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The 20th numbered Limited Cover (Page) Series, opening on the chapter title pages immediately after the No. 19 “From the Decks of the World” anthology signs off with its FINAL VOLUME (@0668). It follows the same two-part structure as its predecessor: the opener (@0674) carries both a “Limited Cover Series No. 20” banner and a descriptive title (“A Scream Echoes Through the Mermaid Inlet”), then a running “Vol. N” installment counter takes over from the second installment (@0675 = Vol. 2), which picks up the opener’s mermaid-inlet scene with Caribou bursting in to chase the mermaids.
Where No. 19 was a globe-spanning anthology of one-off world snapshots, this strip is a single-lead picaresque: a continuous gag-serial following the Logia “Wet-Hair” pirate Caribou after the fish-men carted him off at the end of the Fish-Man Island arc. It ran in parallel with the main Punk Hazard → Dressrosa story across this read batch, building its own self-contained slapstick plot (capture by G-5 → escape → the “Old Hag” → the revolution gag) one title page at a time, and concludes at its FINAL VOLUME (@0731) on a graveside “GABURU” memorial coda that caps the Gaburu / Old Hag thread.
Installment table
Captions recorded verbatim from the printed strips. The “Vol. N” caption is the strip’s own running installment count (tankōbon-independent). Each installment is a 1-page chapter-title-page cover.
| Chapter | Cover Vol. | Caption / beat |
|---|---|---|
| Ch. 674 | Vol. 1 (opener) | “A Scream Echoes Through the Mermaid Inlet” (on-page banner “Limited Cover Series, No. 20”). B&W line art of mermaids at a coral inlet — the establishing snapshot; Caribou not yet on-panel. The opener that launches the No. 20 serial; its mermaid inlet is the scene Vol. 2 bursts into. |
| Ch. 675 | Vol. 2 | ”No Runnin’ Away Now, My Sweet Li’l Mermaids!!” Caribou menaces/chases the mermaids of the inlet. The lead arrives — Caribou’s New-World escapade begins. |
| Ch. 677 | Vol. 3 | ”Kee Hee Haww! (T◯T)” Caribou (his trademark “Kee hee hee” laugh, here a tearful “Kee Hee Haww!”). A comedic beat. |
| Ch. 678 | Vol. 4 | ”Escorted by Jimbei” Caribou adrift in a boat, accompanied across the sea by Jinbei (“Jimbei”). |
| Ch. 679 | Vol. 5 | ”Here Comes Coribou” Caribou’s crew shown in bubbles, with Coribou — Caribou’s younger brother joins the serial. |
| Ch. 680 | Vol. 6 | ”Across the Sea at Fish-Man Speed!!” Caribou hauled across the sea in a barrel by fish-men — the fish-men deliver him onward. |
| Ch. 681 | Vol. 7 | ”Arriving at Ramshackle Naval Base G-5” A tiny diving-bell submersible approaches the demon-flagged, dilapidated G-5 naval base — Caribou reaches Marine waters. |
| Ch. 682 | Vol. 8 | ”Commodore Yarisugi Has Found Too Much of a Good Thing” Caribou captured by the Marines under Yarisugi (Commodore Yarisugi of G-5). |
| Ch. 683 | Vol. 9 | ”For Big Bro vs. G-5!!” Coribou running (“HURRY UP!!”) toward the Marine/G-5 ship to save his captured “Big Bro.” |
| Ch. 684 | Vol. 10 | ”Caribou Pirates vs. Naval G-5” The Caribou Pirates square off against the G-5 Marines. |
| Ch. 686 | Vol. 11 | ”Saving Big Bro!!” A bound, leopard-spotted figure (Caribou) writhing amid flames — the rescue attempt. (Vol. 11 art bled into the 0685 capture folder; it belongs to 0686.) |
| Ch. 687 | Vol. 12 | ”Caribou on the Lam” Caribou (“DA DON!”) with castaways reaching up from the water beside a paddle-steamer — on the run. |
| Ch. 688 | Vol. 13 | ”Divine Retribution” A small boat foundering in stormy New-World seas. |
| Ch. 689 | Vol. 14 | ”Alive on some new island somewhere” Caribou washed up alive on an unknown island. |
| Ch. 690 | Vol. 15 | ”Waking Up Next to an Old Hag” Caribou wakes in a polka-dotted bed beside a grinning old woman on a ship deck — the recurring “Old Hag” enters the serial. |
