Shirauo is an unusually long nodachi counted among the Famous Blades and carried by Charlotte Amande of the Big Mom Pirates. Its reach and keen edge let her bisect large foes with cruel, deliberate slowness.
Shirauo is an exceptionally long nodachi that stands about as tall as Amande and overtops most ordinary people. True to a name meaning icefish, the sword sports a pure white guard shaped like a fish and a grip patterned with scales. Amande carries it sheathed in a very long scabbard worn on her right hip.
The blade combines great sharpness with superior cutting power, able to shear through thick lumber even at a crawling pace when Amande chooses, and to part metal armor. Its length grants sweeping reach that lets her slice through large targets in a single stroke.
Her techniques play on slow, musical names. Slow Ballad splits an opponent from top to bottom, cutting deliberately to drag out their agony, first inflicted while torturing Kingbaum. Slow Waltz has her flash behind a foe and swing the blade in a complete circle to catch their flank, a strike strong enough to cleave Perospero's candy wall in pieces, though Luffy managed to evade it.

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Shirauo is an exceptionally long nodachi ranked among the Famous Blades, wielded by Charlotte Amande of the Big Mom Pirates, standing about as tall as she is.
Shirauo means icefish in Japanese, a name reflected in the sword's pure white, fish-shaped guard and scale-patterned grip.
Charlotte Amande's signature techniques with Shirauo are Slow Ballad, a deliberately slow vertical cleave meant to prolong an opponent's suffering, and Slow Waltz, a spinning strike delivered from behind that can shear through thick barriers.
Shirauo is wielded by Charlotte Amande, a member of the Big Mom Pirates, who carries it sheathed in an unusually long scabbard on her right hip.
Shirauo combines great sharpness with powerful reach, letting Charlotte Amande shear through thick lumber, metal armor, and even large opponents in a single stroke.
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