Recaps

The Marines and Revolutionary Army fought a desperate battle as the Revolutionary Army’s fish-men allies helped overwhelm the Marines. When the Marines’ leaders called for help, five powerful ancestors of the Celestial Dragons appeared and shifted the battlefield back in the Marines’ favor.

• Jinbe’s fish-men and the Revolutionary Army attacked the Marines from both sides, quickly overwhelming their forces.
• Garp suppressed Jinbe and Sabo, while Akainu, Aokiji, and the other Marines resolved to fight to the death and launched a desperate assault.
• Hina’s plans to capture Marine officers failed as the battlefield descended into brutal close combat.
• Sengoku roared at the unseen powers to stop the Marines from being wiped out, and five old men appeared on the execution platform.
• The Five Elders, Celestial Dragon ancestors whose strength surpassed an Admiral’s, entered the battle and restored the Marines’ position.

The Five Elders arrived with the World Government’s airship fleet, revealing that the Navy had been left to fight as expendable scouts. Koala ordered the Revolutionary Army to fire on the airships, while Nami rejected Yamato’s plea to spare Kaido and focused on the Five Elders as the real threat.

• The Five Elders appeared with an airship fleet, prompting both armies to pause and the Navy to retreat beneath the execution platform.
• The Navy’s senior officers realized the World Government had withheld its air force until the Revolutionary Army’s strength was exposed, leaving the Navy’s soldiers embittered.
• Ivankov used his Healing Hormone to quickly revive wounded Revolutionary Army soldiers, while the battlefield remained uncertain about Kuma and Dragon’s whereabouts.
• Koala ordered the Revolutionary Army fleets to open fire, and their electromagnetic cannons struck the airships and hit Kaido during his fight with Kyros.
• Yamato begged the Revolutionary Army to stop shooting Kaido, but Nami dismissed her plea and warned that Kaido might consider his condition worse than death.
• Nami watched the burning airships fall and recognized the Five Elders as the battle’s true threat.

The Revolutionary Army discovered that the World Government had deployed a large air force, but its battleships quickly shot down most of the airships. The wreckage revealed artificial giants, and Sabo realized Vegapunk had succeeded in creating the giant soldiers the Revolutionary Army had been hunting him over.

• The Revolutionary Army watched the World Government’s airships descend, then recognized how much their strength depended on the nation’s industrial support.
• The Revolutionary Army’s battleships and cruisers opened fire and destroyed more than half of the airships.
• The revolutionaries saw giants over twenty meters tall fall into the sea among the wreckage.
• Sabo identified the giants as Artificial Giant Soldiers and realized Vegapunk had produced them.

Leo and Rayleigh discussed the origins of the armored giants attacking the Revolutionary Army and the secrets behind the World Government’s technology. Rayleigh explained how Roger could understand the Poneglyphs through his ability to hear the voices of all things.

• Armored giants descended from the fallen airship and landed in the sea, revealing the force the Revolutionary Army faced.
• Leo said Vegapunk had recreated giants using records left by gods from another world, while other created races had been abandoned.
• Leo wondered whether the giants had eaten Artificial Devil Fruits, but Rayleigh doubted it because many technologies had been lost during the Void Century.
• Rayleigh explained that Roger could read the Poneglyphs because he could hear the voices of all things.

The Revolutionary Army coordinated its defense while Sengoku and the Marines refused to keep serving as expendable pawns for the World Government. The Five Elders ordered the Admirals into battle, but Sengoku challenged the Elders to fight for themselves.

• Koala directed the Revolutionary Army to keep firing on the airships while others held off the giants, and Sabo led the forces back to the second line of defense.
• Sengoku and the Marines held back, angered that the World Government had concealed its plans and treated them as cannon fodder.
• Garp taunted the Five Elders as they confronted Sengoku, while the Elders ordered Aokiji and Akainu to begin the final battle.
• Aokiji and Akainu led the Marines into battle, but the Revolutionary Army's coordinated defense scattered their attacks without breaking its formation.
• When a Five Elder asked whether Sengoku and Garp would fight, Sengoku claimed he was too old and challenged the Five Elders to show their strength.

The Revolutionary Army’s artillery and snipers devastated the World Government’s airships and artificial giants, forcing the Five Elders to intervene. Sabo intercepted a Five Elder and coordinated the response as Zoro and Daz Bones joined the fight against him.

