Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Katakuri agrees to join Ronan’s next voyage, insisting that protecting his sister is reason enough. Though deeply moved by Ronan’s offer, he tries to hide his feelings behind his usual composure.
• Ronan asks Luffy, as captain, whether he approves of gaining two powerful companions. Luffy is too busy eating to care and leaves the decision to Ronan, prompting laughter from the gathered crew.
• After the banquet, Ronan tells Big Mom that her age, weight, and repeated binge eating have weakened her speed, stamina, Haki, and recovery.
• He explains that Pudding’s recent cleansing of Big Mom’s painful memories has removed the source of her Hunger Pangs, so they should not return.
• Ronan offers Big Mom an Advanced Qi Replenishing Pill to restore her body to its physical peak. He warns that keeping that condition will require controlled eating and exercise. Eager to regain her former strength and serve Ronan, Big Mom accepts and swallows the pill. Its immense Life Energy erupts into a powerful transformation.

Character developments

• Katakuri accepts a new role as a companion and shows how deeply he values his family, even while maintaining his proud, stoic image.
• Luffy remains carefree and trusting, leaving the decision about new allies entirely to Ronan.
• Big Mom acknowledges her physical decline and expresses willingness to change her habits if she can regain her former power.
• Ronan acts as both a commander and benefactor, offering the means for allies to recover while setting expectations for their future discipline.

Significant themes

• Family loyalty: Katakuri frames protecting his sister as a natural duty.
• Healing and renewal: Pudding’s memory work frees Big Mom from the trauma tied to her Hunger Pangs, while Ronan’s pill promises to restore her body.
• Power and responsibility: Big Mom’s renewed strength comes with the obligation to control her eating and maintain her health.
• Trust and leadership: Luffy’s confidence in Ronan lets him decide who joins the voyage.

Character interactions

• Ronan recognizes Katakuri’s hidden emotion but does not embarrass him; Katakuri responds by declaring his loyalty to family.
• Ronan consults Luffy about the new companions, and Luffy casually delegates the choice back to him.
• Ronan addresses Big Mom candidly about her decline. Rather than taking offense, she accepts his assessment and trusts his offer, while her children watch closely.

Key plot points and events

• BIG MOM drinks Ronan’s Elixir, triggering a violent transformation that shakes the candy palace and summons a massive storm.
• The Elixir rejuvenates her: her bulk is compressed into vitality and strength, her aging appearance restored to her prime.
• BIG MOM tests her renewed power with Napoleon, unleashing a casual sword strike that cleaves a chasm more than ten kilometers through the sea and parts the clouds.
• The witnesses are stunned by both her restored beauty and the scale of her strength.

Character developments

• BIG MOM is reborn as a younger, more powerful version of herself. She reacts with delighted disbelief and quickly confirms that her strength has returned.
• Katakuri is deeply moved: her restored appearance recalls the beautiful, formidable mother he admired as a child. His awe of Ronan becomes absolute submission.
• Ronan is further established as possessing seemingly godlike power through the Elixir’s effects.
• Sanji is comically torn between his attraction to BIG MOM’s new appearance and his fear of who she is. Usopp and Chopper are left speechless, while Perospero struggles to accept what he sees.
• Zoro protects Nami and Usopp from the transformation’s energy surge, while Sanji and Katakuri brace against it.

Significant themes

• Rebirth and restored identity: BIG MOM’s physical renewal brings back the powerful, admired figure she once was.
• Power and awe: Her demonstration—and Ronan’s role in enabling it—reshapes how those around them view strength and authority.
• Memory and family: Katakuri’s childhood memories reveal the admiration and pride beneath his hardened exterior.
• Comic contrast: Sanji’s flustered reaction and the others’ disbelief offset the scene’s dramatic spectacle.

