Recaps

Lina and the Straw Hats sailed into the fog-shrouded Devil’s Triangle, where Lina sought the Shichibukai Moria and his Thriller Bark. After a signal flare led them toward a colossal ship, they encountered a singing skeleton aboard a ghost ship.

• Lina sent his fish-man undead to search the Devil’s Triangle while he explained that he intended to find Moria and obtain something from him.
• Lina let Luffy open a floating offering barrel, which fired a red signal flare into the sky.
• The Straw Hats spotted the enormous Thriller Bark in the fog and continued sailing toward it.
• A moss-covered ghost ship drew alongside the Going Merry, and Brook appeared at the railing with a cup of Binks’ sake.
• The crew screamed at the sight of Brook, while Robin calmly identified him as a living skeleton.

Luffy and Lina met Brook, a living skeleton trapped in the Devil’s Triangle after Moria stole his shadow, and promised to help him retrieve it. As the crew reached Thriller Bark, Lina prepared to go ashore dressed as a Taoist exorcist.

• Brook greeted Luffy and Lina aboard the ruined ship, then made Nami and Lina angry by asking to see their panties.
• Brook explained that Moria had stolen his shadow and that he could not survive outside the Devil’s Triangle’s mist.
• Luffy invited Brook to join the crew and promised to help him recover his shadow, though Brook initially refused to put them in danger.
• The Going Merry reached Thriller Bark, and Brook ran across the water toward the island ahead of the crew.
• Lina changed into a yellow Taoist robe and peachwood sword outfit, claiming it would give her an advantage against zombies and monsters.

The Straw Hats landed on Thriller Bark and split up to explore, while Lina led Nami, Usopp, and Chopper toward the castles. When a three-headed hellhound attacked them at the forest’s edge, Lina defeated it with his peachwood sword and brute strength.

• Luffy dashed into the forest alone, and Lina headed toward the castles with Usopp and Chopper while the others formed their own groups.
• Nami left the Going Merry to join Lina, and Robin stopped Zoro from wandering off alone.
• Lina led Nami, Usopp, and Chopper through the forest as they clung to him in fear.
• A three-headed hellhound leaped out of a trench and charged at Lina and the others.
• Lina struck the hellhound with his peachwood sword, stopped its other heads with his hands, and smashed it into the ground.
• Nami, Usopp, and Chopper protested that Lina had beaten the beast with his fists instead of Taoist magic.

Lina and his companions traveled through Thriller Bark after learning about Doctor Hogback, Moria’s zombies, and the stolen shadows that animated them. They fought through the cemetery, where Nami demonstrated her improved lightning attacks, and reached the castle as several armed figures watched from its rooftop.

• Lina captured Hilton after he revealed Doctor Hogback’s name, and Hilton told the group about the zombies and their generals while driving them toward the castle.
• Hilton escaped when the carriage stopped in the cemetery, where Lina stomped a rising zombie back into the dirt before the cemetery’s horde surrounded the group.
• Nami’s first lightning attack failed to stop the zombies, but she increased her power and defeated them with her White Sunflower technique.
• Lina led the group toward the castle, where they spotted several powerful figures waiting on the rooftop.

Gecko Moria stole the shadows of Sanji and Zoro and ordered his servants to bring him the powerful zombies Ryuma and Jigoro. As Lina's group advanced into the castle, Absalom and Hogback prepared to face them, with Absalom leaving to pursue the bride he had chosen.

• Moria celebrated capturing the shadow of a Haki user, then learned the Squirrel Brothers had found Zoro unconscious in a trap and captured him.
• Moria cut Zoro's shadow free and ordered three little zombies to fetch Ryuma and Jigoro before returning Zoro and Sanji to their coffins.
• Hogback complained to Absalom that Sanji and Lina's group had destroyed many Zombie Generals, while Absalom said Sanji's shadow made the losses worthwhile.
• The three little zombies told Absalom and Hogback that Moria wanted Ryuma and Jigoro because Zoro had been captured.
• Absalom sent Ryuma with the little zombies, assured Hogback he would stay to help, and left to pursue the woman he intended to marry.

Lina, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper fought their way through Moria’s castle and into a courtyard surrounded by zombies. As Nami, Usopp, and Chopper formed a plan to fight together, Lina decided to let some zombie generals through so they could gain experience.

