Inuarashi

Inuarashi, also known as Duke Inuarashi, is a male character in the anime and manga series One Piece. He's a canine Mink and a former Pirate who hails from Zou, a Kingdom which sits on the back of Zunisha, a massive elephant which wanders eternally, aimlessly in the New World. He has the title of Ruler of Day and along with his close friend and rival, Nekomamushi, the Ruler of Night, he rules Zou. Inuarashi rules during the day, and Nekomamushi rules at night, hence their personal epithets.  
In the past he was a member of the Nine Red Scabbards, a group of nine Samurai who served as retainers for the legendary Kozuki Oden, along with Nekomamushi; however, both of them left Wano for reasons not entirely known, and became Pirates.  First they joined the Whitebeard Pirates, becoming more of Edward Newgate's many adopted sons, and later joined the Roger Pirates, joining Gol D. Roger. But later Toki, Oden's wife, become ill and then stopped at Wano and stayed with them, so they never went to Laugh Tale.  In the present day they both returned to Wano to help the rest of the Nine Red Scabbards in the rebellion against Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido, and the Beast Pirates.  They're currently allies with the Straw Hat Pirates in these pursuits.  
After Big Mom and Kaido's defeats, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi retired as rulers of Zoa and passed the monarchy to Carrot.
He is voiced by Takaya Hashi and as a child in the Japanese and Jeff Plunk and Mary Morgan as a child in English.
==Appearance==
Inuarashi is an extremely tall, very muscular, canine Mink, with brown, thick fur, a white beard, and black eyes.  He's usually seen wearing a blue vest covered by an extremely thick, red fur coat, with white in the underside.
He lost his leg but replaced with a sword.
==Personality==
Inuarashi is shown to be a benevolent ruler in Zou along with partner and rival Nekomamushi. Inuarashi is shown to have a hostile relationship with Nekomamushi. Inuarashi respects Kozuki Oden and the fellow retainers of the Nine Red Scabbards. He is also loyal to the scabbards and was willing to continue to lie to Jack and the Beasts Pirates to keep Raizo safe despite suffering from him. Inuarashi like the rest of the scabbards was against Kaido and Orochi and wanted to stop them and save Wano. He is also shown to be a fearless fighter who is willing to fight against Kaido along with his comrades.
==History==
===Past===
Inuarashi comes from Zou country along with Nekomamushi. He traveled to Wano and after facing conflicts with the residents there, he was able to be a part of the Nine Red Scabbards to serve Kozuki Oden. He maintains his loyalty towards Oden and supports him as the latter traveled across the world. Inuarashi was disheartened when Oden died during his conflict against Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi. Since then, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi returns to Wano and the Nine Red Scabbards ends up splitting up. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi rules parts of Zou.
About 20 years later after Raizo, Kinemon, Kanjuro, and Momonosuke returns to the present, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi keeps Raizo safe from the Beasts Pirates but the team that traveled to the present ends up splitting up. Jack leads a major attack on the Zou and began murdering and torturing civilians to get information out of Inuarashi and Nekomamushi about the whereabouts of Raizo. Inuarashi refuses to give him any information and maintains the lie that Raizo is not the island. Before Jack could continue to torture Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, he leaves the island with his men to try and rescue Donquixote Doflamingo from the Marines.
===Zou Arc===
The Straw Hats appear on Zou and are greeted by the Minks. As Kinemon, Momonosuke, and Kanjuro returns along with the group, Inuarashi reveals that Raizo has been on the island the entire time. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi informs the Straw Hats and their allies about the threat of both Big Mom and Kaido. Inuarashi works alongside the Straw Hats and their alliance to form plans to deal against Kaido and the Beasts Pirates.
===Yonko Saga===
Inuarashi appears in Wano as part of the plan. He finds and fights against Ashura Doji. Inuarashi later finds out that Orochi had the Yasuie executed and was upset over his lost. Inuarashi regroups with the rest of the scabbards and prepares to reach Onigashima to confront Kaido, Big Mom, Orochi, and the Beasts Pirates in their final fight. However, Kanjuro reveals that he was a traitor that has been working under Orochi the entire time. After their skirmish with Kanjuro and encountering the Beasts Pirates, Inuarashi and his team makes it to Onigashima. 
After Kaido's speech, Inuarashi and the scabbards ambushes Kaido and attempts to take him down. They then get into a major battle with Kaido and one of the All Stars, Jack. During the fight, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and the rest of the Minks were able to transform into their Sulong forms to put up a more challenging fight against the Beasts Pirates. While they overwhelmed Jack, they could not defeat Kaido. Despite their defeat to Kaido, Inuarashi is later able to confront Jack to fight and defeat him for the terrorism he caused to Zou. Moments after Jack's defeat, Kaido is defeated by Luffy and the surviving people on Onigashima is saved. The battle ended with victory from the Straw Hat Pirates and their allies. After the defeat of the Beasts Pirates, Inuarashi and everyone else who battled, tends to their wounds and rest up from their battle.
==Trivia==
*Inuarashi's favorite foods are bones and chicken wings.  
*Inuarashi's height was initially given as 322 cm (10'6) in Vivre Card - One Piece Visual Dictionary before Oda gave a height of 511 cm in the SBS.  
*Inuarashi's antagonistic relationship with Nekomamushi, as well as their roles as rulers of the day and night, are likely based on popular idioms. When two people fight often, it is said that they fight like "cats and dogs", or that "they're like night and day".
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