Recaps

Buggy planned to seek help from Kozuki Oden in Wano Country, but the Joker took control and traveled there by hot-air balloon. Along the way, he met Golden Lion, who agreed to take him to Wano after hearing Wano held a Red Poneglyph.

• Buggy decided to travel to Wano Country and ask Kozuki Oden to keep his Second Personality in check.
• The Joker took over Buggy's body, prepared a hot-air balloon, and used a flock of seabirds to fly toward Wano Country.
• The Joker encountered the Golden Lion Pirates in the New World, and Golden Lion brought him aboard his island.
• The Joker persuaded Golden Lion to head for Wano Country by revealing that it contained a Red Poneglyph.
• Golden Lion recognized the Joker as the former Roger Pirates crew member who had once urged Roger to surrender, then defended Doctor Indigo when the Joker teased him.

Doflamingo found Sakazuki’s hidden family on Sakura Island and left to prepare his next move. Meanwhile, the Big Mom Pirates retaliated against Dressrosa after King Riku refused to hand over the Tontatta Tribe.

• Joker told Golden Lion that he expected Oden to help them find the Red Poneglyph in Wano Country.
• Doflamingo searched islands with Sancho and used his Illusion Fruit to question their inhabitants and erase memories.
• Doflamingo located Sakazuki’s home on Sakura Island and discovered his wife led the Rose Gang and that they had three children.
• Doflamingo left Sakura Island with Sancho, saying he needed to prepare and take out a Devil Fruit.
• Charlotte Compote demanded that King Riku surrender the Tontatta Tribe, but Kyros stopped her from attacking when King Riku refused.
• The Big Mom Pirates retaliated against Dressrosa, and King Riku watched their ship approach in fear.

The Big Mom Pirates arrived in Dressrosa to seize control of the Tontatta Tribe, and Katakuri's Conqueror's Haki incapacitated nearly all of the kingdom's defenders. Kyros fought Amande but fell behind as he tried to protect the unconscious soldiers from their battle's deadly aftershocks.

• Charlotte Katakuri, Charlotte Amande, and Charlotte Compote discussed taking control of Dressrosa and singled out Kyros as the kingdom's only notable threat.
• Katakuri unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, knocking out King Riku and thousands of Dressrosa's soldiers while Kyros and a handful of others remained standing.
• Kyros refused Katakuri's demand to surrender, and Amande attacked him with her sword, Shirauo.
• Kyros and Amande fought evenly at first, but Kyros became disadvantaged as he restrained his attacks to shield the unconscious soldiers from the sword strikes' aftershocks.

Kyros fought Amande with stone armor but was ultimately defeated by Katakuri, who decided to use him to control the Tontatta Tribe through the Riku Royal Family. In Wano Country, Golden Lion brought the terrified Buggy to Oden Castle to trade him for the Road Poneglyph.

• Kyros armored himself with compressed stone and drove Amande back with a relentless attack.
• Katakuri stepped in, defeated Kyros, and decided to keep him alive so the Big Mom Pirates could control the Tontatta Tribe through the Riku Royal Family.
• Buggy woke up terrified to find Golden Lion in front of him and broke down in fear.
• Golden Lion threatened Buggy, then brought him to Kozuki Oden at Oden Castle to trade for the Road Poneglyph.

Kozuki Oden let Golden Lion make a rubbing of Wano’s Red Poneglyph, then welcomed Buggy to Oden Castle while keeping him out of Wano’s troubles. Meanwhile, Doflamingo left Beast-Dragon Island to retrieve Devil Fruits from the Red Line, unaware of an approaching disaster, as Charlotte Linlin offered Violet a deal involving her family and the Tontatta Tribe.

• Kozuki Oden allowed Golden Lion to copy the Red Poneglyph, and Golden Lion departed without taking it or attacking Buggy.
• Buggy apologized to Kozuki Oden and explained how Joker had led him into trouble; Oden laughed and let him stay at Oden Castle without telling him about Kaido or Kurozumi Orochi.
• Doflamingo severed his connection to Joker, approved Joker’s plan to recruit Wano’s samurai, and set off with Sancho to retrieve Devil Fruits from the Red Line.
• Charlotte Linlin enjoyed Violet’s pastries and offered to return King Riku and the Tontatta Tribe to Dressrosa if Violet joined her chefs and supplied food ingredients each year.

