 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today we will be focusing on the long forgotten, because you see deep in the depths of over a decade of One Piece, we've had a few characters slip through the cracks and just, you know, vanish from this world, which you might think is fairly common, given that the series has quite literally hundreds upon hundreds of characters to keep track of, but it really isn't. Oda generally does quite a fantastic job of keeping up with the old, and if you give me almost any secondary or even a minor character, I can probably tell you where they are right here and now. Johnny and Yosaku. These two are often mistakenly thought of as forgotten because they haven't been seen properly since the Arlong days. However, from cover stories, we know that they gave up the life of bounty hunting and became fishermen at Kokoyashi Village, where they remain to this very day. Good on them. And as for another example, we can look to Aisa, the incredibly talented mantra girl from Skypea. She is not forgotten at all and currently she has a job selling balloons at Wagamu Land, a theme park inspired by Usopp and Usopp related accessories, namely rubber bands. And you know what? Even animals don't get forgotten, like Chuchu. These days he owns and operates his own gigantic pet food store. And that is the kind of detail that Oda puts into 99% of his characters even after they've long since faded from relevance. However, there is that 1% who have seemingly just vanished from this universe entirely and they are known as the forgotten characters of One Piece. Meanwhile, you, dear viewer, are known as the person who forgot to subscribe to the Grand Line Review. The act of doing which will result in regular One Piece content being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. So let's just refresh your memory about that. 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However, I have also always found it a bit strange that after their defeat, we never heard a single word of what happened to Don Creek's Armada. And to be fair, things didn't look particularly good for Geen, after rather heroically choosing to throw his gas mask to Luffy and thus taking in a theoretically fatal dose of MH5, deadly gas. However, he did very much leave this series with a lot of promise and his final words are still engraved into my mind to this very day. I may only have a few hours left to live. It may be foolish for a half-dead man to commit himself to anything, but it's good medicine. From now on, I'm steering my own course. And then allegedly, Geen also told Sanji that he looked forward to encountering Luffy in the ground line. So look in any other series, I would say that this is quite a nice send-off to the character. You know, letting him sail away into the distance to preserve that strong image in the minds of readers, watchers, and in fact, the actual characters. But this is one piece and death is, well, it's not really a thing that happened too often in the pre-timescape era or even the post-timescape era. Which is why we very much now have to put up with the constant theories of every new character introduced with a mask or having a silhouette being Geen. Because if Pell can survive a city destroying bomb, then sure, Geen can survive a bit of the old poisoning. It certainly wouldn't be the most outrageous thing that's happened in one piece. But it's not just Geen either. It's easy enough to accept that sure, he may have passed on but the entire Kreek Armada has been seemingly forgotten about by the series. Don Kreek himself is almost certainly still alive. And the only reason I can think as to why we haven't seen him featured in a cover story or something else is because Oda doesn't want to reveal anything about what happened to Geen. If he is alive, then Oda doesn't want to blow that quite yet. And if he is dead, then Oda doesn't want to confirm that in a very morbid visual manner. Instead preferring to have our last image of Geen being a proud and changed man. Whichever the case is, it has led to both Geen and the rest of the Kreek pirates being forgotten about by one piece. And we're going to stick with East Blue for our next character, the frequently mentioned Captain Kuro. Frequently mentioned by the fan base, that is certainly not by the series because whatever happened to him will probably never find out. Because after enacting his questionable plan on Sir A Village, Luffy delivered a stunning headbutt to our cat loving captain. Which when you think about it kind of adds insult to injury because Kuro's whole thing was that he was supposed to be like the intelligent pirate. One of the smartest of all of the people in East Blue according to Oda actually. And as such Luffy chose to take him down by using his head in the only way Luffy possibly can, literally. He then rather unceremoniously threw Kuro towards his former crew and that was the last we saw of the cat captain. At least in the manga anyway. In the anime, there was this Phyllis scene during Log Town where it showed that Kuro had returned to piracy and he was alerted to Luffy's new bounty. Which was a kind of cool scene actually. This is a great example of Phyllis that really works for me because I can imagine Oda doing something like this. With that said, Oda didn't in fact do it. And as a result in Canon, we have no idea what happened to Kuro because he has never been seen again in any way, shape or form. No cover story is no nothing. And he certainly doesn't have the gene excuse of you know, more than likely being dead either. At best maybe Kuro has a motivational excuse though because his entire arc was focused on exiting the life of piracy and finding some kind of peace. So it seems more likely that even without the riches he was seeking, Kuro just up and retired. But I would love to know what that retirement consisted of because that's what we get to see with most villains in one piece or even side characters or even really minor characters. Because guess what? To name yet another example, we even know what Disco is doing these days. Do you remember Disco? I sort of do. He was the owner of the human auction house on Sabadeokopelago and right now he is a seemingly homeless alcoholic. Roaming around the lawless areas of Sabadeok repeatedly stabbing wanted posters of Luffy, Law, Kid and even Ray Lee. My point is though, if we're going to take the time to catch up with someone as irrelevant as Disco, then why not Kuro? I'm not quite sure about this one. He's just another example of a forgotten character in one piece. And now let us