Jabra

Seiyū: Masaya Takatsuka

Key: 1

2180 Douriki

Jyabura (ジャブラ, Jabura) is a member of CP9 and the supposed leader of his team.

Appearance
Jyabura is a dark-skinned man, with hair braided long and thick, much like the appearance of a scorpion's tail. Jyabura also bears an unstitched scar running vertically down his face, which he bore even as a child, along with the standard blaack uniform of the CP9. When in his half-wikf state, Jyabura has an unusually large tail (more resembling a fox's than a wolf's) and snout (it is so heavy that it droops down, covering the fromt of his mouth.). Like all Zoan users, Jyabura's wolf form is bipedial.

Personelity
Jyabura seems to believe that he has a fierce rivalry with Lucci, although Lucci seems fairly uninterested; this may be due to their large difference in strength, although it is also likely that Lucci simply doesn't care. Jyabura however is extremely competitive, and was outraged that both Lucci and Kaku were deemed stronger than him.

Jyabura is very short tempered, and combined with his superstitiousness (he believes devil fruits are inhabited by devils) and feeble attempts at preventing Kaku from getting stronger (by eating a devil fruit), he often comes across as a comedic character. It is therefore surprising that he's actually the most rational member of CP9. Lucci, who's always calm and in control, is also sadistic and lusts for battle, whereas Jyabura insists that he's "a nice guy", and proposes a quick, painless death to his victims. However, in battle a more predatory side of Jyabura apparently takes over, and he howls, licks his lips, and mocks and laughs at his prey.

Jyabura is also commonly known to deceive his opponents, as shown when he tried to lie to Sanji that Nico Robin was his sister and that they were seperated at birth. However Sanji saw through this lie easily.

Abilities and Powers
His devil fruit is the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf (イヌイヌの実 モデル狼(ウルフ) Dog Dog Fruit, Model: Wolf), which gives him the power to change into a full wolf and a human-wolf hybrid that resembles a werewolf. He seems to keep animals that act strange around him; for example, he has a chicken that chirps.

Apparently to one-up Lucci's pet pigeon Hattori, Jyabura has a pet rooster he uses as an alarm. Before Lucci's group had left for Water 7, Kaku had been weaker than Jyabura, and Lucci most likely was closer to Jyabura's level. His fighting style is based around Tekkai Kenpo, a technique which allows him to move while using tekkai. He claims to be the only rokushiki user capable of doing so.

History
When Luffy appeared alone before the CP9 headquarters, Jyabura suggested that the CP9 team up and take him down quickly - in order to instantly crush the uprising. His competitiveness and rivalry with the others overshadows his rationality, and could be part of his wolf nature to establish himself as the "alpha male" or leader. As a wolf (or dog) he would find it especially aggravating that Lucci the leopard (or cat) would be stronger than him, given the natural rivalry between cats and dogs.

In Enies Lobby, it was initially seen that Jyabura would fight Sogeking, but their fight was interrupted by Sanji. Sanji and Jyabura fought evenly, until Sanji gained the upper hand and defeated him.

Translation and Dub Issues
Jyabura's name has many spelling variations. Some English-speaking fans spell it "Jabura", although the spelling of "Jyabura" is far more common. Japanese fans, on the other hand, seem to prefer spell it "Jabra". Eiichiro Oda himself has spelled it "Jabra", although as other spellings given at the same time were inaccurate it is unknown if this should be considered the correct spelling.

Trivia

 * In the Volume 44 SBS, it was revealed that Jyabura already had the scar across his eye when he was a child.
 * He has a wolf theme due to his Devil Fruit, and he tends to trick people like wolves do in folklore.
 * Jyabura ranked at 17th in the most recent popularity contest with 461 votes.
 * In the version of Chapter 413 published in Shonen Jump, Jyabura's mustache was missing in more than half the panels he appeared in. However, this was fixed in the tankoubon, and only three panels remained with the mustache missing.
 * Jyabura has a tattoo on the front of his shoulder that is the kanji for "wolf" (狼, ookami). However, his shirt entirely covers his tattoo when he is in human form.
 * Despite the fact that at least Lucci, Kaku, and Kalifa have rooms that are listed as their own, Jyabura instead has a Japanese-style garden that is simply listed as the "wolf's den" (狼の間, ookami no ma).
 * Many villains in One Piece were given distinct laughs. Jyabura follows in this tradition with a long "gya" at the beginning of his laugh (i.e. "Gyaaaa ha ha ha ha!)