Special Comic
A bonus section that reprints two supplemental stories:
 * Little Buggy's Adventure (resized to fit three or four installments to a page)
 * Romance Dawn, Version 1

People Named
This databook provided the first "official" romanizations for a number of side characters' names. While several of them have been supplanted by later materials, this article will retain all the spellings originally found in the databook, noting "obvious" errors where appropriate.


 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Shanks
 * Makino
 * Portgas D. Ace
 * Roronoa Zoro
 * Yosaku
 * Johnny
 * Mihawk
 * Kuina
 * Tashigi
 * Nami
 * Bellemere
 * Genzo
 * Nojiko
 * Usopp
 * Yasopp
 * Burogy
 * Dorey
 * Pirate Groop Usopp
 * Kaya
 * Sanji
 * Zeff
 * Carne
 * Patty
 * Tony Tony Chopper
 * Dr. Hiriluk
 * Dr. Kureha
 * Benn Beckman
 * Lucky Roo
 * Alvida
 * Buggy
 * Mohji
 * Cabaji
 * Kuro
 * Jango
 * Nyaban Brothers
 * Buchi
 * Sham
 * Krieg
 * Pearl
 * Gin
 * Arlong
 * Hatchan
 * Kuroobi
 * Chew
 * Wapol
 * Kuromarimo
 * Chess
 * Chessmarimo
 * Mr. 0 Crocodile
 * Baroque Works
 * Miss ALLSUNDAY
 * Officer Agent
 * Mr. 1
 * Miss DOUBLEFINGER
 * Mr. 2
 * Mr. 3
 * Miss GOLDENWEEK
 * Mr. 4
 * Miss MERRYCHRISTMAS
 * Mr. 5
 * Miss VALENTINE
 * Frontier Agent
 * Mr. 6
 * Miss MOTHER'SDAY
 * Mr. 7
 * Miss FATHER'SDAY
 * Mr. 8
 * Miss MONDAY
 * Mr. 9
 * Miss WEDNESDAY
 * Mr. 10
 * Miss TUESDAY
 * Mr. 11
 * Miss THURSDAY
 * Mr. 12
 * Miss SATURDAY
 * Unluckies
 * Mr. 13
 * Miss FRIDAY
 * Fullbody
 * Brannew
 * Pudding Pudding
 * Smoker

Trivia

 * This book's cover illustrations of the Straw Hats would be reproduced in the anime's fourth opening, BON VOYAGE!

Site Navigation
ca:One Piece Red: Grand Characters fr:Databooks One Piece/Red : Grand Characters id:One Piece Red: Grand Characters pl:One Piece Red: Grand Characters