Crescent-Moon Galley

Crescent-Moon Galley (Crescent-Moon Gary in the English anime) is a famous pirate captain who is famous for his crescent-shaped mustache and beard. Galley seems to be a prototype for Buggy the Clown. He appears as the main in Romance Dawn V.1 and its remake. He also makes a small filler appearance during Episode 48 of the anime.

Romance Dawn
In Romance Dawn V.1, Galley is a famous Morgaina pirate who is known for his crescent mustache. He is apparently very powerful, being one of the "Big Three" pirates (no more details about the "Big Three" are ever reavealed). However comporaed to Monkey D. Luffy, he is very weak.

Luff first spots Galley's ship and decides to take it over so he won't have to sail in his dinghy. He defeats Galley's crew with ease and ties them up. The ship then lands at Silk's hometown and Galley escapes and his men escape and try to take revenge on Luffy. Luffy frightens them when they learn he is a Rubberman and they run away after. Luffy is then tied up by the townspeople, who think he is Galley. Galley then takes Luffy hostage and steals the town's treasure. He then enrages Luffy by smashing his hat, and gets Luffy thrown into the ocean. Luffy is then saved by Silk and uses Gomu Gomu no Axe to destroy Galley's ship. A livid Galley swears revenge.

Galley is seen years later as a crewmember aboard Luffy's pirate ship, and tells him that land has been spotted. It seems that his encounter with Luffy changed him from a Morgaina pirate to a Peace Maine since Luffy said he wanted a crew made up of only Peace Maines.

Galley is set to appear in his original role in the new anime special which is based of Romance Dawn V.1. In the remake, Galley looks like a similar to a younger version of his Lougetown arc self.



Anime
Galley also has a small filler cameo in the Lougetown arc, where he is an elderly pirate called Galley of the Crescent Moon. with a bounty of 3,450,000. He and his crew are seen raiding buildings at Loguetown before being captured by Captain Smoker. Poppoko from the Alvida Pirates can be seen in Galley's crew and a Poppoko-like character appears in Romance Dawn as one of Galley's crewmemers.

Characteristics
Galley is very greedy and is known for plundering many towns. He seems to be very powerful but compared to Luffy he is a weakling. Because of this he fears Luffy, revealing his cowardly nature. However after Luffy defeats him he gets a grudge against him and plots revenge. Galley also several similarities with Buggy the Clown:


 * similar personality
 * grudge against Luffy and plotting revenge against him
 * the resemblance of Romance Dawn V.1 to the Buggy the Clown arc,
 * exchange between Luffy because of Luffy's straw hat.

After the events of Romance Dawn, it seems Galley reformed and became a Peace Maine because he is seen on Luffy's all-Peace Maine pirate crew.