 This is Dracul Mihawk. His likes include red wine, agriculture, and gothic Lolita girls. His dislikes include Don Krieg, smiling, and weak pathetic swordsmen. Now the world government has valued Mihawk at a mystery amount, which can only be quantified in the form of this delicious question mark. But in this here video we are going to discover what that number is, because question marks are quite notably not numbers. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today we are here with another delightful true bounty video, this time featuring one of the most enduring of enigmas in the series, Dracul Mihawk. Now if you're new to this series generally what we try and do is work out the bounties of one piece characters if the world government knew everything about them and didn't have any political agendas behind inflating or deflating bounty values, which is generally very fun but today is going to be quite different because we don't actually know Mihawk's canon bounty number. Meaning that our approach in methodology needs to change quite a bit because you simply cannot observe the stars with a microscope. And Mihawk is a particularly blindingly bright star. But before that it's time for a quick round of Mihawk or U-Hawk, a very simple minigame the rules of which are as follows. Here is a filthy, filthy mirror. But we are going to take a look into this mirror and it is going to be your job to guess which reflection will be staring back at us. Will it be Dracul Mihawk or will it be his Swedish cousin U-Hawk? And if you choosing correctly then your divine punishment will be to subscribe to the Grand Line review which will also result in consistent injections of one piece culture administered straight into your YouTube feed. Meanwhile if you are correct then you will win a paid vacation to Kuregana Island in order to assist Mihawk with his farming duties. But who will it be? Mihawk or U-Hawk? Make your selection now and we shall reveal the answer in 3, 2, 1 and bam it is Mihawk and he's looking rather unimpressed as well. Exactly what did you do? Doesn't matter if you picked U-Hawk then you now know what it is you need to do and please do say hi in the comments below if you are a new member of the Grand Fleet. Welcome. But the first very important thing to note about this video is that Mihawk is or I suppose he was a Wallard of the Sea and in fact he is the only Wallard of the Sea whose bounty still remains unknown to us. But what really throws us right out of whack from the get-go in this discussion is the concept of frozen bounties. The seven wallards are obviously legally sanctioned pirates by the world government and so even the wallard bounties that we do know of are highly unlikely to accurately reflect their true threat. So Crocodile and Bola Hancock would be perfect examples of this having been previously valued at 79 and 80 million berries respectively. Which is at the very least very very questionable because within the greater world this is perhaps even below rookie level as demonstrated by Rockstar who has a bounty of 94 million berries but is still thought of as a relative nobody. So what we're going to do here is outstanding business of working out what Mihawk should be worth and then afterwards we are going to apply the bounty freeze concept and see where we end up. Thus achieving our mission of discovering Mihawk's true but yet still almost certainly undervalued bounty. In order to do that though we can't simply add up Mihawk's achievements like we usually do because most of them have occurred off-screen and in the far past. So what we need to do instead is create a placement scale using two very key pieces of information. At the lower end of the scale we will identify Don Krieg, a man who was convincingly outclassed by Mihawk during Baratier. Meanwhile at the highest end of the scale we are going to place Whitebeard, the only character who Mihawk has ever stated to be greater than himself in terms of individual ability because that one strike at Marineford was all about Mihawk wanting to know exactly how far behind Whitebeard he truly was. And just like that we have the boundaries of our scale. Don Krieg on one end representing a teeny tiny bee peen amount of 17 million berries whilst Whitebeard indicates our whopping 5 billion berry mark. And Mihawk fits somewhere on this scale which seems like the most obvious thing in the world to say but it is very important to establish these boundaries otherwise we're just blind fans wandering around in the dark during an eclipse. That or we're having a discussion on Twitter it's very much the same sort of thing. But accepting that Mihawk falls somewhere in here on this scale what is our next piece of key identifying information? Well that would probably be Mihawk's relationship with Shanks because together these two are or at least they were one of the most famous rivalries within this entire series with their jewels said to send echoes throughout the ground line. And to some that may be an easy reason to just plonk Mihawk within Shanks's bounty range in the low four billions but it's a bit more complicated than that. Firstly because these incredibly epic jewels occurred so so long ago before Shanks met Luffy actually so at the very least 12 years before modern day. And we know this because Mihawk has stated that he lost interest