Crescent-Moon Galley

Crescent-Moon Galley (三日月ギャリー) refers to two pirates. The first is the main antagonist in the first version of Romance Dawn and its adaptation Romance Dawn Story and the second appeared in the Loguetown fillers.

Galley V.1 (Romance Dawn)
The first Galley appears as main antagonist of the very first version of Romance Dawn. The one-shot chapter got later animated for Romance Dawn Story, even if the plot is little different, due to the adaptation to the canon story-line.

Appearance
Galley is a middle aged pirate whose distinguishing aspect is his crescent moon shaped mustache. He wears a typical pirate captain's attire. Though of average height, he is slightly stocky in physique.

In the anime remake, Galley is an orange haired pirate. Along with his trademark mustache, he also sports a crescent moon shaped beard. Overall, he looks like a younger version of Galley V.2 that appeared in the Loguetown arc. However he does have some features that were originally part of the V.1 Galley, more specifically his coat.

Romance Dawn V.1
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. However compared to Monkey D. Luffy, he is very weak.

Luffy first spots Galley's ship and decides to take it over so he will not 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 crew-member aboard Luffy's pirate ship, and tells him that land has been spotted. It seems that his encounter with Luffy changed him from a Morgania pirate to a Peace Maine since Luffy said he wanted a crew made up of only Peace Maines.

Romance Dawn Story
Galley, who was tied up on his ship by Luffy, has threatened her town and Luffy promises Silk that he will help her defeat him. After a short fight, Luffy makes short work of the Crescent-Moon Galley, while explaining to Silk about his abilities. After Galley runs off, Luffy remembers he left the Mini-Merry tied to Galley's ship. On his way back, the Mayor and various townspeople, mistake Luffy for Galley. They proceed to subdue him and tie him up. As he tries to explain himself, Galley interferes and attacks Silk. Galley, Silk and Luffy trade words about the meaning of treasure. Galley proceeds to throw Luffy's straw hat into the nearby ocean. Luffy stretches to get, with his head extending, but falls short and into the water. Silk dives in, rescues him, and curses Galley for sailing away. As they leave, Galley orders an attack on the island, destroying several buildings. Luffy slingshots himself towards Galley's ship, only to by shot out of the air by a cannon ball.

Falling towards the water, Luffy is saved the Thousand Sunny and the other Straw Hats. Usopp, Sanji, Nami & Zoro berate Luffy on his being lost, while a fight breaks out on Galley's ship. After some fighting, Galley is given a wanted poster of Luffy, comparing Luffy's 300,000,000 to his small 5,000,000. Luffy proceeds to wreck Galley's ship with his Gear 3rd, Giganto Ax (oddly he does not shrink afterwards like he usually does after using Gear Third). Luffy then grabs Galley and lands on a piece of his wreaked ship while his crew sail away with the Crescent Moon's provisions and treasure. Galley swears he will kill Luffy someday, who ignores him and hits him with his pistol move sending Galley flying into the distance.

Galley V.2 (Lougetown Arc)
In the anime version of the Loguetown Arc, there he is an elderly pirate called Crescent Moon Galley who has a bounty of 3,450,000.

Appearance
He is clearly based on the Romance Dawn Galley both in his design and his Jolly Roger. However, though based on the Romance Dawn Galley, his appearance is stark contrast to the original. Apart from being older, this Galley is a tall lanky pirate that wears a unique looking tricorne. The middle corner of the hat is curved downward in a way that it resembles the top half of a crescent moon when seen in conjunction with Galley's beard.

History
He and his crew are seen raiding buildings at Loguetown before being captured by Captain Smoker, who was disappointed that Galley was not Luffy since that was the pirate Smoker was hoping to find.

Translation and Dub Issues
His name is sometimes translated as Crescent-Moon Gary. He was known as Galley the Crescent in the FUNimation dub.

Trivia

 * In the first version of Romance Dawn, Galley is said to be part of the Big Three. This term and concept of a group of famous individual pirate captains, appears to be a prototype for the Yonko that appears in the manga and anime proper.
 * A pirate that looks like Poppoko from the Alvida Pirates appears as one of Galley's crewmembers in the first version of Romance Dawn. Poppoko also appears as a member of the anime Galley.
 * He was voiced by Rikiya Koyama.
 * His Crescent Moon mustache is shared by Whitebeard in the final storyline.
 * In Loguetown, version 2 Galley was mistaken for Luffy, and in the Romance Dawn special, Luffy was mistaken for Galley version 3.
 * In Movie 9 the Loguetown version of Galley's bounty poster can be seen. His name is spelled "Gally".

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