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Tom Long-Horned Cowfish Fish-Man Species SBS Confirmation
Status: confirmed · Technique: sbs-leak / etymology-canonization
The seed
Ch. 360 p. 20 — SBS (Vol. 38 back-matter)
Oda answers a reader and confirms Tom is a fish-man of the long-horned cowfish speciesTom etymology note had carried only as forward-canon (the Pillars-of-the-Earth “Tom Builder” model + the cowfish species).
The payoff
The SBS itself is the payoff (Oda canonizes the species in author-voice). It corroborates the on-page p. 13 caption Ch. 353 (“TOM — long-horned cowfish fish-man, president of Tom’s Workers shipbuilding company”). Resolves the open race: field on Tom — already SET to “fish-man (long-horned cowfish)” @0353; this SBS is the external-canon confirmation, NOT an in-story appearance .
Why this matters
A clean example of an SBS back-matter answer canonizing a character’s species in author-voice, in the same volume as the on-page caption. The cowfish/fugu species ties Tom into the Fish-Men world and into the Water Seven = Venice / fish-modeled-shipwright design grammar.
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