Endurance Curry Pirates

Endurance Curry Pirates
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Japanese Name:	ふんばりカレー海賊団
Romanized Name:	Funbari Karē Kaizoku-dan
First Appearance:	WSJ 2000 Issue 8; Chapter 1122
Captain:	Hippie

The Endurance Curry Pirates are a crew of pirates originally created as a response to a reader contest featured in Weekly Shonen Jump in the year 2000. Designed by Eiichiro Oda together with Nobuhiro Watsuki, the author of Rurouni Kenshin, and Hiroyuki Takei, the author of Shaman King, the crew would eventually be canonized into One Piece 24 years later in Chapter 1122.

Jolly Roger

The Endurance Curry Pirates' Jolly Roger features two crossbones and an angry skull with a plate of curry atop its head.

Crew Strength

The Endurance Curry Pirates' overall strength is unknown, although they were originally designed as a strong crew to face off against readers in a Weekly Shonen Jump contest.

History

Egghead Arc

The Endurance Curry Pirates listened to Dr. Vegapunk's broadcast and rejoiced when the existence of the One Piece was mentioned.

Trivia

The original illustration of the Endurance Curry Pirates.

• KKD, or Kokonmusō Kaizoku Daikaisen (古今無双海賊大海戦^?, literally meaning "Unparalleled-in-History Great Sea Battle of Pirates"), was a One Piece reader participation project featured in Shonen Jump. Readers would submit crews of three with 100 ability points assigned to each crew member in three categories (attack, defense, speed). These values would then be input into a computer which would run an automatic battle simulation. Out of 5,296 teams that made it through the preliminaries, the winning team was "Bakudan" (爆団^?, "Bomb Gang") who received a special illustration from Eiichiro Oda in Shonen Jump 2000 Issue 8, which featured the crew together with Luffy, Zoro, and Nami. However, Oda was dissatisfied with this, and thus created a new pirate crew to go up against Bakudan, which became the Endurance Curry Pirates. He designed Hippie himself, then requested help from Nobuhiro Watsuki and Hiroyuki Takei to design the two other members of the crew. Bakudan later won the special battle against the Endurance Curry Pirates.