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| occupation = Guardian of the Island of Rare Animals{{qref|name=Debut}}, [[Pirate]] (former){{qref|name=Debut}}
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| occupation = Guardian of the Island of Rare Animals{{Qref|name=Debut}}<br/> [[Pirate]] (former){{Qref|chap=22|page=13|ep=18}}
 
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| residence = [[Island of Rare Animals]]
  
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| birth = August 5th{{qref|data=Blue Deep|page=43|his birthday is revealed.}}
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'''Gaimon'''{{Qref|data=vivre card|Gaimon's name is romanized.}} is a former [[pirate]] who lives as a hermit on the [[Island of Rare Animals]].{{qref|name=Debut}}
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'''Gaimon''' is a former [[pirate]] who currently lives as a [[Wikipedia:Hermit|hermit]] on the [[Island of Rare Animals]].
   
 
==Appearance==
  
==Appearance==
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Gaimon possesses a notably pear-shaped face, green hair, and a pronounced [[Wikipedia:Unibrow|uni-brow]]. In his youth, he appeared to be a relatively scrawny man of average height.
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Gaimon has a green afro hairstyle, a black beard, a chubby face and a big mouth. He has been stuck inside a treasure chest for twenty-two years, and his body's shape has grown accustomed to it over time, making it virtually impossible for him to get out.{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
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Shortly after landing on the Island of Rare Animals, most of his body was irreversibly compressed into a [[treasure]] chest, leaving only his head, hands, and feet free (and one of his teeth dislodged). Over the next twenty years, he grew a sizable beard and an even larger [[Wikipedia:Afro|afro]], giving him a curiously [[Wikipedia:Shrub|shrub-]][[Wikipedia:Chia Pet|like appearance]].{{Qref|name=Debut}}
   
 
===Gallery===
  
===Gallery===
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==Personality==
  
==Personality==
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As a young man, Gaimon was a stereotypically greedy [[pirate]], caring about little more than plunder.{{Qref|chap=22|page=20|ep=18}} This greed slowly eroded (though never completely erased) by his decades of solitude on the [[Island of Rare Animals]], causing him to prize peace and companionship more than any material wealth.{{Qref|chap=22|page=28-29|ep=18}}
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He is hostile to those who try to hurt the animals or steal the treasure chest he has been guarding for twenty years (ironically, unbeknownst to him until the Straw Hats arrived, the chests were empty). However, once he learns that someone visiting the island is not interested in the animals or the treasure, he becomes very friendly.{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
   
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In any case, Gaimon is highly protective of anything he deems [[treasure]], and as a result tends to be hostile to any strangers he meets.{{Qref|name=c46|cover=46|ep=46}} However, once his trust has been earned, he can prove to be remarkably friendly and helpful, especially to fellow castaways.{{Qref|cover=47|cover2=48|ep=46}}
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Gaimon was originally a greedy pirate. His lust for treasure caused him to be stuck in the empty chest he still lives in. He has since realized his arrogance and ignores wealth as he now protects his island and animals despite having no monetary gain from it.
  
   
 
==Relationships==
  
==Relationships==
 
===Rare Animals===
  
===Rare Animals===
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Gaimon treats the [[Animal Species/East Blue Saga#Island of Rare Animals|rare animals]] as treasures of the [[Island of Rare Animals|island]], and defends them from possible invaders. He has great affection for them and they are family to him, so he does not want to leave the island and abandon them.
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Gaimon treats the [[Animal Species/East Blue Saga#Island of Rare Animals|rare animals]] as [[treasure]]s of the [[Island of Rare Animals|island]], and defends them from possible invaders.{{Qref|name=c46}} He has great affection for them and they are family to him, so he does not want to leave the island and abandon them.{{Qref|name=c22p28|chap=22|page=28|ep=18}}
   
