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So essentially what we'll be doing here is going through the series chronologically from Kandro's initial appearance and seeing if we can identify some red flags and I tell you right now there are a lot of them including his hair which is almost like a literal red flag. Before we get started though I do want to credit Arta of the Library of Ahara for putting together a fantastic compilation of quote unquote evidence that various individuals had put forward over the years regarding Kandro and there will be a link to this in the description below because it contains a lot of comprehensive stuff some of which I was completely unaware of but we will get into most of it. But to begin our first appearance of Mist at Kandro would be chapter 700 which sees the straw hat sailing to Dressrosa and Kinamon recounting the tale of how Kandro sacrificed himself to allow Kinamon to escape which is really interesting to see in retrospect because the straw hats have this over-the-top reaction of oh Kandro is a real man let's go rescue him so yeah that that kind of hurts looking back on it and I wouldn't say that there's any red flags in this initial mentioning and a brief vague shaped flashback of him however knowing what we know now you could quite probably make the argument that everything that happened around this time was not necessarily due to natural forces and Kandro could have been undermining this situation as best he could to fracture the vassals and find a place for himself to die. Pure speculation though so let's keep going. Now the next mention of Kandro is simply Kinamon looking for him believing him to be a prisoner in the house of toys which yeah makes sense because he was captured and the moment where we would finally meet him in the flesh is chapter 754 where Kinamon encounters Kandro in the Dressroser scrap heap and here we also encounter our first red flag which very simply put is that Kandro's design is based on that of a kabuki actor specifically from a dance piece entitled Renjishi which translates as two lions and if you wanted to be super wanky which sometimes we do you could read into that with ideas like oh Oda chose this design from this piece specifically because the title has that implied duality at play in Kandro however the very simple red flag is that he was given the design of an actor on a stage implying that the Kandro we came to know and some of us came to love is nothing but a performance we should also briefly discuss Kandro's situation at the time of his introduction because other things were happening in the world specifically on zoe where jack was leading an assault on the mink tribe knowing that Rizo was there and this was actually a big contributing factor to those individuals who believed that the traitor had to be a mink because the entire tribe knew about Rizo but then again so did the ever sneaky Kandro and connecting some dots you can make the argument that Kandro revealed his identity to Dol Flamingo which allowed him to get a message to Orochi which may have been passed on to Kaido and thus resulted in Jack being dispatched to claim Rizo on zoe and after that I don't think it's out of the question for Kandro to have said all right now that you know that please throw me in a scrap heap and leave me to die but when Kinamon appeared on Dressrosa Kandro sprang back into action once again because this was new information that Orochi Senpai simply needed to know and further evidence to suggest that Kandro had contact with Dol Flamingo is that the heavenly demon was able to recognize both Kinamon and Momonosuke by face which actually don't think is a huge red flag with what we knew at the time because there was an assumption that they were general Wano fugitives and obviously Kaido would have put that information out into the world but at this point we obviously did not know that they had travelled through time however with what we know now it would seem that Kandro more than likely drew Dol Flamingo a picture with perfect realistic artistic abilities now speaking of his artistic prowess Kandro is introduced to us holding a delightful ink cabbage which is a panel that I quite enjoy but it's set off a train of thought within the lumpies community that may seem a bit crackpot but hey it panned out which is that we should note that Kandro is holding the cabbage with his right hand now with this in mind cast your brain back to any time that Kandro has handled an object such as when he was eating in the Odin flashback and once again he's using his right hand however when Kandro draws something as part of his double fruit abilities he seems to predominantly use his left hand because yeah the brush requires both hands to use but the main source of input is coming from the left whilst the right hand is acting as a ballast so it's such a small thing but this is indeed a red flag because with Kandro's fruit especially maximum effect could only be achieved by a user invoking their dominant hand so it would appear that he was purposely handicapping his artistic prowess attempting to craft the worst possible assistance he could in any given situation to undermine the efforts of all involved and you can see that at play during the rest of the Dressrozer arc as well in which Kandro very much did the bare minimum to assist the crisis at hand in fact there was even one part where Zoro chastised both Kandro and Kinemon for not helping in terms of pushing back the birdcage and this makes perfect sense for the now established character of Kandro but this moment is not necessarily a red flag because Kinemon was in a similar state of inaction during the climax of Dressrozer now a piece of what I'll call non-evidence that has also come up within theorists of Kandro is that he was noticeably absent from the bounties issued by Dolph Lamingo with the star system and everything because Kinemon was given one however this is a real stretch because at the time we had not even been introduced to Kandro that moment wouldn't come until a full volume later and does gladius said apparently all they knew was that he had escaped from the scrap heap but by this time Kandro would have been old news and even if he were a protagonist then there still would have been no real reason for Dolph Lamingo to insert him into this bounty offering which was designed to deal with the immediate threat to his power which Kandro even if he was a good guy was not but of course it does fit in quite nicely with what we know now but at the time yeah it was a huge stretch to use this as evidence but now we move to the island of zoe and here is another situation in which Kandro selectively poor art came to potentially impact everyone around him with the ever adorable and memorable dragon which while cute enough to make robin blush was impractical to say the least and not only that but in one of the weirdest scenes I've ever seen in the series there was this situation where a mink monkey fell from Zunisha and for whatever reason Kandro decided to put his hands over the eyes of Kinemon which resulted in the monkey hitting them and all three of them falling from the dragon now I remember when this chapter came out at the time and thinking that the scene was very strange because it just didn't make a whole lot of sense the narrative flow was really odd and Kandro's actions were just bizarrely foolish and to be completely honest with you after the zoe arc it looked like it was a poorly implemented