 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. And today I would like to go through a bit of a journey of this incredibly diverse world in order to examine all of the different races that exist within One Piece. It's pretty easy to forget because we spent literal decades slowly introducing and exploring these various tribes, but there are some pretty crazy and amazing rounds of life in One Piece. Although for this video, I will be focusing exclusively on humanoid life. Doing all of the different types of creatures would be an even more massive undertaking which I'm sure we'll get to one day, but before we get into that, it's time to play a quick round of Fishman or Murfolk. A very simple minigame, the rules of which are as follows. I am going to present you with a modified straw hat and it's going to be your job to guess whether they are a Fishman or a Murfolk. The way to tell being whether they have legs or whether they have a tail. Legs for Fishman, tail for Murfolk. And if you guess incorrectly, then your glorious punishment will be to subscribe to the Grand Line Review. And if you do guess correctly, then I suppose you can have a job at an aquarium, hooray. So here is our aquatic Frankie, but I ask you this, is Frankie a Fishman or a Murfolk? Make your decision now and we will reveal the answer in three, two, one, bam. As it turns out, Frankie is a Murman. If you guess Fishman, then hit that super Frankie button and please do say hi in the comments below if you are new to the Grand Fleet, welcome. But to begin going through all of our races, we are going to start with stock-standard humans. These are by far the most common personoid existence on the planet, coming equipped with all of the boring human things that you and I are familiar with in real life. However, to call humans strictly stock-standard is actually a bit of a mistake on my part because they can vary quite greatly in size and appearance. For example, Charlotte Linlin, despite being almost 10 meters tall, is entirely human. Her parents were both more standard-sized humans and Linlin is just massive for reasons. But we don't have to go quite that far either because sometimes humans can just be absurdly tall like all of the admirals. Well, some humans that just present unexplained yet highly distinguishable features like cannibal who has these ever intriguing eyebrow horn things. Or humans like Masura who just plain resembles an ape or even characters like Mary who has lamb horns, which are not ornamental by the way, they've grown with him since childhood as we saw in chapter zero. Basically though humans in one piece have access to a far larger pool of genetic variants, some of which could potentially be explained by interspecies breeding with some of the other races of the world, some of, but not all. So I guess just bear in mind that the classification of a human in this series is far further reaching than it might be in other works. Now, just like in the real world, humans come in a variety of different tribes and societies, some of which could be quite highly advanced such as the manufacturing powerhouse of water seven and others can be a bit more archaic like the Kujit tribe of Amazon Lily. The greatest tribal differences between humans though comes in the form of the world nobles, a group that I am highly tempted to classify as their own race, which I suppose they would actually prefer because the majority of the world nobles do believe that they are quite literal gods. In reality, they are an offshoot of humanity, descendants of the 20 kingdoms who isolated themselves on the Holy land of Marjwa and after almost a thousand years of inbreeding have become, how shall we say, quite visually distinct. And at this point, while they do have a common ancestry, I would say that the world nobles have pushed the undesirable bounds of evolution to the point where they have pretty much become their own race. But next up, we are going to take a dive 10,000 meters below the surface to the realm of the Murfolk. And here we have fairly standard Mermaidian depictions of life, as all Murfolk possess the upper bodies of a human and the lower bodies of a type of fish thing. Essentially being fishtails, that is, however, they come with quite a variety of lower body options such as the minister of the right who features the lower body of a seahorse or hyozo who has the lower body of a blue-ringed octopus. And very notably female Murfolk being mermaids gain a special ability to split their tail when they turn 30. And this allows them to walk on land and even mimic humans with the assistance of pants. As was proudly displayed by Kakora, the very first mermaid the straw hats met. However, mermen do not receive this ability at any stage in their lives. And just as a matter of class, Murfolk is seen as the upper echelon of sea life. And in fact, all of Fishman Island is ruled over by a family of Murfolk, filmed by King Neptune. And royal mermaids are also particularly important because the power of the ancient weapon Poseidon gets passed through them, although it's not always active. Currently it