Recaps

Doflamingo gave the Straw Hat Crew access to the full Illusion Space and put them through months of near-real combat training in a single night. They emerged much stronger, with Luffy unexpectedly using Conqueror's Haki Infusion, and found Nico Robin sitting atop a tall mechanical figure.

• Kuina and Zoro felt frustrated after Doflamingo easily defeated them, but he prepared to strengthen the crew.
• Doflamingo explained that their Dreamscapes were only the second layer of the Illusion Space and granted the Straw Hat Crew access to its intensive training features.
• Doflamingo separated the crew into different Illusion Spaces, then sent Talent Pearls into their bodies to boost their abilities.
• Luffy unleashed Conqueror's Haki Infusion while fighting, and the crew trained for one or two months in the Illusion Space as one night passed in reality.
• The crew woke up with greatly improved strength, while Chopper and Usopp complained about the frightening training.
• The Straw Hat Crew left and saw Nico Robin sitting atop a tall mechanical figure, prompting Luffy and Usopp to rush toward it.

Robin gave the Straw Hat Crew Franky Grand General as a shipwright, Navigator, and bodyguard, while Doflamingo quietly nurtured the Going Merry’s developing Ship Spirit. After sensing a powerful stranger approaching Alabasta, Doflamingo headed into the desert to keep a possible battle away from the port.

• Robin introduced Franky Grand General as the Dragon Hunting Pirates’ gift to Luffy and his new bodyguard.
• Luffy and Usopp praised Franky Grand General until he nearly demonstrated his Plasma Destruction Cannon, and Robin stopped him to prevent damage to the Golden City.
• Doflamingo found the Going Merry beginning to develop a Ship Spirit and gently infused it with soul power, intending to let it mature naturally.
• Doflamingo sensed a powerful, unfamiliar presence approaching and suspected the visitor’s identity.
• Doflamingo headed into the desert to prepare for the visitor and keep any fighting away from Alabasta’s port.

Doflamingo met Navy Admiral Issho after misleading the blind man toward him in the Alabasta desert. Issho explained that he had come to judge Doflamingo for himself, and the two traveled together toward the Golden City.

• Doflamingo sensed Issho approaching and used an illusion to guide him toward the Golden City.
• Issho arrived on a floating rock, and Doflamingo recognized him as the blind Navy Admiral.
• Doflamingo asked why Issho had come to Alabasta, and Issho said he wanted to see what the Dragon Hunting Pirates' captain was truly like.
• Doflamingo objected to Issho probing the Golden City with Observation Haki, but Issho explained that he relied on it because he was blind.
• Issho assured Doflamingo that he could distinguish good from bad, and the two flew together toward the Golden City.

The Straw Hat Crew fought Sand Crocodile and CP9 over Nico Robin in Water 7, then lost the Going Merry and gained a new Ship Spirit aboard the Thousand Sunny. Meanwhile, Doflamingo discovered that Space Pirates had arrived on the moon and went to inspect them.

• Issho gambled in the Golden City for a month or two before the Straw Hat Crew left Alabasta and visited Sky Island on their way to Water 7.
• Doflamingo lured Sand Crocodile and CP9 to Water 7 with fake Pluton blueprints, and both groups fought the Straw Hat Crew over Nico Robin.
• A Water Gods megatsunami helped the Straw Hat Crew defeat their opponents, and Oceanus helped them bring their ship to safety.
• The Going Merry broke in two, and a Ship Spirit named Merry emerged from its flames and attached itself to the Thousand Sunny as the crew mourned.
• Doflamingo went to the moon to inspect the captured Space Pirates, and Franky rushed to study their spaceship.

Doflamingo learned from the Space Pirates that the universe held no powers far beyond the Blue Sea, while uncovering clues that Imu may have been an ancient spacefaring overlord behind the Cosmic Storm and the planet’s former single continent. Meanwhile, the Straw Hat Crew defeated CP9 in the Misty Sea Area, where Doflamingo reclaimed the Soul Fragments he had lent the agents.

