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Keimi (ケイミー) is a mermaid that first appeared in the Hatchan's Sea-Floor Stroll mini-series. She first appears after being spat out of a large sea boar that was saved by Hatchan, along with her starfish pet and master, Pappug. She is one of the only two female Merfolk featured so far in the series, the other being Kokoro.

Appearance
Keimi is young mermaid who is generally seen wearing a t-shirt and carrying a backpack. The t-shirt she is usually seen wearing in particular is of the same fashion brand, Criminal, her master Pappug designs. She is at least younger than thirty years as her tail has yet to be split into two. She is specifically a Kissing gourami mermaid and as a reference to the type of fish she is, she always expresses a very distinct face-fault whenever she is shocked by something. Whenever she expresses shock, along with her eyes typically popping out as commonly seen in manga and anime, her face-fault is always expressed with a very wide open mouth that shows her teeth and her tongue is usually seen sticking out in a up and down, zigzag manner.

She is pictured in the anime with green hair and dark purple eyes. Her shirt is yellow and pink and she wears an orange back-pack where she carries her takoyaki. Keimi has a pink tail with light fins, and her dorsal fin is white. Previously, her only color depiction came from the Ocean's Dream! - Oceans of Dreams game in which she had blue hair and a yellow body.

While Keimi's overall appearance has not changed much, because of Oda's change of style since he first drew her, Keimi has a few changes in appearance. The first is an addition of a dorsal fan along her spine. Her mermaid fish tail is generally longer and slimmer now and her caudal fin is now larger and more curvy. Overall, she had been drawn more feminine than how she first appeared.

Personality
Keimi has the habit of being easily shocked. Anything from a simple mistake to large shocking situation makes her shocked to a degree greater than any other normal person would be.

Keimi and her starfish, Pappug, also have the most unfortunate luck of getting eaten by larger sea kings almost every time. By the time she meets the Straw Hats, she has been swallowed 20 times. Keimi also has the unfortunate luck of getting captured almost every time, though it is likely because she is so naive and gullible. Before she was captured by Macro and his crew once again in the Flying Fish Rider's base, she had been previously captured by the Fishman Pirates thirty times. Fortunately for her, somebody is usually around to save her. Since the first time meeting him, this has usually been Hatchan.

Keimi has a habit of referring to humans in an unique way. Instead of simply saying human and humans, she says human person and human people respectively. She also tends to address others with the suffix "Chin" added to their names in a similar fashion as how "San" and "Chan" are used in Japanese to address others. She would thus address Luffy as Luffy-chin, Nami as Nami-chin, Hatchan as Hatchin, and so on.

While Keimi is currently working part-time for Hatchan's Takoyaki business, she dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer like her master, Pappug.

As said before, she is naive and gullible but she is also very kind, caring and open-hearted and due to her naivity she has no problem with trusting strangers, such as the Straw Hat Pirates when she just met them. In occasions of a sexual or relationship-like nature, she is either shy and misunderstanding or just unknowing; such as when she blushed when asked about she was Hatchan's girlfriend; and when she didn't understand how she gave Sanji a nosebleed by putting his head between her breasts.

Relationships
Keimi is friends with Hatchan since he rescued her and Pappug from the sea boar. Though he initially traded her for a map, she has stuck with him and helped out with his business due to his kindness.

Keimi is often seen accompanied with Pappug. The two usually travel together and ironically get eaten by larger fish and both require rescuing together. Keimi is oddly enough both the owner and apprentice of the starfish, Pappug. While she keeps him and feeds him clams, she also studies under him in order become a successful fashion designer like him.

Keimi has an unfortunate relationship with the Macro Fishman Pirates. Since selling mermaids sets such a high price on the slave market, Macro and his crew have since been trying to capture her to sell her off as a slave since they first cross paths with her. While she is easily captured by them practically every time, Hatchan usually saves her by beating the pulp out of Macro and his crew.