• Lina led Nami, Usopp, and Chopper through the castle, where Nami and Usopp sensed hidden zombies and Chopper revealed he wanted to confront Hogback.
• A bull-horned zombie and a four-armed gunman ambushed them, and Nami, Chopper, Usopp, and Lina fought them off as more zombie generals appeared.
• Lina shielded Chopper and Usopp as they escaped into the courtyard, where Absalom ordered Hilton to fetch zombies carrying Roronoa and Black Leg Sanji’s shadows.
• Nami, Usopp, and Chopper fought the surrounding zombies, using lightning and fire while Chopper proposed targeting their joints.
• Nami, Usopp, and Chopper agreed to cover one another, while Lina watched from the corridor and decided to let some zombie generals reach them for practice.

Lina and the Straw Hat crew fought Moria’s zombie generals while searching for their missing crewmates. Zoro and Sanji were recovered from coffins after their shadows were cut away, and the chapter ended as Lina spotted a powerful zombie approaching.

• Lina unleashed Flame Ring: Barren Realm Purgatory, scorching the courtyard and clearing out the ordinary zombies, while several zombie generals survived by dousing themselves with water.
• Hogback revealed that the remaining generals were powerful figures from the seas and claimed that two Straw Hat crewmates had already been captured.
• Chopper, Nami, Usopp, and Lina engaged the zombie generals; Nami decapitated the clawed knight, Usopp confronted the four-armed gunman, and Lina struck the hidden Absalom with lightning.
• Franky, Brook, and Robin joined the group and explained that Zoro and Sanji might have been sent away after losing their shadows.
• Lina spotted spider mice carrying two coffins, and Franky blasted them down before Lina caught them and found Zoro and Sanji inside.
• Zoro and Sanji woke up, recalled having their shadows cut away, and rejoined the crew as Lina noticed a powerful zombie running toward them.

Brook confronted Ryuma to reclaim his shadow but was defeated, then reunited with Wind God Jigoro while Ryuma went to fight Zoro. On the battlefield, Baphomet attacked Absalom and fought Lina before Sanji took him on, and Lina brought Hogback along to learn about Ryuma.

• Brook charged Ryuma, but Ryuma defeated him with Iai—Lion Song and leaped down to seek a swordsman on the battlefield.
• Brook remembered Laboon and cried, then recognized Wind God Jigoro as the man carrying his shadow.
• Absalom ordered Ryuma to capture Nami, but Baphomet objected to the order and knocked Absalom unconscious.
• Baphomet fought Lina, who identified him as Sanji’s shadow and called Sanji over to face him.
• Lina summoned Hogback and led him toward Ryuma, questioning him about Ryuma’s legends and the condition of his body.

Brook confronted Ryuma to reclaim his shadow but was defeated, then realized Wind God Jigoro carried his shadow. Meanwhile, Baphomet’s Sanji shadow attacked Lina, and Lina turned his attention to Ryuma and brought Hogback along to question him.

• Brook challenged Ryuma, but Ryuma defeated him with a single sword strike and left for the battlefield.
• Brook recognized Wind God Jigoro as the zombie carrying his shadow and remembered Laboon and their old crew’s departure.
• Absalom ordered Baphomet to capture Nami as his bride, but Baphomet attacked him and knocked him unconscious.
• Baphomet fought Lina, whose suspicions were confirmed when the zombie used Sanji’s fighting style and Diable Jambe.
• Sanji charged at Baphomet to reclaim his shadow while Lina called Hogback over and questioned him about Ryuma’s body and history.

Zoro fought Ryoma, the legendary swordsman whose shadow had been placed in his preserved corpse, and won their duel. Lina tried to claim Ryoma’s body, but Ryoma unleashed a devastating unarmed sword attack before his shadow returned to Zoro, leaving Lina badly wounded and with a mysterious blue-green flame.

• Zoro battled Ryoma with three-sword techniques while Hogback told Nami, Robin, and the others how Ryoma had defended Wano Country and become known as the Sword God.
• Lina asked Hogback whether zombies could retain their bodies’ memories or wills, and Hogback admitted that some zombies behaved strangely but he could not tell whether the bodies had wills of their own.
• Zoro and Ryoma exchanged powerful attacks and settled their duel with a final clash; Ryoma fell, and Zoro suffered a deep wound across his chest.
• Lina tried to preserve Ryoma’s body with his blue-green flame, but Ryoma warned that a swordsman needed a sword and unleashed a fierce unarmed sword style that badly cut Lina.
• Nami rushed to Lina and helped him sit down, while Ryoma’s shadow flew back to Zoro and Lina named the flame in his palm Sukuna.

