Recaps

Doflamingo traveled to Wano Country to claim Kozuki Oden’s soul, but arrived in time to witness Kaido ambush Oden and defeat the Nine Red Scabbards. After acquiring Kurozumi Higurashi’s Imitation Fruit, Doflamingo disguised himself and settled in the Flower Capital while waiting for Oden’s execution.

• Doflamingo learned that Kozuki Oden was fighting Kaido and rode Zeus to Wano Country, stopping at Beast-Dragon Island for a meal.
• Doflamingo watched from concealment as Kaido ambushed and knocked down Kozuki Oden, then defeated or captured the Nine Red Scabbards.
• Kaido killed Kurozumi Higurashi, and the fruit Doflamingo was holding transformed into her Imitation Fruit.
• Doflamingo headed to the Flower Capital, used an illusion to look like a Wano Country native, and sampled local food.
• Doflamingo found an inn and rested for the night, expecting Kozuki Oden’s execution to take place later.

Doflamingo watched Kozuki Oden’s execution, absorbed his soul in the Illusion Space, and gained his Haki and swordsmanship talent. After King’s attack destroyed the inn, Doflamingo found Shinobu injured and provoked King into charging at him.

• Doflamingo learned that Kozuki Oden and his retainers would be executed, then watched the execution and collected Oden’s soul as the Nine Red Scabbards escaped.
• In the Illusion Space, Doflamingo absorbed Oden’s Mental Energy and gained his Haki and swordsmanship talent, then restored Paradise Totsuka.
• Doflamingo sensed King pursuing someone toward the inn, but King’s flaming sword energy destroyed the building and grazed Shinobu.
• Doflamingo recognized the injured Shinobu and confronted King, who demanded that he hand her over.
• Doflamingo taunted King about his repeated defeats, and King lost his temper and charged at him.

Doflamingo easily defeated King in their exchanges, using Future Sight to counter King’s speed and land a powerful slash. Realizing he could not win alone, King called the Beasts Pirates to assemble, leaving Doflamingo and Shinobu facing the prospect of reinforcements.

• Doflamingo kicked King away and then struck him again with a Conqueror’s Haki-infused Flying Slash, while Shinobu watched in shock.
• Doflamingo checked Shinobu’s injuries as King blamed his sudden improvement for being able to blind Charlotte Linlin.
• King transformed into his hybrid form and attacked Doflamingo from behind, but Doflamingo foresaw the move and slashed him away.
• King stood up and fired a blazing slash into the sky, where it formed a dragon-shaped signal.
• King flew overhead and called for the Beasts Pirates to assemble, leaving Shinobu stunned.

Doflamingo tried to escape Wano with Shinobu as Kaido awakened after the Beasts Pirates' victory banquet. After defeating King, Doflamingo spotted drunken Kaido and decided to fight him despite the danger.

• Doflamingo sensed that Kaido and the Beasts Pirates were exhausted and wounded, then grabbed Shinobu and prepared to flee.
• King attacked Doflamingo, but Doflamingo used illusions and a lightning-charged strike to grievously wound him.
• Doflamingo escaped with Shinobu on Thundercloud Zeus as Kaido appeared in the sky in a drunken dragon form.
• Doflamingo considered avoiding Kaido, then decided to confront him while he was drunk.

Doflamingo used illusions to drive drunk Kaido into attacking the Flower Capital, destroying the Tenshukaku and killing Kurozumi Orochi and Kurozumi Semimaru. He then entered the Illusion Space and found a strange Eight-Headed Serpent that appeared to be Orochi.

• Doflamingo turned back and used his illusion ability to make Kaido relive the battle with Kozuki Oden, causing Kaido to attack the Beasts Pirates and the Flower Capital.
• Kaido's rampage inflicted heavy casualties on the Beasts Pirates, and Shinobu begged Doflamingo to save the civilians.
• Doflamingo directed Kaido toward the Tenshukaku, where Kaido's flaming attack destroyed the building and exposed Kurozumi Orochi and Kurozumi Semimaru behind a barrier.
• Doflamingo controlled Kurozumi Semimaru, who lowered the barrier, and Kaido's next Heat Breath killed him and Kurozumi Orochi.
• Doflamingo sensed that the Illusion Space had absorbed something unusual, entered it, and found an Eight-Headed Serpent that seemed to be Kurozumi Orochi.