The first time after meeting the Straw Hats, she immediately befriended them after they saved her and Pappug from a Sea King and begged them to save her "friend" from the Flying Fish Riders, only to find out later on that the one she was talking about was Hatchan. Her friendship and trust with them grew when they saved the latter despite their distrust and animosity towards him, as well as saving her from becoming a slave of Saint Charloss and almost getting shot to death by Saint Shalulia. After hearing from Pappug the lengths that Luffy went through just to save her, she has developed a sort of crush on him.

Abilities and Powers
Being a mermaid, Keimi has several abilities unique to her race. She has the ability to talk to fish and call out to them with a sound wave, which is apparently only audible to them. Apart from the ability to breathe underwater, she also has the ability to swim very quickly at speeds much faster than the flying fish used by the Flying Fish Riders. However like any Mermaid, she is vulnerable on land.

Hatchan's Sea-Floor Stroll
While traversing the seas, Keimi and her starfish pet and master, Pappug, were unfortunately eaten by a large sea boar. This creature, while they were inside, had the unfortunate luck of becoming prey to a much larger leviathan-like sea king. Fortunately, the sea boar, and the occupants within in it, were saved by Hatchan, who defeated the leviathan with a trident he acquired. With the danger averted, the sea boar coughs out both Keimi and Pappug due to all the commotion. Freed from being inside the large fish, Keimi thanks Hatchan for rescuing them from being eaten by another large fish while they were in a large fish.

Though freed from the sea boar, Keimi unfortunately got traded by her savior to a bunch of his old chums for a map leading to some treasure and a legendary Takoyaki sauce. Her captors, Macro and his crew, intended to sell Keimi off as a slave of sorts for a high profit. Macro's scheme to sell Keimi off, however, was stopped as Hatchan busted through his ship, and beat Macro and his crew up. Apparently Macro seemingly tricked Hatchan with a fake map and the Octopus Fishman in retaliation took revenge against his former crew mate thus freeing Keimi unintentionally in the process. Macro however, revealed as he was being beaten up by Hatchan, that he didn't trick him and that the map was real. It just so happened that the treasure and the sauce was in the giant octopus, Mash, that Hatchan beat up earlier when he followed the map, as Hatchan, Keimi, and Pappug found out much to their surprise. With her savior finally getting his much sought after prized, Keimi and Pappug decided to tag along with Hatchan as he carried off with the treasure, the sauce, and the remains of Mash.

As Keimi traveled alongside Hatchan across the sea floor, they eventually came to a village of headband catfish. Because a ship recently sank and crushed on top of their village, the catfish, as a result, were starving. Their sad story moved both Keimi and Pappug to tears. When Hatchan saw the situation and ran away with his treasure, Keimi and Pappug initially thought that he ran away with it so he wouldn't donate any amount of it to help with the repairs of the village. Hatchan however in reality, ran off with his treasure in order to buy some cooking utensils. Together with the utensils, the remains of Mash being chopped up and cooked, and the legendary Takoyaki sauce, Hatchan set up a Takoyaki stand and made several Takoyaki balls for which the starving catfish could eat. Keimi and Pappug thus aided Hatchan in giving out several orders of Takoyaki balls for the starving catfish.

After giving away all but one set of Takoyaki balls with the legendary sauce to apparently all the catfish, Keimi and Pappug rested awhile after all the hard work. Though only a few of the Takoyaki balls remained, it didn't take long for its smell to attract some attention. For this, Keimi encountered another Octopus Fishman, Octopako, who came to eat the Takoyaki. Octopako was a Fishwoman that Keimi's friend, Hatchan, had long been in love with. She was the reason Hatchan sought after the legendary Takoyaki sauce and he intended to propose to her with the remaining Takoyaki. However Octopako was a very snobbish and selfish Fishwoman which Keimi and Pappug both noticed upon meeting her.