Plot points and events

• BIG MOM regains her youthful body and tests her restored abilities with a single punch. Its force tears through the palace walls, splits the sea, and scatters the clouds.
• She concludes that she is stronger than ever: she combines her physical prime with decades of combat experience and Haki mastery.
• Ronan tells her to acclimate to her new body and hints that she will soon have opportunities to fight.
• BIG MOM eagerly imagines the shock of Kaido, Sengoku, and Garp when they see her restored.
• News spreads worldwide that BIG MOM and her crew, along with Germa 66, have submitted to Ronan and joined the Straw Hat Pirates. The headline declares the Straw Hats the New World’s supreme power.
• The revelation provokes panic throughout the world. Akainu destroys his office furnishings in fury, while pirates, nobles, and underworld factions recognize that the old Four Emperors’ balance is over.

Character developments and interactions

• BIG MOM is exhilarated by her restored youth and newfound strength, and her confidence and ambition surge. She treats Ronan with deference, while already anticipating future confrontations.
• Ronan remains composed and authoritative, advising BIG MOM to master her transformed body before taking action.
• Perospero and Katakuri share their mother’s excitement as they witness her power.
• Vinsmoke Judge is humbled, his remaining pride shattered by BIG MOM’s display.
• Akainu reacts with rage and helpless frustration to the Straw Hats’ sudden expansion.

Significant themes

• Power and transformation: BIG MOM’s renewed body makes her more dangerous by pairing youthful strength with accumulated experience.
• The end of an era: BIG MOM’s submission signals the collapse of the established Four Emperors’ order.
• Fear and shifting authority: The world’s reaction shows how quickly perceptions of power change when a new dominant force emerges.

Key events

• The Sunny Merry sails calmly through the New World toward Wano, now carrying Katakuri and Pudding as new companions after the Straw Hats’ victory in Totto Land.
• Nami reads that the Reverie has begun in Mary Geoise, with fifty rulers gathered. Ronan predicts the Straw Hats—and their expanded power after bringing Totto Land into their sphere—will be a major concern for the World Government.
• Nami spots Princess Vivi in the newspaper. Sanji instantly abandons the kitchen and rushes over, wildly declaring his love for her.
• Sanji blocks Nami’s view and nearly swings his frying pan into her. Nami responds with a furious series of punches and kicks, launching him into the air and pummeling him. Katakuri’s Future Sight confirms the coming beating.

Character developments and interactions

• Katakuri remains composed but seems softer than before; he and Pudding have settled into life aboard the ship. Pudding happily prepares juice for Ronan.
• Ronan is alert to the political consequences of the crew’s growing influence, while Luffy remains more interested in whether the Reverie will have meat.
• Nami’s excitement at seeing Vivi quickly turns to anger when Sanji interrupts her.
• Sanji’s exaggerated devotion to Vivi triggers Nami’s comic, overwhelming retaliation. Katakuri silently witnesses the clash.

Significant themes

• Rising political stakes: The Straw Hats’ growing power threatens the World Government and draws attention at the Reverie.
• Found family and change: Former enemies Katakuri and Pudding have joined the crew, suggesting a shift in loyalties.
• Comedy amid world events: Serious geopolitical developments give way to the crew’s familiar, chaotic antics.

Key events

• Nami furiously beats Sanji after he fails to defend himself, leaving him embedded in the Sunny Merry’s deck. When Brook asks to see Princess Vivi’s underwear, Nami knocks him into the deck beside Sanji.
• The crew reads a newspaper featuring Vivi at Mary Geoise. Ronan and the Straw Hats are pleased to see her and infer that Alabasta has prospered under her rule.
• As the Sunny Merry nears the isolated Land of Wano, the weather turns violently hostile: the sky darkens, lightning and thunder erupt, and gigantic waves and whirlpools threaten the ship. Despite the danger, the Sunny Merry pushes through the storm.

