Recaps

Joker defeated and captured Magellan, revealed that Hannibal had killed himself rather than join the Joker Party, and began preparing Magellan for conversion. Little Sadie told Magellan that nearly everyone in Impel Down had joined Joker, leaving the prison effectively lost.

• Magellan woke shackled in Sea Stone and learned that the apparent Hannibal was actually Joker.
• Joker revealed Hannibal had resisted the Joker Virus and killed himself rather than become part of the Joker Party.
• Joker said he planned to rename Impel Down Arkham Asylum and began a procedure to convert Magellan.
• Little Sadie appeared as a member of the Joker Party and told Magellan that nearly everyone in Impel Down had joined them.

The Joker celebrated taking over Impel Down and brought Magellan’s severed head to the prison hospital, where his fifth-generation Joker Virus infected it. Magellan awakened with a sinister smile, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Joker left with Magellan’s head as the guards and prisoners celebrated the takeover of Impel Down.
• The Joker announced plans to rename the prison Arkham Asylum and create secret bases on its half-levels.
• At the hospital, the Joker revealed tanks of fourth-generation Joker Poison and met with the zombie-like doctor in charge.
• The doctor dropped Magellan’s head into a tank containing the untested fifth-generation Joker Virus.
• The virus overwhelmed Magellan, and he began struggling before a sinister smile appeared on his face.

Doflamingo visited Wano Country with Yamato and Shinobu, where Shanks, Kozuki Hiyori, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru welcomed them on Onigashima. Yamato reunited with her friends, while Doflamingo assessed Hiyori’s swordsmanship and wondered about Shanks’s lost arm.

• Doflamingo arrived in Wano Country with Yamato and Shinobu after informing Kozuki Hiyori of the visit.
• Shanks, Kozuki Hiyori, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru greeted them on the prosperous Onigashima.
• Yamato excitedly reunited with the three leaders and told them she had seen someone in East Blue who resembled Shimotsuki Ushimaru.
• Doflamingo observed Kozuki Hiyori’s swords, sensed that she had not mastered Enma, and judged that she lacked battle experience.
• Doflamingo studied Shanks’s right arm and wondered whether he would still have lost it if Doflamingo had not given the Gum-Gum Fruit to Luffy.

Kozuki Hiyori thanked Doflamingo and Shinobu before Red Hair Shanks challenged Doflamingo to a swordsmanship match. Doflamingo agreed, but warned that their fight could destroy Onigashima, then began creating a storm of ice to prepare a suitable location.

• Kozuki Hiyori welcomed Doflamingo and thanked him for helping Wano Country and Yamato.
• Kozuki Hiyori thanked Shinobu on behalf of Kozuki Oden, easing Shinobu’s lingering regret.
• Red Hair Shanks challenged Doflamingo to a swordsmanship match, and Doflamingo accepted.
• Kozuki Hiyori and Shinobu moved Yamato and Shimotsuki Ushimaru aside so they could watch the duel.
• Doflamingo suggested they find another place to fight, then exhaled a towering storm of ice toward the distant sea.

Doflamingo used Ideation Materialization to freeze the sea and prepare an arena for his swordsmanship match with Shanks. Their battle began with a powerful clash, and Doflamingo assessed Shanks’s fighting style and his own strength.

• Doflamingo explained that he had temporarily materialized cold to freeze the sea, then named the technique Ideation Materialization.
• Shanks reluctantly agreed to fight Doflamingo in swordsmanship on the ice, while spectators including Kozuki Hiyori, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, Yamato, and Shinobu gathered to watch.
• Shanks and Doflamingo clashed Narikitsune and Griffin, unleashing Conqueror’s Haki and black lightning in a battle that reached its climax immediately.
• Doflamingo recognized that Shanks relied on Conqueror’s Haki Infusion to compensate for being less specialized in swordsmanship than Hawkeye Mihawk.
• Doflamingo reflected that his physique, Haki, and swordsmanship made him stronger than anyone on the seas except Imu, even without his Devil Fruit ability.

Doflamingo overwhelmed Shanks in a sword fight, and Shanks surrendered once he realized he could not win. With Shimotsuki Ushimaru also avoiding a challenge, the fighting ended, and Shanks proposed a feast to celebrate their cooperation.

