Shanks

Shanks, also known as Red-Haired and Red Hair, is a character from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Red-Haired Shanks is a legendary and powerful pirate in the Grand Line, being the captain of the Red Haired Pirate Crew and one of the Four Emperors in the second half of the grand line. Furthermore, he is Monkey D. Luffy's childhood hero and a former member of Gol D. Roger's Crew. Overall, he is greatly respected by most of the characters, despite having a "soft" and friendly nature and never appearing in actual combat until he started a fight with Whitebeard. As a whole, he does not make many appearances in the series, although he appears in a majority of the opening or closing themes of the anime.
Shanks always wears a long black cape over his shoulders and until he met Luffy, wore a straw hat that he had worn for many years beforehand. He always wears trousers that are cut below the knee as well as a pair of sandals. The most striking thing about Shanks is the color of his red hair, of which his nick-name "Red Haired Shanks" comes from. He also has three scars across his left eye, which were given to him by Blackbeard a long time ago. He has a missing left arm, that he had lost when he saved Luffy from a Sea King. Shanks and his crew are almost always seen partying and drinking alcoholic beverages whenever they make an appearance as the Captain's favorite pastimes are attending and hosting parties and banquets.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase
* One Piece Film: Red
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
* One Piece Movie 04: Dead End
* One Piece: Emergency Planning, A Perfect Strategy for the One Piece
* One Piece: Episode of East Blue - Luffy and His Four Crewmates' Great Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island Adventure
* One Piece: The Captain's Log of the Legend! Red-Haired Shanks!
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece: Episode A
* One Piece: Strong World
* Romance Dawn
=== Video Games ===
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece Bon! Bon! Journey!
* One Piece Bounty Rush
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Become the Pirate King!
* One Piece: Birth of Luffy's Dream Pirate Crew!
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Dance Battle
* One Piece: Dragon Dream!
* One Piece: Gear Spirit
* One Piece: Gigant Battle
* One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World
* One Piece: Going Baseball
* One Piece: Grand Adventure
* One Piece: Grand Battle!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 2
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 3
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush!
* One Piece: Grand Line Dream Adventure Log
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Pirates Carnival
* One Piece: Round the Land
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Treasure Battle!
* One Piece: Treasure Wars
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Py Berry Match
== Trivia ==
* In the anime, when Ace meets Shanks, it can be seen that Shanks still has both arms, even though he lost his left arm to the Lord of the Coast. This, however, appears to be an error. This is corrected in the home release of the episode.
* Shanks is the only member among the original Four Emperors who...
** Is not a Devil Fruit user.
** Is not the leader of his own fleet.
** Is not at an age older than 50.
** Was not a member of the now defunct Rocks Pirates.
** Was not born in the Grand Line.
* In Shanks' bounty of 4,048,900,000, the 4-8-9 can be read as "shi-ya-ku". This could refer to his given name "Shanks".
* Shanks is the first character in the series to use Haoshoku Haki.
** In fact, he was the first character to show any form of Haki, in the very first chapter no less.
* During Oden's flashback, Shanks is depicted with a more childish design and voice despite it taking place some years after other flashbacks where Shanks is depicted with a more mature design and his adult voice.
* Shanks has the highest bounty of all current four emperors. Ironically though, he had the lowest bounty of the original lineup.
* Shanks has a direct relationship with the other current Four Emperors: He inspired Luffy to be a pirate, served together with Buggy in the Roger Pirates, and received his trademark scars from Blackbeard.
* In the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Japanese fan polls of most popular characters, Shanks was ranked the 3rd, 7th, 11th, 8th, 14th, 11th, and 12th respectively. This makes him the most popular of the Four Emperors in each, not counting Luffy (who has never been polled as an Emperor).
* So far, Shanks has never appeared in a volume cover without Marshall D. Teach being present as well. The volume covers in question are 25, 59, 95 and 96.
* Shanks' past as an infant found by the Roger Pirates was first hinted in Chapter 966, when Roger and Rayleigh both mentioned having taken care of a baby some time ago.
* In One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 and One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Shanks' taunt action allows him to put on sunglasses, which is a reference to his Strong World costume.
* Shanks' favorite foods are kimchi chahan and lobster.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shanks at One Piece Wiki
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