Doflamingo seized the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit from Kurozumi Orochi’s soul but learned that eating it would kill him because he already had a Devil Fruit power. Back in Wano, he considered Shinobu’s plea to stop Kaido, and she unexpectedly misunderstood his offer to make her his subordinate.

• Doflamingo absorbed Kurozumi Orochi’s soul power and claimed the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit.
• Doflamingo used Future Sight Observation Haki and realized that fusing with the fruit would make his body explode.
• Doflamingo concluded that his soul-collection ability would only work on rare Devil Fruits with resurrection powers.
• Doflamingo left the Illusion Space as Kaido charged through the Flower Capital, while Shinobu urged him to put her down so she could stop Kaido.
• Doflamingo offered to help Shinobu if she became his subordinate, and Shinobu assumed he had fallen for her charm.

Doflamingo gave the injured Shinobu the Imitation Fruit, then used a copy of Kozuki Oden’s Paradise Totsuka to badly wound Kaido. Kaido recovered from the illusion and alcohol to find his crew devastated and Kurozumi Orochi and Kurozumi Semimaru dead, and demanded to know who had killed them.

• Doflamingo recruited Shinobu, gave her the Imitation Fruit, and left her on the ground before returning to fight Kaido.
• Doflamingo attacked Kaido’s old wound with a cross-shaped Paradise Totsuka strike infused with Haki and Zeus’s lightning.
• Kaido crashed to the ground, returned to human form, and fully recovered his senses.
• King warned Kaido that Steve had attacked him, and Kaido realized his drunken rampage had killed many of his own crew.
• Kaido spotted the corpses of Kurozumi Orochi and Kurozumi Semimaru in the ruined Tenshukaku and demanded to know who had killed them.

Doflamingo lured Kaido away from the Flower Capital and attacked the wound beneath his ribs with illusions and a sudden sword strike. Kaido barely blocked the first attack, but Doflamingo’s next thrust pierced his body and triggered a terrifying sense of danger.

• Kaido and King blamed Steve for Kurozumi Orochi’s death, concealing Kaido’s responsibility for the disaster.
• Kaido and Doflamingo exchanged powerful attacks, and Kaido’s old wound reopened as Doflamingo was forced back.
• Kaido flew after Doflamingo when he led the fight away from the Flower Capital to protect its people.
• Doflamingo used Outer Heaven Flying Fairy and Illusion to exploit Kaido’s wound, then appeared at his left and thrust Narikitsune into him.

Doflamingo used illusions and Intangibility to dominate Kaido through a battle that lasted more than ten hours, exploiting Kaido’s existing rib wound. As Doflamingo realized how powerful his abilities had become, Kaido grew furious and humiliated at the prospect of losing to him.

• Kaido transformed into a dragon after Doflamingo stabbed him, but his massive body made the wound insignificant, and he attacked with a Heat Breath that Doflamingo split with his sword.
• Kaido returned to human form, but Doflamingo’s illusions and mental interference kept him from locating or striking his opponent while Doflamingo repeatedly wounded him.
• After more than ten hours of fighting, Doflamingo claimed he had made time intangible, and Kaido believed him despite Doflamingo privately admitting the explanation was nonsense.
• Doflamingo recognized that Kaido’s weak mental resistance let him suppress the Emperor with illusions, and he concluded that Kaido’s existing rib wound could eventually bleed him to death.
• Doflamingo’s confidence surged, strengthening his Haki and making his attacks more destructive, while Kaido blamed his injury and protested that only Kozuki Oden should be able to defeat him.

Doflamingo spared Kaido and tricked him into believing he had escaped, then returned to the Flower Capital. There, he found Shinobu facing a group in a hidden vault beneath the burned Tenshukaku and discovered three Devil Fruits.

• Kaido unleashed a desperate burst of Haki and attacked Doflamingo with Thunder Bagua, but Doflamingo decided to spare his life.
• Doflamingo faked his injuries and exhaustion with illusions, then made Kaido believe he had fled after another Thunder Bagua strike.
• Kaido returned to the Flower Capital in his Azure Dragon form while Doflamingo secretly arrived there first.
• Doflamingo used Observation Haki to locate Shinobu, who was facing several strange people beneath the burned Tenshukaku.
• Doflamingo entered a hidden Sea Stone vault and found valuable treasures, weapons, and three Devil Fruits.

