Pero Pero no Mi
- Name
- ペロペロの実 (Pero Pero no Mi)
- Class
- Paramecia
- User
- Charlotte Perospero
- First seen
- Ch. 834
Paramecia · current: Charlotte Perospero
Profile
A Paramecia fruit that lets the user produce and manipulate candy, eaten by Charlotte Perospero (“candyman with Lick-Lick Fruit powers,” Ch. 834 p. 16). Shown producing candy realistic enough to be “identical inside and out.” VIZ on-page name “Lick-Lick Fruit”; standard romaji “Pero Pero no Mi.”
User chain
| Order | User | How they acquired it | First use | Death/lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte Perospero | (unstated) | Ch. 834 |
Named techniques
| Technique | JP / romaji | Etymology | First use | User |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Candy mimicry) | “candy identical inside and out” | Ch. 834 | Charlotte Perospero | |
| Candy Wall | candy barrier raised in defense / immobilizing candy encasement | Ch. 869 | Charlotte Perospero | |
| Candy Maiden | a candy wall raised to block pursuers | Ch. 877 | Charlotte Perospero | |
| Candy Wave | a flood of hard candy that mires a ship and its crew, jamming machinery | Ch. 877 | Charlotte Perospero | |
| Candy Slug | a candy projectile hurled at a fleeing target | Ch. 885 | Charlotte Perospero | |
| Moon Raid | a large candy strike pinning a target, “employing Mama’s help to finish you off” | Ch. 995 | Charlotte Perospero |
Notable uses
- “Candy Wall” (Ch. 869 p. 14) — Perospero raises a candy barrier against Big Father’s barrage and then encases the castle’s limbs in candy to immobilize it (p. 16) during the Whole Cake wedding-coup siege.
- “Candy Wall” (“Pero-rin”) (Ch. 871 p. 3) — Perospero raises a Candy Wall to seal the alliance’s escape route over the chateau wall; Bege’s “Big Father” fortress shatters it.
- “Candy Maiden” (Ch. 877 p. 8) — Perospero raises a candy wall to block the fleeing Thousand Sunny; Luffy burns through it with Red Hawk (p. 9).
- “Candy Wave” (Ch. 877 p. 15) — a flood of hard candy that mires the Thousand Sunny and jams the Coup de Burst, locking the ship in place against Big Mom’s pursuit.
- Candyman conversion (Ch. 877 p. 3) — the fruit can convert a living target into a “candyman”: the candy coats, permeates, suffocates, and kills within three minutes, leaving a “candied corpse” (Brook & Chopper candied).
- “Candy Wall” (Ch. 885 pp. 11-12) — Perospero raises a hardened candy barrier to box in the fleeing Luffy near Nuts Island during Big Mom’s rampage.
- “Candy Slug” (Ch. 885 p. 13) — a candy projectile hurled at Luffy as he dives back into a mirror to escape.
- “Moon Raid” (Ch. 995 p. 4) — Perospero pins Marco with a large candy strike, “employing Mama’s help to finish you off,” during the Skull Dome rooftop climb.
Power limits & weaknesses
- Standard Devil-Fruit sea/sea-prism immobilization.
Lore & theories
VIZ on-page caption renders the name “Lick-Lick Fruit”; the Pero Pero no Mi romaji follows the folder convention. Etymology flag : “pero pero” = the Japanese onomatopoeia for licking (a lollipop), keying the Charlotte-family sweets motif.