• The Revolutionary Army shot down the World Government’s airships and blasted through the giants’ armor, while snipers targeted the giants’ heads.
• The Five Elders realized their forces were at risk of defeat and decided they had to advance.
• The bald, bespectacled Five Elder drew his sword and vanished to attack the Revolutionary Army’s front lines.
• Sabo blocked the Five Elder’s strike with his Armament Haki water pipe and explained that he was coordinating the frontline response.
• Sabo called for reinforcements, and Zoro and Daz Bones arrived to attack the Five Elder together.

Zoro and Daz Bones held off Elder Tenyue while the Revolutionary Army’s fighters pressured the Admirals, making the Five Elders seem less invincible than expected. As the Five Elders entered the fight, Rob Lucci and Kaku appeared to confront a bearded Elder, leaving Leo confident that the battle was unfolding as he anticipated.

• Zoro and Daz Bones joined forces to block Elder Tenyue, while the Revolutionary Army’s fighters pressured Aokiji and Akainu.
• Leo reassured Rayleigh that the Five Elders joining the fight would reveal his plan, despite the odds against the Revolutionary Army.
• A square-faced, bearded Five Elder charged toward Sabo, but Rob Lucci and Kaku stepped in to face him.
• The bearded Elder recognized Lucci and Kaku as former CP9 agents, and Lucci declared that they had joined the Revolutionary Army to hunt important figures like him.

The Revolutionary Army kept the Five Elders and Marines under pressure as other factions reconsidered the Marines’ apparent weakness and the Revolutionary Army’s four years of preparation. Sengoku prepared to intervene, but an unknown speaker warned that neither he nor Garp would be allowed to leave.

• Big Mom's children considered how their forces might have attacked the Marines, while the Red-Haired Pirates accepted Benn Beckman's warning that they could not defeat the Marines and escape the giants and airships.
• The chapter explained that Leo had spent four years stockpiling supplies, advancing technology, and preparing for the decisive battle.
• The Five Elders joined the fighting, where Jinbe, Fujitora, Sabo, and Revolutionary Army colonels engaged them one by one.
• Aokiji and Akainu remained under pressure from multiple opponents as the prolonged battle drained their strength and Observation Haki.
• Sengoku decided to help Akainu and asked Garp to hold the line, but an unknown voice said neither of them was going anywhere.

The Revolutionary Army overwhelmed the Marines as Aokiji and Akainu fell, leaving Sengoku and the Five Elders under pressure. With Doflamingo fleeing and the battle nearing its end, Sengoku pressed a button whose purpose remained unknown.

• Dragon and Kuma engaged Garp and Sengoku as Revolutionary Army elites surged onto the battlefield.
• Zephyr captured Aokiji with Seastone, and Ace and Ivankov moved to help Hancock and Smoker.
• The Marines collapsed under the Revolutionary Army's attacks, and Zephyr pinned down Akainu while Smoker and Hina captured Vice Admirals.
• Doflamingo fled inside Kaido as Kyros abandoned his pursuit and dove to assist the Revolutionary Army.
• Sengoku watched Ace and Kyros approach, pulled a button from his chest, and pressed it.

Sengoku’s misjudgment led the Celestial Dragons to rush into the battle, while he activated the Marines’ hidden Dyna Stone failsafe beneath Marineford. As poison gas spread through the island, Sabo, Ace, Kuma, and Dragon scrambled to evacuate everyone.

• The Celestial Dragons arrived before Sengoku expected, forcing him to take them with him as the Marines’ final sacrifice plan unfolded.
• Magellan began vaporizing the Dyna Stone beneath Marineford, while Caesar—restrained by Seastone—struggled to escape the poison gas.
• Caesar died as the gas spread through Marineford’s ventilation ducts.
• Sabo stopped Ace from trying to burn away the gas and called on Dragon and Kuma for help.
• Kuma sent Sengoku and Garp away, while Dragon opened a passage through Moria and ordered the Revolutionary Army to retreat.

The Revolutionary Army escaped Sengoku’s poisonous gas trap and withdrew to its warships, while Sabo ordered the fleet to destroy Marineford. The chapter ended with the Marine Headquarters engulfed in a mushroom cloud and the Revolutionary Army preparing for chemical fallout.