in facing off against Shanks after he lost his arm in East Blue. And I take the time to point this out because 12 years makes a little bit of an incredibly massive difference and in fact 12 years ago Shanks wasn't even considered an Emperor of the Sea that only happened six years ago. So using Shanks's current bounty to determine Mihawk based on events that occurred well over a decade ago is a pretty bad idea. Furthermore the reasoning behind Shanks's four billion number also has to incorporate factors such as being a former roger pirate leading the current red-hair pirates and owning all sorts of fun territory in the new world. Shanks basically has the network and forces available that Mihawk as a lone wolf factor certainly does not. And that is a very big factor. Bounties don't simply take individual power into account but it's also a figure's extended influence on the planet. And that latter factor is something that Mihawk is quite sorely lacking and so with all of this we can now narrow down the upper end of the scale to at least the four billy mark because Mihawk will not be surpassing or quite frankly even equalling that number. At least not based on what we know of Shanks in his position. And just to emphasize that a little more I'd highly recommend checking out this video which breaks down what we know of the conflict between Shanks and Kaido. Or as I like to refer to it the greatest story never told because Oda decided to keep this world changing clash off screen. Now on the other end of the scale we can make up some ground quite quickly in the lower realms. Let's take a nice round number like say 500 million berries. Characters who inhabit that sort of bounty space include Trafalgar Law, Port Gasteis and Donchengiao. That's the sort of notoriety that we're looking at in this 500 to 6 million berry zone and I really don't think it would be too controversial at all to just outright state that Mihawk is clearly above this. Because what we tend to discover in this ranger extraordinarily promising rookies such as the aforementioned Trafalgar Law or even Eustace Kid who almost reaches 500 million. That or we find ourselves with Old World Veterans that could never break that 600 million ceiling such as Donchengiao. Neither classification really applies to Mihawk at all. He is not a rookie nor is he an old man who has reached his limits. In fact one of Mihawk's biggest problems in this world is the perpetual boredom of having really nobody worthy of challenging him. So we can quite safely say with this true bounty anyway that Mihawk would not be within this price pool. So let's now take a sudden skip upwards to the 1 billion berry range and this may not be so cut and dry. Because within this realm we find far more fearsome individuals such as Jack the Drought, Queen the Plague and Kartikuri the Donut. And for all intents and purposes these guys are considered to be more or less the top of the world. They're all extraordinarily high ranking members working directly under an emperor of the sea thus holding supreme influence as well as being practically undefeatable by anyone other than a handful of living individuals. And Kartikuri in particular was described as being quite literally invincible and even though that turned out to be a filthy, filthy lie, it does give you a good idea of how highly these characters are regarded. And so it's not all an easy thing to state that Mihawk would clearly rank above these characters in terms of a solid bounty number. And despite the lack of evidence I think you could make a good argument for Mihawk being more powerful than other characters within this range. However what Mihawk still lacks that everyone over the billion berry mark does have is influence, just pure influence. Kartikuri for example is the second in command of the entirety of the Big Mom Pirates as well as the Empire of Totoland. Meanwhile Queen is the third in command of the Beast Pirates which is by far the largest emperor force that we've encountered thus far. And that sort of power via influence is supremely relevant because I honestly don't think that if Queen was just a lone actor that he would come anywhere near his 1.3 billion berries. And I also think there's clear evidence for this with another warlord being Edward Weevil. Weevil is by all accounts a shocking powerhouse of raw strength, someone who obliterated 16 allied crews of his alleged father Whitebeard. However Weevil is still but one man. Well but one man and one old lady. But this does have a pretty critical impact on his perceived threat level because a sizeable force of marines with perhaps the right admiral backing could reasonably bring him down and you can't say the same for Queen or Kartikuri because they have entire armies and fleets of their command. So while I am inclined to believe that Mihawk would triumph in individual power due to his lack of influence I'm not so keen to say that he would easily clear the 1 billion berry zone. But let's try and work this out a bit more by rubberbanding back to a high end number. However the 2 and 3 billion numbers well they get quite tricky because we don't have an example of a character with a 3 billion berry bounty and we only have one point of reference in the twos which is Blackbeard and to be specific he is around the 2.2 billion mark. And in terms of threat