Jozu

Jozu · alive · Third Division Commander · Whitebeard Pirates

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Third Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. A huge, broad-bodied figure who stands with Marco to receive Shanks’s boarding party.

Arc-by-arc updates

Summit War — incapacitated; carried out (Ch. 573) — shown

• Shown gravely incapacitated during the retreat; the crew calls “Blenheim!! You have to carry Jozu!!” and “Commander Jozu!! You still alive?! You have to come with us!” (p. 8). (SHOWN → last_appearance 0569→0573.)

Marineford / Summit War — downed (Ch. 569) — shown

• “Commander Jozu is down too!!” (p. 7) — the Third Division Commander is taken out in the fake-Kuma (Pacifista) assault that strips Whitebeard of his officers.

Summit War — frozen by Aokiji (Ch. 568) — shown

• Distracted by Whitebeard’s injury, Jozu is frozen by Aokiji — “You looked away just now.” (p. 11) — the other commander-shield removed from Pops.

Marineford / Summit War — screens the charge (Ch. 567)

• Shields Whitebeard’s charge — “Pops!! Go on ahead!!” — and meets Aokiji’s ice in Diamond form (p. 6).

Marineford — the trump card (Ch. 565)

• Whitebeard orders him to “play our trump card!!” as the alliance commits to storming the plaza (p. 17).

Summit War — Marineford, “Diamond Jozu” / Brilliant Punk (Ch. 560) — named on-page; diamond punch

• Named on-page “Diamond Jozu.” Smashes Marines with a diamond-hardened body and the diamond punch Brilliant Punk; a Marine officer flags his dangerous “size and speed” (pp. 14-15). (Fruit name not given on-page — only the diamond ability is shown.) See Jozus Diamond Body Demonstrated Unnamed.

Summit War — Marineford, the iceberg throw (Ch. 554) — raw-strength feat; 3rd Division Commander

• As Whitebeard’s Third Division Commander, hurls an ENORMOUS iceberg into the Marine plaza by raw strength — “He’s so strong! Jozu!!” / “It’s an iceberg!! It’s enormous!!” (pp. 5-6). The iceberg is destroyed by Akainu’s magma “Great Eruption” (pp. 7-9).

Summit War — Marineford, diamond-body block (Ch. 553) — “Diamond Jozu” blocks Mihawk’s slash; 3rd Division Commander

• First on-page demonstration of his diamond body. Blocks Mihawk’s “world’s most powerful sword slash” dead with his own body, which hardens to diamond — “He stopped the world’s most powerful sword slash!” / “He blocked it!! …Diamond Jozu!!” (pp. 14-15). The diamond power’s Devil-Fruit name is not given on-page. Re-confirmed as leader of the Third Division. See Jozus Diamond Body Demonstrated Unnamed, Worlds Greatest Swordsman.