 
===Straw Hat Pirates===
  
===Straw Hat Pirates===
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Although he tried to attack the [[Straw Hat Pirates]] at first, he ends up making friends with them after telling them about his past, and they tried to help him get the treasure chests he had been wishing for. However, with the chests empty, Luffy asked him to join his crew, but Gaimon declined the invitation to stay with the animals.
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Although he tried to attack the [[Straw Hat Pirates]] at first, he ends up making friends with them after telling them about his past, and they tried to help him get the treasure chests he had been wishing for. However, with the chests empty, [[Monkey D. Luffy|Luffy]] asked him to join his crew, but Gaimon declined the invitation to stay with the animals.{{Qref|chap=22|page=7-28|ep=18}}
   
 
===Buggy===
  
===Buggy===
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[[File:Buggy befriends Gaimon.png|thumb|180px|Gaimon befriends Buggy.]]
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[[File:Buggy Befriends Gaimon.png|thumb|180px|Gaimon befriends Buggy.]]
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He is good friends with [[Buggy]] despite battling him when the pirate first crashed onto the island. Ironically, neither of them knows the other's relationship with Luffy.
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He is good friends with [[Buggy]]{{Qref|cover=47|ep=46}} despite battling him when the pirate first crashed onto the island.{{Qref|name=c46}} Ironically, neither of them knows the other's relationship with Luffy.{{Confirm}}
   
 
===Sarfunkel===
  
===Sarfunkel===
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Gaimon seems to have an affectionate relationship with [[Sarfunkel]], the barrel woman, since she appears feeding him.
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Gaimon seems to have an affectionate relationship with [[Sarfunkel]], the barrel woman, since she appears feeding him.{{Qref|name=Sarfunkel|cover=620|Gaimon and Sarfunkel are seen together.}}
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==Abilities and Powers==
  
==Abilities and Powers==
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Gaimon demonstrated no combat abilities in his youth, but appeared to be an above-average climber. Notably, he was able to scale the Island of Rare Animals' steepest cliff barehanded{{Qref|chap=22|page=19|ep=18}} (a feat that [[Nami]] later deemed impossible).{{Qref|chap=22|page=23|ep=18}}
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Gaimon seems to be proficient in using a gun, as he was able to hit Luffy by surprise, in the forest. Gaimon can also pretend to be a bush or his treasure chest in order to hide from his enemies and maintain stealth and surprise. He has managed to be somewhat agile despite being stuck in a chest. However, he has no superhuman abilities and believes that his body cannot survive without being supported by the treasure chest as his body became too adjusted to it.{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
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After the accident that compressed his body, Gaimon adapted the best he could, and is able to perform most day-to-day tasks with his hands and feet (though he can no longer manage full-body movements such as climbing).{{Qref|chap=22|page=20|ep=18}} According to him, the bulk of his body has [[Wikipedia:Atrophy|atrophied]] so much that it cannot survive without the chest, leaving him severely disadvantaged against those he cannot intimidate or otherwise deceive.{{Qref|chap=22|page=12|ep=18}}
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===Weapons===
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Gaimon carries at least one [[Firearm|pistol]] at all times, having somehow maintained powder and shot for it despite being stranded for decades from any civilization. He is a marksman of at least some proficiency, preferring to shoot enemies from behind.{{Qref|chap=22|page=8-10|ep=18}}
   
 
==History==
  
==History==
 
===Past===
  
===Past===
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Gaimon was once part of an unnamed [[pirate]] crew totaling some two hundred men, seeking fortune on the high seas. In time, they followed reports of buried [[treasure]] to the [[Island of Rare Animals]], searching diligently for three weeks but failing to find anything more than a single empty chest. While his [[Pirate Captain|captain]] and crewmates deemed the island a lost cause and prepared to raise anchor, Gaimon turned his attention to the island's highest, steepest cliff, which the crew had frequently gathered under but never climbed.{{Qref|chap=22|page=18-19|ep=18}}
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Gaimon's life changed when he was searching for treasure on the island as part of an unnamed pirate crew. While searching, he fell from a high cliff and directly into an empty treasure chest at the bottom. His crew, considering him a lost cause, left Gaimon stranded on the island.{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
   