• Doflamingo gained the upper hand against Shanks by switching from his sword to a Conqueror's Haki-coated punch, then attacked with a storm of Flying Slashes.
• Shanks recovered and blocked most of Doflamingo's attacks, but his clothes were torn and the surrounding ice was carved away.
• Shanks surrendered, and Doflamingo lowered Narikitsune, dissatisfied that their fight had ended so quickly.
• Shimotsuki Ushimaru avoided Doflamingo's gaze and showed no interest in fighting him.
• Shanks proposed a feast to celebrate the cooperation.

Doflamingo attended a banquet in Wano Country and revealed that he had come to buy Shimotsuki Ushimaru’s Human-Human Fruit - Dai Nyudo Form. He secretly planned to use the visit to lure Blackbeard Teach away from the Whitebeard Pirates so he could plant psychological suggestions in him.

• Shanks begged Doflamingo to take him on as a subordinate Pirate Crew captain so he could get free meals, but Doflamingo refused.
• Kozuki Hiyori asked why Doflamingo had come to Wano Country, and he said he wanted to purchase a Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo asked Shimotsuki Ushimaru about the Human-Human Fruit - Dai Nyudo Form, and Ushimaru confirmed that he possessed it.
• Doflamingo considered the fruit valuable but had also come to Wano Country to arrange a discreet trap for Blackbeard Teach.
• Doflamingo planned to lure Teach away from the Whitebeard Pirates and use psychological suggestions on him without leaving a trace.

Doflamingo traded the Dai Nyudo Fruit for a Ripe-Ripe Fruit and planned to use it to create an army of animals with artificial Devil Fruit powers. In Sabaody, he watched the rumors spread about a Dark-Dark Fruit auction, which he had secretly arranged using an illusion-disguised artificial Crow Fruit.

• Shimotsuki Ushimaru gave Doflamingo the Human-Human Fruit - Onyudo Form Fruit, and Doflamingo gave him a Ripe-Ripe Fruit in return.
• Doflamingo planned to make artificial Human-Human Fruits for animals, hoping to build a powerful and loyal army.
• Doflamingo considered feeding artificial Human-Human Fruits to Sea Kings but decided to avoid it unless necessary.
• Doflamingo walked through Sabaody in disguise and listened as pirates discussed an upcoming auction for the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Doflamingo revealed that the supposed Dark-Dark Fruit was an artificial Crow Fruit disguised by his illusion, with a strange bird's soul inside it.

Doflamingo visited Monet and Sugar on Sabaody and learned that Blackbeard Teach was heading to an auction where the Dark-Dark Fruit would appear. Aboard the Whitebeard Pirates’ ship, Marco questioned Teach about his interest as they approached the archipelago.

• Doflamingo met with Monet and Sugar at the Golden City branch on Sabaody, where Sugar’s toys handled the paperwork.
• Doflamingo received intelligence that Blackbeard Teach would attend the auction on behalf of the Whitebeard Pirates and concluded Teach was seeking the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates discussed their arrival at Sabaody and the risks of encountering the Navy or Celestial Dragons.
• Marco asked Teach why he was interested in the auction and whether the Dark-Dark Fruit was so famous.

Teach kept his interest in the Dark-Dark Fruit hidden as the Whitebeard Pirates arrived at Sabaody, while Doflamingo intercepted them and trapped the crew in his Illusion Space. The crew realized Teach was missing and feared he had been separated from them.

• Teach concealed his eagerness for the Dark-Dark Fruit from Marco and privately saw it as the key to fulfilling his ambition.
• Doflamingo left Monet asleep and traveled to the docks through people’s dreams.
• Doflamingo used Innate Barrier—World Projection to trap the Whitebeard Pirates in his Illusion Space as they reached the docks.
• Marco and Thatch debated where they had been taken, believing they had been teleported to another place.
• The Whitebeard Pirates discovered Teach was missing, and Marco feared he was in danger.

Doflamingo isolated Teach in an illusion and revealed that he knew Teach’s ambition to become the Pirate King and his plans for the Dark-Dark Fruit. After Teach’s hope seemed crushed, Doflamingo watched his resolve return and pressed a strange orb of light to his head.

• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates found themselves back on the dock, with Teach and their attacker gone.
• Doflamingo revealed that he knew Teach’s identity, ambition, and interest in the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Teach despaired at the thought that Doflamingo would take the fruit and destroy his dream.
• Doflamingo reflected on how Teach had sacrificed other paths to greatness while waiting for a chance to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Doflamingo sensed Teach’s resolve returning and pressed an orb of light against his head.

Teach awakened with greatly enhanced strength from Doflamingo’s Demon Seed, while Doflamingo planned to give Thatch Vegapunk’s discarded Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit and sell his fake Dark-Dark Fruit to the Beasts Pirates. Doflamingo left the outcome of the planned fruit swap—and Momonosuke’s fate—unresolved.

• Teach woke beside Marco and accidentally broke the bedframe when he tested his newly strengthened body.
• Teach resolved to become Pirate King through training, unaware that the Demon Seed had subtly reduced his desire to eat another Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo bought back the fake Dark-Dark Fruit and considered how Thatch might acquire the real Dark-Dark Fruit if he encountered it again.
• Doflamingo remembered that he had obtained Vegapunk’s discarded Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit and had given it to Judge to study.
• Doflamingo decided to give the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit to Thatch and sell the fake Dark-Dark Fruit to the Beasts Pirates, wondering whether Momonosuke would eat it.

Doflamingo secretly gave Thatch a powerful artificial Azure Dragon Fruit, then heard Nami’s plea for help in the Illusion Space. The chapter revealed that Hody Jones’s fish-men had attacked Orange Village, leaving Nami injured and grieving as the story ended with her facing their brutality.

• Doflamingo hypnotized Thatch with Dream Traverse, altered his memories, and ensured he ate the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.
• Doflamingo heard an unknown person in the Illusion Space beg for the power to take revenge.
• Nami awoke injured on Orange Island and mourned Bell-mère and the others after the fish-men attacked.
• The chapter explained that Nami had gained navigational knowledge from Doflamingo in her dreams and had hoped to join the Marines.
• Hody Jones and his New Fish-Man Pirates reached East Blue and attacked Cocoyasi Village, where fifteen-year-old Nami was stronger than her original-story counterpart but faced Hody’s ruthless crew.

Nami recalled fighting Hody Jones during the New Fish-Man Pirates’ attack on Cocoyasi Village and escaping with Kinoko after Bell-mère intervened. She and Kinoko later sought help from the Navy 16th Branch, but Captain Nezumi tried to seize their shells, leaving Kinoko captured and Nami with a bounty.

• Nami fought off fish-men but was overwhelmed by Hody Jones, who attacked her and the fleeing villagers.
• Kinoko carried the injured Nami away while the villagers stayed behind to cover their escape.
• Hody Jones blocked their path, but Bell-mère shot out one of his eyes and urged Kinoko to keep running.
• Nami and Kinoko escaped by boat using her navigation skills and a Jet Wind Shell, while the fate of Bell-mère and the villagers remained unknown.
• Nami and Kinoko sought help from the Navy 16th Branch, but Captain Nezumi tried to take their shells; Nami escaped, Kinoko was captured, and Nami received a bounty.

Nami returned to Cocoyasi Village and found it burned down, with the villagers—including Bell-mère—hanged and dead. Desperate to save Kinoko and take revenge on the Fish-Man Pirates and the Navy 16th Branch, she called out to the owner of the Dreamscape for help, and Doflamingo's Consciousness Clone heard her plea.

• Nami woke from her exhausted sleep and went to Cocoyasi Village, where she found the village destroyed and its villagers hanging from crosses.
• Nami found Bell-mère's tortured corpse, embraced her, and passed out.
• In the Dreamscape, Nami mourned the villagers and vowed to rescue Kinoko and avenge Cocoyasi Village, but realized she lacked the strength to do so.
• Nami suspected that a Devil Fruit ability had created the Dreamscape and begged its owner to give her power, regardless of the cost.
• Doflamingo's Consciousness Clone sensed Nami's plea and saw what had happened to her.

Doflamingo rescued Nami from a Fish-Man ambush after she emerged from the Dreamscape, then healed her and agreed to give her the strength to save her sister Kinoko. Nami accepted his offer to join him, leaving revenge secondary to rescuing Kinoko.