Shinobu persuaded Fukurokuju and the Oniwabanshu to take Wano’s treasury before Kaido’s forces could seize it. Doflamingo appeared at the treasury entrance, pretending to be badly wounded after a fight with Kaido, and left the ninjas wary of him.

• Fukurokuju objected when Shinobu tried to take the treasury, but she argued that Kaido would claim it if they left it behind.
• Shinobu reminded Fukurokuju that Oden’s wife and children were being hunted, and the Oniwabanshu urged him to let her take the three Devil Fruits.
• Shinobu took the Devil Fruits, and Fukurokuju ordered the ninjas to gather the remaining weapons and treasures so they could flee and join the Kozuki clan.
• Doflamingo appeared in the passageway disguised as a badly injured man and claimed he had fought Kaido.
• A round, yellow-clad ninja recognized Doflamingo as the man who used Oden Two-Sword Style, and Fukurokuju became wary of him.

After Kaido killed Kurozumi Orochi, the Beasts Pirates moved to eliminate the Kozuki clan, and Shinobu learned that the Nine Red Scabbards were under attack. Queen the Plague captured the remaining Scabbards at Oden Castle and prepared to bombard it, while Doflamingo and Golden Lion watched from above.

• Doflamingo told Shinobu that the Beasts Pirates had launched a strict manhunt for the Kozuki clan after Kaido killed Kurozumi Orochi.
• Shinobu realized she needed to reach Kuri, but Doflamingo warned that the fighting had likely already begun.
• Queen the Plague caught up with Kin'emon, Kiku, and Kanjuro outside Oden Castle and explained that Kaido had killed Kurozumi Orochi.
• Queen the Plague ordered his men to capture the Scabbards and prepare poison gas shells to bombard Oden Castle.
• The Beasts Pirates overwhelmed and captured Kin'emon as Doflamingo and Golden Lion watched from atop the castle.

Joker broke into Oden Castle as Kozuki Toki sent Kozuki Momonosuke twenty years into the future and urged Kawamatsu to escape with Kozuki Hiyori. Joker seized Hiyori and then shot Kozuki Toki, leaving their fate uncertain.

• As poison gas filled Oden Castle, Kozuki Toki sent Kozuki Momonosuke twenty years into the future and told him to gather the Nine Red Scabbards and defeat Kaido.
• Kozuki Toki told Kawamatsu to flee with the unconscious Kozuki Hiyori, but Joker crashed through the castle roof and reassembled himself.
• Kawamatsu recognized Joker as a traitor and attacked him, but Joker's Chop-Chop Fruit power tore apart Kawamatsu's Haki-coated punch.
• Joker grabbed Kozuki Hiyori and claimed he had come to treat her, while Kozuki Toki and Kawamatsu demanded that he let her go.
• Joker aimed his pistol at Kozuki Toki's heart and fired.

Clown Buggy staged Kozuki Toki and Kozuki Hiyori’s deaths to deceive Kawamatsu, then emerged from Oden Castle unharmed by the poison gas. He appeared to be helping Kozuki Oden, but Queen the Plague attacked him and blasted his body apart.

• Clown Buggy made Kawamatsu believe he had killed Kozuki Toki and Kozuki Hiyori, then revealed that both women were alive and used antidote shots to knock them and Kawamatsu unconscious.
• Clown Buggy left Oden Castle while Golden Lion watched and questioned his bizarre rescue methods.
• Outside the castle, Queen the Plague taunted the bound Nine Red Scabbards as they struggled against their chains.
• Clown Buggy emerged through the poison gas, prompting the Nine Red Scabbards to wonder whether he had betrayed them or was helping Kozuki Oden.
• Queen the Plague fired a launcher at Clown Buggy, but he walked through the explosion unharmed.
• Queen the Plague raked Clown Buggy with a Gatling-like machine gun and blasted him into pieces.

Joker unleashed Joker Virus gas bombs outside Oden Castle, turning Queen the Plague’s men into crazed attackers while he fought his way through them. As the Numbers arrived with Inuarashi and Nekomamushi captive, Joker prepared another remote, leaving Queen facing an even more dangerous confrontation.

• Joker detonated gas bombs that infected the Beasts Pirates, while the Nine Red Scabbards remained unharmed because Joker had given them antibodies.
• Queen the Plague swallowed antidotes and fought off the infected pirates as Joker dismembered them and advanced through the bloodied battlefield.
• Queen grabbed Kikunojo and threatened to kill her, but Joker taunted him instead of backing down.
• The Numbers arrived carrying Inuarashi and Nekomamushi bound to wooden stakes, and Queen tried to use their arrival to intimidate Joker.
• Joker took out another remote control as Queen wondered how many gas bombs he had planted around Oden Castle.