• Doflamingo used hypnosis and mind control to interrogate the Space Pirates and learned that their crews were not much stronger than the Blue Sea’s top pirates.
• Doflamingo studied the pirates’ old planetary maps and discovered that the world had once been a single continent, then found evidence that an ancient Space Pirate overlord named Imu had existed.
• Doflamingo considered how the pirates’ spaceship and Tom’s Pluton blueprints could help him build powerful space battleships, and left Imu’s defeat to Luffy and the others.
• After Water 7, the Straw Hat Crew fled CP9 into the Misty Sea Area, encountered Thriller Bark, and defeated the agents while Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile waited there.
• Doflamingo met the injured CP9 agents as they tried to escape by lifeboat and used Soul Retrieval to reclaim their Soul Fragments, sensing that his physique had advanced slightly.

The Straw Hat Crew was overwhelmed by Gecko Moria, Sand Crocodile, Perona, and their forces on Thriller Bark, with several crew members losing their shadows and being imprisoned. Usopp proved immune to Perona’s Negative Hollows and used his tools to free the crew and carry them out of the dungeon.

• Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile attacked the Straw Hat Crew with an elite zombie army while Perona and Absalom caused trouble from the shadows.
• Perona’s Negative Hollows incapacitated Luffy and Sanji, allowing Moria to take their shadows and lock them in Sea Stone handcuffs.
• Franky Grand General fought Sand Crocodile and forced him to back off after a barrage of electrothermal attacks.
• Moria’s forces defeated Zoro, Kuina, and the others, and Moria took Zoro and Kuina’s shadows before imprisoning the crew.
• Usopp stood up after Moria left, revealed his immunity to the Negative Hollows, unlocked the crew’s shackles, opened the cell, and carried everyone out.

The Straw Hat Crew freed Brook and the other shadowless prisoners, then joined forces with the Shichibukai to defeat the zombie army. After reclaiming Soul Fragments from Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile, Doflamingo confronted three of Moria’s associates and demanded they come with him.

• Brook revealed himself to the Straw Hat Crew and taught them that seawater and salt could restore stolen shadows.
• Oceanus flooded the zombie army and returned most of the shadows before the Straw Hat Crew, the two Shichibukai, and their subordinates defeated the remaining forces.
• After the Straw Hat Crew left, Doflamingo reclaimed Soul Fragments from Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile, leaving both of them incapacitated.
• Doflamingo encountered the Surgeon of Death, Perona, and Absalom after they approached the unconscious Shichibukai.
• Doflamingo told the three to come with him willingly or be controlled, and Absalom agreed to go.

Doflamingo spared Gecko Moria’s three subordinates and sent them to Alabasta, while Joker engineered a crisis for the Straw Hat Crew at Sabaody by arranging the deaths of more than a dozen Celestial Dragons. The Navy cornered the crew with two Admirals, but Joker intervened with a massive shockwave, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Doflamingo spared Absalom, Perona, and the others, ordering them to serve him in Alabasta.
• Joker used his altered slave lackeys to provoke a confrontation between the Straw Hat Crew and more than a dozen Celestial Dragons at Sabaody.
• The Straw Hat Crew defeated the Celestial Dragons, and the lackeys killed them after the crew left.
• The Five Elders sent Borsalino, Kuzan, and a large Navy force to capture the Straw Hat Crew, while Joker lured Rayleigh away using Buggy’s identity.
• Kuzan held back as the Straw Hat Crew fought to escape, but the Navy surrounded the uncoated ship and left them trapped.
• Joker attacked the melee with “Chop-Chop - Great Tremor!” and a shockwave separated everyone.

Joker rescued the Straw Hat Crew from the Navy and proposed using Hurricane Shells to fly the Thousand Sunny over the Red Line instead of descending to Fish-Man Island. The crew agreed, and Joker began modifying the ship.

• Joker used smoke bombs to help the Straw Hat Crew escape the Navy, while Borsalino and Kuzan delayed the pursuit.
• The Straw Hat Crew boarded the Thousand Sunny, but World Government forces and Navy ships continued searching the sea.
• Nicole Robin asked how the crew could cross the Red Line without coating the ship, and Luffy suggested eating dinner instead of planning.
• Joker revealed Sky Island Hurricane Shells and proposed using them to make the Thousand Sunny fly over the Red Line.
• The crew accepted Joker's plan, and he began adjusting the Thousand Sunny to install the Hurricane Shells.