| Ch. 694 | Vol. 16 | ”Helpin’ Himself to the Old Hag’s Meat Pie and Cheap Jewelry” Caribou dozing in a stolen house clutching jewelry and a meat pie. (Vol. 16 art bled into the 0693 capture folder; it belongs to 0694.) |
| Ch. 695 | Vol. 17 | ”Caribou gets a meat pie for the road — the port is that way” The old hag sees Caribou off with a meat pie, pointing the way to port. |
| Ch. 696 | Vol. 18 | ”On the road to port, a voice calls out, ‘Captain Gobble!!!’” Caribou’s silhouette over a port-town scene with a “MEAT-PIE” stall; someone hails “Captain Gobble.” |
| Ch. 697 | Vol. 19 | ”The Old Hag Drives Off the Mysterious Soldiers” The old woman fends off mysterious soldiers — a threat appears around the port town. |
| Ch. 698 | Vol. 20 | ”To the Port” The old woman waves to an approaching figure as Caribou nears the port. |
| Ch. 700 | Vol. 21 | ”Got Curious and Returned to Town, Where I’m a Wanted Man” Caribou hauls a “MEAT” bag through a smoke-filled town — back in town, now wanted. |
| Ch. 701 | Vol. 22 | ”Now I’m curious — what’s up with this island’s weapon factory?” Caribou inside a cavernous weapons factory — he investigates the island’s arsenal. |
| Ch. 702 | Vol. 23 | ”Proletariats, Grab Your Weapons!! Captain Gaburu, Child of the Revolution, Has Returned!!!” A Che-Guevara-styled revolution banner bearing Gaburu’s face; a crowd raising weapons — the serial pivots into a revolt plot. |
| Ch. 704 | Vol. 24 | ”Proletariat Riot Suppressed” The uprising is put down. (Vol. 24 art bled into the 0703 capture folder; it belongs to 0704.) |
| Ch. 705 | Vol. 25 | ”An Example to the Others” Caribou looms over cowering figures amid tombstones; one figure’s hat reads “18” — a grim “example.” |
| Ch. 706 | Vol. 26 | ”The Old Hag Left Behind With a Photograph” Caribou over a collapsed old woman holding a photograph — a poignant turn for the recurring hag. |
| Ch. 708 | Vol. 27 | ”The hag’s dead grandson was meat-pie-loving Commander Gaburu” Caribou holds up a framed photo captioned “I ♡ GRANDSON GABURU” of the old woman with her late grandson — naming the photograph’s subject (Vol. 26) as Gaburu, the “child of the revolution” from Vol. 23. The reveal that ties the Old Hag, the meat-pie gag, and the suppressed proletariat revolt into one thread: the hag’s dead grandson was Commander Gaburu. |
| Ch. 709 | Vol. 28 | ”Just run, Gaburu, you mustn’t fight anymore.” Caribou stands over a wounded young villager, Gaburu — a backward-looking, poignant beat (pleading with Gaburu to flee rather than fight). Deepens the Gaburu/revolution thread the Vol. 27 photo-reveal opened, fleshing out the dead grandson’s story. |
| Ch. 711 | Vol. 29 | ”The Old Hag Gets Blasted Off Her Feet” A return to the recurring Old Hag subplot — she is sent flying/“blasted off her feet” in a comedic beat. (Vol. 29 art bled into the 0710 capture folder (p. 19/21); the printed installment is confirmed on Ch. 711 p. 1.) |
| Ch. 712 | Vol. 30 | ”Run, Gaburu!” / “If you insist!!” A cloud-patterned old woman flees a vault door past a small figure as a giant dark silhouette looms at right — the Old Hag / Gaburu thread continues with a flight beat. |
| Ch. 713 | Vol. 31 | ”Mad Dash to Escape the Deadly Pirate Scotch!!” Caribou flees in a plaid suit from the menacing “Pirate Scotch” — the serial pivots into a new chase beat. |
| Ch. 714 | Vol. 32 | ”Back at the port, my abandoned lackeys.” Caribou returns to the port to find the lackeys he abandoned — a callback to the henchmen he ditched earlier in the serial. |
| Ch. 715 | Vol. 33 | ”Remember what our dead grandma always said: brothers need to get along!” Caribou and his brother Coribou reunited before a “LOVE / PEACE” grandma banner — a brotherly-reconciliation gag invoking the dead grandmother. |
