Chop-Chop Fruit

超人系「バラバラの実」

By Aine · Published 2026-07-21 · Updated 2026-07-21

The Bara Bara no Mi (バラバラの実) is the Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that lets Buggy the Clown split his body into separately controlled, floating pieces, making him immune to slashing and blunt attacks alike. Zoro discovers this the hard way in Vol. 2, p.57 — he slices Buggy clean in half and the severed hand keeps moving ("The hand... it's floating!"), and Buggy names the fruit himself on the very next panel: バラバラの実．．．．．！！！. VIZ renders the name Chop-Chop Fruit and mostly keeps the reduplicated attack pattern (Chop-Chop Cannon, Chop-Chop Quick Dodge), though the corpus shows the translation wobbling on both the fruit's own name and identical attack names more than any other entry in this dictionary.

Japanese	バラバラの実
Reading	バラバラのみ
Romaji	Bara Bara no Mi
Official VIZ	Chop-Chop Fruit
Literal	Scatter-Scatter Fruit
Used by	Buggy

Japanese

バラバラの実

Reading

バラバラのみ

Romaji

Bara Bara no Mi

Official VIZ

Chop-Chop Fruit

Literal

Scatter-Scatter Fruit

Used by

Buggy

Kanji breakdown

バラバラ (barabara) is a genuine Japanese ideophone (擬態語, gitaigo) meaning "scattered, in pieces, disassembled" — it's the ordinary word Japanese speakers use for anything from spilled beads to a broken argument (話がバラバラだ, "the story doesn't hang together"). It likely derives from バラ (bara), meaning a loose, individual, unbundled item, as in バラ売り (barauri, "sold individually/loose"). Doubling it to describe Buggy's fruit is one of the more literal fits in Oda's naming system: unlike ゴムゴム (a borrowed noun stretched into the template), バラバラ already meant exactly what the power does before Oda ever touched it.

Japanese original Buggy the Clown names the Bara Bara no Mi after Zoro's sword passes clean through him, One Piece Vol. 2

ONE PIECE 第2巻 p.57 ©尾田栄一郎／集英社

VIZ English edition Buggy the Clown names the Chop-Chop Fruit after Zoro's sword passes clean through him, One Piece Vol. 2

Every appearance in the manga

Vol / page	Japanese line	VIZ English
Vol. 2 p.57	バラバラの実．．．．．！！！	THE CHOP-CHOP FRUIT...!!!
Vol. 2 p.58	おれは斬っても斬れないバラバラ人間なのさ！！！	YOU CAN SLICE AND DICE ME, BUT YOU CAN'T KILL ME!!! I'M A CHOP-CHOP MAN!
Vol. 2 p.64	バラバラ砲ーうっ！！！	CHOP-CHOP CANNON!
Vol. 2 p.182	地をはうバラバラ砲ーうっ！！	LOW-FLYING CHOP-CHOP CANNON!!
Vol. 3 p.15	＂バラバラ緊急脱出っ！！	CHOP-CHOP QUICK DODGE!!
Vol. 3 p.18	バラバラ砲	CHOP-CHOP HARPOON!!!!
Vol. 3 p.24	バラバラ緊急脱出っ！！	CHOP-CHOP QUICK ESCAPE!!
Vol. 3 p.45	このバラバラの能力で！！	USING MY CHOP-CHOP POWER!
Vol. 6 p.104	Ｄ：コムゴムの実、バラバラの実とたくさん悪魔の実があるけど、Ｄ	Q: There's Gum-Gum Fruit, Scatter-Scatter fruit, and other kinds of Devil Fruit. I thought of a new one: “Icky-Icky Fruit.” It makes you so gross that nothing wants to come near you. VERY useful.
Vol. 12 p.12	バラバラカ	MY CHOP-CHOP CAR!!

Lines are byte-exact captures from a 43,000-pair bilingual corpus of the Japanese tankōbon and official VIZ Media edition.

Buggy's fruit gets the cleanest possible fit between mimetic root and super-power — バラバラ doesn't need reinterpreting the way ゴムゴム or ハナハナ do, because "scattered/in pieces" already describes a body split into floating parts with no editorializing required. The reveal panel plays that literalness for both horror and comedy at once: Zoro's shocked "手が．．．．．．！！浮いてやがる．．．．．．！！！" ("The hand... it's floating!") lands one beat before Buggy's own name-drop, so the reader gets the visual gag and the vocabulary word in the same breath, on the same page (Vol. 2, p.57).

Where Gum-Gum is this dictionary's control group for translation discipline, Chop-Chop is the counter-example. The corpus catches VIZ rendering the identical Japanese attack name two different ways within three pages of each other: バラバラ砲 becomes "CHOP-CHOP CANNON!" at Vol. 2, p.64 but "CHOP-CHOP HARPOON!!!!" at Vol. 3, p.18 — same weapon-suffix compound, two different English weapons. The very next chapter repeats the pattern: バラバラ緊急脱出っ！！ is "CHOP-CHOP QUICK DODGE!!" on Vol. 3, p.15 and "CHOP-CHOP QUICK ESCAPE!!" on Vol. 3, p.24 — the same emergency maneuver named twice, translated twice, with no attempt at internal consistency even a few pages apart. Early-arc Buggy fights generate a lot of one-off named attacks fast, and it shows in the seams.

The fruit's own base name isn't immune either. An SBS reader-mail answer at Vol. 6, p.104 — cataloguing known Devil Fruits alongside Luffy's — calls it the "Scatter-Scatter fruit," abandoning "Chop-Chop" for a more literal gloss of バラバラ even though the main story had already locked in "Chop-Chop" four volumes earlier. It's a small crack, but a real one: readers following only the SBS extras would meet two different English names for the same fruit before Volume 6 ends. None of that undercuts the reveal scene itself, which stays sharp regardless of translator — "THE CHOP-CHOP FRUIT...!!!" hits with the same clean shock in English as バラバラの実．．．．．！！！ does in Japanese, precisely because the underlying word was never obscure to begin with.