Chapter Summaries

Wu Biao fought Garp until both were battered, then urged his friend to vent his frustration over Ace. Garp finally asked Wu Biao to save his grandson, and Wu Biao declared that he would defeat everyone on the battlefield, Marines and pirates alike.

• Wu Biao and Garp fought across the ice for nearly ten minutes before the ice collapsed and they continued battling at the harbor.
• Wu Biao taunted Garp about his conflict over Ace, provoking the old Marine into unleashing his anger as they repeatedly struck and knocked each other down.
• Wu Biao told Garp he would save Ace and fight the Marines so Garp would not have to, then urged him to retire.
• Garp asked Wu Biao to help save Ace, and Wu Biao agreed.
• Wu Biao announced that he would take down every Marine and pirate on the battlefield, bringing the fighting to a halt.

After fighting Garp and exhausting his strength, Wu Biao summoned the Gates of Hell and welcomed his companions onto the Marineford battlefield. The chapter ended as the newcomers’ overwhelming pressure forced the Marines and pirates to the ground and Wu Biao urged his allies to fight.

• Garp accepted Wu Biao’s challenge to take everyone down, while the exhausted Wu Biao collapsed and the battlefield mocked his claim.
• Wu Biao darkened the sky and summoned a colossal gate, which he identified as the Gates of Hell.
• Shibata Yuichi flew out of the gate and landed on Wu Biao’s shoulder, singing a song Ishida had taught him.
• Kurosaki, Ishida, and other companions emerged from the gate, while Soi Fon warned them not to disgrace Soul Society.
• The newcomers’ pressure forced the Marines and pirates to the ground without knocking them unconscious, and Wu Biao called for his companions to raise hell.

Wu Biao reunited with his companions from the Soul Society, who arrived through a mysterious gate and greeted him amid teasing and a brief fight with Unohana. As the group prepared to face the Marines, Akainu attacked them with Great Eruption.

• A group led by Captain-Commander Yamamoto emerged through a gate in the sky, startling the pirates and Marines at Marine Headquarters.
• Wu Biao reunited with Yoruichi, Kurosaki Ichigo, Urahara Kisuke, and the other Soul Society companions, who explained that most Vice-Captains had stayed behind to guard the Seireitei.
• Unohana struck Wu Biao with Shakkaho, and Ichigo swiftly brought him back while the others joked about his reunion.
• Wu Biao learned that Kenpachi had been bound after running off to fight Komamura, leaving Komamura in the General Infirmary.
• Yamamoto called the group to attention, Ichigo assigned Inoue to treat Wu Biao, and Akainu rose to challenge the newcomers with Great Eruption.

Captain-Commander Yamamoto effortlessly countered Akainu’s attacks and demanded to speak with Sengoku, while Byakuya Kuchiki and Hitsugaya Tōshirō confronted Kizaru and Aokiji. The other Gotei 13 captains began engaging the Marine Admirals as Hitsugaya prepared to unleash his Bankai.

• Akainu attacked Yamamoto’s group with a massive magma fist, but Yamamoto released Ryujin Jakka and reduced the attack to ashes.
• Akainu launched Meteor Volcano, and Yamamoto’s pillars of flame incinerated the falling magma before Yamamoto appeared beside him and froze him with his presence.
• Yamamoto walked to the execution platform, identified himself as Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, and ordered Sengoku to come down and talk.
• Byakuya Kuchiki intercepted Kizaru’s light-speed kick with cherry-blossom petals after the two began fighting.
• Hitsugaya Tōshirō confronted Aokiji over the ice at Crescent Bay, introduced himself as the Gotei 13’s 10th Division Captain, and activated Bankai: Daiguren Hyorinmaru.

The Gotei 13’s fighters tied down the Marines’ top forces while the Whitebeard Pirates charged toward Ace, and Kenpachi Zaraki began a fierce duel with Whitebeard. The chaotic battle continued across the battlefield, where several other Gotei 13 members faced the Seven Warlords, and Uryu Ishida was turned to stone by Boa Hancock.

• The Whitebeard Grand Fleet charged toward the execution platform as Boa Hancock petrified pirates with her arrows, Doflamingo forced others to attack their companions, and Gecko Moria sent bats after the advancing fighters.
• Kenpachi Zaraki struck Whitebeard with a golden charge, removed his eyepatch, and launched a frenzied assault that wounded both men and damaged the Moby Dick.
• Kenpachi identified himself as the Gotei 13’s 11th Division captain and continued fighting Whitebeard while their allies and enemies struggled across the battlefield.
• Doflamingo encountered Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who introduced himself as a researcher and described his plans to study Devil Fruit powers.
• Sado Yasutora fought Bartholomew Kuma, Urahara Kisuke challenged Gecko Moria, and Uryu Ishida volunteered to face Boa Hancock.
• Boa Hancock asked Uryu Ishida whether she was beautiful, and after he nodded, her Mero Mero Mellow turned him to stone.

