Ganzack

Ganzack is a pirate with crab-like armor and hidden weapons, and the captain of the Ganzack Pirates. He is also the main antagonist in One Piece OVA.

Appearance
Ganzack is a normal sized man who wears a crab-like armor on his back. The armor on his back is attached with shoulder gauntlets with large crab claws. He also wears a red shirt underneath his armor, blue pants, and a blue cape. Ganzack has purple hair tied into a pony tail and a purple beard. He has a red ring around each of his eyes and an X-shaped scar on his left temple. He also wears a black pirate hat with his jolly roger on it.

Personality
Arrogant and ruthless, Ganzack dreams of becoming Pirate King, and thinks nothing of enslaving an entire island or killing children toward this end. Per his philosophy, military firepower is the most important thing for a pirate to attain, more than even treasure; accordingly, he titles himself the Pirate Shogun (海賊将軍) and disdains pirates that focus on immediate plunder.

Due to his arrogance, Ganzack is also easily flattered (indeed, he will often order his crew to laugh with him when gloating) and just as easily insulted. Despite the theme of his armor, he is particularly sensitive about being called a crab, and unfailingly loses his temper at anyone who does so.

Abilities and Powers
Ganzack has crab-like armor with various weapons built into it. It has two large crab-like claws with blades connected. They seem to follow his arm movements and are powerful enough to destroy boulders. The armor also has several crab leg-like appendages, two of which contain machine guns, another that fires a chain to restrain opponents and four that fire a sticky slime-like substance to restrain Luffy.

Past
A few weeks before his defeat, Ganzack and his crew invaded the island Medaka resided on and captured some of the people including her father, Herring, there to forcibly build his base and his pirate ship as well as a missile-like weapon.

Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack!
Ganzack's plans go awry when Luffy, Zoro, and Nami land on the island. While he manages to capture the three (with Nami faking joining Ganzack's side), they break free and confront Ganzack as he tries to escape on his newly-finished ship. After a bit of fighting with Luffy, Ganzack strikes Medeka during one of his swings and slices her armor's helmet off. Seeing this and believing her dead not to mention Ganzack gloating about it, Luffy goes into a rage and beats Ganzack by punching him into the air just in time for the missile weapon Ganzack launched earlier to come down on the villain.

Major Battles

 * Ganzack and Plesiosaur vs. Monkey D. Luffy (on the beach)
 * Ganzack and his crew vs. Herring and the other prisoners
 * Ganzack vs. Luffy and Medaka (on his battleship)

Trivia



 * His name seems to be a pun on the term zangyaku (残虐), being a corrupt anagram of the word.
 * Though he himself is non-canon, Ganzack appears to comprise elements of several canon antagonists from the East Blue Saga:
 * Like Buggy, he was easily insulted, held a banquet to taunt a captive Luffy, and mistreated Luffy's hat to mock Luffy's idea of treasure.
 * Like Don Krieg, he valued firepower above all else, relied heavily on a gimmicked suit of armor, and aimed to become the Pirate King.
 * Like Arlong, he enslaved an entire island (even referring to the islanders as 'livestock'), inspired a young girl to hate all pirates, and commanded a vicious sea monster.
 * Ganzack's crab-themed armaments may have inspired the design of the canon character Gyro.

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