Character developments and interactions

• Nami shifts from furious enforcer to composed navigator, then swiftly punishes Sanji and Brook for their behavior.
• Luffy is delighted to see Vivi and fondly recalls her and Karoo; Nami teases him for thinking Vivi has not changed.
• Ronan warmly welcomes the news about Vivi and shares the crew’s amusement.
• Brook admires Vivi’s elegance but makes an inappropriate request, provoking Nami’s response. Sanji is also punished, though he makes no attempt to fight back.
• Katakuri watches Nami’s display with newfound respect.

Significant themes

• The crew’s chaotic humor and familiar bonds contrast with their genuine affection for absent friends.
• A dramatic shift from safe, cheerful sailing to the storm foreshadows the danger and upheaval awaiting the crew in Wano.

Key plot points and events

• The crew approaches the treacherous waters surrounding Wano, where violent winds, enormous waves, and unnatural currents make entry extremely dangerous.
• Nami recognizes that the conditions are more than ordinary weather, while Robin explains that ancient texts describe Wano’s surrounding seas as hazardous year-round.
• Ronan concludes there is no way around the perilous waters. Luffy refuses to avoid them, insisting the crew charge straight ahead so he can confront Kaido.
• Inspired by Luffy, the crew commits to the challenge. The Sunny Merry sails directly into a towering wave, climbs its steep face, and breaks through.
• After passing the storm barrier, the crew reaches surprisingly calm water inside the storm’s center. There they discover a gigantic mountain and an immense waterfall pouring from its summit. Sanji is stunned that their route appears to lead straight toward the falls.

Character developments

• Luffy turns danger into a challenge, displaying his characteristic fearlessness and rallying the crew with his determination to reach Kaido.
• Nami demonstrates sharp navigational judgment by identifying the currents and weather as abnormal.
• Robin contributes historical knowledge, clarifying that the peril is a permanent feature of Wano’s defenses.
• Ronan remains composed while assessing the danger, then recognizes that the crew must face it directly.
• The crew shifts from alarm and uncertainty to collective resolve once Luffy calls for a direct charge.

Significant themes

• Courage in the face of nature: The crew confronts the sea as an enemy rather than retreating from it.
• Wano’s isolation: Its natural barriers explain how the country has remained closed off from the outside world.
• Leadership and solidarity: Luffy’s boldness inspires the crew to act together despite the risks.
• The unknown ahead: Surviving the waves reveals an even more extraordinary obstacle, leaving the crew at the edge of a new danger.

Character interactions

• Nami and Robin compare observation with historical knowledge to explain the threat to the crew.
• Ronan confirms the danger and tells Luffy that avoiding the waters is impossible.
• Luffy rejects the idea of retreat, and Franky responds by urging the Sunny Merry forward.
• The crew answers Luffy’s declaration with a shared battle cry and faces the wave together.

Plot points and events

• Nami realizes the waterfall is fed by an enormous freshwater source above the mountain, suggesting Wano lies atop it rather than at sea level.
• A school of giant koi swims against the waterfall, astonishing the crew and revealing a natural route upward.
• Nami warns that the Sunny cannot survive the falls unaided. Ronan agrees they need not copy the koi and cues Franky.
• Franky fires the ship’s Wind Cannon, propelling the Sunny Merry up the waterfall like a rocket.
• The violent climb throws many crew members across the deck, while Ronan, Zoro, Sanji, and Katakuri remain steady. Luffy eagerly rides the bow through the ascent.
• The ship clears the falls and lands on a vast inland lake atop the mountain.

Character developments and interactions

• Nami applies her navigation skills to deduce Wano’s unusual location, then voices practical concerns about the ship’s survival.
• Usopp panics at the prospect of climbing the falls; Chopper, by contrast, is delighted by the koi.
• Luffy meets danger with excitement, admiring the fish and celebrating the ship’s ascent.
• Ronan interprets the koi as a symbol of “carp leaping through the dragon gate” and trusts Franky to get them up safely.
• Franky confidently takes charge, using the Sunny’s cannon to launch the ship.
• Zoro, Sanji, and Katakuri demonstrate exceptional balance and physical control amid the chaos. Brook humorously agrees with Nami’s warning about drowning.

