 Two years ago, I read upon a glyph located on an island in the sky that contained the location of an ancient weapon, and that location was here. Could it be that this mermaid princess has another name? That being, the Ancient Weapon Poseidon. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. Today we are going to be investigating the legendary mermaid princess as well as deadly ancient weapon, Shirahoshi. Shirahoshi is an absolutely gigantic, melt-witing mermaid who is famously described by her father as quote, cute, but huge. However, in terms of general personality, Shirahoshi would best be described as quite fragile, as well as very easily frightened, and quickly overcome by even the mildest of emotions. And Shirahoshi's most common response to any sort of emotion, whether it be anger, sadness, fear, or even joy, is crying. And this easily stirred personality is very much a result of the way in which Shirahoshi was raised. And I suppose we should first of all note that Shirahoshi is the youngest child of King Neptune and Queen Otohime, thus making her a princess of the Ryugu Kingdom. Even as a baby, Shirahoshi was cute, but huge. In fact, under the estimations of the ever-trustworthy Karabo, Shirahoshi is roughly eight times the size of your average mermaid, with an official height of almost 12 meters, or just over 38 feet for our imperial system friends. In any case, all of this is starting to make me feel ever so sorry for Shirahoshi's mother, Otohime. And speaking of, it's very relevant to establish that Otohime was the primary and at times only advocate for fostering relations between fishmen and humans. And from an exceptionally young age, Shirahoshi was a great admirer of her mother's ideals, and went on to serve as one of her biggest supporters in whatever way she could. In terms of her father, King Neptune, he thinks the world of Shirahoshi and has even referred to her as his treasure. Which is a bit awkward considering he has three other children, all of whom must be quite painfully aware of the fact that they are most certainly not the favourite siblings, especially Manboshi. But back to Otohime for a second because her actions will go on to shape Shirahoshi's entire existence. So Otohime's desire to see humanity and fishmanity brought together was so strong that even when a world noble also knows the most despicable beings on the planet, very well known for using fishman as slaves by the way, became stranded on Fishman Island. And Otohime was willing to put her life on the line to protect him, which resulted in her being taken hostage by the world noble, named St. Muskaad by the way, as well as the revelation of Shirahoshi's truly terrifying power. This is because Shirahoshi is far more than a simple mermaidian princess, and she is in fact one of the three legendary ancient weapons, specifically Poseidon. Now the earliest known information we have about Poseidon comes from the void century, as the mysterious figure Joy Boy made a pact with the then holder of the Poseidon power, however due to unknown reasons he was unable to follow through with his promises. And following the void century Poseidon disappeared from all official records, even becoming a legend amongst fishmen. However the ability was passed through the generations of Ryugu royalty until eight to nine hundred years later when it would be awoken by Shirahoshi at this very moment. Seeing her mother in danger, Shirahoshi cried out and unknowingly summoned a group of sea kings, the power of which could have threatened the entire island. However upon seeing the Muskaad fell unconscious and seeing the danger alleviated, the sea kings went about their business. With everything safe for now, Otahime then decided to accompany Muskaad to the surface and returned with a piece of paper from the world nobles, said to be the hope of Fishman Island. And while this endeavor would gain the support of the majority of the citizens of Fishman Island, Otahime would come to be assassinated as a result by Fishman purist Hody Jones. As her mother was dying in front of her eyes, Shirahoshi began to cry, but not wanting to activate the powers of Poseidon, her brothers managed to calm her down by swallowing their grief and singing and dancing for Shirahoshi, thus quelling the threat of Poseidon as Otahime passed on. Rather heartbreakingly, Shirahoshi would also come to know the truth of her mother's murder as well, as her pet shark Megalow witnessed the event and even relayed the information to her. However in order to honour her mother's final wishes of not wanting to spread further hate even towards her murderer, Shirahoshi chose not to reveal Hody as the perpetrator of the crime. Nor did she come to bear a grudge against him, displaying that she had well and truly inherited her mother's kindness. However as if this wasn't already a bad enough day, one other curious thing happened to Shirahoshi and she was put in the sights of Vandedecken, a Fishman whose ancestors had longed to find the mermaid with the power of Poseidon and as one does he decided in that moment that he would marry her. Well I mean not right at that moment, he decided to give her 10 to 20 years first because let's remember Shirahoshi was only six at the time, but in the confusion and chaos he was able to mark her with his devil fruit abilities which would allow him to target her with anything and have it reach her. Now Vandedecken mainly used this ability to send love letters, proposals, flying axes, you know all the standard romantic stuff and terrified by Shirahoshi's new stalker the decision was made to lock her away in the hard-shelled tower for her own safety. And here Shirahoshi would remain for 10 years, suffering a lack of social development and possessing an exceptionally limited knowledge of the outside world as a result. That is until a certain monkey-dee Luffy stumbled into her room at the Ryugu Palace and these two got off to a bit of a rocky start, but Shirahoshi becoming overwhelmed by Luffy's current nature. So much so that she even began to cry after being comically yelled at, an action she most certainly was not used to due to a lifetime of forced pampering. Of course one of Luffy's trademark character traits is not suffering fools and as a result he came up with a classic Luffy nickname for her being wiki hoshi, although he then went on to block an axe that was sent flying her way from dude Bridekken and so wiki hoshi grew to trust her rubber protagonist who even ended up offering