Lieutenant Commander Brandnew is a Marine officer quartered at the Marine Headquarters in Grand Line. A tall man with plump lips, untidy hair and wide-brimmed sunglasses, he along with a bureau of other officers oversees the distribution of bounties to various pirates in the Blue Seas and Grand Line. Although unwilling, Brandnew is the man who assigned Monkey D. Luffy his first bounty of 30,000,000 berries, the highest tally for a new pirate in the history of the Marine Headquarters. The motion was made after consideration of Luffy's potential threat to the Marines and World Government, having crushed East Blue's three most infamous and powerful pirates (Arlong, Don Krieg, and Buggy) and the disposition of Captain Morgan.