Yoruichi rescued the petrified Uryu Ishida and confronted Boa Hancock, whose beauty-based attacks could turn people to stone. After Yoruichi blocked Hancock’s kick with spiritual pressure, Hancock coated her leg in Armament Haki and renewed her attack.

• Hancock petrified Uryu Ishida, and Yoruichi carried him to Inoue Orihime to be restored.
• Yoruichi sent Kurosaki Ichigo and Soi Fon to hold off other pirates while she faced Hancock.
• Yoruichi and Hancock exchanged insults, and Hancock’s Mero Mero Mellow failed to petrify Yoruichi.
• Hancock attacked with Perfume Femur, but Yoruichi blocked the kick with spiritual pressure.
• Hancock coated her shin in Armament Haki and drove more force into her attack.

Yoruichi fought Boa Hancock and tested the strength of her Armament Haki. Meanwhile, Unohana Retsu challenged Dracule Mihawk to a sword duel, hoping to break through her limits and grow stronger.

• Boa Hancock used Armament Haki and charged at Yoruichi, who activated Shunko and struck her with a powerful kick.
• Yoruichi noticed her foot had gone numb from Boa Hancock's hardened defense and teased Boa Hancock as she recovered.
• Dracule Mihawk recognized Unohana Retsu as a formidable swordswoman, and she introduced herself as captain of the 4th Division of the Thirteenth Division.
• Unohana Retsu asked Mihawk to let her experience his world's swordsmanship, and he accepted the challenge.
• Unohana Retsu released her killing intent and drew her curved blade as Mihawk drew Black Blade Yoru, preparing to duel.

Unohana Retsu and Mihawk continued their swordsmanship duel while Captain-Commander Yamamoto sealed Ace and the execution platform behind flames. Kurosaki Ichigo and Soi Fon faced the advancing pirates, and Uryu Ishida woke to learn that Boa Hancock had defeated him almost instantly.

• Unohana Retsu and Mihawk exchanged refined attacks, with Mihawk realizing she had weakened her strength to prolong their duel.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto surrounded the execution platform with flames, preventing Marco and the other pirates from reaching Ace.
• Kurosaki Ichigo and Soi Fon confronted Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates' commanders, and Ichigo activated Bankai before the melee began.
• Uryu Ishida woke beside Wu Biao and Inoue Orihime, then learned that Boa Hancock had petrified and defeated him in their brief encounter.
• Garp explained that Hancock's Devil Fruit power could petrify anyone captivated by her beauty, while Wu Biao continued teasing Ishida.

Byakuya Kuchiki and Kizaru continued their battle, with Kizaru relying on his speed and Logia body to evade Byakuya’s attacks. Byakuya unleashed Bankai and trapped Kizaru in a ring of blades, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Kizaru taunted the battered Byakuya and explained that Byakuya’s attacks could not touch his Logia body without Haki.
• Byakuya called Kizaru arrogant and released his Zanpakuto into the ground.
• Byakuya activated Bankai, transforming the towering blades around him into a vast sea of cherry blossom petals.
• Kizaru let the petals pass through his elemental body, then used Yata Mirror to appear behind Byakuya and launch a kick.
• Byakuya revealed that blades already spread across the ground had risen to trap Kizaru inside a circle and named the technique Gokei: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.

Byakuya Kuchiki defeated Kizaru and asked Wu Biao to teach him Haki, though he struggled to swallow his pride. Elsewhere, Mayuri Kurotsuchi confronted Donquixote Doflamingo inside a Birdcage and deliberately let Doflamingo’s Parasite take control of him.

• Byakuya Kuchiki used Senbonzakura Kageyoshi to cut down Kizaru, who collapsed unconscious.
• Wu Biao explained how Byakuya could exploit Kizaru’s vulnerable moments, while Garp described a way to trap him by enclosing his Yata Mirror path with petals.
• Byakuya asked Wu Biao what Haki was, but after Wu Biao demonstrated it, Byakuya turned to Garp for instruction.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi emerged from his laboratory barrier and found Donquixote Doflamingo’s Birdcage forcing Marines and pirates to attack one another.
• Mayuri dismissed Doflamingo’s offer to join his family and let Doflamingo’s Parasite land on him, inviting him to take control.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi used a potion and a staged struggle to overcome Donquixote Doflamingo’s Parasite and capture him. With Doflamingo restrained, Mayuri prepared to begin his experiments.