to take her outside to visit the grave of her mother acting as her bodyguard. And as such Shirahoshi soon enough became involved in a series of events that saw the straw hats taking on an army of the new Fishman Pirates led by Hody Jones in Gyeongkod Plaza. Meanwhile after being politely rejected by Shirahoshi, Vandedecken decided to go just a little bit off the rails and use his devil fruit power to send an ancient ship known as the Noah directly at Shirahoshi and threatening to destroy Fishman Island itself. In a stunning act of bravery, Shirahoshi then fled Fishman Island in order to save it, resulting in the Noah following her thanks to the powers of Vandedecken. Unfortunately, or unfortunately I'm not quite sure, Vandedecken would pass out after being struck down by Hody Jones and with his power no longer in effect, the Noah began to plunge towards Fishman Island once more. However, before it could strike the island, Shirahoshi activated her powers as Poseidon once again, involuntarily I should add, after seeing Luffy's grievous wounds. And once again summoned a group of Seekings who took custody of the Noah and even spoke to Shirahoshi, telling her that they were summoned by her feelings. And in the aftermath of these events, Shirahoshi grew determined to change and become stronger, leading her to make a promise with Luffy that she would stop being a crybaby and in turn he promised that the next time they met, he would take her to the surface world. Furthermore, all of the straw hats minus Oro and Frankie for whatever reason, probably goes there too cool for this school, went on to make the exact same promise before departing from Fishman Island. And now we need to do the thing that we do and throw up a spoiler warning for the events of the Brevary Arc. If you have not read or watched that arc to completion, now is a great time to jump to this point in the video because we've got some pretty decent spoilers coming up here. But for everyone else, here we go. After the departure of the straw hats, the real good royalty made their way to the surface world in order to attend the Brevary, hosted at the Holy Land of Marijua. Shirahoshi and her family were partially escorted there by Luffy's grandfather Monkey D. Garp, and almost immediately upon arrival, Shirahoshi would go on to befriend two other princesses whom Luffy had saved, being Vivi from the Nation of Alabasta, as well as Rebecca from the Dressroser Kingdom. Sadly, this wasn't an entirely joyous occasion as the ever infamous Saint Charles, who you may remember as the fool who got his butt face whooped by Luffy at the Human Auction House pre-timeskip. In any case, his mermaid collecting days were certainly not over, and as soon as Charles caught sight of Shirahoshi, he decided to more or less legally kidnap her. With everyone else even royalty powerless to stop the desires of a world noble, there was very little else to do, except watch on as Shirahoshi was taken. While that is until Charles was smacked in the face by another world noble, Saint Don Quixote Mosgard, the very man that Shirahoshi's mother Otahime had saved on Fishman Island. Mosgard then went on to apologize for the actions of Charles, as well as declare that he would do whatever was in his power to assist the citizens of Fishman Island. Some more fun facts about Shirahoshi. Upon making her presence known on the surface of the blue sea, Shirahoshi immediately caught the attention of the world due to her notable beauty, and probably other assets as well, which was said to rival even that of the pirate Empress, Boa Hancock. While he was mentioned briefly before, it should be noted that Shirahoshi's pet shark, Megalo, is one of the closest beings to her in this world. Shirahoshi absolutely adores Megalo, who was an ex-military shark, and now spends his retirement keeping her company. In fact, for the 10 years in which Shirahoshi was locked up, Megalo was one of the only beings she could really talk to, and Megalo grew very protective of her as well, as shown when he was really mad at Luffy for making Shirahoshi cry, not that that's a difficult thing to achieve though. And just on that, Shirahoshi's arguably most identifiable character trait is crying. So much so that it's very interesting to note that her superpower as Poseidon is quite literally crying, crying to the point where he can hear her feelings and intervene that is, thus making her tears by far the most powerful tears in the world. Yes, even more powerful than whale tears. Another interesting connection that Shirahoshi shares is with the very familiar whale shark by the name of Jinbei. The two of them have known each other ever since Shirahoshi was little, little in terms of age rather than size of course, because I'm not convinced that Shirahoshi was ever truly little. But in Jinbei, Shirahoshi has a loyal supporter, as he greatly admires her devotion towards Otahime's ideals. And adding to the relationship, Shirahoshi also formed a near-instantaneous bond with the Straw Hat Navigator and Army, as they have had surprisingly similar childhoods being trapped in situations completely out of their control. Due to Shirahoshi's extreme sense of politeness, she addresses everyone she meets with the honorific Sama, and finally, a truly useless fact. When Shirahoshi was first mentioned to be quite big by her father, Brooke immediately thought of a mermaid just as wide as she was tall. But that pretty much does it for Shirahoshi. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon, because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if Patreon isn't quite your style then please do leave this video a like, share or subscribe, because it also helps support this channel an incredible amount. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis. And finally, please do comment with who, what or where you'd like to see featured in the next One Piece 101. So here is a rough guide to leveling your Shirahoshlet. Unfortunately, it doesn't really come with much of a moveset at all. In fact, all it has is a flail and cry. And quite notably, Shirahoshlet also has a weakness to pretty much every other typing in the game, including fire, electric and of course, pedophile insect. In fact, the only real thing that Shirahoshlet is strong against is other Shirahoshlets. And even then, it's a coin toss to see who will cry first. However, should you persevere and train your Shirahoshlet to a mighty level 16, then it will evolve into a lovely Shirahoshi. Enjoy.