South Blue
- Name
- サウスブルー (Sausu Burū)
- Region
- Blue Seas
- Name meaning
- *Sausu Burū* (サウスブルー) = literal English 'South Blue' — one of the four cardinal Blues of the One Piece cosmology. See East Blue for the four-Blues cardinal-naming chamber rationale (each Blue named by compass direction with 'Blue' replacing *kai/umi*).
Blue Seas · first named: Ch. 124
Profile
One of the four Blue Seas of the One Piece world (along with East Blue, West Blue, and the canonically-implied-but-still-unnamed North Blue). First named on-page in Ch. 124 p. 15, in Mr. 5’s monologue: “It’s the new rage of the South Blue. It’s a rapid-fire death machine.” — South Blue is established on-page as a firearms-manufacturing region, the source of Mr. 5’s .44 caliber 6-shot flintlock revolver.
Prior to Ch. 124, South Blue had been implicit in the Blue-Seas geographic frame but never on-page-named in chapters 1-123. The Ch. 124 mention is the first on-page lore-install of the South Blue as an industrial / arms-import economy.
Etymology
- VIZ: South Blue
- JP: サウスブルー (Sausu Burū) — phonetic English borrow.
- One of the four Blue Seas — the cardinal-direction-coded geographic frame (East / West / North / South Blue).
Key chapters
- Ch. 124 — first on-page named-mention; canonized as firearms-manufacturing region.
Cross-links
- Mr. 5 (.44 6-shot flintlock revolver from South Blue)
- South Blue Firearms Manufacturing Region Named On Page
- Mr 5 44 Caliber 6-Shot Flintlock Revolver Debut
- East Blue (sibling Blue Sea)
- West Blue (sibling Blue Sea)
- Grand Line
Notes
- Forward-canon: South Blue is the birth-sea of Sanji (Vinsmoke family — Germa 66, the Land of Soldiers). The Ch. 124 firearms-manufacturing-region naming is the first install of South Blue lore; the Sanji-birthplace canonization is forward-canon.
- Created on first on-page naming per vault convention.