Just as Hatchan was about to give Octopako the Takoyaki, Keimi and everyone found out that there was still one headband catfish left to feed. It was catfish elder who unfortunately arrived late coming to the Hatchan's Takoyaki stand. Being the last starving catfish, he was naturally given the last of the Takoyaki instead of Octopako. It was then that Keimi saw Octopako's true nature as she saw Octopako punch Hatchan for not giving her the Takoyaki. As the selfish Fishwoman left Hatchan, Keimi tried to comfort him from his heartbreak. She does so until she falls asleep alongside Hatchan and Pappug under the warmth of the setting sun.

The next day, Keimi and everyone else awake to a pleasant surprise. The headband catfish, in gratitude for Hatchan's kindness, had built a magnificent ship for him, the Takoyaki 8. With the grand opening of Hatchan's new floating Takoyaki stand, Keimi continued traveling alongside her Fishman friend.

Straw Hats, Takoyaki and Flying Fish
While traveling across the ocean, Keimi and Pappug got lost from Hatchan and once again became victims of a large sea king as they were swallowed up whole for the twentieth time. Fortunately, they were once again saved from being digested. This time however it was by Luffy, who had sailed to the second Red Line intersection of the Grand Line and now planned on going to Fishman Island along with his crew. Spat out from the sea king's belly when Luffy struck the beast, Keimi was flung from the creature's mouth and onto the Thousand Sunny where she un fortunately landed onto a lovestruck Sanji. Upon landing onto the Sunny, she was shocked of the group of human people that were there. In thanks for saving her however, she decided to reward them by selling them Takoyaki. She however was reprimanded by Pappug for selling Takoyaki instead of just simply giving it to her saviors. For this mistake both she and her saviors were shocked.

After being properly introduced to the Straw Hats, Keimi decided to properly reward her saviors with her promise of Takoyaki. However upon trying to reach Hatchan via Den Den Mushi, she found out that Hatchan had been kidnapped by Macro and his crew. She learned that Hatchan was beaten by them with the aid of the Flying Fish Riders and was taken to the Flying Fish Riders' base that was five kilometers from Grove 44 of the Sabaody Archipelago. Seeing that Hatchan was in danger at the moment, Keimi decided to unfortunately decline rewarding her saviors with Takoyaki in order to save him. Seeing that she was in trouble however, Nami offered that if they helped her, she would in return show them the way to Fishman Island. Keimi agreed to this and also promised that they'll also get their Takoyaki reward as well, a notion which prompted most of the guys in the crew to eagerly save Keimi's friend.

Having gained some allies to help her save Hatchan, Keimi called out some fish and asked if they could show them the way to the Flying Fish Riders' base. The fish complied and formed an arrow with their bodies for Keimi and the Straw Hats to follow across the ocean. However, they stated to Keimi that they would only lead her and her friends close enough to the place, as they were scared of the Flying Fish Riders. After sailing for awhile, the fear of the fish had arrived and they apologized to Keimi that this was as far as they go. Shortly afterwards, the Flying Fish Riders sure enough appeared and started attacking the Thousand Sunny high atop of their giant Flying Fish.

Although they were initially attacked, Keimi and the rest of her companions found out that their attackers left them in mid-battle for some reason unknown to them. Regardless however, they continued onwards to the Flying Fish Riders' base. Upon arriving there, Keimi and the rest found the base completely deserted. The only person about was Hatchan who was locked up in a suspended caged placed directly in the middle of the base. Though it seemed like it would be an easy task to save Hatchan due to the circumstances, there were some problems. The whole setup smelled like a trap, a thought that shock both Keimi and Pappug since they didn't think about it until they were told, and her allies apparently didn't want to save Hatchan upon learning who he was.

To Keimi's shock, she learned that her newfound allies were past enemies of Hatchan and had thoughts of not helping him because of their past encounter with him. Feeling abandoned, Keimi, along with Pappug, decided to free Hatchan by herself and unfortunately dove once again into the clutches of Macro and his crew. Keimi's hopes however weren't all lost then as the Straw Hats decided to save both her and her friends regardless of past experiences. With Luffy's help, Keimi and Pappug were rescued from Macro and placed onto the deck of the Flying Fish Riders' base.