resides within Princess Shirahoshi and it is, it's very active. But moving to Fishman, this race sees a more solid blend of humanoid and aquatic characteristics. Fishman, equipped with legs, which is the primary reason why they are much more commonly seen on the surface than Murfolk. Fishman and Murfolk are not so far removed from each other though, and they are more than capable of breeding, which will result in an equal chance of a Fishman or Murfolk child. Fishman can also breed with humans as well, as seen in human Fishman hybrids such as Dellinger. However, Fishman represent a distinct underclass of the sea and in fact, the world at large. Fishman tend to live in the far more underprivileged areas of Fishman Island. And on the surface, Fishman have a history of being persecuted by humans and even being used as slaves. Although this was mostly a practice used by the world nobles rather than humanity at large. And I think they also enslave just about every race. So Fishman and nothing particularly special here. However, they do have a tendency of being looked down upon more than say Murfolk or I think yet anyone else that we're about to explore. And as a result humans and Fishman have a strained relationship at best. Heading back to the surface now and we have the largest humanoid creatures in one piece represented by the giants. And a lot of these guys are every bit as you would imagine a classic giant to be. They are large, loud and proud. However, the only organized society of giants that we are currently aware of would be those that reside on the island of Elbaugh. And these giants are modeled quite heavily on Scandinavian Viking culture. And they are without a doubt the most powerful race on the planet and should an army of giants ever resurface then there would be a little that humanity or any other race could do to stop them. In fact, even a small cohort of giant pirates led by Dorian Broggy were enough to thoroughly terrorize the seas back in their day. It is necessary to state though that not all giants are necessarily from Elbaugh. And in the series we have been exposed to characters like Jagwadi Saul, Morley and Salma Wolf who very much present themselves as the exact opposite of an Elbaughian giant. Not to mention giants like the Eddy Cool brothers who are very biologically distinct from their Elbaughian cousins. And of course it is more than worth mentioning that we have ancient giants who are by far the largest and most demonic looking of all of the things in one piece and quite famously both Oz and Oz Junior were members of this class of giant. And then in terms of interspecies breeding we have only seen one example of a giant fishman hybrid which is known as a Wotan. And currently the only cannon Wotan we know of is Big Pan who was a member of the Foxy Pirates and he participated in the Davy Back Fight although there was another who appeared in the 3D2Y special named Sebastian but despite his fun bow tie he is not cannon. Going even higher now it's time to explore the sky people and these guys are actually very exciting because they did not originate from this planet. That's right each and every sky citizen we see in the series is technically an alien who came to the one piece planet from the moon or one of the moons. There's quite a few we think. And amongst them were three different subsets the first of which would be the Birkins. And in fact there's even an ancient city on the moon named Birker. But for example all of the primary antagonists in the Sky Pier arc are Birkins, even Enel. Even though he doesn't have wings which is interesting actually. But despite Enel having destroyed the settled Sky Island Birker other members of this tribe do still exist such as Mad Monker Rouge and even Haradus the primary caretaker of the Sky Island Wetheria. And interestingly he also has not been shown to have wings as of yet just like Enel. Now the second of these three tribes would be the Sky Peans who came to the planet and settled on Angel Island which would later be expanded into Sky Pier which occurred after half of a blue sea island was blown up there via the knockup stream. The Sky Peans are probably best known for their technical prowess though as they are the ones responsible for developing dial technology and all sorts of stuff simply designed to make daily life easier. And finally we have the Shandians who after their journey from the moon did not elect to land on a sky island and instead they went all the way down to the blue sea settling on an island that would become known as Jaya. The Shandians were and still are a proud warrior tribe who might seem a bit primitive by modern standards but at one stage they were actually considered to be one of the most powerful societies in the entire world. And this may be because the Shandians do have a connection to the elusive ancient kingdom and they were even given a ponderglyft to take care of. This was all prior to the void century though and eventually the 20 kingdoms would come together to crush the Shandians during this time. And rather ironically roughly 400 years prior to the current