Brook (One Piece)

Brook, also known as Dead Bones, Soul King and Humming Brook, is one of the main characters from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Brook is the musician of the Straw Hat Pirates.
He is a skeleton that the Straw Hats found on board of a ghost shipafter drifting into the Florian Triangle for 50 years. He is a Devil Fruit user who ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, and is undead, having been brought back into a pseudo-immortal state because of its powers. His dream is to, after sailing around the world, reunite with Laboon at Reverse Mountain, where he resides with Crocus.
He is the ninth member of the Straw Hat crew, and the eighth to join Luffy's crew, as well as being the oldest member of the crew and the second tallest member on board after Jinbe. He is also one of the two swordsmen onboard their current ship, with the other being Roronoa Zoro. He fills the role of the long-awaited musician that Luffy had wanted for his crew ever since his journey began.
He currently has a bounty of 83,000,000.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Nissan Serena x One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase - Sennyuu!! Sauzando Sanii-gou
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D: Gekisou! Trap Coaster
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase
* One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! Luffy's Pledge to His Friends
* One Piece Film: Gold
* One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0 - 711 ver.
* One Piece Film: Red
* One Piece Film: Strong World
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
* One Piece Film: Z
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
* One Piece Special: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
* One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
* One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend
* One Piece: Episode of Sabo - Bond of Three Brothers, A Miraculous Reunion and an Inherited Will
* One Piece: Glorious Island
* One Piece: Heart of Gold
* One Piece: Romance Dawn Story
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece Party
* One Piece x Toriko
* One Piece: Strong World
=== Video Games ===
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece King Battle
* One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
* One Piece RPG Chronicle
* One Piece RPG2 ~Thousand World~
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece Unlimited Battle
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Burning Will
* One Piece: Dance Battle
* One Piece: Fighting Path
* One Piece: Gear Spirit
* One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Py Berry Match
* Treasure Hunt of Treasure Island
== Trivia ==
* Like other members of the Straw Hat crew, Brook has his own personal jolly roger: it is a skull without a jaw with Brook's trademark afro, a top hat, and a cane in place of the cross bone mark. His jolly roger is also shown on his travel mug and tea cup. His jolly roger was seen worn by one of fans.
** Oda has also revealed a post-timeskip jolly roger. The design for this one includes a full skull and an afro, with his new glasses and hat. His afro and skull is encircled by bones with his single guitar as his cross-bones in the background.
** During the beginning of the Punk Hazard Arc Brook is seen drinking from a tea cup with a slightly different personalized jolly roger. The anime adaptation shown yet another version.
** A mug with his two canes jolly roger can be seen in Hands Up! while Brook play on the deck of the Thousand Sunny.
* Brook is the oldest member of the Straw Hats, being 88 years old when he joins them, over twice the age of the next-oldest member at the time Franky.
* Brook is one of two Straw Hats that was a captain of his pirate crew, the other being Jinbe.
* Brook's height and age before the timeskip, 8'8" and 88 years old, could be related to the usual number of keys on a piano, 88.
* Before Brook fulfilled the position of musician, there was a running gag of the need for the position to be filled that was always being brought up by Luffy during important meetings with his crew on who should join next. Whenever the Straw Hats hold a serious meeting about a situation they are in that might require the addition of a new crew member with skills to aid in that situation, or anything similar like that, Luffy would always bring up the need of getting a musician. His reasoning is that pirates love to sing and a musician is essential to a pirate crew. Luffy's request however would always be turned down by his crew for more practical solutions to the situation.
* In Chapter 488 the first digit of his bounty is a 2. This was a mistake by Oda that was later corrected.
* Since the introduction of Brook's bounty, there was speculation of whether his 33,000,000 bounty was active or not. In Chapter 600, Marines declared that his bounty was still active, thus ending the speculation.
* Brook is one of two Straw Hats to have never ridden aboard the Going Merry, the other being Jinbe.
* Brook's unique Laughter Style of "Yoho" is a stereotypical pirate line commonly found in various pirate related pop culture. It originates from “Dead Man's Chest”, the sea shanty from the book Treasure Island.
* In the 6th Japanese Fan Poll, he ranked 19th.
* Brook is the only known person to have a wanted poster that is not formatted in the uniform style, instead the World Government used one of his old concert posters, and added the standard "WANTED" and "Dead or Alive", and replaced the "World Tour" with his bounty and the paragraph at the bottom.
* In Episode 509, when Brook starts playing the composition to raise the people's spirits, the music played on his violin is the same piece played by Butler, "The song of the horn eaters", from the third movie. The music, however, was originally used to make animals start rampaging, rather than raise people's spirits.
* Brook's model sheets in TOEI are named "Blook".
* In One Piece Blue Deep: Characters World, Brook's post-timeskip height is said to be 277cm, 11cm taller than his pre-timeskip height. This appears to contradict what he said during his fight with Ryuma; that it was important for him to protect his afro because his body had stopped growing.
* The idea of a skeleton musician was first conceived by Oda in the year 2000.
* Brook's birthday, April 3rd, comes from his Devil Fruit's name since 4-3 can be derived from yo-mi.
* Brook's favorite food is curry. His least favorite food is lemons because he has no cheeks to make a sour face.
* Brook also likes ice cream, the same as Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Robin.
* Brook's favorite dish to cook is churrasco.
* Brook's favorite type of island and season is autumn on a spring island.
* Brook's specific numbers are 09 and 43 (4=Yo - 3=Mi, or revive).
* Brook's specific colors are black and white.
* Brook smells like tea.
* If the Straw Hat Pirates were a family, then Brook would be the grandfather.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Brook at One Piece Wiki
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