Joker infected the Numbered giants with the Joker Virus and forced them into a brutal fight that injured Nekomamushi and Inuarashi. He stopped Queen the Plague from escaping and overwhelmed him with a crushing palm strike, intending to exploit Queen’s scientific knowledge.

• Joker released Joker Virus gas over the Numbered, driving the giants into a frenzy and making them fight one another while using Nekomamushi and Inuarashi as weapons.
• Queen the Plague criticized Joker for cheering as his companions suffered, while Ashura Doji and Kin'emon worried about the wounded Scabbards and the missing Kozuki family members.
• Queen the Plague began backing away, but Joker caught him and decided his scientific expertise would be useful.
• Queen the Plague challenged Joker’s strength, and Joker struck him with a crushing palm that left him doubled over and unable to resist.

Joker forced Queen the Plague to submit, then Kozuki Toki woke in an altered Kuri with no memories of the future. The ground began shaking as she sought to learn what Joker had done and what had changed.

• Queen the Plague struck Joker with an Armament Haki punch, but Joker split his chest apart and remained standing.
• Joker dismantled Queen the Plague's head, held his brain, and made him promise to obey before sending him back to Kaido.
• Kozuki Toki woke in Kuri, learned that she and the others were safe, and discovered that her memories of the future had vanished.
• Kawamatsu told Kozuki Toki that Joker had used an antidote disguised as a bullet to save them, while Kozuki Hiyori asked where he was.
• The ground shook, and Kozuki Toki went outside to see what was happening.

Kozuki Toki woke to find Oden Castle and the surrounding land floating in the sky, then reunited with the retainers and confronted Joker about his plan to form a pirate crew. The retainers argued over who would lead it, and Joker revealed that he valued Kozuki Hiyori rather than Toki.

• Kawamatsu explained that Golden Lion Shiki had lifted Oden Castle and the surrounding land into the sky, and Kozuki Toki suspected Clown Buggy had summoned him.
• Kozuki Toki learned that the retainers were injured and that Inuarashi and Nekomamushi remained unconscious after Joker's intervention.
• Kozuki Toki thanked Joker for saving them, while Kin'emon argued with him over the danger facing the retainers and the possibility of Kozuki Hiyori becoming shogun.
• Ashura Doji questioned why the retainers should join Joker, and Joker proposed forming the Clown Pirates with Kozuki Toki as Captain.
• Kozuki Toki declined to lead the crew, Ashura Doji suggested deciding the Captain through battle, and Joker told Toki he valued her daughter, Kozuki Hiyori.

Joker persuaded Kozuki Toki to let him give Hiyori the power to fight Kaido, then obtained the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit from Doflamingo and transferred its power into an apple. Doflamingo reconsidered how to develop his Mental Energy, while Shinobu and the Oniwabanshu mistakenly built a tomb for the Kozuki clan.

• Joker argued that Hiyori needed training because she was Oden's descendant and a symbol of resistance to Kaido.
• At the ruins of Kozuki Castle, Shinobu cried over the presumed deaths of the Kozuki clan and directed the Oniwabanshu to build a cenotaph.
• Joker contacted Doflamingo through the Illusion Space and asked him for the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit.
• Doflamingo reluctantly gave Joker the Mythical Zoan fruit, and Joker explained that the Illusion Space could harness Doflamingo's Mental Energy in ways beyond physical training.
• Doflamingo returned to find Shinobu and the others had erected a tombstone, and he asked whether they had investigated before declaring the Kozuki clan dead.
• Joker drew the fruit's soul power onto an apple, transforming it into the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit before the onlookers.

Kozuki Hiyori ate the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit and revealed its formidable powers, including a corrosive aura of decay. After explaining how she could apply that power to her attacks, Joker left Oden Castle to meet Golden Lion.

• Joker gave the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit to Kozuki Toki as payment for the right to name the Pirate Crew, and Toki passed it to Kozuki Hiyori.
• Kozuki Hiyori ate the fruit and transformed into a majestic eight-headed serpent.
• Ashura Doji tested Hiyori's strength, and she drove him back before releasing poisonous mist that corroded his sleeve and damaged the ground.
• Joker explained that Hiyori could infuse the fruit's aura of decay into attacks, Haki, and swordsmanship.
• Joker left Oden Castle after saying someone had come to see him, and he found Golden Lion meditating on a boulder.