timeline the Shandians were all blasted up into the sky via the knockup stream plonking them right next to their Sky Pean cousins at which point a great war would break out with the Sky Peans who immediately tried to claim this new sky bound land. And that war has only recently come to a conclusion actually after the defeat of NL the Sky Peans and the Shandians have now found peace and are working together for the first time since their ancestors did on the moon. All right next up we have the comparatively small race being the Ming tribe small in terms of numbers less so size and minks are extraordinarily rare to see in the One Piece world because they mostly live on an isolated phantom island making it nigh on impossible to find them and in addition to that they very rarely venture into the outside world. Similar to fishmen I suppose minks are humanoids with animalistic traits quite specifically mammalian. In fact I don't think we've seen a mink thus far who was not covered in fur and classified as a mammal. These guys can be pretty scary though because they have at least two species exclusive techniques one of which is electro allowing them to perform electric shock based attacks generated from their bodies and the other is the much, much, much more terrifying Sulong form. In a very werewolf kind of manner when a mink gazes at a full moon for too long they will transform into shockingly powerful creatures which are considered to be the true form of the mink tribe. Although this incarnation is very difficult to control and can lead many inexperienced minks to cause themselves severe exhaustion or even death. The mink tribe also have a close relationship with one particular society of humans being the residents of Wano or more specifically the Kozuki clan. At this stage it's not quite clear how this originally came about but all of the minks seem to have a profound sense of loyalty to the Kozuki clan. And then we move to dwarves who I would describe as more fairy style creatures. These are the smallest brands of humanoids on the planet. However, despite that, they are far stronger and faster than your average humans. So much stronger and faster actually. In fact, a single dwarf is capable of destroying an entire man-made building and fast enough for them to vanish in the blink of an eye. As such, dwarves are highly valued as slaves and have a rather unfortunate history as such, particularly the Ton Tata tribe whose home is on Green Bit. Because roughly 900 years ago the Don Quixote King of Dress Rosa enslaved their tribe and in more modern times his descendant Don Quixote Dol Flamingo did exactly the same. And so far, the only dwarves we've seen in one piece are members of the Ton Tata tribe. Although there is a half human, half dwarf member of the Big Mom Pirates named Charlotte Normand. Now getting a bit weirder, we have a couple of distinctive races that's born seemingly from humans. And basically they take one bodily feature and just elongate it, resulting in the long arm, long leg and snake neck tribes respectively. With the long arm tribe, they're pretty cool because their arms actually feature an extra joint in them. Although the long leg and snake neck tribes just have much longer body parts than usual. Oh, and notably there are very hostile relations between the long arm and long leg tribe specifically. A conflict that has apparently spanned well over a thousand years at this point, although we have yet to really delve into either of them. In addition to all of this though, the One Piece world has some rather mysterious and currently unidentified races. The most prominent of which would be the three-eyed tribe, the only member we currently know of being Charlotte Pudding. They are allegedly quite special though and have the power to achieve an awakening with their third eye, thus allowing them to hear the voice of all things or maybe see the voice of all things because it's a bit weird to hear with your eyes but none of this has been confirmed so you do you. In more recent times, we were also exposed to King the Wildfire who was a member of a currently unknown race but he does appear to be the bird equivalent of a fisherman or a mink, having a standard pair of giant black wings and for some reason he's also capable of generating a fire on his back at all times. I don't know why. And another funky mystery race that has been spotted is a Kinokobito which seemed to be humanoids with this mushroom sort of body and four, count them four legs. And they do definitely exist because the one we've seen was captured in Montau's books. Although we still have yet to see or hear anything about them beyond this passing reference. And we could probably go on for quite a while exploring unique individuals in the series. For example, Chopper might technically constitute his own race at this point or we could even dive into artificial intelligence such as the Pasifista or Tomata. But for now, this is a solid rundown of every known race present in the One Piece world. 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 ground line review and I'll see you next time.