excuse for order to create some drama by delaying the arrival of the samurai however in great retrospect this scene makes perfect sense because it is Kandro working to sabotage Kinemon by preventing him as best he could from meeting up with the minks Momonosuke and Raizo it was of course a poorly thought out plan and one that was only going to delay the inevitable but an act of sabotage nonetheless and when they do eventually reach the top of Zunisha Kandro further says that their journey was one of many trials and travails which could be referring simply to everything that they had been through after leaving Wano but it also might imply that while scaling the elephant Kandro continued to act foolishly and undercut Kinemon's efforts that line can be taken either way but it's just interesting and yes I guess you can consider all of his shenaniganry a big red flag because this behavior was just so suspicious out of context hindsight is 2020 though and my own feelings on this at the time was that this was just a goofy Kandro move because he's a very weird fellow as was every citizen of Wano that we'd met at the time so it didn't seem all that out of place to me but then again I'm a fool furthermore if you really want to analyze the zoo events and we do when Inorashi and Nekomomushi announced that Raizo was safe we received a shocked reaction from just about everyone including the straw hat members present as well as some dedicated focus to the citizens of zoo but there were two reactions that we did not receive one of which was Kandro after the announcement that Raizo was safe we don't see his face at all at least not in the manga I honestly forget what the anime decided to do with it but this is another one of those retrospective weirdities because at this stage Raizo is known as a very close comrade and you would think that this would call for some form of emotional reaction from Kandro like we do see with Kinamon so in this case Oda chose to leave Kandro out of this equation possibly strategically but to counter this point Momonosuke was also present for this event and he did not receive a reaction shot either which using my own argument against me would have been called for so yes if you're over analyzing things this is a bit of a red flag but it's not the strongest one we have at all and furthermore I think Kandro very effectively solidified his perception of innocence when everyone broke down discussing Kozuki Oden and that was when the group were taken to see the rope on a cliff and if you've got the idea that he's an actor in mind as characterized through his design then this is meaningless improving his innocence but if you're not looking at things for that perspective then this is a nice scene to really throw you off the scent as does the rest of zoe where he appears as a semi-regular dude bra and with that we must go all the way to the Wanoak now and here we have a slew of what I guess I would call circumstantial evidence such as Kandro being one of the few people privy to hearing the conversation of Hiori being alive and the general plotting of the operation but there is a really really interesting panel that was brought to my attention recently which comes from chapter 970 where we see a flashback of Kinamon and company after just being sent forward in time and behind this group we see two trademark Kandro birdies flying off in the distance which is a supremely suspicious and definite red flag because we know now that these messages are likely headed straight to Orochi although I'm not sure why there are two maybe one sent Kaido and Onigashima to be safe but this panel actually has me sort of mind blown now I will say that in the anime version of this event Kinamon and everyone else fall from the sky and the first thing Kinamon sees is three birds flying above him rather than the two we see in the background of the manga so the anime really does its best to render these birds as meaningless flavor to the scene and quite possibly as an excuse for a couple of seconds of filler meaning that even the director likely believed that it was an insignificant factor or to look at things from the flip side they thought that there was no way they could convincingly do it without completely giving away the game because there is evidence to suggest that the animation team are privy to these little secrets as we have examined a couple of times in the over the top opening where for example Kyoshiro is included in the montage of the scabbards long long before he was real to be dendro in the manga but in retrospect there is a second spoiler in this opening as when we see Kandro he is notably the only scabbard depicted turning his back on the camera and as much as I really don't want to read into openings too much because yes some of them are artistically structured down to very minor poses but others are full of more arbitrary presentations that are just a waste of time but in this case it is super hard to deny that it looks like Kandro was set up as the traitor in this opening so that would have been a very late stage red flag for us which many of us should have paid attention to especially if we were on the Kyoshiro Dendro bandwagon as a result of this opening alone and now something else that I wasn't even aware of was pointed out by the library of Ohara which is that Kandro's status was also potentially hinted in outside media quite specifically the one-piece Fivia card data book. Now Kandro was featured as part of the Dressrosa pack which makes sense because that's the arc in which he was introduced but Dressrosa was so chocked full of characters that this set had to be divided into two and how was this divide chosen? Well there was a card to call a seam pack and a donkey hote family pack the former of which features pretty much every ally on Dressrosa and the latter features pretty much every enemy on the island and guess which pack our friend Kandro features in yes it's the donkey hote family pack so yes that is another potential red flag but once again I will point out that there is another mark of interest here which is that Kyros also features in the donkey hote family pack so this could very easily be a situation where we just had these two characters who you know didn't really fit anywhere else and were stuffed in here although in Kandro's case it has come to make perfect sense even if it was incidental and there's even much more quote unquote evidence that people have brought up in relation to Kandro much of which I think is sketchy although some of it is just plain interesting so if you are keen to hear more then please do check out my link to the library of Ohara's information in the description but in essence I would like to offer my congratulations to everybody who relentlessly suspected Kandro because you were bang on the money in retrospect his role in the series is absurdly suspicious and wherever I do think that Oda did a great job of masking it through portraying Kandro as a generally quirky individual which for most of us including me I think served as a very easy answer to his exceptionally weird behavior but what do you guys think feel free to leave your thoughts on Kandro in the comments below or even join my discord server and if you're keen for more one-piece content then please do check out some of my other videos or even subscribe to the channel for regular one-piece phenomenality uploaded straight into a youtube feed but for now this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time