Capote
- Name
- カポーティ (Kapōti)
- Status
- alive
- Affiliation
- Foxy Pirates
- First seen
- Ch. 306
First seenCh. 306Last seenCh. 308
Capote the Marlin · alive · Foxy Pirates
Profile
The marlin Porche rides in the Donut Race (named on Ch. 306 p. 18, “Marlin Fish-Man Capote”). Part of Porche’s Donut Race mount-pair on the “Cutie Wagon.”
Arc-by-arc updates
Long Ring Long Land (Ch. 306)
- Named on-page (p. 18) as the marlin Porche rides in the Donut Race, alongside the shark Monda, atop the boat “Cutie Wagon.”
- VIZ p. 18 phrasing “Marlin Fish-Man Capote” suggests Capote may be a fish-man rather than an ordinary fish — flag for verification.
Long Ring Long Land — Donut Race (Ch. 307)
- Confirmed a fish-man (Fish-Men): uses Fish-Man Karate (“Sea Surface Split”) to cleave the water and propel/disrupt the boats during the Donut Race (pp. 9, 14, 17). Resolves the 0306 “Marlin Fish-Man” verification flag — Capote is a marlin-type fish-man, not an ordinary fish.
- Rides in the Cutie Wagon with Porche and Monda.
Long Ring Long Land — Donut Race (Ch. 308)
- Named technique: “Twin Fishpower Engine” — combines his Fish-Man Karate muscle with the shark Monda’s tail-fin to double the Cutie Wagon’s speed, plowing the boat straight through Long Coral Reef (“With Fish-Man Capote’s muscles and the shark’s tail-fin… they double their speed!”, p. 11). Confirms Capote + Monda are a deliberate coordinated propulsion unit, not two stray fish.
Notes
- Etymology (conservative): No sourced gloss found (One Piece Wiki has no etymology section). カポーティ matches Spanish “capote” (a cape, esp. the bullfighter’s cape) — a coherent but unverified pun for a billfish fish-man whose bill reads as a sword (matador/sword imagery). Homophone with author Truman Capote is likewise unsourced. Not asserted in frontmatter.