Charlotte Linlin tortured King Riku to force Violet to reveal who had taught her to cook. Violet identified Vice Admiral Steve, leaving the Big Mom Pirates to reckon with the fact that the chef they wanted was a Navy Admiral Candidate.

• Charlotte Linlin demanded that Violet name the chef behind her pastries and mint candies, but Violet, King Riku, and Scarlett stayed silent.
• Perospero tested Violet’s mint candies and said their quality proved she could not have made them herself.
• Charlotte Linlin drained King Riku’s lifespan until Violet broke down and agreed to tell her the chef’s name.
• Violet named Vice Admiral Steve, and Perospero recognized him as the Navy’s famous super rookie about to become an Admiral Candidate.
• Charlotte Linlin initially accused Violet of lying, but calmed down when Violet insisted that the people of Dressrosa had seen Steve cook.
• Perospero regretted bringing the matter to Big Mom’s attention after realizing the chef they wanted to recruit was a powerful Navy officer.

Charlotte Linlin ordered Perospero to recruit Vice Admiral Steve and send Katakuri and some of her daughters to help. Meanwhile, Doflamingo dug up a buried chest on the Red Line as Sancho waited hungrily beside him.

• Charlotte Linlin ordered Perospero to find Vice Admiral Steve and make him join the Big Mom Pirates.
• Perospero agreed, and Charlotte Linlin assigned Katakuri and several suitable daughters to accompany him.
• Charlotte Linlin returned to Cake City while Perospero prepared to consult Katakuri; Violet and Scarlett remained beside the barely alive King Riku.
• Doflamingo dug up a chest buried more than ten meters underground on the Red Line while Sancho waited for food and watched the treasure.

Doflamingo recovered the Wyvern Fruit from his treasure stash and planned to use it to turn Akainu against the Celestial Dragons. When he and Sancho reached Beast-Dragon Island, they found the Marine base damaged and the Big Mom Pirates at the port, though Doflamingo sensed that none of his subordinates had died.

• Doflamingo dismissed the Bat Fruit and took the Mythical Zoan Wyvern Fruit from his treasure chest.
• Doflamingo and Sancho flew away from Holy Land Mary Geoise, while Doflamingo planned to have Sakazuki's family find the fruit and suffer slavery at the hands of the Celestial Dragons.
• After half a month, Doflamingo spotted smoke and damage at the Beast-Dragon Island base and ordered Sancho to hurry there.
• Doflamingo and Sancho saw the Big Mom Pirates' flag at the port, and Doflamingo's Observation Haki revealed that his subordinates and the island's animals were all still alive.
• Doflamingo sensed two powerful auras at the Marine base, each no weaker than King's.

Doflamingo returned to the Marine base and clashed with Perospero and Katakuri, who had come to recruit him for the Big Mom Pirates. He badly wounded Perospero and then focused his attack on him while Katakuri struggled to land a hit.

• Katakuri sensed Doflamingo's return, and Perospero led the Big Mom Pirates to meet him outside the Marine base.
• Doflamingo rejected Perospero's greeting and struck him with a Conqueror's Haki-infused sword aura, shattering his defenses and drawing blood.
• Perospero and Katakuri recognized Doflamingo's advanced Haki but resolved to fight him together.
• Doflamingo launched a flurry of attacks, evaded their counterattacks, and sent both brothers flying with a Flying Slash.
• Doflamingo concentrated his assault on Perospero, while Katakuri's attacks were mostly evaded, blocked, or avoided through Doflamingo's Intangibility.

Doflamingo battled Katakuri and Perospero on Beast-Dragon Island, using his Intangibility to wound Perospero before Katakuri’s Observation Haki revealed itself as Future Sight. Doflamingo resolved to kill Katakuri to obtain that ability, and several of Katakuri’s sisters joined the fight.

• Perospero realized Doflamingo’s Intangibility drained his stamina and began attacking more aggressively.
• Doflamingo made Narikitsune intangible and pierced Perospero’s armor, but Katakuri struck Perospero away before the blade reached his heart.
• Perospero plugged his chest wound with syrup while Doflamingo recognized Katakuri’s ability as Future Sight.
• Doflamingo’s killing intent alerted Katakuri, who believed Doflamingo wanted to eliminate him as a future threat.
• Several of Big Mom’s daughters arrived to help Katakuri, who accepted their support against Doflamingo.