| Ch. 716 | Vol. 34 | ”Behold the fate of the grandmother of Revolution Army Captain Gaburu” The recurring Old Hag — here named in-caption as the grandmother of Revolution Army Captain Gaburu — has her fate told. Ties the long-running Old Hag / meat-pie gag explicitly back to the Gaburu revolution thread (cf. Vols. 23, 27, 28). |
| Ch. 718 | Vol. 35 | ”A Battleship at the Shore!!” A Marine battleship beached on a shore — the serial pivots to a Navy/coastal beat. (Vol. 35 art bled into the 0717 capture folder as page-021.jpg; the printed installment belongs to Ch. 718 p. 1 — same bleed-over pattern as Vols. 11/16/24/27/29. Ch. 717 itself has no Caribou installment; its color title spread fills the opening.) |
| Ch. 719 | Vol. 36 | ”Captain Gaburu is alive and on the scene!!!” Revolution Army Captain Gaburu — long framed as the old hag’s dead grandson (Vols. 26–28, 34) — is revealed alive and arriving, flipping the serial’s running “dead grandson” gag. Continues the Old Hag / Gaburu revolution thread. |
| Ch. 720 | Vol. 37 | ”Liberate the Proletariat!! Liberate the Old Hag!!” Caribou amid a toppling-statues uprising — the revolution turns in the proletariat’s favour, freeing the masses and the recurring Old Hag. Pays off the Vol. 36 reveal that Captain Gaburu is alive; the suppressed revolt (Vol. 24) rises again. |
| Ch. 721 | Vol. 38 | ”Take Over Scotch the Oppressor!!” Caption printed beneath the chapter’s Lucy/Luffy water title splash (Ch. 721 p. 1). The freed revolution turns on its oppressor: the strip calls to take over “Scotch the Oppressor” — reopening the “Pirate Scotch” chase thread first struck at Vol. 31 (@0713), now recast as the proletariat’s target. |
| Ch. 722 | Vol. 39 | ”Take over the factory! No more workplace!!!” (Ch. 722 p. 1). The proletariat uprising seizes the island’s weapon factory — the arsenal Caribou first wandered into at Vol. 22 (@0701) is now the revolution’s prize (“No more workplace!!!”). Presses the Scotch/Gaburu revolt forward from Vols. 37–38. |
| Ch. 723 | Vol. 40 | ”Gaburu the Hero” (Ch. 723 p. 1). Revolution Army Captain Gaburu — revealed alive at Vol. 36 (@0719) after the long “dead grandson” gag (Vols. 26–28, 34) — is hoisted up as a hero beneath a flag bearing Caribou’s face. The proletariat-revolt thread (Vols. 23–24, 36–39) pays off in Gaburu’s triumph. Caps the island-revolution arc. |
| Ch. 725 | Vol. 41 | ”Dinosaur Alert” (Ch. 725 p. 1; B&W title page, not a color spread). A silhouetted T-rex chases fleeing figures, with Caribou’s jolly roger inset. The Gaburu/revolution island arc (Vols. 23–40) closes; the serial pivots to a new dinosaur-menace beat. (Ch. 724 carries no Caribou installment — a Mermaid-Cafe request-art double-spread — so the count holds from Vol. 40 @0723 to Vol. 41 @0725.) |
| Ch. 727 | Vol. 42 | ”Crush all who resist! The captain is arrested.” (caption on the Ch. 727 title page; the art tail-captured onto Ch. 726 p. 21 is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 727 — same pattern as Vols. 11/16/24/27/29/35). An authoritarian-crackdown beat: resistance is to be crushed and “the captain” is arrested — a reversal following the dinosaur-menace turn (Vol. 41). (Ch. 726 carries no Caribou installment — its title slot is the “The Riku Family” color spread — so the count holds from Vol. 41 @0725 to Vol. 42 @0727.) |
| Ch. 728 | Vol. 43 | ”The Last Meat Pie for My Grandson, Who Sacrificed Himself to the Unstoppable Warrior” (Ch. 728 p. 1; printed directly on the chapter title page — no bleed-over). The serial reverts to the dead-grandson framing (the meat-pie-loving grandson Gaburu, cf. Vols. 26–28, 34) after Vol. 36’s “alive and on the scene” flip — a poignant meat-pie beat over Gaburu’s sacrifice “to the unstoppable warrior,” retying the Old Hag / meat-pie gag to the Gaburu revolution thread. |