The Straw Hat Crew launched the Thousand Sunny toward the Red Line, prompting the World Government to believe Mary Geoise was under attack and leaving its defenses weakened. As Imu prepared to act, Doflamingo sent a vast amount of soul energy from the moon into the world.

• Franky activated the Thousand Sunny’s Hurricane Shells, and the ship flew toward the Red Line as pursuing forces watched.
• World Government agents mistook the Straw Hat Crew’s flight for an assault on Mary Geoise, causing forces to rush back and leaving the Holy Land’s defenses nearly halved.
• The Five Elders panicked over the apparent attack, and Imu emerged from the Flower Chamber and silenced them with Haki.
• On the moon, Doflamingo judged that the Straw Hat Crew was heading into a fight they could not win and created an identical body using his illusion ability.
• Doflamingo drew about twenty percent of the soul energy stored in the Illusion Space and sent it into the sky, creating a band of light across one-fifth of the moon.

Doflamingo created an immensely powerful Illusion Homies Clone to protect the Straw Hat Crew and prepare for Imu’s threat. As the Thousand Sunny approached Mary Geoise, agents attacked and pulled the ship downward while Joker secretly weakened its propulsion.

• Doflamingo created an Illusion Homies Clone with vast soul energy, Conqueror’s Haki, and strength close to his own.
• Doflamingo sent the clone down toward the sea using Dream Traverse while he returned his attention to Oceanus.
• The Thousand Sunny slowed above the Red Line, and Joker pointed out Mary Geoise to the Straw Hat Crew.
• Agents attacked the Thousand Sunny and used the Traction Fruit to pull it downward; Usopp spotted the attacks first, and Robin intercepted their initial wave.
• The Straw Hat Crew defended the ship, but it continued descending as Joker secretly reduced the Hurricane Shell’s output.

The Straw Hat Crew fought their way into Mary Geoise, where Imu struck them down with overwhelming Haki and identified Luffy as the Nika Fruit ability user. A mysterious power made the sky turn red and whisked the crew away, leaving Imu to search for the hidden threat.

• The Straw Hat Crew defeated the guards at Mary Geoise and used Luffy's stretching arms to pull the Thousand Sunny inside as soldiers pursued them.
• Imu attacked the crew from about a kilometer away, severely injuring them and leaving Franky Grand General, Oceanus, Brook, and Luffy able to withstand the blow.
• Imu recognized Luffy as the Nika Fruit ability user and prepared to kill him as this generation's Joy Boy.
• The sky turned dark beneath a blood-red moon, and Imu punched toward the sky before the Straw Hat Crew vanished.
• Imu sensed a hidden opponent who could threaten her and decided to investigate, recalling the person who had stolen her dream and suspecting they had targeted the World Government.

Doflamingo’s clone trapped Mary Geoise inside an Innate Barrier and used illusions to alter the residents while he faced Imu. The Straw Hats escaped on Oceanus’s water, and Doflamingo’s moon-based attack began as Imu prepared to fight at full strength.

• Oceanus swept the Straw Hats from Mary Geoise and carried them aboard the Thousand Sunny, while Joker dodged the wave and watched from the Red Line.
• Joker realized Doflamingo had enclosed Mary Geoise in his Innate Barrier and wondered whether he would die if Doflamingo did.
• Doflamingo’s clone used the blood-red moon to immerse Mary Geoise’s residents in an illusion that changed their personalities, and Imu knocked them unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Doflamingo appeared in the moonlight, and Imu’s powerful punch passed through him without causing harm.
• Doflamingo’s moon grew across the sky as Imu recognized the attack might turn an illusion into real destruction and welcomed the fight.

Imu shattered Doflamingo’s Innate Barrier with a punch that blasted through the atmosphere, leaving his Homies body mortally damaged. Doflamingo returned to the moon and began the Second World Project by bringing sleeping people into his Illusion Space, aiming to undermine the World Government’s control.