Lina summoned Ryoma’s spirit, Sukuna, while Chopper treated Lina’s injuries and Zoro asked to test Sukuna’s swordsmanship. Elsewhere, Luffy fought and chased Thriller Bark’s zombies, then learned that Nami had electrocuted his friends.

• Lina summoned Sukuna and gave him Ryoma’s sword, Shusui, while Chopper treated Lina’s injuries.
• Zoro admired Sukuna’s swordsmanship, and Lina promised to let Zoro test him another time.
• Luffy chased a lion-faced beast and other zombies through the forest, then defeated them when they tried to fight him.
• Luffy reached a graveyard, defeated the zombies that emerged from the graves, and asked them about his friends.
• The zombies told Luffy that his friends were in the neighboring cemetery and that Nami had electrocuted them.

Luffy headed into Thriller Bark’s castle after refusing to follow the injured old man’s request to purify the zombies. Meanwhile, Usopp defeated the four-armed trench-coat zombie with his new weapons, Raging Hard Man and Cunning Fat Man.

• Luffy left the cemetery and entered the castle after telling the shadowless old man that he would beat Moria and help Brook regain his shadow.
• Chopper finished bandaging Lina, who concluded that Luffy was likely in the other building, while the others waited for Usopp to finish his fight.
• Usopp used Raging Hard Man to counter the trench-coat zombie’s gunfire and blast him with explosive rounds.
• The trench-coat zombie rushed Usopp at close range, but Usopp drew Cunning Fat Man and cut off two of his arms with its laser blade.
• Usopp dodged the impact of the zombie’s grenade with Cunning Fat Man’s Impact Dial, then aimed Raging Hard Man at the falling zombie and declared the fight over.

Moria learned that Absalom and the Zombie Generals had been defeated, while Kuma arrived to ensure the Straw Hat Crew would not defeat another Shichibukai unnoticed. Lina and the crew reached Thriller Bark’s castle, where Perona attacked them with her Negative Ghosts, leaving Zoro and Luffy despondent.

• Three little zombies told Moria that Absalom and the Zombie Generals had been wiped out and that the Straw Hat Crew was approaching.
• Kuma told Moria he had come to prevent news of another Shichibukai’s defeat from spreading, and Moria ordered Perona to face the intruders.
• Lina and the crew crossed the bridge, learned Brook had spent about fifty years in the area, and were knocked down when Luffy rocketed into them.
• The crew regrouped and continued into the castle, where Perona appeared and sent her Negative Ghosts after them.
• Zoro and Luffy were hit by the ghosts and fell into despair, while the rest of the crew faced Perona’s attack.

The Straw Hat Crew fought Perona, whose ghost abilities protected her while her Negative Ghosts left several fighters helpless. After Sukuna exposed Perona’s real body, Moria intervened, but Usopp’s shout about a beautiful swordswoman and meat revived Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, who knocked Moria away.

• Nami’s lightning passed through Perona, while Lina and Robin deduced that Perona’s real body was hidden nearby.
• Lina summoned Sukuna, who located Perona’s real body and cut through the hall to reveal her bedroom.
• Perona sent ghosts to attack the crew, but Zoro fell back into despair and Sanji was also overcome by a Negative Ghost.
• Nami and Robin tried to reach Perona’s body, but Moria appeared with his Shadow Master and blocked them.
• Moria began removing Luffy’s shadow, but Usopp shouted about a beautiful swordswoman and meat, rousing Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji kicked Moria away with a sudden burst of strength.

The Straw Hats defeated Perona and her forces, then Luffy accepted Moria’s challenge to a one-on-one fight. Luffy adapted to Moria’s shadow tricks and struck him hard, leaving Moria wondering how he had predicted the switch.

• Franky, Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji attacked Kumashi and Shadow Master while Nami struck Perona’s real body with lightning, knocking her unconscious.
• Moria freed himself from the rubble and faced the Straw Hats, then challenged Luffy to fight him alone; Luffy accepted despite his crew’s objections.
• Moria sent bats after the crew while attacking Luffy, and Lina and Usopp defended the others as Moria wounded Luffy with his claws.
• Luffy used Gear Second to counter Moria’s attacks, hitting him with a Jet Pistol and Jet Spear before dodging his shadow-based strikes.
• Luffy anticipated Moria’s position switch and aimed for Shadow Master, forcing Moria to switch into the punch and get blasted through pillars into a wall.
• Moria asked if Luffy had used Haki to predict the switch, and Luffy replied that he had only guessed.

