Bartolomeo first appears in chapter 705 of the One Piece manga , during the Dressrosa arc.

In the anime, his debut is around the Dressrosa episodes where the Corrida Colosseum tournament begins, matching that manga placement. He is introduced as a notorious East Blue mob boss-turned-pirate and gladiator, who later reveals he had once seen Luffy at Loguetown two years earlier, but that earlier moment is only shown retroactively in his backstory, not as his true “first appearance” in the story.

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