• Doflamingo used Parasite to control Mayuri, and Mayuri cut off his own arm while studying how the threads worked.
• Mayuri drew Ashisogi Jizō and appeared to break free, but Doflamingo’s attacks repeatedly sent his consciousness back to the same point in the past.
• Mayuri revealed that he had poisoned himself with a Past Travel Potion, which transferred to Doflamingo through the Parasite threads and eventually paralyzed him.
• Mayuri explained that Ashisogi Jizō severed his brain’s signals to his limbs, while a sensor and superglue let his sword defend against attacks automatically.
• A Marine put Seastone handcuffs on Doflamingo, and Mayuri regenerated his missing arm before announcing that the real experiment was about to begin.

The battle between Hitsugaya Tōshirō and Aokiji reached its conclusion as Hitsugaya unleashed his complete Bankai but could not defeat Aokiji’s elemental ice body. Meanwhile, Urahara Kisuke partnered with Gecko Moria over Gigai and shadow research while the wider battlefield remained chaotic.

• Wu Biao and his companions watched the battle while eating rice crackers, and Urahara Kisuke arrived with Gecko Moria as his new research partner.
• Urahara Kisuke explained that Moria was interested in his Gigai and that he wanted to study Moria’s ability to turn shadows into soul-like forms.
• Hitsugaya Tōshirō and Aokiji continued their fight amid a blizzard, and Aokiji emerged unharmed from Hitsugaya’s Ice Heaven Hundred Flower Funeral.
• Hitsugaya Tōshirō used Four Realms Freeze to freeze Marineford, but Aokiji walked out of the ice because his elemental body could merge with it.
• Hitsugaya Tōshirō admitted defeat after his complete Bankai failed to overcome Aokiji.

The battle continued as Aokiji admitted that Hitsugaya Tōshirō’s flames were beyond his ability to freeze. Elsewhere, Yoruichi toyed with Boa Hancock while Kurosaki Ichigo fought several opponents at once, and the chapter ended with the fighting still underway.

• Aokiji told Hitsugaya Tōshirō that his victory had depended on ice being ineffective against him, while acknowledging he could not freeze flames of that level.
• Yoruichi used her speed to tease Boa Hancock, who blushed with fury and could not catch her.
• Kurosaki Ichigo asked Soi Fon for help while fending off attacks from Vista and other opponents.
• Vista sensed Ichigo’s Getsuga Tenshō with Observation Haki, but an ally with azure flames intercepted the slash and rapidly regenerated.
• Soi Fon refused to help Ichigo because she was furious that Hancock had supposedly tried to seduce Yoruichi.
• On the platform, Urahara Kisuke and others commented on Yoruichi’s antics, while Byakuya Kuchiki recalled being tormented by her.

Kenpachi Zaraki fought Whitebeard until Whitebeard’s illness stopped him from attacking, and Zaraki spared him rather than strike at a weakened opponent. Zaraki revealed that he came from another world and left, while Whitebeard’s sons gathered around him as the battle neared its end.

• Whitebeard’s punch cracked Nozarashi and threatened to overwhelm Kenpachi Zaraki, but Whitebeard’s illness suddenly flared and weakened him.
• Kenpachi Zaraki stopped his descending slash just above Whitebeard’s head, badly injuring himself and breaking Nozarashi into three pieces.
• Whitebeard asked why Zaraki had spared him, and Zaraki said he had no interest in fighting a sick opponent.
• Kenpachi Zaraki told Whitebeard that he came from another world and named the fighting idiot as the only man he lacked confidence in defeating.
• Whitebeard’s commanders and forty-three captains rushed to his side, while Ace remained enclosed in flames and the battle drew toward its end.

As Marineford’s battle neared its end, Uryu Ishida unleashed a vast but carefully controlled volley that failed to impress the distant armies, and Red-Haired Shanks arrived to stop the fighting. Wu Biao ordered Kurosaki Ichigo to attack Shanks, and the chapter ended with Ichigo preparing to continue their duel.

• Urahara Kisuke explained that Wu Biao had been the strongest in his world and had sealed the only other contender in Hell.
• Uryu Ishida fired thousands of spirit-particle arrows across the battlefield, but the armies mistook his precise warning shots for terrible aim and charged again.
• Red-Haired Shanks arrived with his crew and used Conqueror’s Haki to halt the fighting, asking both sides to give him face and end the battle.
• Wu Biao ordered Kurosaki Ichigo to attack Shanks, and Ichigo clashed with him, carving a massive trench through Marineford’s harbor with Getsuga Tensho.
• Shanks said the battle needed to end, but Kurosaki Ichigo raised Zangetsu and prepared to fight on because Wu Biao had told him to get Shanks.