Doflamingo fought Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates while Sancho kept Charlotte Linlin’s daughters at bay. The battle continued with Katakuri growing more adept at using Future Sight and Sancho holding back from killing her opponents.

• Sancho raised her dragon head and warned Katakuri’s group that ganging up on Doflamingo was unfair, making Katakuri realize he had underestimated her.
• A purple-haired woman threatened Doflamingo with captured Marine officers, but he refused to yield and told her he would avenge his subordinates.
• Perospero called the clash a misunderstanding, but Doflamingo cut him off and attacked again, prompting Katakuri to resume the fight.
• Sancho battered Charlotte Linlin’s daughters and burned Anjielu’s hair while the women struggled to fight back.
• Sancho continued toying with the women, following Doflamingo’s order not to kill them, as Katakuri gradually improved his use of Future Sight against Doflamingo.

Doflamingo awakened Future Sight during his battle with Katakuri and defeated him, then captured the Big Mom Pirates who had attacked the Marine base. After their injuries were treated, Doflamingo questioned Perospero about why they had come to Kaido’s territory, and Perospero began to explain.

• Doflamingo surpassed Katakuri’s Future Sight, while the Illusion Fruit deepened Katakuri’s fear and weakened his resolve.
• Doflamingo struck Katakuri through the chest with his Conqueror’s Haki-infused Outer Heaven Flying Fairy, but Katakuri survived by moving his heart.
• Perospero surrendered to Doflamingo, who chose not to kill the Big Mom Pirates.
• More than an hour later, Doflamingo had the Marines shackle the Big Mom Pirates and treat Katakuri and Perospero’s injuries.
• Doflamingo asked Perospero why the Big Mom Pirates had come to Kaido’s territory, and Perospero began explaining.

Doflamingo refused to join the Big Mom Pirates and decided to go to Cake Island to confront Charlotte Linlin, preparing for a possible fight and arranging Marine backup. At Cake Island, Linlin learned that Katakuri and Perospero were badly injured, and her fury shook the island as she demanded their Vivre Cards.

• Doflamingo rejected Perospero's offer to join the Big Mom Pirates and declared that he would go to Cake Island to face Charlotte Linlin.
• Katakuri warned Doflamingo that Linlin was far stronger than either him or Perospero, but Doflamingo planned around her strength and considered using the two men as hostages.
• Doflamingo ordered the Marines to watch Katakuri and Perospero and contact Kizaru if his Vivre Card showed trouble.
• Charlotte Compote told Linlin that Katakuri's and Perospero's Vivre Cards showed they were seriously injured.
• Linlin unleashed her Haki and empowered Zeus and Prometheus, then demanded Katakuri's and Perospero's Vivre Cards.

Charlotte Linlin turned her children’s Vivre Cards into Homies and followed them toward Beast-Dragon Island, where Doflamingo was waiting. When she arrived, Doflamingo ambushed her while she slept, but her cry disrupted his attack and she avoided a fatal wound.

• Charlotte Linlin took ten years of Comport’s lifespan, then turned Katakuri and the others’ Vivre Cards into Homies that could guide her to their masters.
• Charlotte Linlin rode Zeus toward Beast-Dragon Island, while her children wondered why she had left Cake City.
• Doflamingo realized Charlotte Linlin’s Vivre Card was moving and sensed a powerful presence approaching his island.
• Doflamingo and Sancho hid and prepared a sneak attack as Charlotte Linlin slept on Zeus.
• Doflamingo stabbed Charlotte Linlin with Narikitsune, but her cry disrupted his strike and she twisted away from a fatal blow.

Doflamingo and Sancho fought Charlotte Linlin, and Doflamingo wounded her with a feint that imitated Roger’s Divine Departure. Charlotte Linlin retaliated with Maser Cannon, but Doflamingo rallied Sancho to attack again, leaving her struck down by Big Mom’s sword.

• Doflamingo used an illusion to disorient Charlotte Linlin, then wounded her with a powerful slash resembling Roger’s Divine Departure.
• Charlotte Linlin summoned Napoleon and combined Zeus’s lightning with Prometheus’s flames to unleash Maser Cannon, blasting Doflamingo and badly injuring Sancho.
• Doflamingo warned Sancho that Charlotte Linlin would recover if they let up, then used Inspiration Art to raise Sancho’s fighting spirit.
• Sancho charged Charlotte Linlin with flames and a Haki-coated headbutt, but Charlotte Linlin shook off the blow and slashed Sancho away.