meet another who we find in the form of the captain of the Rambar Pirates Calico Yorkie, best known as the guy with the things on his face. Which fun fact, I remember the Karakana Fiyo, which makes sense because that's his name, Yorkie. But this is extraordinarily similar to the Gean situation. In Yorkie's tragic story, he contracted a disease. So he, along with the rest of the infected crew, decided to part ways and exit the ground line via the calm belt, or at least they tried to. So our last image of Yorkie, much like Gean, is sailing off heroically into the distance, more than likely to die a very, very painful death. And when I was reading it, this did strike me as a bit strange because the thing about Brooke's backstory is that it inevitably leads to tragedy anyway. Basically, the crew continue sailing and they get attacked by miscellaneous enemy pirates, thus resulting in all of their deaths. So the question pops up, why not just include Yorkie in that event, rather than doubling up on the tragedy with this whole disease business? But the answer to that is simply continuity. Because way back in the reverse mountain art, Croker stated that he heard from a reliable source that the Rambar Pirates had fled the ground line. So we needed a situation where the Rambar Pirates both fled the ground line and remained in the ground line. And so the Yorkie tragedy was born. But that still doesn't change the massive question mark looming over him. Once again, it's the same as the Gean situation. Either Oda doesn't want to confirm that he is alive right now, or he doesn't want to take away our final image of the former captain. Either way, that makes Yorkie a forgotten character. But let's move on to someone more comical now, like say Wanzi, yeah, he'll do. The undisputed master of Ram and Kenpo and quite possibly its sole practitioner. Wanzi really is a prime target for cover story material. Goofy characters like him often end up doing really, really well being given a minor side quest like Gidatsu and his journey to open up a hot spring with Kouzu's uncle. But not only was Wanzi not given his own cover story, which is an abomination in and of itself, but he has not appeared again at all. Which I do need to emphasize is very strange because even if you are just a minor one piece character, it is almost guaranteed that you will appear again, even if it's only in the background somewhere. With that said, I should of course mention that Wanzi did indeed appear in one piece film Gold proposing to a woman on a Ferris wheel. And as much as I would like to congratulate Wanzi on his assumed engagement, film Gold is not canon and Wanzi is still very much forgotten in the actual series. Let's get back to villains now because Arlong is another great choice for a forgotten character except he's a bit special because he did have a prominent role in the Fisher Tiger flashback, which is great, it really is. It expanded upon Arlong and gave us some great context as to why he became the monster he did in regards to Kokyashi Village, which once again, that's great and all. But in terms of Monday, we still have no idea what has become of Arlong or any of his crew apart from Hatchan. We just know that he was arrested by the Marines and given how dangerous he is, you would think that a natural spot for Arlong likely would have been impelled down. However, he was not present there, forcing us to assume that he is being held in some sort of East Blue pleb prison, one that he could potentially quite easily escape from. And I know he's a weird one because despite the fact that he was an East Blue antagonist, he is still one of the most pronounced villains in the series. So I do find it a bit odd that we have never seen or heard anything regarding his current situation because look, you can include him in as many flashbacks as you want, but when we consider the Monday, he is still a very, very forgotten character. As is Crab Hand Gyro. Do you remember Crab Hand Gyro? I try not to. But he was a human pirate worth a surprisingly impressive 73 million berries. So you know more than post Alabaster Zoro. This guy would have been quite dangerous in the first half of the ground line. However, when sailing to Fishman Island, Crab Hand Gyro and his crew were forced to join the new Fishman Pirates. Although they would eventually escape but not before being wrecked by Hoody Jones, who quite purposely left them alive to spread the word of terror to the rest of the human race. So look, Crab Hand Gyro is alive. And you might think it's a bit ridiculous and quite the joke for me to bring up someone like this but I am 100% maybe not 100%, but I am 85% serious. Characters like Crab Hand Gyro do not often get forgotten about in one piece. They go on to make strange minor appearances but this guy hasn't. And weirdly enough, that lack of anything to mention is worth mentioning. And that's for another obscure existence. Remember Baz Kovil? Or more accurately, Baz Kovil and Princess? You know, the three guys that were such good friends that they permanently share an outfit. Well, this is another strange comical odour character or characters who would have done very well with the cover story or just a minor appearance somewhere but they were never heard of again following any sobie. A great shame, IMO. But quite possibly the greatest shame and greatest forgotten character also a staple of any sobie is of course, Soge King. I still find it quite shocking to think that Soge King has not made a post-time skip appearance and there has been ample opportunity for him to do so whether it be Fishman Island, Pankhaza, Dressrosa probably not Hulk Hague Island for reasons I'm not quite sure of but even now on Warner and yet he still remains hidden in the shadows. I mean, I guess we have Usopp who tends to mysteriously go missing whenever Soge King appears, that's a bit weird but it's still not quite the same, is it? I would be very eager to know what became of the Sniper King because I have not forgotten him and that is because Sniper Island exists in my heart and as such, it would be absolutely impossible to forget Soge King. However, has one piece forgotten Soge King? Almost certainly. Along with all of these other characters who I am strangely curious to see once more although with each chapter, each volume, each year and even each decade that passes it is becoming clearer and clearer that they will remain forgotten characters. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your YouTube feeds. But for now, this has been the Groundline Review and I'll see you next time.