Significant themes

• Courage and adventure: Luffy’s enthusiasm contrasts with the crew’s fear.
• Ingenuity and teamwork: Franky’s engineering solves a challenge that sailing alone could not overcome.
• Endurance and transformation: The koi’s struggle upstream evokes the traditional image of carp overcoming obstacles, foreshadowing the journey into Wano.
• The extraordinary nature of the world: Wano’s mountaintop location and immense lake reveal a geography unlike an ordinary island.

Plot points and events

• After surviving the hazardous waters around Wano, the crew reaches a lake near the mountaintop and gets its first view of the country: a stark, rocky landscape that feels isolated and dangerous.
• Luffy is thrilled to have finally arrived. Katakuri warns the crew that they are entering Kaido’s territory and must stay alert.
• A gigantic whirlpool suddenly forms in the lake and begins dragging the Sunny Merry toward it. Nami fears the ship’s systems cannot withstand the pull.
• Zoro draws the national treasure Shusui and unleashes a massive sword slash, splitting the whirlpool in two. The currents collide and weaken, allowing the ship to escape.

Character developments and interactions

• Luffy shows his usual excitement at reaching a new, challenging destination.
• Nami shifts from frustration over Wano’s strange waters to alarm during the crisis, then joins Usopp in celebrating Zoro’s feat.
• Zoro demonstrates extraordinary power and composure, treating a seemingly overwhelming natural disaster as a routine obstacle.
• Katakuri, initially cautious, is deeply impressed by Zoro’s strength and revises his view of the Straw Hats as a crew of formidable “monsters.”
• Sanji spots land first; Brook voices the crew’s relief and unease after their perilous approach.

Significant themes

• The danger of Wano: Its landscape and waters make entering the country a trial even before the crew reaches shore.
• Strength and confidence: Zoro’s decisive action turns a near-disaster into a display of overwhelming skill.
• Respect between formidable fighters: Katakuri recognizes and openly acknowledges Zoro’s power.
• Composure under pressure: The crew’s reactions contrast with Zoro’s calm confidence, capped by his understated “Just the basics.”

Ronan's Group landed in Wano, where a giant komainu crashed into the Sunny Merry and began fighting an even larger baboon wielding a giant katana. A Beasts Pirates Headliner watched the battle from the forest and noticed the crew's ship and its passengers.

• Ronan's Group secured the Sunny Merry on Wano's shore and prepared to explore.
• A giant komainu burst from the forest, struck the Sunny Merry, and turned to face something pursuing it.
• A colossal baboon emerged from the forest carrying a katana over ten meters long and attacked the komainu.
• The baboon and komainu fought fiercely across the beach while the Straw Hat Pirates watched.
• A Beasts Pirates Headliner watched from the forest on his dragonlike mount and spotted the Sunny Merry and the crew.

Luffy dodged a Headliner’s tranquilizer dart with Observation Haki and blasted him away, freeing a young girl from his sack. When a giant baboon charged the Sunny Merry, Katakuri stopped it with Conqueror’s Haki.

• A Headliner spotted the Sunny Merry, called for backup, and fired a tranquilizer dart at Luffy from the forest.
• Luffy dodged without looking back, then struck the Headliner with a stretched-arm punch that sent him crashing into a boulder.
• A little girl in a patched kimono fell from the sack the Headliner had been carrying.
• The injured Headliner ordered a giant baboon to attack the crew, and it charged toward the Sunny Merry.
• Katakuri stepped in front of Luffy and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, knocking the baboon unconscious.

After Katakuri's Conqueror's Haki knocked out the giant baboon and komainu, Luffy rescued a girl from a pirate. The girl used her dango-producing Devil Fruit power to tame the baboon, then explained that any animal that ate her dango would become her friend.