• Imu’s attack shattered Doflamingo’s Innate Barrier, destroyed Moonfall, and punched through the atmosphere above Mary Geoise.
• Doflamingo, gravely wounded, warned Imu that their conflict was not over before his Homies body dissolved into light.
• On the moon, Doflamingo recovered and decided he could begin the Second World Project in earnest.
• Doflamingo brought the people he had marked into the Illusion Space, where they awoke confused and caused a panic.
• Doflamingo expected the Second World to broaden ordinary people’s horizons and distract the World Government and Imu.

The Second World weakened the World Government’s control by spreading knowledge and connecting people across the Pirate World, while Imu dismissed it as a belated threat. In Mary Geoise, Doflamingo’s illusion left the Celestial Dragons and their guards mentally broken, and Imu ordered them imprisoned or killed as the world celebrated their removal and worried about Doflamingo.

• The Second World disrupted the World Government’s information monopoly and gave people across the Four Seas new opportunities to learn and grow stronger.
• Imu recognized how the Second World drew power from the dreams of living beings but claimed it could no longer stop her plan.
• Doflamingo’s Infinite Tsukuyomi made the Celestial Dragons experience thousands of years as slaves and the black-clad Bodyguards live as slave owners, leaving them unable to distinguish illusion from reality.
• The Five Elders restrained the affected people, and Imu ordered every Celestial Dragon imprisoned and all the black-clad Bodyguards killed.
• Nations and civilians celebrated the Celestial Dragons’ disappearance, while the Revolutionary Army, Doflamingo’s allies, and his Dragon Hunting Pirates worried about his fate.

Doflamingo hid on the moon after faking his death, avoiding the World Government’s powerful pursuer while the Straw Hat Crew resumed its journey. When Kaido attacked Yamato’s territory in Totto Land, the Straw Hats joined the battle against him.

• Doflamingo told Hancock he would stay hidden because the World Government could detect him if he returned to the Blue Sea.
• Doflamingo noted that Joker had escaped Mary Geoise amid the chaos and hoped the feigned death would draw Joker’s attention elsewhere.
• The Straw Hat Crew resumed its journey, then stayed in Dressrosa for intense training after believing Doflamingo had sacrificed himself to save them.
• Kaido’s Beasts Pirates attacked Yamato’s territory in Totto Land, and Yamato struggled while Big Mom’s children gave only limited support.
• The Straw Hat Crew joined Yamato in fighting Kaido and his forces.

The Straw Hat Crew defeated Kaido and Golden Lion after a year-long war, gathered the final Red Poneglyph, and set out for Laugh Tale. As Doflamingo prepared a vast surge of soul power on the moon and Imu readied her plan, Doflamingo suddenly lost contact with the Straw Hat Crew and his Homies.

• Luffy awakened his Nika Fruit while fighting Kaido and Golden Lion, then helped the Straw Hat Crew win the year-long war and claim the Poneglyphs of Wano Country and Totto Land Torrance.
• Red Hair Shanks arrived with the final Red Poneglyph, and Nico Robin realized why the Dragon Hunting Pirates had never found it.
• Doflamingo received Nico Robin's message, released immense soul power from the moon, and prepared to overturn the coming conflict.
• Imu used the Chaos System to drain the Celestial Dragons' life force and told the Five Elders that her plan would activate in a little over two months.
• The Straw Hat Crew set out for Laugh Tale, and Doflamingo discovered that he could no longer sense them or his two Homies.

After the world’s islands and the Red Line began shifting, the Navy and other forces gathered at Mary Geoise, where the Five Elders revealed a barrier protecting the birth of a deity. Sengoku, Garp, and the Three Admirals attacked it, but none could damage it meaningfully.

