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Nicknamed the White Feather and hailed as a Genius Tactician, this Marine Vice Admiral plays the lead villain in the Nebulandia special. By passing himself off as a Foxy Pirate, Komei weaves an intricate trap meant to seize Luffy and the Straw Hats.

English Va: Michael Johnson
Status: Alive
First Appearance: Adventure of Nebulandia
Crew & Affiliations: Marines, Straw Hat Pirates, Foxy Pirates (undercover, former)

Occupations

Vice AdmiralSpecial Operations AdviserPirate (undercover, former)

Also Known As

"Genius Tactician""White Feather Komei"
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Appearance

A cream-colored robe trimmed in green, cinched with a purple sash, sits beneath the regulation Marine justice coat, topped by a blue cap marked with the corps symbol. While embedded with the Foxy Pirates he shed both coat and cap and wore one of Foxy's masks instead. His long gray hair accompanies a narrow, pointed mustache and a sharp beard, with two scars on the upper left of his face and a further mark beside his left eye. Back when he was a young recruit, his hair ran brown and short, his mustache was smaller, and he was thin enough that his commanders worried about him.

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Personality

Komei is deeply crafty, stacking layered plots and slapping grand, elaborate names onto even the most basic maneuver. Pirates once raided and burned the village he grew up in, and that loss bred a lasting hatred and a resolve to bring the Great Pirate Era to a close. He grew exasperated that the Marines accept pirates merely to preserve equilibrium among the Three Great Powers. His pursuit of targets is personal enough that he will ignore orders and destroy Marine facilities to reach them, ready to face any consequence, all while staying humble and uninterested in praise. He has no patience for those who rely on Devil Fruit abilities, preferring cunning so that even a weak soldier can stand against piracy, and he once told Foxy that a fighter should prize speed above strength.

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Abilities

Serving as a Special Operations Adviser drawn from the Marines' division of Strategic Tactics Research and Development, Komei earned his reputation purely through brilliance, defeating formidable pirates by wits alone and studying each Straw Hat closely enough to exploit their weaknesses. He moves with remarkable speed and reflexes, deflecting Luffy's blows with a folding fan that conjures destructive gusts and bounces attacks back at their source. That same fan, reshaped through Armament Haki, becomes a sword able to fire flying slashes and crack stone, and he can also harden his whole body with Haki, supplemented by a one-handed bazooka.

His grand plan, the Straw Hat Eradication Maneuver, began with him deliberately losing a Davy Back Fight so he could join the Foxy Pirates. He lured the crew to Kinoko Island, dosed an eating contest with Drowsy Mushrooms, and caged the competitors before Robin freed Luffy. At Nebulandia, seawater mist drained Devil Fruit users while he captured Franky and Usopp and drove Luffy toward the sea with his Haki blade. The traitor Kansho nearly handed him victory, but Kinoconda erupted carrying the freed crew, and Luffy, vaulting off the giant snake, finished him using Gomu Gomu no Red Hawk. He was carried onto the battleships afterward, and Garp figured he would bounce back soon. The figure is an open parody of the Chinese strategist Zhuge Liang, widely known as Kongming, which reads Kōmei in Japanese.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Komei in One Piece?

Komei, nicknamed the White Feather and hailed as a Genius Tactician, is a Marine Vice Admiral who plays the lead villain of the Nebulandia special, posing as a Foxy Pirate to trap Luffy and the Straw Hats.

What is Komei's plan against the Straw Hats?

Komei devises the Straw Hat Eradication Maneuver, deliberately losing a Davy Back Fight so he can join the Foxy Pirates, then luring the crew to Kinoko Island and Nebulandia to capture them.

What weapons does Komei use?

Komei fights with a folding fan that conjures destructive gusts, which he can reshape into a sword using Armament Haki, and he also carries a one-handed bazooka.

How does Komei's plan fail?

Komei's scheme collapses when Kinoconda erupts carrying the freed Straw Hats, and Luffy vaults off the giant snake to defeat him with Gomu Gomu no Red Hawk.

Who is Komei based on?

Komei is an open parody of the Chinese strategist Zhuge Liang, known as Kongming, a name read as Komei in Japanese.

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