• Katakuri knocked out the giant baboon and komainu with his Conqueror's Haki.
• The girl struck the pirate with a stick, and Luffy punched him away when he attacked her.
• The girl pulled a dango from her cheek and fed it to the unconscious baboon.
• The baboon awoke and obediently shook the girl's hand.
• Nami asked about the girl's power, and the girl explained that animals who ate her dango became her friends.

Ronan's Group met Tama after rescuing her and learned that she and Komachiyo had been attacked by a Beasts Pirates member and his baboon in Kuri. Tama offered to repay her rescuers with a meal and led them toward her home.

• Tama introduced herself and told Ronan that they had landed in Kuri, the Kozuki Clan's former territory.
• Tama explained that a Beasts Pirates member stole her purchases, while his baboon injured Komachiyo and the man captured her in a sack.
• Tama thanked Luffy and the others for saving her and offered to repay them.
• Luffy's stomach rumbled, and Sanji said he would hunt for fresh ingredients because the crew had eaten all their food.
• Tama grabbed Luffy's hand and led the group toward her home to cook them a meal.

Tama brought Ronan’s Group to the ruins of Amigasa Village, where she revealed that the villagers had been driven away, enslaved, or starved. She insisted she was strong and dreamed of becoming an “Alluring Female Ninja,” then led the group to the small hut she shared with her master.

• Tama named the giant samurai baboon Baboonmaru and rode with the others toward her home alongside Komachiyo.
• Tama told Luffy that she loved and had been waiting for a pirate, while Luffy said he accepted that she might like or hate him because he was a pirate.
• Tama showed Ronan’s Group the ruined remains of Amigasa Village and explained what had happened to its villagers.
• Tama cheered herself up by declaring her dream of becoming an “Alluring Female Ninja,” and Luffy enthusiastically encouraged her.
• Tama led Ronan’s Group to the only reasonably intact thatched hut, where a simple stone stove stood in the bare interior.

Tama used all the rice she had bought to prepare a meal for the group, and everyone except Luffy pretended they were full so he could eat it. After Luffy quickly finished the entire bowl and asked for more, Tama tearfully admitted there was no rice or pickle left.

• Tama cooked all her rice while Sanji watched her generosity with sympathy.
• Ronan and the others told Tama they were full and let Luffy have the rice.
• Tama served Luffy a heaping bowl of rice topped with pickles, and he eagerly ate it.
• Luffy asked Tama why she was not eating, and she pretended that a future kunoichi had to stay light as a feather.
• Luffy finished the rice and asked for another bowl, but Tama said she had no more rice or pickles.

Luffy ate all the rice Tama had prepared, and the crew realized how little food she had before her master returned. The tengu-masked samurai found Luffy beside the empty bowl and threatened to kill him.

• Luffy ate Tama's last rice, and Nami punched him for leaving her with nothing to eat.
• Ronan and Sanji promised to find ingredients and cook Tama a feast, while Luffy awkwardly tried to pretend he was full.
• Tama's stomach growled, and she hurried out of the hut; Nami suspected she had gone farther than the toilet.
• Ronan sensed someone approaching, and Robin identified the newcomer as the master Tama had been living with.
• The tengu-masked samurai entered the hut, saw the empty bowl, learned Luffy had eaten Tama's rice, and threatened to kill him.

Katakuri protected Luffy from the tengu samurai, catching his sword barehanded and knocking him into the floor. The tengu samurai then explained Tama’s hunger and hardship, while Tama rushed back to the hut after hearing the crash.

• The tengu samurai attacked Luffy, but Katakuri caught the blade with his Haki-coated hand and hurled him into the floor.
• Tama tried to quiet her hunger by drinking polluted water from a stream near her home.
• Hearing the crash from the hut, Tama hurried back, fearing something had happened to her master.
• Luffy told the tengu samurai that Tama had made him a meal, prompting the samurai to describe her hunger, labor, and life in Kaido’s devastated country.