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Upon making the climb, Gaimon was delighted to find five treasure chests atop the cliff. As he turned to call his crew, however, he lost his grip and fell directly into the empty chest his captain had left below. The impact knocked him unconscious for several hours; by the time he woke, his crew had sailed off without him. Worse, his body was trapped inside the chest, leaving him in a permanently hunched position that could manage few movements beyond scuttling and crawling.{{Qref|chap=22|page=19-20|ep=18}}
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Over the next twenty years, the treasure chest became a part of his body and could not be removed without killing him. However, he can still use his hands, head, and feet. Because Gaimon shrank to fit the size of the small chest, he could no longer scale the cliff to find the treasure. He managed to befriend the strange animals on the island and developed a close bond with them. To protect his treasure and his "friends", he did not allow any visitors on his island. If any sailors came ashore there, he would hide and tell them to leave in a spooky voice, claiming to be the island guardian ("island god" in the anime). If this failed, he took the more direct route of shooting them with a pistol (which he apparently keeps hidden inside his afro).{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
   
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Though he could no longer reach the clifftop chests, Gaimon refused to give up on them. Over the following years, he adapted to his new condition and posed as the island's {{nihongo|'''guardian'''|番人|Ban'nin}}, driving off any newcomers through a combination of stealth, theatrics, and gunplay.{{Qref|chap=22|page=20|ep=18}} Concurrently, he befriended the many [[Animal Species/East Blue Saga#Island of Rare Animals|bizarre animals]] that populated the island - a common target of [[Wikipedia:Poaching|poachers]] - and came to treasure them as well.{{Qref|name=c22p28}}
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===Syrup Village Arc===
  
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Twenty years after he was first stranded, [[Monkey D. Luffy]] and his crew arrived on the island. They survived his deterrent tactics, and after he realized that they were not there to steal from him, they became friends. However, when Luffy finally got to the top of the cliff, Gaimon realized that the treasure chests were empty too and he had been protecting a nonexistent "treasure" for twenty years. He then considered the animals as his treasures and vowed to protect them.{{qref|name=Debut}}
  
   
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===Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles===
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===East Blue Saga===
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====Syrup Village Arc====
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Chibi [[Buggy]] eventually met{{qref|Gaimon and Buggy meet.|cover=43|ep=46}} and befriended Gaimon after getting sent flying to the Island of Rare Animals.{{qref|Buggy and Gaimon become friends.|cover=47|ep=46}}
  
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Twenty years after he was first stranded, Gaimon finally encountered a group he could not drive off: the [[Straw Hat Pirates]], whose [[Pirate Captain|captain]] [[Monkey D. Luffy]] effortlessly [[Gomu Gomu no Mi|survived]] his [[Firearm|pistol]]. Staggered by this, Gaimon tried to flee, only to trip and expose himself to the bemused Luffy and [[Nami]]. Soon after, he was won over by Luffy's cheerful nature, and for the first time in his life explained his circumstances.{{Qref|chap=22|page=7-21|ep=18}}
   
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Sympathetic to Gaimon's plight, Luffy volunteered to scale the cliff and recover the chests, but in doing so confirmed the ex-pirate's worst fears: all five were empty, and Gaimon had spent decades "guarding" thin air. Learning this brought Gaimon to tears, but again he refused to despair, and - after turning down an offer to join the Straw Hats - resolved to spend the rest of his days protecting all the [[Animal Species/East Blue Saga#Island of Rare Animals|rare animals]] he had come to regard as his true treasure.{{Qref|chap=22|page=21-29|ep=18}}
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===From the Decks of the World===
  
   
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Subsequently, Gaimon helped his new friends resupply with the island's [[Foods and Beverages#Fruits|fruit]], and saw them off as they resumed their voyage.{{Qref|chap=23|page=2|As the Straw Hats approach the [[Gecko Islands]], Luffy mentions that Gaimon had supplied them with plenty of fruit, but no meat.}}
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[[File:Gaimon and Sarfunkel.png|thumb|210px|Gaimon and Sarfunkel after the timeskip.]]
  
