
Bandsman is a non-canon musician employed at the floating casino city of Gran Tesoro, introduced in One Piece Film: Gold. A reveler whose loose tongue while drunk earns him a cruel punishment from the city's ruler, Gild Tesoro.
Lean of build, Bandsman keeps a perpetually tipsy, glassy-eyed look about him. His hair runs a dark brown shade, and his lips stand out as a notable feature of his face. For attire he favors matching white pieces: an open-collared shirt worn beneath a suit jacket of the same pale color.
Cheerful by nature, Bandsman is the sort who happily drinks himself into a stupor among his companions. That fondness for liquor clouds his judgment, and in his intoxicated haze he loses any sense of how to behave around someone as dangerous as Gild Tesoro. After mocking Monkey D. Luffy's ambition to become Pirate King with fits of laughter, the gravity of having insulted his boss finally lands, and he switches instantly to terrified begging.

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During a celebration aboard Gran Tesoro, a thoroughly drunk Bandsman was carousing with friends when he caught snatches of Tesoro and Carina discussing the Straw Hat Pirates. Unable to hold his tongue, he loudly dismissed Luffy's dream as absurd and burst into wild laughter. Tesoro, displeased at the unsanctioned outburst, demanded to know what was so funny. As the panicked musician tried to flee while stammering apologies, Tesoro flung one of his gold rings, which sealed Bandsman in gold. He then poured molten gold from a chandelier over the man's head, and it hardened across his face while Tesoro laughed at the squirming victim and the surrounding crowd looked on in horror.
Bandsman is a non-canon musician who works at the floating casino city of Gran Tesoro. He is a minor reveler who mocks Monkey D. Luffy's dream of becoming Pirate King while drunk.
After loudly laughing at Luffy's ambition within earshot of Gild Tesoro, Bandsman is sealed inside one of Tesoro's gold rings and then has molten gold poured over his head as punishment.
Gild Tesoro punishes Bandsman because the drunken musician dismissed and laughed at Luffy's dream of becoming Pirate King while Tesoro and Carina were nearby, an outburst Tesoro found unacceptable.
Bandsman is lean with dark brown hair and notably full lips, and he typically wears matching white clothing, an open-collared shirt beneath a suit jacket of the same pale color.
No, Bandsman is a non-canon character who appears only in One Piece Film: Gold as a background reveler at Gran Tesoro.
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