Doflamingo used his Illusion Fruit and swordsmanship to wound Charlotte Linlin during their aerial battle, but Big Mom’s counterattacks continued to threaten him. The fight remained unresolved as Doflamingo slipped through her grasp and launched another strike.

• Doflamingo wounded Charlotte Linlin, but she quickly used Conqueror’s Haki to locate him and attacked with Elbaf Spear - Mighty Nation.
• Doflamingo countered with Outer Heaven Flying Fairy, and the clash injured both fighters before Sancho caught him.
• Charlotte Linlin attacked again, but Doflamingo used Illusion to make her strike false duplicates and slash her wounds deeper.
• Charlotte Linlin’s cry disoriented Doflamingo, and she grabbed at him, but he turned insubstantial and escaped her grasp.
• Doflamingo mocked Charlotte Linlin and thrust his sword at her as she raised a hand to block.

Doflamingo and Sancho struggled to fight a wounded Charlotte Linlin in the air over the sea, where one mistake could leave them helpless in the water. Doflamingo found a way around Big Mom’s defenses by using his Mental Energy to turn Thundercloud Zeus against her, sending her plunging toward the sea.

• Doflamingo pierced Charlotte Linlin’s right eye with a sword strike that used Intangibility and Illusion to fool her senses.
• Charlotte Linlin maintained her Conqueror’s Haki and overpowered Doflamingo and Sancho, while Thundercloud Zeus’s lightning further hindered Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo realized that Zeus could carry Charlotte Linlin away even if she fell under an illusion, so he targeted the Homie with his Mental Energy.
• Zeus obeyed Doflamingo’s command to throw Charlotte Linlin down, and she began falling toward the sea.
• Charlotte Linlin kicked against the air with Geppo, slowing her descent.

Doflamingo and Sancho exploited the betrayal of Charlotte Linlin’s Homies to badly injure and suppress her, eventually forcing her into the sea. Poseidon saved her, leaving the two sides at a stalemate as Charlotte Linlin confronted Doflamingo and tore out her damaged eye.

• Doflamingo’s Illusion Fruit turned Napoleon, Prometheus, and Zeus against Charlotte Linlin, while Sancho’s flames combined with Doflamingo’s Divine Departure to send her plunging toward the sea.
• Doflamingo and Sancho fought Charlotte Linlin for another half hour and struck her into the water after she briefly let her guard down.
• Charlotte Linlin summoned Poseidon, a seawater octopus Homie, which caught her and broke free of Doflamingo’s illusion.
• Doflamingo and Charlotte Linlin held their positions, each unable to safely attack the other, and Charlotte Linlin asked whether he was Marine Admiral Candidate Steve.
• Charlotte Linlin acknowledged Doflamingo as the opponent who blinded her, then ripped out her damaged eyeball and swallowed it.

Doflamingo and Charlotte Linlin agreed to exchange their captives rather than risk a costly battle. They arranged for their subordinates to carry out the exchange at Cake Island and a Navy base, leaving both sides wary but temporarily at peace.

• Charlotte Linlin saw through Doflamingo’s attempt to make her forget him and proposed exchanging Katakuri and Perospero for the three people from Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo agreed, judging that releasing the captives was safer than fighting Charlotte Linlin or trying to keep her sons imprisoned.
• Charlotte Linlin proposed that Doflamingo’s men deliver Katakuri and Perospero to Cake Island while her men took the three Dressrosa captives to Doflamingo’s Navy base.
• Doflamingo and Charlotte Linlin accepted a subordinate-led exchange, avoiding a direct meeting between the hostile pirates.

After surviving a fierce battle with Charlotte Linlin, Doflamingo returned to Beast-Dragon Island with her three Homies and arranged for Katakuri and the others to go home. King Riku, Violet, and Scarlett eventually arrived, and Doflamingo learned that Charlotte Linlin had drained much of King Riku’s lifespan.