| Ch. 729 | Vol. 44 | ”Live long, old hag!! Gaburu the revolutionary leaves to start another legend” (Ch. 729 p. 1; printed directly on the chapter title page, B&W — not a color spread). Villagers wave off a departing ship: a valedictory send-off in which Gaburu the revolutionary departs “to start another legend” while the recurring Old Hag is blessed to “live long.” A hopeful coda to the island-revolution / Gaburu thread (cf. Vols. 23–24, 36–43) — the serial pivots the Gaburu arc toward a fresh chapter. |
| Ch. 730 | Vol. 45 | ”Before he left, Gaburu cried, ‘Treasure the grandmas!!!’” (Ch. 730 p. 1; printed directly on the chapter-730 title page “THREE CARDS”, with a grandmother’s portrait dominating the panel). A coda to Vol. 44’s send-off: on departing, Gaburu cried “Treasure the grandmas!!!”, reaffirming the recurring Old Hag / grandmother gag that has run beneath the whole Gaburu revolution thread (cf. Vols. 26–28, 33–34, 43–44). |
| Ch. 731 | FINAL VOLUME | ”Thank you Caribou the pirate, just as sweet as my real grandson” (Ch. 731 p. 1; printed directly on the chapter-731 title page — no bleed-over). A snowy memorial scene: an old couple beside a monument reading “GABURU” bearing a shovel-and-skull jolly roger. The serial’s concluding installment — captioned “FINAL VOLUME” rather than a numbered “Vol. N,” exactly as predecessor No. 19 signed off (@0668). A graveside coda capping the Gaburu / Old Hag thread (cf. Vols. 23–44): the bereaved grandparents thank Caribou as if he were their own grandson, retying the recurring meat-pie / grandmother gag one final time. The serial ENDS here. |
Chapters in this range with NO Caribou installment
The running “Vol. N” count advances only on chapters carrying a Caribou installment. Within 0674–0730 the following carry no Caribou cover (the count does not advance); 0719–0723, 0725, 0727, 0728, 0729 and 0730 carry installments (Vols. 36–45), with gaps at 0724 and 0726:
- Ch. 668 — the No. 19 “From the Decks of the World” FINAL VOLUME (“Whitebeard and Ace’s Graves”) — the predecessor serial’s closing coda, not a Caribou installment.
- Ch. 669–Ch. 673 — one-off reader-request title-page illustrations (Alabasta rain gag @0669; Robin/Franky/gorilla arm-wrestle @0670; “Namirella”/Cinderella @0671; tortoise-and-hare race @0672; museum-guard Usopp & dancing Brook @0673) — decorative request art between the two serials, not cover-story installments.
- Ch. 676 — chapter title spread (“WEAPON OF MASS MURDER” / “THE PERFECT”) — no Caribou installment.
- Ch. 685 — own title page; the Vol. 11 art captured in this folder is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 686.
- Ch. 691 — no Caribou cover this chapter (mid-action title page).
- Ch. 692 — no Caribou cover (full-crew title page, not the serial).
- Ch. 693 — own title page; the Vol. 16 art captured in this folder is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 694.
- Ch. 699 — no Caribou cover this chapter.
- Ch. 703 — own title page; the Vol. 24 art captured in this folder is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 704.
- Ch. 707 — own title page; the Vol. 27 art captured on its p. 19 is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 708 (where the printed Vol. 27 installment is confirmed on p. 1).
- Ch. 710 — title slot is the anniversary full-crew color spread (“To Green Bit,” dragon-motif); no Caribou installment. The Vol. 29 art captured on its p. 19/21 is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 711 (where the printed Vol. 29 installment is confirmed on p. 1).
- Ch. 717 — title slot is the “Dressrosa’s Forgotten” color title spread (full Straw Hat crew amid machinery); no Caribou installment. The Vol. 35 art captured on its p. 21 (page-021.jpg) is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 718 (where the printed Vol. 35 installment is confirmed on p. 1).