• Doflamingo watched the islands and the Red Line begin moving, while news spread that the World Government was responsible.
• The Navy turned against the World Government, and Akainu revealed what the Navy knew as forces from across the world headed for Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku led the Navy to Mary Geoise and found the city enclosed by a barrier guarded by armored robots.
• Three Five Elders appeared and declared that the barrier protected the birth of a deity and that becoming part of it was the World Government and Navy’s purpose.
• Garp shattered the Five Elders’ projections with punches, but the barrier quickly recovered from the minor damage.
• Sengoku and the Three Admirals attacked the barrier, but their abilities failed to make a ripple.

The forces gathered at Mary Geoise could not break the Golden Shield as the world’s islands converged and the Red Line transformed, revealing signs of Imu’s god-making ritual. Imu explained the Celestial Dragons’ role in the plan and the origins of the D. Clan, while the defenders remained unable to reach Laugh Tale or stop the ritual.

• Navy forces, pirates, revolutionaries, and World Government agents gathered at Mary Geoise, but their abilities could not overcome the Golden Shield.
• Issho’s falling meteors weakened the shield only slightly, while islands converged, the Red Line curled into a plateau, and Mary Geoise rose higher.
• Dragon told Garp that the world’s changes signaled Imu’s ritual, while Garp remained confident that Luffy and Laugh Tale might offer a solution.
• Imu chose not to drain the Celestial Dragons completely, since they were needed as catalysts and pillars for the plan.
• Imu revealed that humanity had been recreated from the twenty surviving Celestial Dragons’ genes, that the D. Clan descended from other survivors, and that the Five Elders were undigested spiritual energy from the previous ritual.

The World Government’s godhood plan unleashed a blood-red pillar of light that weakened nearly everyone outside the D. Clan. After the Golden Shield around Mary Geoise vanished and Luffy arrived from the Final Island, he joined Garp and the others in charging toward Imu, while Homies emerged to fight the golden-armored guards.

• A blood-red pillar of light rose over Pangea Castle, weakening most people while the D. Clan remained largely unaffected.
• The Golden Shield vanished, and Luffy’s Thousand Sunny appeared; Luffy found his crewmates mostly incapacitated and learned that Imu was carrying out a scheme.
• Garp, Dragon, Ace, Law, and other powerful allies joined Luffy, while Admirals and top pirates followed them toward Pangea Castle.
• Golden-armored guards blocked the advancing fighters, and the blood-red light further weakened those who were not from the D. Clan.
• Flame, Lightning, Ocean, and other Homies emerged above the fallen and drove the golden-armored soldiers back.

Luffy and his allies attacked Imu at Pangea Castle while she struggled to recover from the disrupted ritual. As the battle continued, the colored mist gathered into a human form resembling Doflamingo.

• Luffy, Tesoro, and Hancock reacted to the arrival of the Homie reinforcements, and Luffy revealed that Laugh Tale could delay Imu’s ritual for only three hours.
• Imu appeared at Pangea Castle, explained that she had abandoned the ritual’s complete success, and vowed to eliminate the remaining threats.
• Luffy, his family, and the Homies launched a coordinated attack on Imu, who remained composed despite the assault.
• After more than half an hour, the golden-armored guards had been defeated, but Imu still showed no sign of losing as the fighters raced against the ritual’s return.
• The colored mist rising from unconscious people on Mary Geoise stopped forming Homies and condensed into a human shape resembling Doflamingo.

Doflamingo stopped Jokerized Imu from spreading the Joker Virus across the world by replacing reality with his Illusion Space and defeating her. After the ritual collapsed, the islands joined into a continent, and Luffy learned that his next dream could be becoming the Space Pirate King.

• Imu used the Life Stone made from Impel Down prisoners to increase her power, but Joker’s contamination took over her mind and turned her into Jokerized Imu.
• Jokerized Imu reversed the ritual to spread the Joker Virus through the world, so Doflamingo activated Brahma’s One Dream and replaced reality with his Illusion Space.
• Doflamingo purged the contamination and erased Imu, causing the ritual to collapse and the Celestial Dragons involved to die.
• The world returned to normal with its islands fused into one continent, and Doflamingo learned from Luffy what the crew had discovered at Laugh Tale.
• Luffy declared that he would become the Space Pirate King, then Garp chased him while calling him an outstanding Marine.