 Of all the people here, that guy is the most troublesome. He's trained his observation haki so much that apparently he can see into the future. A monster with a one billion plus bounty. The second son of the Charlotte family, Karakuri. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. Today we are going to be taking a look at a character I've wanted to discuss for an awfully long time now, the sweet commander of Mochi himself, Charlotte Karakuri. Charlotte Karakuri is an absurdly tall muscular man sporting spiky crimson hair, a strong sense of biker style fashion and a general aura of extreme seriousness on 99% of all occasions. Also quite notably Karakuri chooses to wear a very ragged scarf which serves to cover his mouth and to discover exactly why that is we need to delve deep into his past. Karakuri was born into the Charlotte family, spawning directly from the Yonko Big Mom as part of a set of triplets, including Charlotte Daifuku and Charlotte Oven. Although it should be noted that Karakuri is the oldest of the triplets and thus he is considered the second son of the Charlotte family. As a child, Karakuri had a habit of eating incredibly quickly which resulted in the expansion of his mouth and the subsequent ostracization from most people of common society who teased him by saying that he looks like a pelican eel, which I mean he does, but that's not the point. This treatment from society as a whole molded Karakuri into a cold and strong individual capable of beating up anybody who dared bully him. Despite this public demeanor, Karakuri still greatly cared for his family though. The closest members of which didn't even care whatsoever about his mouth. However, it would be this compassion towards his family that would trigger the transformation into the man we encounter in Whole Cake Island. As one day, his younger sister Brule had her face cut by a pack of bullies that Karakuri had beaten up. Enraged, Karakuri immediately took revenge on them and vowed to become a ruthless person capable of commanding enough fear to protect his family. And he did just that as Karakuri would rise to the role of sweet commander within the Big Mom Pirates and earn himself an astounding bounty of 1 billion and 57 million berries. But he became so much more than that as Karakuri would also come to adopt a perfect image of a fighter who has never once lost a battle and furthermore has never even had his back touch the ground. This legend grew so much so that an inter-family fan club was even established in his honor by younger sister Charlotte Flampe. However, Karakuri's first proper appearance in the series would occur on the day of Sanji and Pudding's wedding. When he was just casually chilling on the roof of Whole Cake Chateau as a man named Jigra attempted to enter the ceremony without submitting to a body check. And it would be here that Karakuri revealed an astounding ability to peer into the future. This skill is an evolution of Observation Haki and through its use, Karakuri was able to thwart an assassination attempt by Jigra. This future site like all applications of Observation Haki does require a certain level of concentration and calmness to invoke. And should Karakuri be in any form of highly emotional state, then he will generally be unable to access it. In addition to this, Karakuri is also a highly advanced user of armament Haki and he is one of the rare individuals in the world known to possess conquerors Haki. So he has a full set of Haki at his disposal. With all of this in mind, Karakuri was able to vaguely predict the crashing of the wedding by a certain monkey D. Luffy. However, he was still unable to prevent it as well as the following series of events that led to the destruction of Whole Cake Chateau. Karakuri then took it upon himself to pursue the Straw Hats in an attempt to quell Big Mom's rage as well as enact justice to the chaos they had caused his family. This would culminate in a direct conflict with the Straw Hat Captain who managed to successfully force Karakuri into his younger sister Brule's mirror world in order to allow the rest of the crew to escape. And as the two began a one-on-one fight, Karakuri would begin to fully display quite an intriguing devil fruit. Karakuri ate the mochi mochi nomi, a special paramecia that allows its user to conjure, manipulate and even become mochi. At first glance, this devil fruit rather suspiciously mimics certain properties of logear fruits and provides an illusion of intangibility when Karakuri is being subject to various attacks. However, this phenomenon actually occurs as a result of Karakuri's highly advanced observation Haki, allowing him to morph select portions of his mochi body in such a way that it effectively dodges incoming attacks. Another thing the mochi mochi nomi mimics just so happens to be the properties of the Gomu Gomu nomi. Due to Karakuri being able to expand and retract mochi in a very similar manner to that of rubber, he is able to imitate a fair bit of Luffy's arsenal, including devastating attacks such as the Elephant Gun. There is one big difference though, and that is that Karakuri's superior physical abilities make these replicated techniques significantly more effective than Luffy's original attacks. And with this in mind, Karakuri began the battle looking down on Luffy as a far inferior version of himself, and he proceeded to dominate the large majority of the fight. And while Karakuri did trump Luffy in almost every conceivable area of combat, he didn't neglect Luffy's sheer determination. At one stage convinced that he had finished his opponent off, only then to have his snack time interrupted by the pirate captain. Speaking of, as any child of big mom should, Karakuri has an incredible fondness for sweets, and has gone so far as to schedule private daily snack breaks. To Karakuri, these are moments of heavenly solitude where he is able to remove his scarf and eat like the gluttonous slob he is, which is another area in which he mirrors Luffy, by the way. However, Karakuri goes to great lengths to ensure that nobody knows about his mouth or his lust for sweet things. Delicious forbidden immoral donuts in particular. And after being exposed by Luffy, he went so far as to kill all of the nearby chefs who bore witness to it. Following this, Karakuri went on to take several hits from Luffy, a stunning achievement on Luffy's part, although the tide of battle remained firmly in Karakuri's favor. But despite being beaten over and over again, Luffy continued to get up. Eventually developing a crude sense of Karakuri's future sight, and little by little, Karakuri began to respect his opponent. And despite his initial desire of wanting to defeat Luffy as quickly as possible, Karakuri resolved to fight him honorably. And it was at this stage that the president of the Karakuri fan club, Charlotte Flampe, interfered with the battle, causing Luffy to suffer a serious wound. From here, Karakuri's supreme sense of honor led him to stab himself and create the same wound that had been inflicted upon Luffy, as well as removing his scarf and declaring to Luffy that he no longer thought of him as below his level. And gravely wounded, the two of them fought with Luffy eventually innovating Snake Man and engaging in one final clash. Karakuri thoroughly impressed and enamored by his opponent, then queried to Luffy if he would return to defeat Big Mom one day. And upon hearing his affirmative answer, Karakuri collapsed in defeat. Very notably, Karakuri chose to fall on his back, going against every principle of the legend that had developed around him. A legend that he himself had gone to great lengths to produce. Furthermore, his mouth was on full display, a factor noted by his sister Brulee when she came to tender his wounds. And when Karakuri was informed that Luffy had escaped Totland, he couldn't help but smile. Some more fun facts about Charlotte Karakuri. In the anime, Karakuri is introduced much earlier than his initial appearance in the manga. As he was seen entering Holcake Chateau the day before the wedding, clad in a dark cloak so as not to prematurely reveal his design. In addition to being a sweet commander of the Big Mom Pirates, Karakuri also serves as the minister of flower on Totland and specifically governs Komugi Island. In the original manga release in Weekly Shonen Jump, Karakuri was said to be a low-gear user. However, this was later retconned for the volume release in favor of labeling him as a special paramecia. Furthermore, Karakuri is one of the rare individuals in the series to have awakened his devil fruit abilities which allow him to turn the environment around him into mochi. And finally, a truly useless fact. While Karakuri's bounty of 1 billion and 57 million berries may seem a bit random, the number 57 may have been purposely chosen to indicate his superiority in relation to Luffy whose common number is 56, which can be read as Gomu. But that pretty much does it for Charlotte Karakuri. 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