Banchi

Banchi is a giant "all-terrain" turtle used by Baroque Works—particularly Miss All-Sunday—for transportation. He is classified as a Type A creature, "Big Friendly".
==Appearance==
Banchi is a turtle with a dark brown shell and a greyish-green underbelly. He always has a stoic, melancholic expression on his face.
He is seen smoking a cigar, and he wears a horizontal-striped white cowboy hat with a pink cloth that ties it to his head. Banchi also has purple belts connecting him to the carriage that he carried the Officer agents in.
==Personality==
Little is known about Banchi's personality, but he is intelligent enough to take commands from Robin. He also has a habit of smoking cigars.
==Abilities and Powers==
Banchi has the strength to pull a cart full of three grown men, one of whom was overweight; three grown women; and a 4-ton baseball bat. He is also an adept swimmer, serving as Miss All Sunday's method of travel between islands. Despite being a turtle Banchi has fast legs and is able to move quickly between places.
==History==
===Past===
Banchi was originally from the West Blue.
===Arabasta Saga===
====Whisky Peak Arc====
Banchi carried Robin to Whiskey Peak and waded through the burning remains of Igaram's ship. He carried her back to Arabasta after she first met the Straw Hat Pirates.
====Arabasta Arc====
Banchi pulled a carriage transporting the Baroque Works' Officer Agents through the desert to their meeting with Crocodile in Rainbase.
==Merchandise==
Banchi appears alongside other animals from Arabasta in the One Piece World Collectable Figure set Volume 3 Baroque Works Animals Gathering.
===Video Games===
====Support Appearances====
*Grand Battle! 2
====Enemy Appearances====
*One Piece Thousand Storm
====Non-Playable Appearances====
*One Piece: Fighting Path
==Translation and Dub Issues==
His name is spelled with katakana most commonly used to render the English word bunch. It is romanized accordingly by the 7th popularity poll, which remains the only "official" romanization by any Japanese source.
Notwithstanding this, the Viz manga romanizes his name as Bunchi.
==Trivia==
*Banchi placed 792nd in the seventh popularity poll, tying for the place with 11 other characters: Take, Island Eater, Elder 1, Koda, Comil, Bao, An Zengaiina, Karma, Tegata Ringana, and the Matryo Princesses.
*One of the primary animal enemy types in One Piece Thousand Storm, the Giant Turtle, is based on Banchi and includes two variants: the Giant Black Turtle and the Giant White Turtle.
==References==
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