   
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====Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles====
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Gaimon was seen again still living on the island of strange animals. Gaimon was seen acquainted with a new inhabitant, [[Sarfunkel]], a woman who is coincidentally trapped in a barrel. They were seen living happily together.{{qref|Gaimon and Sarfunkel are seen together.|cover=620}}{{-}}
  
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Some time after meeting the Straw Hats, Gaimon encountered a new castaway: [[Buggy|Buggy the Clown]], recently [[Orange Town Arc|defeated]] and unwittingly separated from [[Buggy Pirates|his crew]] as well as [[Bara Bara no Mi#Usage|most of his body parts]]. The two almost immediately fell to blows, but came to see a kinship in each others' strange physiques, and became friends. Once night fell, they held a party with all the island's rare animals, feasting on fruit and Gaimon's handmade [[Foods and Beverages/Beverages#Liqueur|liquor]]. With Gaimon's help, Buggy soon built a new [[Buggy Pirates#Super Flashy Raft|Super Flashy Raft]] and resumed his search for his crew and body parts. The two parted on good terms, each blissfully unaware of the other's history with the Straw Hats.{{Qref|cover=43|cover2=48|ep=46}}
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===Fish-Man Island Saga===
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====From the Decks of the World====
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[[File:Gaimon and Sarfunkel.png|thumb|left|210px|Gaimon and Sarfunkel after the timeskip.]]
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Gaimon was seen again still living on the Island of Rare Animals. Gaimon was seen acquainted with a new inhabitant, [[Sarfunkel]], a woman who is coincidentally trapped in a barrel. They were seen living happily together.{{Qref|name=Sarfunkel}}{{-}}
   
 
==Anime and Manga Differences==
  
==Anime and Manga Differences==
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The introduction to Gaimon is different in the anime and manga. In the manga, they have not recruited Usopp and attained the Going Merry yet, and only Luffy and Nami met Gaimon while Zoro slept on the boat the entire time. In the anime, Usopp had already joined and they had the Going Merry, so all four of the Straw Hats met Gaimon (though Zoro spent time sleeping on the island and as a result, met him later than the others).
  
   
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[[File:Gaimon With Straw Hats.png|thumb|180px|Gaimon's meeting in the anime.]]
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He first appeared in the manga between the [[Orange Town Arc]] and the [[Syrup Village Arc]], while in the anime he appeared in between the [[Syrup Village Arc]] and the [[Baratie Arc]].
  
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In the [[One Piece (Manga)|manga]], Gaimon's debut is a relatively low-key event taking place between the between the [[Orange Town Arc]] and the [[Syrup Village Arc]], with [[Monkey D. Luffy|Luffy]] and [[Nami]] being the only [[Straw Hat Pirates]] he meets (as [[Roronoa Zoro|Zoro]] was too battle-exhausted to go ashore).{{Qref|chap=22|page=5-6}} The [[One Piece (Anime)|anime]] places Gaimon's debut between the [[Syrup Village Arc]] and the [[Baratie Arc]], incorporating both Zoro and [[Usopp]] into the meeting and somewhat expanding the overall story.{{Qref|name=e18|ep=18}}
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The anime also depicts Gaimon with more elaborate tactics, titling himself the island's {{nihongo|'''Guardian God'''|守り神|Mamorigami}}, claiming that the rare animals are all pirates he magically transformed, and setting multiple [[Wikipedia:Booby trap|booby traps]] on the island to fling [[Polearm#Spear|spears]] and drop boulders on intruders.{{Qref|name=e18}}
   