• Doflamingo and Sancho escaped after Doflamingo hypnotized Big Mom’s Homies, leaving him with Zeus, Prometheus, and Napoleon.
• Doflamingo recovered from his injuries, then freed Katakuri and the others and sent them back to Cake Island with Big Mom’s Vivre Card.
• More than ten days later, King Riku, Violet, and Scarlett arrived at Beast-Dragon Island aboard a ship made entirely of Homies.
• Doflamingo noticed King Riku looked close to death, and Scarlett explained how Violet had revealed Doflamingo’s presence to Charlotte Linlin and how Linlin had taken years from King Riku’s life.
• Doflamingo forgave Violet, understanding that a child could not be expected to keep a secret from Charlotte Linlin.

Doflamingo settled King Riku and Violet on Beast-Dragon Island while his fame as Steve grew after he blinded Big Mom and earned approval as an Admiral Candidate. In Wano, Kozuki Oden and his retainers prepared to fight Kaido and Orochi after finding a letter saying Clown Buggy had left to remove their worries from behind.

• Doflamingo told King Riku and Violet to recover on Beast-Dragon Island before returning to Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo learned that his defeat of Big Mom had made him famous and that Sengoku had approved his Admiral Candidate qualification.
• Kozuki Oden discovered that Clown Buggy had left a letter promising to take care of their rear while they faced Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi.
• Inuarashi and Nekomamushi accused Buggy of running away, but Oden wondered whether he had truly gone to help them.
• Oden and his retainers set out to fight Kaido and Orochi despite their poor odds and the enemy’s forces.

Joker watched Kozuki Oden’s battle with Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi, then offered Golden Lion treatment for the ship’s wheel embedded in his head. After Shiki accepted despite the risks, Joker smashed his head apart and examined the wheel.

• Joker cheered on Kozuki Oden’s charge from the sky while Golden Lion questioned why he was not helping Oden.
• Joker said Shiki’s declining strength came from his head injury and offered to remove the ship’s wheel in exchange for a favor.
• Joker demonstrated his Chop-Chop Fruit powers by breaking and reassembling a Den Den Mushi, then warned Shiki that the treatment could go wrong.
• Shiki agreed to the treatment and suppressed his instinct to defend himself as Joker patted his head.
• Joker burst Shiki’s head into pieces, joked about his condition, and picked up the bloodied ship’s wheel.

Joker removed the ship’s rudder from Golden Lion’s head, restoring his Haki and putting him on the path to recovery. He then revealed that he planned to take over Kozuki Oden’s forces after Oden died by holding the emperor hostage to command the lords.

• Joker frightened Golden Lion by joking about rearranging his facial features, then reassembled his head and returned it to his neck.
• Golden Lion felt his Haki and vitality return after Joker removed the ship’s rudder from his head, and he realized his injury was healing.
• Golden Lion asked Joker why he had summoned him, since Joker had not come to save Kozuki Oden.
• Joker said he intended to take over Kozuki Oden’s forces after Oden died by holding the emperor hostage to command the lords.

Doflamingo gave Sakazuki’s young son the Wyvern Fruit, then arranged to trade the boy to a secretive organization in exchange for a Logia Devil Fruit. Three days later, the buyers arrived on Sakura Island, and Doflamingo headed to meet them disguised by an illusion.

• Doflamingo used his illusion ability to bring Sakazuki’s son out of the family Training Grounds and gave him the Wyvern Fruit, which let the boy transform and fly.
• Doflamingo contacted a dark organization and negotiated to trade the boy for a Logia Devil Fruit, arguing that Celestial Dragons would pay dearly for a dragon.
• The organization agreed to deliver a Devil Fruit in three days, and Doflamingo spent the waiting period on Sakura Island without anyone remembering him or Zeus.
• On the morning of the third day, Doflamingo learned the buyers had reached the shore and created an illusion of grotesque pirates as he went to meet them.

Doflamingo used an illusion to abduct a boy with the Wyvern Fruit and infiltrated a harbor exchange involving the Snow-Snow Fruit. He stole the fruit and left the agents and Modock unaware of what had happened.

• Doflamingo sent realistic pirate phantoms to knock out the people in a manor, then took an eight- or nine-year-old boy.
• At the harbor, two men in black tried to exchange the Snow-Snow Fruit for the boy, but they killed the cloaked trader and kept both goods for themselves.
• Modock noticed something strange about the trader but stayed silent, while the men in black confirmed the boy was a Wyvern Fruit user and planned to sell the Snow-Snow Fruit later.
• Doflamingo emerged after the group left, holding the Snow-Snow Fruit, and deduced that the men in black were CP agents who had betrayed the deal.