Kurosaki Ichigo and Shanks fought fiercely, destroying Marineford’s harbor and Marine Headquarters. After Ichigo fell behind in their first exchange, he powered up and his other voice took over, leaving Shanks facing a far stronger opponent.

• Kurosaki Ichigo and Shanks clashed at high speed, and the shockwaves shattered the harbor and collapsed Marine Headquarters.
• Shanks cut through Ichigo’s Getsuga Tensho and wounded his abdomen, while Ichigo’s blade bent Shanks’s rapier without breaking it.
• Ichigo let his Hollow Mask crack away and announced that his warm-up had ended.
• Ichigo’s next clash with Shanks formed a vacuum ring and sent a powerful shockwave across the battlefield.
• Shanks questioned Ichigo’s new horned form as Ichigo’s arrogant other voice argued with him over control of their body and threatened Brother Biao.

Kurosaki Ichigo and Shanks fought to a standstill before Wu Biao called Ichigo back, while Captain-Commander Yamamoto negotiated a plan with Sengoku and Akainu. Ace was freed, bringing the Summit War to a close, though most of the battlefield did not know what had happened.

• Kurosaki Ichigo and Shanks exchanged powerful attacks and ended up evenly matched, with their clash destroying the arena.
• Wu Biao called Kurosaki Ichigo back after the talks elsewhere had apparently finished, ending their fight.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto told Sengoku and Akainu that Shunsui Kyoraku and the Omnitsukido Corps would carry out their plan, and they agreed to provide an area for Soul Society to modify.
• Captain-Commander Yamamoto broke Ace's Seastone handcuffs, and the Summit War came to an end.
• The wounded returned to their ships as Whitebeard's fleet and Shanks departed, while Aokiji woke in a secluded corner and wondered if the battle was already over.

Wu Biao spent a quiet day at home with Xia Li and Yuzu Kurosaki, bored by his overwhelming strength and joking about his bald head. Meanwhile, the pirate world had been transformed by a new Council that replaced the Five Elders.

• Wu Biao and Xia Li bickered while watching television, and Yuzu Kurosaki dropped their ice cream after misinterpreting Xia Li’s words.
• Yuzu Kurosaki privately worried that she was the only one who was no longer innocent, while Wu Biao and Xia Li remained confused by her behavior.
• Wu Biao reflected that his restored strength had left him bored and uninterested in fighting, and he rubbed shine-enhancing butter onto his bald head.
• Wu Biao considered visiting Marine Headquarters but decided against it, unaware that the pirate world had entered a new era.
• The Five Elders were replaced by a twelve-member Council, while the Omnitsukido Corps and Shunsui Kyoraku purged the former Elders and their forces.

After the Council stripped the Celestial Dragons of their privileges and sent them to Hell, Wu Biao learned that Hell had discovered a new world. Elsewhere, researchers confirmed a route to the place where a mysterious person had been before appearing a year earlier.

• The Council expelled the Celestial Dragons from Mary Geoise, and Marine Headquarters began using the Gates of Hell to punish executed criminals, deterring mass slaughter.
• Hell summoned Wu Biao and told him that a tiny vortex to a new world had begun forming after the pirate world's cycle was established.
• Wu Biao misunderstood Hell's discovery as a route to the pirate world's New World, then angrily returned through a Hell Cavity to confront it.
• In a secret laboratory, researchers told a scarred man they had confirmed a target point by tracing data from a mysterious person's appearance a year earlier.
• The scarred man looked at a corpse in the laboratory and expressed excitement about reaching the target point.

Wu Biao visited the 4th Division, where he mocked Hirako Shinji and the Visored until Shinji used Bankai and ended up on a stretcher. Wu Biao then entered Unohana Retsu’s office, leaving his reason for visiting unclear.

• The 4th Division treated injured members of the 5th Division who had charged at Wu Biao and been beaten.
• Wu Biao teased Hirako Shinji about being bald and begging under an overpass, then learned Shinji had once been Aizen’s captain.
• Hirako Shinji used Bankai against Wu Biao, but two minutes later he was carried away on a stretcher, shouting that he would chop Wu Biao up.
• Wu Biao walked through the 4th Division barracks and greeted Kotetsu Isane with an insulting nickname.
• Wu Biao entered Unohana Retsu’s office, and she asked what he had come for.