Crocus



Seiyu: Goro Naya Crocus (クロッカス, Kurokkasu) is Laboon's caretaker and the overseer of the Lighthouse that guides ships coming down from Reverse Mountain into the Grand Line. He is the one who explains to the Straw Hat Pirates how the Grand Line works, about Log Poses (Grand Compasses in the English version), Raftel (the last island of the Grand Line and supposed resting place of One Piece) and Laboon's situation. He also has a house inside Laboon when he's not working the lighthouse.

Crocus received Laboon from the Rumba Pirates, who did not want to take him with them on the Grand Line, fearing that he would be eaten by a sea monster. The Rumba Pirates promised that after sailing all the way around the Grand Line, they would return to Laboon. However, all of the Rumba Pirates are dead, though Brook still lives as a skeleton.

He was removed from the English dub, along with the entire Laboon arc.

First Appearance: Chapter 102; Episode 62

Powers and Abilities
As Laboon's caretaker, Crocus possesses advance medical knowledge (presumably on par with Hogback's) to have made it possible to install "routes" inside the humongus whale's internals

Trivia

 * Crocus is 71 years old, a Gemini, and his blood type is AB.
 * He has a running gag where he glares fixedly, apparently activating a series of dramatic jump-cuts, for no real reason.
 * He is based off the flower, Crocus, as seen with those petals around his head.
 * He may have had a past connection with Gold Roger (when Luffy's crew departed he said to himself "That man had a mysterious air about him. Don't you think so? Roger...)