Luffy defeated Moria after a fierce battle on Thriller Bark, while Kuma watched with a World Government order to recruit or eliminate the Straw Hat Crew. Moria lay unconscious as his stolen shadows returned to the forest, and Lina carried an exhausted, shrunken Luffy back to the crew at dawn.

• Kuma arrived with orders to offer the Straw Hat Crew Moria’s vacant Shichibukai position if Moria lost, or attack them if they refused, and he suspected the Government’s plans involved the captured Ace.
• Luffy outmaneuvered Moria and Shadow Master, then slammed Moria into the ground and forced him to resort to absorbing the zombies’ shadows.
• Moria grew enormous and attacked wildly with his stolen shadows, but Luffy struck him with a giant palm and knocked him unconscious.
• Moria’s body shrank as the stolen shadows escaped and returned to the forest, while Lina caught the exhausted Luffy and carried him back toward the crew.
• Dawn broke through the fog over Thriller Bark.

Lina and the Straw Hat Pirates celebrated the return of Lola and her crew’s shadows after Luffy defeated Moria. Bear arrived with a World Government offer for the crew, and Luffy received a letter asking for their answer.

• Lola and her subordinates emerged into the sunlight after their shadows returned, and Lola asked Lina to marry her before thanking the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Lina kept Lola and the Squirrel Brothers waiting while the crew rested and prepared a meal.
• Bear reported to the World Government that he had been stopped by Sukuna, who guarded the Straw Hat Pirates and demanded to know about the Government’s offer.
• Sukuna blocked Bear from approaching the mansion, and Bear began explaining the Shichibukai proposal to him.
• Lola met Luffy, asked him to marry her, and was rejected for the 4,445th time before joining the crew’s celebration.
• Bear entered the dining room, handed Luffy a letter, and gave him time to discuss the offer before answering.

Luffy rejected the World Government’s invitation to become a Shichibukai, and Brook joined the Straw Hat Pirates after learning that Laboon was still waiting for him. The crew celebrated together, while Brook played the Rumbar Pirates’ final song and carried their promise forward.

• Luffy turned down the Shichibukai invitation because he wanted to become Pirate King and would not serve the World Government.
• Nami invited Lina to nap with her, and Lina later left the Going Merry to return to the island.
• Kuma ignored the Five Elders’ order to eliminate the Straw Hat Crew, took Moria with him, and reflected on Luffy and Bonney.
• Luffy told Brook that Laboon was safe and still waiting for the Rumbar Pirates to return.
• Brook accepted Luffy’s invitation to join the crew and promised to sail with them before returning to Laboon.
• The Straw Hats and Lola’s group held a banquet, where Brook played the Rumbar Pirates’ final song on the piano.

The Straw Hat Crew left Thriller Bark as Lina learned that Portgas D. Ace had been sent to Impel Down and strange beasts were destroying towns in the East Blue. Before Luffy could choose their next destination, Golden Lion Shiki’s power sent nearby sky islands crashing into the sea, and Lina identified him as the likely culprit.

• Lina discovered that Perona had joined the crew temporarily and that Moria’s treasure vault had already been emptied.
• Nami read that Portgas D. Ace had been imprisoned in Impel Down, and the crew discussed whether to rescue him.
• The crew said goodbye to Lola and the people of Thriller Bark, then learned from Lina that strange beasts had destroyed East Blue towns.
• Luffy said Ace had reliable friends who would rescue him and began to choose whether to return to the East Blue.
• The sea turned violent as nearby islands fell from the sky, and Lina identified Golden Lion Shiki as the likely cause.

Lina and her crew explored a ruined sky island and discovered that its beasts had become unnaturally powerful and vicious. A giant black bear knocked Luffy into a collapsing altar, leaving him buried beneath the rubble.

• Zoro killed a giant hornet that attacked the group on the overgrown stone path.
• Robin suspected that someone had caused the island's beasts to grow ferocious and suggested they investigate the central island where pirate ships were gathering.
• A scarred black bear nearly ten meters tall emerged from the woods, alarming the crew with its strength.
• Luffy charged the bear with a Gomu Gomu Pistol, but his punch bounced off its chest.
• The black bear struck Luffy with its paw and sent him crashing into an altar, which collapsed over him.

