Hot Wind Marines

The squad gathers together pumped-up Marine soldiers posted at the Navarone stronghold. Most of them are drawn drenched in sweat, a visual cue tied to the blazing, high-strung temperament that runs through the whole group.

Performance is woven into how they fight. Members chant and sing mid-combat, declaring that they move by the "wind of their souls," a refrain likened to a well-known military cadence. The perpetual sweating reflects that same overheated, gung-ho streak.

Though presented as a formidable bunch of Marines, the unit folded with little resistance once the Straw Hats engaged them. One soldier fights in a boxing style, his gloves capable of stretching outward to imitate Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Pistol. Within the arc, the squad set out to keep Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji from escaping the base, only to be brushed aside. Their true aim was to buy time so Jonathan could beat the pirates to the Going Merry and spring a trap, a scheme undone when Luffy smashed the bridge beneath them. While the episode billing names them the "Hot Blooded Special Forces," on screen they call themselves the "Hot Wind Unit," registered as the fifty-fifth division of G-8.