Summary
Fish-Men are a fairly prevalent race in the series ofOne Piece. They have superior physical strength to humans and are even capable of swimming. This makes them a natural fit for the pirate world, and they have appeared in numerous places throughout it.
While many fish-men pirate crews have been documented across the series, they are also present in human society, with many deciding to join largely human crews. There are manypirate crews that have fish-men as membersinOne Piece, but keeping track of them all in such a vast story can be quite challenging.
This list will document any pirate crew that has been confirmed to (at least at one point or another) have had fish-men among their ranks. It will be restricted to canonical appearances.
14Sun Pirates
Captains: Fisher Tiger, Jimbei
The Sun Pirates are arguably the seminal fish-men pirate crew. Many fish-men pirate crews have had some form of connection to the crew, and it largely attempts to operate with its kind’s best interests in mind. It was founded by Fisher Tiger, a sea bream fish-man and a former slave, whose crewmates were also largely ex-slaves. Each member received a brand meant to disguise the one slaves were given by World Nobles. This was an act of solidarity, meant to make the ex-slaves and those who were never slaves indistinguishable.
Unlike most other fish-men crews, this crew also contained merfolk, most prominently the ship’s doctor, Aladine, and his wife, Charlotte Praline, who is half-mermaid. Although this makes sense once one considers that fish-men and merfolk have virtually the same genetics.
Although Fisher Tiger wished not to have his hatred inherited, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of humans made him fairly prejudiced against them.His death was the result of being betrayedafter sending a human slave to her family (although this itself was the result of the family attempting to broker a deal to keep their child). Regardless, Tiger refused the blood transplant from a human that would keep him alive out of a hatred for their kind.
Tiger’s eventual death resulted in Jimbei taking over the crew. In an effort to pardon his crewmates, Jimbei became a Warlord, and managed to free Arlong from imprisonment. However, Arlong was ungrateful and left the crew because he only respected Tiger, not his ideals. He formed the Arlong Pirates as one of the two splinter crews made after Jimbei gained his title. The other resulting crew was the Macro Pirates.
Due to an effort to maintain some form of protection, the Sun Pirates have found themselves aligned with a variety of powers. They were previouslyaligned with the government via Jimbei, although Whitebeard protected Fish-Man Island during this time. After his passing and Jimbei’s exit from the warlords, they became a subordinate crew under Big Mom, who previously acted as the protector of Fish-Men Island in exchange for a fee. Currently, the Straw Hats are charged with protecting the island, although Jimbei left his spot as the Sun Pirates' captain to join their crew instead.
13Arlong Pirates
Captain: Arlong
Taking up residence in Arlong Park on the East Blue, this pirate crew was primarily composed of fish-men, although Nami was once an officer, albeit unwillingly. Their most prominent members were four ex-Sun Pirates who left the crew upon Jimbei’s ascension to Warlord. Captained by Arlong, a sawshark fish-man, they are largely racist against humans and have no problem withshaking down nearby villages and killing their people. However, the exact ideals are not shared by every member of the crew, as Hatchan was proud of his friendship with Silvers Rayleigh.
Despite his anti-human prejudice, Arlong has no issue dealing with corrupt navy officers in order to maintain his power. He wished to use Nami’s skills to create a map with which he would take over the world, but this failed to come to fruition. Ultimately, the crew was effectively disbanded after their fight with the Straw Hats, with most of its major officers, save for Hatchan, ending up arrested.
12Macro Pirates
Captain: Macro
One of the smallest crews in theOne Pieceseries, the Macro Pirates are fairly unremarkable compared to other fish-men crews. This three-member crew runs counter to the ideals of their parent crew, having no problems sending other fish-men and merfolk into slavery or even working alongside other humans to do so.
They are infamous for attempting to apprehend Camie, a mermaid, over 30 times, and they even once tried tocapture their former friend, Hatchan. That said, they are shown to be largely ineffective compared to most of their former crewmates, as Hatchan was able to defeat them with relatively little effort.
11New Fish-Man Pirates
Captain: Hody Jones
This crew was made of a number of fish-men who followed the anti-human philosophy of Arlong. However, the actual popularity these ideals enjoyed on their native Fish-Men Island was fairly minimal. Thecaptain of the New Fish-Man Pirates, Hody Jones, was a great white shark fish-man who wished to effectively take over the island. Hody learned from his predecessor’s mistakes, courting allies Arlong previously could not. That said, he was much less familiar with humans overall, believing that he could kill his way to fish-man supremacy.
He assassinated Otohime in a botched effort to radicalize fish-men and merfolk against her ideals, showing a willingness to kill even his own kind as an extension of his anti-human hatred. They lost to an alliance of the Straw Hat Pirates and Jimbei, ironically making the island even more willing to accept human aid in the struggle for their freedom. Ultimately, the crew was put out of commission after its defeat, with an abuse of energy steroids prematurely aging the top members out of their prime.
