Masira
- Name
- マシラ (Mashira)
- Status
- alive
- Affiliation
- Masira PiratesSaruyama Alliance
- Bounty
- ฿23,000,000
- First seen
- Ch. 219
First seenCh. 219≈฿23,000,000Ch. 303Last seenCh. 303
“The Salvage King”, “Boss” · alive · Masira Pirates
Profile
- The “Salvage King” — a boisterous, monkey-faced pirate captain who claims every ship that sinks in his waters. Captain of the Masira Pirates; bounty 23,000,000 berries (caption, p. 15).
Etymology
Masira (JP マシラ Mashira) is an archaic/poetic Japanese word for “monkey,” written with the kanji 猿 (saru). The name directly tags his monkey-faced design and his place in the Saruyama Alliance (猿山連合軍, “Monkey Mountain Allied Force”). His brother Shoujou is named for the higher ape (猩猩 / orangutan); the two are the “Big Ape Brothers.” His attack names keep the theme: Saru Naguri (猿殴り, “Monkey Punch”) and Saru Ranji (猿ランジ, “Monkey Lunge”). Source: One Piece Wiki; Wiktionary, 猿.
Arc-by-arc updates
Jaya epilogue (Ch. 303)
- Pledges loyalty to Mont Blanc Cricket alongside Shoujou as the El Dorado search ends (“We’ll follow you anywhere, Boss!!”) (pp. 2-3).
Skypiea — hears the bell from Jaya (Ch. 299)
- With Mont Blanc Cricket and Shoujou, hears the Golden Bell of Shandora ring from the sky and weeps with joy (pp. 13-14). Part of the Jaya-side payoff of the Noland legend.
Jaya — Knock-Up Stream launch (Ch. 235)
- Co-reinforced the Going Merry into its “flying version” (pages 3–4).
- Captains one of the two Saruyama Alliance escort ships (“Monkey Mountain Allied Force”), leading the Straw Hats out and helping tow the Merry into the Knock-Up Stream whirlpool (pages 7, 11, 16–17).
Jaya (Ch. 231)
- Beaten down by the Bellamy Pirates while defending Mont Blanc Cricket’s gold (pp. 9–13).
- Found broken on the beach by the returning Straw Hats (p. 16).
Jaya (Ch. 230)
- Working through the night to reinforce the Going Merry for the Knock-Up Stream — the source of the “DA DOOM!! BLAST!!” that interrupts Cricket (pp. 6, 8).
- With Shoujou, stands as Mont Blanc Cricket’s bodyguard when Bellamy’s crew shows up at night demanding gold; “I was moved to tears” by the Mont Blanc story, “I remember a pirate named Cricket” (page 19).
Jaya (Ch. 229)
- Named (with Shoujou) by Mont Blanc Cricket as the diver who will reinforce the Going Merry to survive the Knock-Up Stream (page 10).
- “Masira’s territory” is named as the place where the daytime-night Emperor Cloud is spotted (page 14).
- Joins the feast on Cricket’s island, drinking grog and getting a tabasco-bomb prank from Usopp (pages 16–17).
Jaya (Ch. 227)
- Appears in Mont Blanc Cricket’s circle (p. 19, named shirt) gravely confirming the danger of the bends — first on-page link between Masira and Mont Blanc Cricket / the Monkey Mountain Allied Force (Saruyama Alliance).
Jaya (Ch. 219)
- Introduced operating a salvage rig over the same wreck the Straw Hats are diving (pp. 14–18). Wears a “MASIRA” tank-top; commands a galleon with a giant monkey figurehead and palm-tree-lined deck.
- Declares “That sunken ship is MINE!! OOK KEE KEE!!” — any ship that sinks around here belongs to him (pp. 15–16).
- Vain comic register: solicits the Straw Hats’ admiration (“Do you think I’m that handsome?”) before agreeing to let them watch his salvage (pp. 17–18).
- Crew uses a “cradle” rig + air-barrels to raise sunken ships from the seafloor (pp. 17–19). Chapter ends on Masira’s hand reaching for the watching Luffy/Chopper on the seafloor (p. 20, cliffhanger).
- Caption tier: “Salvage King” Masira, Boss of the Masira Pirates, bounty 23 million berries (p. 15).
Jaya (Ch. 220)
- Full salvage operation on-page: leads a hyperactive crew of helmeted divers raising sunken wrecks from the seafloor (pp. 2-3). His earpiece reads “MASIRA.”
- Signature salvage method: clamps a sunken hull with the “Barco Grabber” (a giant cabled tong/clamp) after rigging a “Cradle Set,” then inflates the ship’s hull with his own breath to refloat it — “No way, he’s going to raise the wreck… with his breath?!” (pp. 9-13).
- Combat technique: “Monkey Punch” — dives down and drives off a giant eel-like sea creature attacking the Straw Hats’ dive team (pp. 15-16).
- Boards the raised ship and confronts Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji as territory-invaders, then bonds with them over being flattered to be called a monkey; surprised they’re “from the East Blue” (pp. 17-19).
- (Affiliation note: the broader “Saruyama Alliance” is NOT named on-page in this chapter — leave that unconfirmed until a later chapter cites it.)
Jaya (Ch. 221)
- Recap-framed “Monsters” chapter. Rears up enraged that the Straw Hats encroached on his treasure (“NOBODY STEALS MY TREASURE!! / You’ve encroached on Masira’s territory!!”, p. 12) — furiously claims the wreck-salvage waters as his exclusive territory.
- His crew the Masira Pirates panic to save him when he is dragged under the water (“The boss is still alive!! …what the Masira Pirates are made of!!”, p. 7); chant “OOK KEE KEE.”
- Spat from / near the giant turtle alongside the Straw Hats (pp. 10-13). Sanji narrates that the “monkey” was friendly with Luffy at first, then “turned into a gorilla!” and went berserk (p. 11).