Hero of the Marines

The production plays the Loguetown Opera, where audiences have flocked and critics have approved. A five-star notice in the World Economy News Paper praised its direction as beautiful, and a separate four-star piece commended it as a historically faithful musical account of the God Valley Incident. Its very title lifts the epithet Garp earned in the aftermath of that battle, treated here as a centerpiece of the show.

Little of the staging itself is documented, though the action seems to begin around the time Garp signed on with the Marines. A review by Big News Morgans points to flashbacks of his cadet years beside the future admiral Sengoku and the future vice admiral Tsuru, and dwells on his most celebrated victories, among them shielding the world from the Rocks and Roger crews. The same notice credits a sequence in which Garp turns back an assault on Mary Geoise led by Shiki, the Golden Lion. One of the show's numbers, Denied Promotion, is billed as a uniquely spirited piece that pits Garp's unshakable reverence for the Celestial Dragons against an opposing force.

Listed as the work's makers are a Matt Owens and a Joe Tracz, while a Vincent Regan plays Garp, the three names nodding toward the live-action showrunners and the actor who portrays him. The newspaper coverage sets the cadet flashbacks across the 1460s and 1470s and frames the play's reach from 1485 to 1505, covering both God Valley and the later strike on Mary Geoise by Shiki. Canon dating disagrees, however: Garp enlisted in 1485 at twenty-two, while the clash at God Valley and Shiki's assault landed in 1503 and 1517 respectively.