10Flying Pirates
Captain: Vander Decken IX
This crew was allied with the New Fish-Man Pirates, a combination said to be unstoppable. The crew were plunderers by nature, with their fish-man physiology making them suited to robberies at sea. Their captain, Vander Decken IX, a Japanese bullhead shark fish-man, consumeda Devil Fruit that made him an expert marksmanat the cost of his ability to breathe underwater. Decken obsessively wishes to take Shirahoshi, the mermaid princess, as his bride.
The crew formerly had at least two gigantic beings, Ankoro, an anglerfish, and Wadatsumi, a tiger blowfish fish-man, who were large enough tocause mass destruction in their wake. Despite this, the crew was ultimately defeated, with Wadatsumi being knocked out by Sanji and Decken being betrayed by Hody and falling unconscious after failing to take revenge. Wadatsumi eventually defected to the Sun Pirates after being banished due to his size, making incarceration impossible, but the rest of the crew was presumably arrested.
9Foxy Pirates (Formerly)
Captain: Foxy
Foxy previously built a massive crew, which consisted largely of pirates he won from Davy Back Fights, competitions where the loser is often forced to part with their crewmates. Foxy’s crew is notably the first largely human crew shown to have fish-men in its ranks. Capote is one such member, a billfish fish-man who is shown to have excellent athletic abilities, especially in the water.
The Foxy Pirates were also notable for having Big Pan, a loach wotan, a being who is half-fishman and half-giant. Big Pan is thus far the only canonical wotan shown in the series.Due to his giant ancestry, he appears slightly more human than most of his fish-man counterparts. However, the Final Saga displays that neither Capote nor Big Pan are members of the crew anymore. It is possible that the fish-men were lost in a Davy Back Fight, with the three remaining members of the Foxy Pirates being purely human.
8Whitebeard Pirates
Captain: Whitebeard
Whitebeard was charged with defending fish-man island, with his flag signifying it as his territory to protect. His crew notably had at least two fish-men in its ranks. Namur, a fish-man appearing to take after a shark, served as the 8th division commander. Namur seemed to take the responsibility quite seriously, even having an “8” mark under his chin.
The exact extent of his strength is unclear, but considering that he is one of the most powerful crew’s top members, it is likely fairly high within the range of fish-men or pirates. Along with most of the crew, his current whereabouts are unknown, although he was likely involved in the Payback War, wherethe Whitebeard Pirates definitely lost to the Blackbeard Pirates. Their members are said to have gone into hiding after this outcome.
7Spade Pirates (Absorbed Into The Whitebeard Pirates)
Captain: Ace
The Spade Pirates was a crew formed by Portgas D. Ace. The crew had a somewhat diverse roster, including a longarm, a mermaid, and a fish-man among its members. The fish-man in question was Wallace, who took after a weedy stingfish. Due to Ace’s accepting nature, he added Wallace to the ranks of his crew. Because of the relative lack of prominence had by the Spade Pirates overall, Wallace is largely unseen outside an occasional background appearance.
The crew was ultimatelyabsorbed into the Whitebeard Piratesafter Edward “Whitebeard” Newgate defeated and captured Ace. Although Ace was unwilling at first, he eventually took to the crew and ended up becoming its second division commander. After the deaths of Ace and his captain, the former Spade Pirates have also likely gone into hiding.
6Takotopus Pirates
Captain: Karma
This crew was led by Karma, an octopus fish-man. Its members were previously involved in human trafficking activites, attempting to sell Kozuki Toki and later Oden for a profit. However, the crew ultimately failed, being scared off by the likes of Oden and Whitebeard.
Sometime after, the crew became one of Whitebeard’s many subordinate crews. Karma and his crew were involved in the Summit War, butlittle has been seen of them chronologicallyafter this appearance.
5Donquixote Pirates
Captain: Donquixote Doflamingo
The World Nobles are noted for their diverse array of slaves and preferences for powerful or unique races, such as fish-men. This is compounded by a discriminatory attitude humans have towards fish-men in general. Despite this, there are recorded instances of humans crossbreeding with fish-men. Notably, serial crossbreeder, Charlotte Linlin, birthed a fish-man human hybrid named De-Chat, although he is not yet involved in the Big Mom Pirates' activities,presumably due to being too young.
A fish-man hybrid who is an actual pirate is Dellinger.Dellinger was an orphanwho was found by the Donquixote Pirates and raised by Giolla. Despite his origins, Donquixote Doflamingo seems to have no problem accepting Dellinger as one of his family. Dellinger is shown to have incredible physical strength, taking down a number of Corrida Colosseum participants until he was ultimately undone by Hakuba, Cavendish’s evil alter ego. He, along with his crewmates, have since been arrested by the marines and likely imprisoned.