With the Straw Hats' help, Keimi was soon reunited with Hatchan. As she and her friends noticed how strong their newfound allies were, a dire situation. The leader of the Flying Fish Riders, Duval, appeared and it was learned by everyone why the Flying Fish Riders were fighting so ambitiously against the Straw Hats. Their leader's face looked exactly like the wanted poster of one of the Straw Hats, Sanji, and he was out for revenge for having been mistaken for the chef. Through some fierce interactions between Sanji and Duval, Sanji was caught by the Flying Fish Riders in a net and dragged down deep within the ocean. Seeing Sanji in trouble, Keimi immediately dove in after the Flying Fish Riders that caught him. With her amazing speed underwater, she freed Sanji and bought him back to the surface. As she brought him back up, Keimi asked the other Straw Hats about the condition she saw him when she saved him. When Keimi saved Sanji, as she told the pirates, Sanji started having a serious nosebleed. She was fortunately reassured that this was nothing and Keimi thus laid Sanji back on the deck of the Flying Fish Riders' base.

After Sanji rearranged Duval's face with a barrage of kicks, the battle was soon over and the whole incident was resolved. With Hatchan free, Keimi and her friends decided to keep their part of the bargain with the Straw Hats. They first rewarded the Straw Hats with a helping of Takoyaki that they promised.

For Sale on Sabaody
After the promised meal and a little encounter with Duval who was thankful for his new face, Keimi and her friends led the Straw Hats to the Sabaody Archipelago. They explained that though she and her friends themselves can just swim to Fishman Island being able to breath underwater and all, in order for the Straw Hats to get there, they would need to coat their ship with a special resin found in the archipelago. Upon arrival on the archipelago, Keimi and her friends joined the landing party of the Straw Hats in order to lead them to the mechanic who could coat the Thousand Sunny with the special resin. As the group ventured forth into the archipelago, both Keimi and Hatchan donned some disguises and told the Straw Hats to treat them as if they were regular humans while on Sabaody due to the discrimination by the locals towards their races. The group soon rented some Bon Chari, a mode transportation on the archipelago, and toured some of the places' sites as they headed to their destination. While the group was generally having fun as they journeyed, they soon witnessed one of Sabaody's darker aspects. A slave named Dias attempted to escape from his World Noble masters but got heavily injured in the process. The whole scene made Keimi sick as the group couldn't do anything to aid to hapless man else face the wrath of the World Nobles.

As Keimi and the group continued on their journey to the mechanic, they eventually came into the more shadier parts of the archipelago. There they came to a bar and met an old acquaintance of Hatchan, Shakuyaku. Through Shakky, Keimi and the others learned that the mechanic they were seeking, Rayleigh, was not in but could be found somewhere else on the archipelago. Before they could go and search for him however, they were also warned by Shakky that on the archipelago then were a bunch of strong pirates roaming about that they should look out for. These nine pirates all had bounties higher than 100,000,000 and would be trouble if they should meet them. With new information about the mechanic's whereabouts and the warning, Keimi and the group set out to look for Rayleigh.

The first place they decide to look in is the Sabaody Park, a place they heard from Shakky where the mechanic would be aside from the lawless zones. However, instead of looking for the mechanic thoroughly, Keimi and the group decide to enjoy the many attractions the park offered. With the group, Keimi was not only able to enjoy the park's attractions in safety, but she was also able to fulfill a childhood dream shared by her race and the Fishmen alike, riding the ferris wheel of Sabaody Park. However in the middle of all the fun and excitement, Keimi is kidnapped by Peterman and his kidnapping gang, the Hound Pets, to be sold as a slave for the rest of her life.