 
==Translation and Dub Issues==
  
==Translation and Dub Issues==
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Upon meeting Gaimon, Luffy initially calls him a {{Nihongo|'''boxed son'''|箱入り息子|hakoirimusuko}}, prompting Gaimon to muse over his "coddled" childhood; this joke is based off the term {{Nihongo|'''[[Wikipedia:Klotski#Daughter in the box|boxed daughter]]'''|箱入娘|hakoirimusume}}, a somewhat archaic description of girls over-sheltered by their families. As the term has little cultural significance outside [[Wikipedia:Japan|Japan]], each professional [[Wikipedia:English language|English]] translation adapts it into a different joke:
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In the original Japanese version, there is a running gag in which other characters ask Gaimon if he's a {{Nihongo|''hakoirimusuko''|箱入り息子||literally meaning "boxed son"}}, to which he responds with "Yes, my father held me back when I was a boy" and then irritably snaps back to reality. This is a pun off of the Japanese term {{Nihongo|''hakoirimusume''|箱入娘||literally meaning "boxed daughter"}}, which refers to a girl who's been sheltered throughout her life. Since the joke probably would not make sense to most American readers and viewers (it's based on Japanese history circa the late 19th century), Luffy instead calls Gaimon a "boxer" in the Viz Manga. The joke became a "Jack-in-the-Box" in the FUNimation dub, which he says ironically that he is in a box and presumably nearly says that his name is Jack, before coming back to reality and calling whoever that asked if he was a Jack-in-the-Box an idiot. 4Kids turned the joke into "heart of gold" as a reference to the treasure normally held within a treasure chest.
  
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*The [[VIZ Media|Viz manga]] uses the term ''[[Wikipedia:Boxing|boxer]]''.
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*The [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids-dubbed anime]] uses the term ''[[Wiktionary:heart of gold|heart of gold]]'' (with Gaimon at first thankful for the "compliment").
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*The [[FUNimation Entertainment|FUNimation-dubbed anime]] uses the term ''[[Wikipedia:Jack-in-the-box|Jack-in-the-box]]'' (with Gaimon sarcastically claiming his name "just happens to be Jack").
   
 
==Merchandise==
  
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*[[One Piece (Game Boy Advance)]]
  
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*[[Dragon Dream!]]
 
*[[One Piece: Pirates Carnival]]
  
*[[One Piece: Pirates Carnival]]
   
 
==Trivia==
  
==Trivia==
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*Eiichiro Oda stated that Gaimon was his favorite character in an interview from [[One Piece Color Walk 1]] (published in 2001).{{qref|Akira Toriyama: Oda-kun, who is your favorite character in your manga?|cw=1|page=104}}
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*Eiichiro Oda stated that Gaimon was his favorite character in an interview from [[One Piece Color Walk 1]] (published in 2001).{{Qref|cw=1|page=104|Akira Toriyama: Oda-kun, who is your favorite character in your manga?}}
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*His pairing with [[Sarfunkel]] is a possible [[Wikipedia:Spoonerism|spoonerism]] of the singing group [[Wikipedia:Simon and Garfunkel|Simon and Garfunkel]].
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*His pairing with [[Sarfunkel]] is a possible [[Wikipedia:Spoonerism|spoonerism]] of the singing group [[Wikipedia:Simon & Garfunkel|Simon and Garfunkel]].
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*Gaimon's favorite food is the melons that can be harvested on the [[Island of Rare Animals]].{{Qref|name=vivre card}}
   
 
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Gaimon is a former pirate who currently lives as a hermit on the Island of Rare Animals.

Appearance

Gaimon possesses a notably pear-shaped face, green hair, and a pronounced uni-brow. In his youth, he appeared to be a relatively scrawny man of average height.

Shortly after landing on the Island of Rare Animals, most of his body was irreversibly compressed into a treasure chest, leaving only his head, hands, and feet free (and one of his teeth dislodged). Over the next twenty years, he grew a sizable beard and an even larger afro, giving him a curiously shrub-like appearance.[1]

Gallery

File:Gaimon 22 years ago.png
Gaimon at age 23.
File:Gaimon 20 Years Ago.png
Gaimon after getting trapped in the treasure chest.
Gaimon Concept Art
Concept art of Gaimon.
Gaimon Anime Concept Art
Gaimon's concept art from the anime.
Gaimon Unlimited Cruise

Personality

As a young man, Gaimon was a stereotypically greedy pirate, caring about little more than plunder.[5] This greed slowly eroded (though never completely erased) by his decades of solitude on the Island of Rare Animals, causing him to prize peace and companionship more than any material wealth.[6]