Tama defended Luffy after he ate the rice she had bought for her eighth birthday, then collapsed after drinking poisoned river water. Chopper saved her, and Luffy learned that Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi had poisoned Wano’s rivers, leaving him burning with fury.

• The Tengu Samurai revealed that Luffy had eaten all the rice Tama bought for her birthday, and the Straw Hat Pirates realized how much it had meant to her.
• Tama rushed in, defended Luffy, and pleaded with the Tengu Samurai to forgive her for sharing her rice with her benefactors.
• Tama began convulsing after drinking polluted river water, and Chopper diagnosed severe poisoning and injected her with antidote.
• The Tengu Samurai explained that Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi’s weapons factories had polluted Wano’s rivers with deadly toxins.
• Chopper declared Tama out of danger, while Luffy looked at her sleeping and grew furious at the suffering inflicted on Wano.

Luffy learned that Tama was waiting in Wano for Ace to fulfill his promise to take her to sea. Ronan explained that Ace had become a new Emperor after Whitebeard’s disappearance and was tied up defending his territory, and Luffy revealed that Ace was his big brother.

• Luffy angrily questioned Tengu Samurai about why he and Tama stayed in Wano’s ruined wasteland.
• Tengu Samurai explained that Tama refused to leave because she was waiting for Ace to return and take her to sea.
• Tama woke and asked Luffy whether he knew Ace, and Luffy assured her that Ace would never break his promise.
• Ronan explained that Ace had become a new Emperor after Whitebeard vanished and was occupied defending the Whitebeard Pirates’ territory.
• Tama understood why Ace had not returned and decided to keep waiting for him.
• Luffy declared that Ace was his big brother, stunning Tama and Tengu Samurai.

Luffy and his crew learned that Tama and Tenguyama Hitetsu were waiting in Amigasa Village for Ace, and Hitetsu recounted how Kaido and Orochi’s forces devastated Wano. He began telling them about the villagers’ first encounter with Ace, ending just before revealing what they saw after stealing the food and water from his crew.

• Luffy revealed that he was Ace’s younger brother, and the Tengu Samurai introduced himself as Tenguyama Hitetsu, a swordsmith.
• Luffy urged Hitetsu to take the sick Tama somewhere with clean water, but Tama refused to leave the place where she had promised to wait for Ace.
• Nami offered to take Tama to find Ace after the crew defeated Kaido, but Tama said she had to become a strong kunoichi first to keep her promise.
• Hitetsu explained that X Drake and the Beasts Pirates had destroyed Amigasa Village, killed its five defending samurai, and driven its villagers away or to their deaths.
• Hitetsu described how Ace and his crew had washed ashore in Kuri about four years earlier, and how starving villagers tied them up and stole their food and clean water.
• Hitetsu said that after the villagers had eaten and gone outside, they saw something they would never forget.

Hitetsu told Luffy how Ace had once helped the people of Amigasa Village, and Luffy decided to take Tama with the Straw Hat Pirates so she would never go hungry again. As Hawkins headed toward Kuri to investigate unidentified intruders, Ronan reassured Hitetsu that the group was strong enough to face Wano’s dangers.

• Hitetsu recounted how Ace freed himself from the villagers’ ropes, shared food, and stayed to help them, especially Tama.
• Luffy proudly recognized Ace’s kindness after hearing Hitetsu’s story.
• Hawkins learned that communications had gone silent along Kuri’s coast and decided to investigate without alerting Kaido.
• Sanji prepared a feast, and Tama tearfully ate more delicious food than she had ever had.
• Luffy told Hitetsu he would take Tama with them, and Hitetsu entrusted her to Luffy’s care.
• Ronan reassured Hitetsu that the group was strong, while Hitetsu warned them that Kaido’s and Orochi’s men filled the interior.