• Nami left the Dreamscape and found a dead Fish-Man beside her as Doflamingo explained that he had stopped an ambush by Hody Jones's subordinate.
• Nami recognized the Fish-Man threat, smashed the attacker’s head against the ground, and collapsed in pain until Doflamingo healed her.
• Overwhelmed by grief and despair, Nami cried before remembering Kinoko and kneeling to ask Doflamingo to save her sister.
• Doflamingo reminded Nami that she had asked for power to rescue Kinoko herself, then declared that she belonged to him and would receive the strength to save her sister and defeat the Fish-Men.

Doflamingo gave Nami the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and she accepted his offer to work for him in exchange for help rescuing her sister. After Nami gained control of her new powers, they set out for the Navy 16th Branch, where Doflamingo hinted at his identity.

• Nami recognized the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and, after Doflamingo warned her that eating it would bind her to him, took a bite.
• Nami discovered she could generate lightning and alter the weather, while Doflamingo judged her talents well suited to the fruit.
• Nami said she felt confident she could rescue her sister with her new power, and Doflamingo told her they would head to the Navy 16th Branch.
• Nami vowed to make the person who captured her sister pay, then asked Doflamingo how he had found her and who he was.
• Doflamingo asked Nami whether she had recognized him from the bounty posters of the Great Pirates.

Doflamingo praised Nami’s potential and taught her how to combine the Rumble-Rumble Fruit with Observation Haki. As they reached Navy 16th Branch, Nami unleashed a lightning storm that incapacitated nearly everyone there.

• Nami recognized Doflamingo as the leader of the Shichibukai and asked why he had chosen to teach her.
• Doflamingo said Nami had the potential to become the world’s greatest Navigator, which renewed her confidence.
• Nami sailed with Doflamingo toward Navy 16th Branch while he explained how to use her electromagnetic field and Observation Haki for long-range movement.
• Nami synchronized her electromagnetic field with her Observation Haki and struck Navy 16th Branch with a storm of lightning.
• Doflamingo praised Nami’s ability to create a thunderstorm, and Nami declared she would become the world’s greatest Navigator.

Nami and Doflamingo rescued Kinoko from Navy 16th Branch and left the island. After Kinoko learned that Cocoyasi Village had been destroyed, Nami told Doflamingo she planned to wait for the Fish-Men to return so she could take revenge.

• Nami and Doflamingo attacked Navy 16th Branch, incapacitating its personnel without killing them, and reached the temporary prison.
• Nami melted the cell door and rescued Kinoko, then the three left the base by boat.
• Captain Nezumi played dead and later forgot who had attacked the base after Doflamingo erased the Navy personnel's memories.
• Kinoko learned of the tragedy at Cocoyasi Village and cried with Nami before falling into a deep sleep.
• Nami told Doflamingo she had found a Den Den Mushi on the Fish-Man who ambushed her and expected the Fish-Men to return to Cocoyasi Village.

Nami reached Cocoyasi Village and attacked the Fish-Man Pirates with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, overwhelming their crew before fighting Hody Jones. Doflamingo arrived as Nami kept Hody on the defensive, leaving the battle still underway.

• Nami sensed the Fish-Man Pirates on Cocoyasi Village and raced ashore in lightning form.
• Doflamingo brought the boat to the dock and headed toward the village after recognizing the Fish-Man Pirates' ship.
• Nami ambushed the pirates with lightning, taking down the crew while Hody Jones survived by using Haki.
• Doflamingo arrived and watched Nami battle Hody Jones, whose attacks she evaded while countering with lightning.
• Hody Jones grew furious and strengthened his Armament Haki, but Nami's speed and tactics kept him at a disadvantage.

After Hody Jones took ES Drug and badly injured Nami with a surprise attack, she transformed into lightning and summoned a natural thunderstorm, drawing on its electricity to recover and gather power for a smaller version of Raigo. Doflamingo watched in surprise as Nami prepared the devastating attack, leaving her confrontation with Hody Jones poised to escalate.