In any case, Gaimon is highly protective of anything he deems treasure, and as a result tends to be hostile to any strangers he meets.[7] However, once his trust has been earned, he can prove to be remarkably friendly and helpful, especially to fellow castaways.[8]

Relationships

Rare Animals

Gaimon treats the rare animals as treasures of the island, and defends them from possible invaders.[7] He has great affection for them and they are family to him, so he does not want to leave the island and abandon them.[9]

Straw Hat Pirates

Although he tried to attack the Straw Hat Pirates at first, he ends up making friends with them after telling them about his past, and they tried to help him get the treasure chests he had been wishing for. However, with the chests empty, Luffy asked him to join his crew, but Gaimon declined the invitation to stay with the animals.[10]

Buggy

Buggy Befriends Gaimon

Gaimon befriends Buggy.

He is good friends with Buggy[11] despite battling him when the pirate first crashed onto the island.[7] Ironically, neither of them knows the other's relationship with Luffy.[citation needed]

Sarfunkel

Gaimon seems to have an affectionate relationship with Sarfunkel, the barrel woman, since she appears feeding him.[12]

Abilities and Powers

Gaimon demonstrated no combat abilities in his youth, but appeared to be an above-average climber. Notably, he was able to scale the Island of Rare Animals' steepest cliff barehanded[13] (a feat that Nami later deemed impossible).[14]

After the accident that compressed his body, Gaimon adapted the best he could, and is able to perform most day-to-day tasks with his hands and feet (though he can no longer manage full-body movements such as climbing).[15] According to him, the bulk of his body has atrophied so much that it cannot survive without the chest, leaving him severely disadvantaged against those he cannot intimidate or otherwise deceive.[16]

Weapons

Gaimon carries at least one pistol at all times, having somehow maintained powder and shot for it despite being stranded for decades from any civilization. He is a marksman of at least some proficiency, preferring to shoot enemies from behind.[17]

History

Past

Gaimon was once part of an unnamed pirate crew totaling some two hundred men, seeking fortune on the high seas. In time, they followed reports of buried treasure to the Island of Rare Animals, searching diligently for three weeks but failing to find anything more than a single empty chest. While his captain and crewmates deemed the island a lost cause and prepared to raise anchor, Gaimon turned his attention to the island's highest, steepest cliff, which the crew had frequently gathered under but never climbed.[18]

Upon making the climb, Gaimon was delighted to find five treasure chests atop the cliff. As he turned to call his crew, however, he lost his grip and fell directly into the empty chest his captain had left below. The impact knocked him unconscious for several hours; by the time he woke, his crew had sailed off without him. Worse, his body was trapped inside the chest, leaving him in a permanently hunched position that could manage few movements beyond scuttling and crawling.[19]

Though he could no longer reach the clifftop chests, Gaimon refused to give up on them. Over the following years, he adapted to his new condition and posed as the island's guardian (番人, Ban'nin?), driving off any newcomers through a combination of stealth, theatrics, and gunplay.[20] Concurrently, he befriended the many bizarre animals that populated the island - a common target of poachers - and came to treasure them as well.[9]

East Blue Saga

Syrup Village Arc

Twenty years after he was first stranded, Gaimon finally encountered a group he could not drive off: the Straw Hat Pirates, whose captain Monkey D. Luffy effortlessly survived his pistol. Staggered by this, Gaimon tried to flee, only to trip and expose himself to the bemused Luffy and Nami. Soon after, he was won over by Luffy's cheerful nature, and for the first time in his life explained his circumstances.[21]

Sympathetic to Gaimon's plight, Luffy volunteered to scale the cliff and recover the chests, but in doing so confirmed the ex-pirate's worst fears: all five were empty, and Gaimon had spent decades "guarding" thin air. Learning this brought Gaimon to tears, but again he refused to despair, and - after turning down an offer to join the Straw Hats - resolved to spend the rest of his days protecting all the rare animals he had come to regard as his true treasure.[22]

Subsequently, Gaimon helped his new friends resupply with the island's fruit, and saw them off as they resumed their voyage.[23]

Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles

Some time after meeting the Straw Hats, Gaimon encountered a new castaway: Buggy the Clown, recently defeated and unwittingly separated from his crew as well as most of his body parts. The two almost immediately fell to blows, but came to see a kinship in each others' strange physiques, and became friends. Once night fell, they held a party with all the island's rare animals, feasting on fruit and Gaimon's handmade liquor. With Gaimon's help, Buggy soon built a new Super Flashy Raft and resumed his search for his crew and body parts. The two parted on good terms, each blissfully unaware of the other's history with the Straw Hats.[24]

Fish-Man Island Saga

From the Decks of the World

Gaimon and Sarfunkel

Gaimon and Sarfunkel after the timeskip.

Gaimon was seen again still living on the Island of Rare Animals. Gaimon was seen acquainted with a new inhabitant, Sarfunkel, a woman who is coincidentally trapped in a barrel. They were seen living happily together.[12]

Anime and Manga Differences

Gaimon With Straw Hats

Gaimon's meeting in the anime.

In the manga, Gaimon's debut is a relatively low-key event taking place between the between the Orange Town Arc and the Syrup Village Arc, with Luffy and Nami being the only Straw Hat Pirates he meets (as Zoro was too battle-exhausted to go ashore).[25] The anime places Gaimon's debut between the Syrup Village Arc and the Baratie Arc, incorporating both Zoro and Usopp into the meeting and somewhat expanding the overall story.[26]

The anime also depicts Gaimon with more elaborate tactics, titling himself the island's Guardian God (守り神, Mamorigami?), claiming that the rare animals are all pirates he magically transformed, and setting multiple booby traps on the island to fling spears and drop boulders on intruders.[26]

Translation and Dub Issues

Upon meeting Gaimon, Luffy initially calls him a boxed son (箱入り息子, hakoirimusuko?), prompting Gaimon to muse over his "coddled" childhood; this joke is based off the term boxed daughter (箱入娘, hakoirimusume?), a somewhat archaic description of girls over-sheltered by their families. As the term has little cultural significance outside Japan, each professional English translation adapts it into a different joke:

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 11) and Episode 18, Gaimon makes his debut.
  2. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 13) and Episode 18.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Vivre Card - One Piece Visual Dictionary (Card #0057), Gaimon's information is revealed.
  4. ↑ One Piece Blue Deep: Characters World (p. 43), his birthday is revealed.
  5. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 20) and Episode 18.
  6. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 28-29) and Episode 18.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 6 Chapter 46, cover story: Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles Vol. 8 and Episode 46.
  8. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 6 Chapters 47 and 48, cover story: Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles Vol. 9-10 and Episode 46.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 28) and Episode 18.
  10. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 7-28) and Episode 18.
  11. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 6 Chapter 47, cover story: Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles Vol. 9 and Episode 46.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 One Piece Manga — Vol. 63 Chapter 620, cover story: From the Decks of the World Vol. 7, Gaimon and Sarfunkel are seen together.
  13. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 19) and Episode 18.
  14. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 23) and Episode 18.
  15. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 20) and Episode 18.
  16. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 12) and Episode 18.
  17. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 8-10) and Episode 18.
  18. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 18-19) and Episode 18.
  19. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 19-20) and Episode 18.
  20. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 20) and Episode 18.
  21. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 7-21) and Episode 18.
  22. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 21-29) and Episode 18.
  23. ↑ One Piece Manga — Vol. 3 Chapter 23 (p. 2), As the Straw Hats approach the Gecko Islands, Luffy mentions that Gaimon had supplied them with plenty of fruit, but no meat.
  24. ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 5 –Vol. 6 Chapters 43–48, cover story: Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles Vol. 7-10 and Episode 46.
  25. ↑ One Piece Manga — Vol. 3 Chapter 22 (p. 5-6).
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 One Piece Anime — Episode 18.
  27. ↑ One Piece Color Walk 1 (p. 104), Akira Toriyama: Oda-kun, who is your favorite character in your manga?

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