Lina and the Straw Hats battled a huge horde of strange beasts on the island while Lina’s undead displayed their overwhelming power. As Gun Ghost slaughtered the attackers, Lina watched War Ogre enter the fight, revealing the result of his fusion and preparation.

• The beasts surrounded Luffy, Lina, Zoro, Sanji, and Perona’s spirit, prompting Lina to summon his strongest undead, including Gun Ghost and Oars.
• Perona explained Oars’s history as the ancient giant known as Continent Carrier, and the group prepared to fight as more than a hundred beasts gathered.
• Zoro and Perona attacked the beasts together, while Sanji brought down a flaming bull and Luffy fought a two-headed wolf and tried to recruit a three-legged frog.
• The mage undead and Sukuna dispatched attackers with ease as Lina watched, confident that his undead could handle the horde.
• Gun Ghost calmly killed waves of beasts with his four pistols, impressing Lina with his skill.
• Lina revealed that he had fused Oars’s strength with Blue Ogre Red Ogre’s combat skills and forged his body into the near-perfect berserker undead War Ogre.

Lina and her group defeated the mutated beasts in the maple forest and recruited the strongest as undead, while Dr. Indigo learned that someone had wiped out more than a hundred experimental animals. The group headed for the main island as Indigo began searching for the intruders.

• The undead War Demon tore through the drug-crazed beasts, then defeated a silver-haired gorilla with a single punch that crushed its arm and sent it into the altar.
• After the beasts fell or fled, Lina recruited fewer than thirty of the strongest, and the group set out for the main island while planning to build their force to a hundred.
• Dr. Indigo received a report that over a hundred experimental animals had been defeated, with sword wounds and bullet holes on their bodies.
• Dr. Indigo ordered his people to search the islands with Visual Den Den Mushi and vowed to punish whoever had beaten the beasts.

Lina and the others infiltrated Golden Lion’s islands while he rushed back after learning his base had been robbed. They reached a village of frail residents with pink feathers, where an old woman offered to tell them what they wanted to know.

• Golden Lion learned that the mutated beasts on another island had been wiped out, attacked Marineford with falling warships, then hurried back to his base.
• Lina, Sanji, Zoro, Luffy, and Perona crossed several islands and headed toward a village Perona’s ghosts had found.
• The group entered the village and noticed its wary residents, most of whom were elderly or children with sparse pink feathers on their arms.
• An old woman warned the newcomers that patrols might have spotted them, then invited them to her house to explain what they wanted to know.

Lina and the Straw Hat Pirates confronted Golden Lion and his newly assembled fleet, rejecting his offer to join and declaring war. The battle began with both sides unleashing their attacks, while Lina and her undead allies engaged Golden Lion directly.

• Golden Lion welcomed dozens of pirate captains into the reborn Golden Lion Pirate Fleet and announced his plan to overthrow the world.
• Indigo projected an image of the approaching Straw Hat Pirates, and Golden Lion ordered the fleet to attack them.
• Golden Lion offered Luffy a chance to join his fleet, but Luffy declared all-out war and Usopp fired a blue-dragon attack at him.
• Golden Lion countered with a massive slash, then led his captains and a thousand pirates into battle against the Straw Hat crew.
• Lina summoned a storm of weapons as Franky, Usopp, and Nami attacked the charging pirates, while the others scattered to fight.
• Lina, Luffy, and four undead confronted Golden Lion; he formed snow lions to attack them, and Lina answered with fiery serpents.

Luffy fought Golden Lion in the air but was saved by Lina, who revealed she could speak and summoned her wraith. Lina took over the aerial battle and warned that Golden Lion planned to bring down the island’s [daft green] and direct the beasts toward the village.

• Luffy and Golden Lion traded attacks in the sky, with Luffy’s rubber body shrugging off a punch and his falcon dodging Golden Lion’s slashes.
• Golden Lion caught Luffy and launched a powerful Flying Slash, but Sukuna blocked it with Black Blade Shusui.
• Luffy mistook Sukuna for Lina and was startled to learn that Lina could speak, then mistook her for a wraith who had died.
• Lina dismissed her eagle, pulled Luffy from a crater, and said she would handle the aerial combat while he stayed out of it.
• Lina warned that Golden Lion planned to have someone knock down the [daft green] and lure the island’s beasts into attacking the village.