Den Den Mushi

Den Den Mushi (電伝虫, Den-den Mushi), literally meaning "electric transmission bug", take the place of scanners, fax machines and telephones in the world of One Piece. However, they are different than in out world. The people in One Piece use snails in place of telephones, scanners and fax machines.

Den Den Mushi are large snails with phones or fax machines attach to their shells.

They are capable of making a worldwide signal, and many are large enough to make long distance calls.

The Den Den Mushi can come out in many many styles based on where they are. For example, marine Den Den Mushi have the marine symbol painted on their face.

Types of Den Den Mushi
There are many different types of Den Den Mushi.

Den Den Mushi Phone
These have telephones attached to the shell. When a person is speaking, the Den Den Mushi will mouth the person's speech and display the person's emotions. For example, when someone screaming, the snail will scream as well. It is active when someone answers the phone, but once it is hung up, it goes to sleep.

Den Den Mushi Scanner
Instead of having anything attached to its shell, the snail uses its eyes to stare at any pictures or papers to make copies or faxes of them somewhere else. This is first shown when Nezumi uses one; when Nezumi put Luffy's picture in front of the snail, it stared at the picture to send it to the fax machine.

Den Den Mushi Fax Machine
This snail has a fax machine attached to the shell that. When the Den Den Mushi Scanner scans the picture or paper, it is transmitted to the fax machine and printed out.

Baby Den Den Mushi
Main Article: Baby Den Den Mushi Small Den Den Mushi, only capable of calling withing a certain area.

Black Den Den Mushi
Main Article: Black Den Den Mushi Small Den Den Mushi, small enough to be worn on a person's wrist. These Den Den Mushi can tap into other people's calls.

Golden Den Den Mushi
Main Article: Golden Den Den Mushi Den Den Mushi that, instead of receivers, simply have a button; when this button is pressed, a signal is sent to the Silver Den Den Mushi that a Buster Call has been called upon.

Silver Den Den Mushi
Main Article: Silver Den Den Mushi Den Den Mushi that receive the signal from the Golden Den Den Mushi, and alert the marines to start the Buster Call.