Joker confronted Golden Lion, who questioned Joker’s motives and suspected he wanted to exploit the Nine Red Scabbards and Kozuki family. Joker revealed he had secretly poisoned Golden Lion, but a Soul Fragment took temporary control of his body and kept Oden Castle aloft.

• Golden Lion sensed Joker approaching and challenged him about his chaotic nature and apparent lack of goals.
• Joker explained that Golden Lion was likely planning to seize the Nine Red Scabbards, Kozuki Hiyori, and Lady Toki for his own gain.
• Golden Lion admitted Joker had correctly guessed his intentions and asked why Joker had brought them to him despite knowing the danger.
• Joker revealed he had secretly injected Golden Lion with a specially made poison through a hidden piece of flesh.
• Golden Lion lost consciousness, and a Soul Fragment inside his body took control and stabilized Oden Castle in the sky.

Golden Lion’s Soul Fragment stabilized the floating Sky Island while Doflamingo left to pursue new amusement in Wano Country. At Oden Castle’s ruins, Doflamingo offered the displaced Oniwabanshu shelter at a Marine base, and Shinobu accepted.

• Golden Lion’s Soul Fragment confirmed that Golden Lion would remain unconscious for at least three days, and Doflamingo left to seek new people to influence in Wano Country.
• Doflamingo questioned residents near Oden Castle and learned that the castle had flown away with Oden’s family and the Nine Red Scabbards, while the Beasts Pirates had suffered losses.
• Doflamingo pointed out the Kozuki Family Tomb, and Fukurokuju, Shinobu, and the other ninjas leveled the grave mound they had built by mistake.
• Doflamingo invited Fukurokuju, Shinobu, and the Oniwabanshu to stay at a Marine base, knowing Kaido might target them and coveting their three Devil Fruits.
• Shinobu agreed that shelter at the Marine base was their only option.

Doflamingo brought Fukurokuju and the other Wano ninjas to Beast-Dragon Island, then accepted Akainu’s request to investigate the Rose Gang leader’s kidnapped son. He went to check on Sancho’s training and found her asleep in human form atop her treasure.

• Fukurokuju and the other ninjas agreed to leave Wano Country with Doflamingo, who promised they could depart later if they received news of the Kozuki clan.
• Akainu asked Doflamingo to investigate the kidnapping of the Rose Gang leader’s eight-year-old son, who had eaten the Wyvern Fruit, and Doflamingo agreed to look for him.
• Doflamingo brought the Wano group to Beast-Dragon Island and had his subordinates arrange their accommodations.
• Doflamingo went to Sancho’s cave to see how her physical training was progressing.
• Doflamingo navigated the trapped tunnels and found Sancho naked and asleep on a treasure pile in human form.

Doflamingo returned to find Sancho had mastered Life Return, then tested her training in a fight outside. Their clash shook the mountain and was mistaken for a volcanic eruption, leaving the Navy base in chaos.

• Doflamingo woke Sancho and asked about her Navy Six Styles training, and she showed him that she had learned Life Return.
• Doflamingo promised Sancho a feast if she could beat him, and they went outside to fight without his Devil Fruit ability.
• Sancho transformed into her red Oni Tribe form and attacked Doflamingo, who countered with a Haki-infused slash from Narikitsune.
• Fukurokuju and the ninjas mistook the blasts and trembling caused by the fight for a volcanic eruption, and the Navy base descended into chaos.
• Doflamingo returned down the mountain with Sancho and learned from his adjutant that the ninjas had mistaken their clash for an eruption.

After recovering from his battle with Kaido, Doflamingo cooked for his Marines and investigated the Sakura Island incident. The investigation uncovered clues he had planted, including a Mercury Fruit user being considered for the Shichibukai program.

• Doflamingo hunted Sea Kings, cooked a meal for his crew, and recovered after eating and resting.
• Doflamingo staged an investigation into the Sakura Island incident, confident that his illusions had hidden his involvement.
• Half a month later, Marine intelligence reported that one kidnapper had used an ability resembling the Cloth-Cloth Fruit and another an ability resembling the Mercury Fruit.
• Doflamingo recognized the Mercury Fruit user as a candidate proposed by the World Government for its Shichibukai program.