• Hody Jones swallowed his ES Drug, dramatically increasing his strength and speed, then struck Nami and fractured both her forearms.
• Doflamingo reassured Kinoko that Nami was not in immediate danger, though her injuries and reduced stamina could leave her unable to outlast Hody Jones.
• Nami transformed into lightning and shot into the sky instead of continuing to fight on the ground.
• Nami combined her Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers with her navigation skills to form a thunderstorm and absorb natural lightning, recovering some stamina and strength.
• Nami gathered the storm's lightning into a smaller Raigo as Doflamingo realized she had developed the attack.

Nami destroyed Hody Jones with a massive lightning strike, avenging Bell-mère, A-Ken, and the people of Cocoyasi Village. After leaving the devastated island with Kinoko, the story shifted to Doflamingo and the Dragon Hunting Pirates preparing artificial Devil Fruits at Beast-Dragon Island.

• Nami overwhelmed Hody Jones with natural lightning, reducing him to ashes and leaving a vast crater where Cocoyasi Village had stood.
• Nami broke down in grief and relief, and Kinoko comforted her as they mourned the dead; only the two sisters and Kinoko remained alive in the village.
• A few days later, Nami and Kinoko departed the island aboard a newly built ship, heading for a traversal gate in the East Blue that led to the Dragon Hunting Pirates' base.
• Doflamingo returned to the New World and met Shinobu, Yamato, and Sancho on Beast-Dragon Island, where a mobile door connected them to Germa 66's Calm Belt research base.
• Doflamingo delivered the Human-Human Fruit - Dai Nyudo Form to Germa 66, then used clone souls to turn their newly produced artificial Devil Fruit embryos into finished products.

Doflamingo distributed artificial Devil Fruits to Beast-Dragon Island’s strongest animals, turning them into powerful humanlike fighters. Nearly a year later, Ace and Sabo’s Spade Pirates had risen in the New World, where Bullet approached them after becoming Whitebeard’s vice-captain.

• Doflamingo found the Navy base on Beast-Dragon Island abandoned and reflected on the two years remaining until the Straw Hat Crew set sail.
• Doflamingo used a Storage Dial to hand out artificial Devil Fruits, and the island’s strongest animals transformed into towering humanlike beings.
• Doflamingo estimated that training could make the transformed animals formidable fighters, but he had no more Devil Fruit embryos until the Tontatta Tribe produced more raw materials the following year.
• Nearly a year later, Ace and Sabo’s Spade Pirates became a powerful crew, though the more dangerous New World limited their ability to challenge top crews.
• Ace avoided provoking Whitebeard after witnessing Doflamingo fight his grandfather, but Bullet, Whitebeard’s vice-captain, came looking for Ace and Sabo.

Bullet visited Ace and Sabo, revealed that he had found an Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale, and offered it to Ace. Before handing it over, Bullet challenged the Spade Pirates to prove their strength, and Ace and Sabo eagerly prepared to fight him.

• Bullet told Ace that Shanks had revealed Ace was the Pirate King's son, but Ace said he wanted to be known as Fire Fist Ace rather than Roger's descendant.
• Sabo asked why Bullet had come to see the Spade Pirates, and Bullet complained about their lack of wine before explaining that he had two reasons to visit.
• Bullet hung an Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale from the mast and said he had found it inside a Sea King.
• Bullet offered the Eternal Pose to Ace, explaining that Whitebeard wanted a family and Bullet wanted to become the strongest in the world.
• Bullet released Conqueror's Haki and challenged Ace and Sabo to prove their strength before he handed over the Eternal Pose.
• Ace and Sabo welcomed the fight as Ace's flames appeared and Sabo rested a hand on his sword.

Sabo challenged Bullet alone to test his strength, but Bullet overwhelmed him with Conqueror’s Haki Infusion and sent him crashing into a tree. Ace joined the fight with Sabo, and the two charged Bullet together, eager to face his technique.

• Sabo stepped forward to face Bullet while Ace held back, and Bullet released his powerful Conqueror’s Haki.
• Bullet struck Sabo with a punch infused with Conqueror’s Haki, overpowering his sword defense and blasting him across the island.
• Ace rushed to Sabo’s side, and Sabo identified Bullet’s attack as Conqueror’s Haki Infusion.
• Ace recognized the technique as something he wanted to learn, and he and Sabo agreed to fight Bullet together.
• Ace and Sabo charged Bullet, who stayed in place and refrained from pursuing them.