Mero is a smelt-whiting mermaid who ranks among the five most popular dancers at Coral Hill's Mermaid Cafe on Fish-Man Island. She shares her fish type with Princess Shirahoshi and greets the Straw Hats during their stay in the undersea kingdom.
Young and bright-eyed, Mero has blue eyes and long blue hair that streams freely, with a yellow blossom pinned to the right side. Her swimwear is a skimpy bikini patterned in purple flowers, and her tail shimmers in a pearly blue shade.
Mero carries the gentle, affectionate nature common to mermaids, and a playful, fun-loving streak besides. Like the other dancers around her, she takes a clear liking to Sanji and enjoys his company at the cove.
Her mermaid heritage lets Mero breathe beneath the waves and communicate with fish through sonar, and mermaids in general count as the swiftest swimmers anywhere in the world. On top of this she is an accomplished dancer. When Camie first brought the Straw Hat Pirates to Mermaid Cove, Mero and her companions welcomed the visitors, with Mero remarking that the crew hardly looked intimidating. The mermaids tried to shield the pirates when the three princes came asking about their unlawful arrival, though Sanji's nosebleed and Hammond's attack soon gave them away, and the princes revealed they only wished to pass along Jinbe's message to Luffy. After Caribou abducted Ishilly, Fillonce, and another mermaid, Mero and the rest were left puzzled, knowing only that Ishilly had been opening a barrel. Once the clash with the New Fish-Man Pirates was over, the dancers performed at the Ryugu Palace celebration honoring the crew's win and waved them off toward the New World. Later she watched Caribou try to snatch a defenseless mermaid, and during the Egghead Arc she swam through a drowned city as Vegapunk's broadcast exposed these hidden civilizations to the surface.

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Mero is a smelt-whiting mermaid and one of the five most popular dancers at Coral Hill's Mermaid Cafe on Fish-Man Island. She shares her fish type with Princess Shirahoshi and greets the Straw Hats during their stay in the undersea kingdom.
Mero has blue eyes and long, flowing blue hair with a yellow blossom pinned to the right side. She wears a purple-flowered bikini and has a pearly blue tail.
Mero is a mermaid of the smelt-whiting variety, the same fish type as Princess Shirahoshi.
Mero and her fellow dancers welcome the Straw Hat Pirates when Camie first brings them to Mermaid Cove, and Mero remarks that the crew hardly looks intimidating. She later performs at the Ryugu Palace celebration honoring the crew's victory and waves them off as they depart.
Mero lives at Coral Hill in Mermaid Cove, part of the Ryugu Kingdom on Fish-Man Island.
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