- Ch. 724 — title slot is a “Mermaid Cafe” request-art double-spread (pages 1–2, printed B&W: the Straw Hats lounging in a whimsical underwater tableau); no Caribou installment. The count holds from Vol. 40 (@0723) to Vol. 41 (@0725).
- Ch. 726 — title slot is the “The Riku Family” color title spread (pages 1–2: the Straw Hat crew in casual summer outfits, freedom-motif caption); no Caribou installment. The Vol. 42 art tail-captured on its p. 21 is bleed-over that belongs to Ch. 727 (where the printed Vol. 42 installment is confirmed). The count holds from Vol. 41 (@0725) to Vol. 42 (@0727).
Coverage / numbering
- Vol. 1 = the opener at Ch. 674, printed under the “Limited Cover Series No. 20” banner with the descriptive title “A Scream Echoes Through the Mermaid Inlet” (mermaids only; no Caribou yet). The running “Vol. N” counter is first printed at Ch. 675 (Vol. 2), which continues the opener’s mermaid scene — exactly mirroring how No. 19 opened (No. 19 banner + “Vol. 1: News Coo Across the Seas” @0613, then “Vol. 2” onward). This is the same banner+counter test the predecessor met on page 1.
- Vols. 1–45 + FINAL VOLUME map onto Ch. 0674–0731 with the non-installment gaps above removed. The sequence is contiguous in the count: every advancing chapter increments the volume by one (0674→Vol. 1, 0675→Vol. 2, 0677→Vol. 3 … 0706→Vol. 26, 0708→Vol. 27, 0709→Vol. 28, 0711→Vol. 29, 0712→Vol. 30, 0713→Vol. 31, 0714→Vol. 32, 0715→Vol. 33, 0716→Vol. 34, 0718→Vol. 35, 0719→Vol. 36, 0720→Vol. 37, 0721→Vol. 38, 0722→Vol. 39, 0723→Vol. 40, 0725→Vol. 41 [0724 is a gap], 0727→Vol. 42 [0726 is a gap], 0728→Vol. 43, 0729→Vol. 44, 0730→Vol. 45), and then 0731 = the FINAL VOLUME (captioned “FINAL VOLUME” rather than “Vol. 46,” directly after Vol. 45 @0730), where the serial concludes.
- Seven bleed-over captures were attributed correctly (the next chapter’s title page was scanned
into the prior chapter’s folder): Vol. 11 (folder 0685 → 0686), Vol. 16 (folder 0693 → 0694),
Vol. 24 (folder 0703 → 0704), Vol. 27 (first seen on 0707’s p. 19 → confirmed printed at
Ch. 708 p. 1), Vol. 29 (bled into 0710’s p. 19/21 → confirmed printed at
Ch. 711 p. 1), Vol. 35 (bled into 0717’s p. 21 / page-021.jpg → confirmed
printed at Ch. 718 p. 1), and Vol. 42 (bled into 0726’s p. 21 → confirmed
printed at Ch. 727 title page, now in
chapters). status: concluded— the serial ends at its FINAL VOLUME (@0731), a graveside “GABURU” memorial that caps the Gaburu / Old Hag thread. It concluded on its own internal picaresque plot; it has not merged into the main plot (no main-canon event flows out of this ending).
Forward-payoff hook
Notes
- Register: a continuous single-lead picaresque gag-serial (vs. No. 19’s anthology) — Caribou bumbling from capture to escape to the “Old Hag” subplot to a Che-Guevara revolution riff, building toward the Gaburu thread that the Vol. 27 caption ties to the old hag’s dead grandson, and closing at the FINAL VOLUME (@0731) on a graveside “GABURU” memorial — the bereaved grandparents thanking Caribou “just as sweet as my real grandson.”
- Cross-references: Caribou (lead), Coribou (his brother, the rescuer), Jinbei (the Vol. 4 escort), Yarisugi (the Vol. 8 captor), and Gaburu (the Vols. 23/27 “child of the revolution”; redlink — no Character note yet). The recurring Old Hag and the mermaids are unnamed/uncaptioned and mint no notes.
- Predecessor: No. 19 — “From the Decks of the World”, which concluded at its FINAL VOLUME (@0668) immediately before this serial began.