After a journey to Grove 1, Keimi was delivered by her captors to the Human Auctioning House there. There she was mistreated by the auction house's manager, Disco, for her behavior. Fortunately however, Disco was taken out by Haki, courtesy of Rayleigh, who was also being sold there as a slave there for some reason. As Keimi awaited with the other slaves to be auctioned off, she was outfitted with an exploding collar on her neck. She was then placed in a giant fish tank by her captors for when she would be presented. After a pirate captain, Lacueva, committed suicide by biting his tongue while being put up on auction, it was Keimi's turn next.

As Keimi was presented to be auctioned, she noticed Hatchan and her friends were amongst the people in the auction house. They came there and planed to buy her in the auction in order to save her without causing an incident. However before they could do anything to save her, a World Noble, Carlos Sei, immediately bid an immensely large amount of money on her. With plans to place her in his fish tank full of piranhas and watch her be chase, Carlos bid 500,000,000 on her. Without any other bidder to challenge Carlos, Keimi was sold off to him. Just as she was sold off however, Luffy and Zoro came crashing in. A ruckus was then started by Luffy as he came forward to rescue Keimi. Suddenly in the middle of everything, Keimi saw in horror as Hatchan was shot by Carlos when he was revealed to be a Fishman in the ruckus. Unable to do anything while in her fish tank, all that Keimi could do was pound on against her prison as her screams of her horror were muffled by the glass.

Just as things looked bad, Keimi, as well as the rest of the people in auction house, suddenly saw Luffy punch Carlos in the face for what he did to Hatchan. As nearly everyone in the auction house started to panic at what Luffy did, Keimi's fish tank was sliced open in half by one of Zoro's techniques in the midst of the chaos. Though her prison was open thanks to Zoro, the collar on Keimi's neck however was still attached. As the chaos in the auction house continued, Shalulia Guu, the sister of Carlos, decided to shoot Keimi in order to stop the Straw Hats. Fortunately however before the World Noble could shoot Keimi, Shalulia was knocked out by a rush of spirit sent by Rayleigh. The coating mechanic had fortunately arrived in the scene alongside the giant who was supposed to be sold in the auction. With him in the scene, Keimi and her friends were saved temporarily as Rayleigh took out all the guards in the auction house who were trying to capture them.

With the Coating Mechanic on the scene, Rayleigh was able to remove Keimi's collar by hand without it exploding in her face. Though she was reunited with her friends and that the mechanic that they were looking for was found, Keimi and the rest in the auction house didn't have time for any pleasantries. They learned that at that moment, a group of Marines had surrounded the place in response for what Luffy did. Despite this however, Keimie's Straw Hat friends decided to break through the blockade that surrounded the place. With a little help from some members of two other pirate crews, the Kid and the Heart Pirates, who were also in auction house and were then being accused by the Marines of being the Straw Hats' accomplices, Keimi and her friends were able to escape the place with her being carried by Franky. As they escaped, Keimi and her friends were reunited with Duval and his men who decided to help out in the situation from since when they learned from Sanji that she was kidnapped. After they return to Shakky's Rip-Off Bar to rest, Rayleigh tells them the story of Gold Roger, and the truth about his execution. Because of the Marine Admiral threat, Rayleigh has to depart because he can only coat the Thousand Sunny in three days at least, and the Straw Hats have to break up to avoid capture. As they leave, Rayleigh and the Straw Hats say farewell to Keimi, Pappug, Hatchan and Shakky, as they leave the bar. As its been at least a day, since the Straw Hats were seen, Keimi gets worried about their safety. However, both Hatchan and Shakky reassure her that they will survive if they have the strength and the will.

Translation and Dub Issues
Her name is usually written by fans as "Camie". This spelling is also used in the Viz Manga and FUNimation subs.

Trivia

 * Keimi could be the first mermaid to be seen in the manga since Hatchan's Sea-Floor Stroll mini-series came long before the Water 7 arc.

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