I honestly don't think I could ever say that Mihawk poses more of a threat to the world government than Marshall Detech. At this point Blackbeard has inherited almost all of Whitebeard's territory he commands an emperor scale army with 10 fearsome titanic captains. And whilst Blackbeard himself may not hold the greatest of individual strength amongst the emperors the fact that he possesses two of the world's most dangerous devil fruits is a tiny bit worrying to say the least. And we can also examine Blackbeard's worth via his intentions as well because they definitely come into play. This is a man who practices grand anarchy as well as someone who is actively at war against the world government and is seeking to become the next pirate king. Meanwhile Mihawk is none of these things. He likes to stay quiet and you know tend to his farm. He also did not attack the world government until they struck him first and he has no interest in becoming the pirate king. In many ways Mihawk is actually kind of weirdly a bit of a model citizen and if the world government did not declare war on him I think there is every chance that Mihawk just would have stayed quiet on his island. With that I don't know maybe the occasional slicing of a marine battleship here and there but the sheer sense of threat emanating from Mihawk is nowhere near as pronounced as that of Blackbeard and with the available evidence we have that is going to kick Mihawk straight out of the two billions. But to be completely frank I don't even think that Mihawk's threat level equates to that of current day Luffy who is valued at 1.5 billion. I mean sure Mihawk may be more powerful but he's not the one gunning to become the next pirate king. He's not raising a grand fleet. He doesn't command a crew of absurdly powerful and knowledgeable people. Mihawk certainly doesn't attack other emperors and he doesn't cause chaos in every key world government facility on the planet. So I'm prepared to accept that this could be very very wrong but with all of the available evidence I just can't see Mihawk being valued above Luffy's threat level which I want to make very very clear is not based on strength but based on overall threat because that is going to be misconstrued by some people in the comments section. You know who you are. I know who you are. We know who you are. But at the same time I also can't see Mihawk being valued below the commander contenders like say Jack. I'm also not convinced that Mihawk should be valued above Queen primarily due to Queen's sheer influence so this video is going to land in that middle ground between 1 and 1.5 billion by assigning Mihawk a true bounty of 1.25 billion berries. And I know for a fact actually that a lot of you may disagree with this because I did run a poll asking all of you grand fleet members where you thought Mihawk's bounty range would be and a whopping 37% of you said that he would be between 3 and 4 billion. Then another 27% went for the 2 to 3 billion area. So where we've landed here might be something of an unpopular thought but once again with the available evidence I really can't place Mihawk any higher without delving into some sort of alternative canon such as head canon, fan canon and worst of all fan fiction. But here's the thing though it does get worse because as I flagged in the beginning of the video we also have to take into account Mihawk's bounty freeze because we know for a fact that however much Mihawk should be worth is almost certainly not what he is worth due to this and given where the other wallards land I think we're probably going well under a billion primarily because it's utter insanity to think the figures like Dolph Lamingo are well connected tyrant with a miniature emperor army of his own could be worth a minuscule 340 million berries. The original wallards with the exception of maybe Gekkomoria were all heavily undervalued potentially to the degree of hundreds and millions of bountiful berry things. And while I'm not going to put a solid number on Mihawk's frozen bounty I do think it would be acceptable to state that it could be anywhere between 7 to 900 million maybe even less depending entirely on when the wallard system was set up because if we are talking about 12 years ago for example then I don't think an Edward Weevil style number of 480 million would be out of the question. Mihawk and Weevil are both one man armies and within the top percentage of individual strength and the two have this painfully similar situation going on with Mihawk obviously being smarter but Weevil being more chaotic and destructive so in a sense those factors kind of balance each other out in terms of threat. So I would actually fully expect Mihawk's frozen bounty to be highly, highly underwhelming and we may never know what that number is but I might skip that entirely and go straight to the newly assigned number but for now we are going to stick with our true bounty calculation of 1.25 billion berries which may seem understated compared to his more emperatic contemporaries but at the same time Mihawk is indeed a very understated man. But if you'd like to explore more bounty based discussions then please do check out this video of the top 20 highest bounties in one piece a very interesting exploration with some unexpected special guests so I look forward to seeing you there.