• Bon Clay and Galdino escaped as Revolutionary Army members used their abilities to seal gaps and flee the poisonous gas.
• Kuma, Dragon, Moria, and others moved the Revolutionary Army troops to safety while the mist spread across Marineford.
• Sabo seized the broadcasting Den Den Mushi and returned with them to the Revolutionary Army’s warships.
• Sabo ordered the fleet to fire on Marineford, and the warships’ cannons struck the island in unison.
• The Revolutionary Army put on gas masks and prepared biological and chemical weapon protection as a mushroom cloud rose over Marineford.

After the Revolutionary Army captured Sengoku, Garp, and the Five Elders, Leo deduced that Imu had been unable to leave Mary Geoise and declared victory. He ordered the army to clean up and return to Jaya Island, leaving the Celestial Dragons’ stronghold untouched for now.

• Sengoku and Garp were brought into Leo’s cabin, where Sengoku recognized that Leo’s frailty was an accepted fact among the united Revolutionary Army.
• Leo noted that Imu had not joined the battle and concluded that he could not leave Mary Geoise, making him vulnerable now that the Five Elders had been forced to act.
• Leo told Sabo that the Revolutionary Army had won, and the army across the ships erupted in cheers.
• Leo ordered the Revolutionary Army to clean up the battlefield and return to Jaya Island instead of attacking the Celestial Dragons’ stronghold.
• Garp and Sengoku exchanged shocked looks as the Revolutionary Army accepted Leo’s order.

The captured Navy officers remained prisoners aboard a Revolutionary Army ship as Sengoku and Garp confronted their defeat. Smoker explained that Zephyr’s death had led him and others to join the Revolutionary Army to end the war with as little bloodshed as possible.

• The Navy prisoners greeted Sengoku and Garp when they arrived at the lower hold, and the two were locked in special Seastone cells beside Aokiji.
• Sengoku accepted the Navy’s defeat and said the Revolutionary Army could kill or torture him as it wished.
• Smoker and Hina entered the prison hold, and Smoker rejected Sengoku’s surrender, saying Zephyr’s death had not been in vain.
• Smoker said he and Zephyr’s disciples had joined the Revolutionary Army to end the conflict quickly, reduce bloodshed, and help end the Great Pirate Era.
• Aokiji argued that joining the Revolutionary Army had caused the Navy to lose faster, but Smoker replied that continuing the stalemate would only have cost more lives.

Leo began broadcasting the hidden history of the world, telling how gods from beyond the heavens ruled humanity around nine hundred years ago and sparked a revolution by treating civilized people as livestock. His account left the Navy and others anticipating the truth behind humanity’s rebellion.

• Smoker reflected that joining the Revolutionary Army had accelerated a conflict he believed would ultimately reduce deaths, and noted that Enel had been part of the Revolutionary Army’s unused dead man’s switch.
• An officer brought Smoker a Den Den Mushi so he could watch Leo’s live broadcast, while the imprisoned Navy officers gathered to listen.
• Leo told the audience that he had watched the battle without fighting and introduced a story about a dragon slayer becoming a dragon.
• Leo said that gods from beyond the heavens had ruled the world for an unknown number of years, bringing technology, civilization, and powerful abilities.
• Leo explained that humanity rebelled after the gods began treating people they had civilized as livestock to slaughter, torment, and eat.

Leo recounted how humanity overthrew the gods, gained power through Devil Fruits, and was abandoned to rule itself. He explained how the World Government arose and how its twenty leaders eventually declared themselves the new gods.

• Leo described how revolutionaries organized humanity’s resistance against the gods and split into rebels who fought openly and loyalists who gained the gods’ trust.
• The rebels seized the gods’ control over fire, destroyed their machines, and made power available to humanity through Devil Fruits.
• A worldwide uprising frightened the gods into leaving the planet, and humanity divided the abandoned islands into kingdoms.
• The kings created an annual council, but corruption and ambition led them to establish the World Government, overseen by twenty people.
• Leo said the twenty leaders claimed the title of gods, creating a new ruling class.

Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s Five-Year Plan, arguing that it needed safeguards against repeating the World Government’s cycle of oppression. He began outlining reforms to unify governance and reshape the seas, leaving the plan unfinished.

• Leo warned that the Revolutionary Army could eventually become tyrants like the World Government and be overthrown in turn.
• The imprisoned Five Elders dismissed Leo’s efforts and believed Imu would ultimately destroy the Revolutionary Army.
• Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s guiding principles for the next five years, calling them the Five-Year Plan.
• Leo said the first year would abolish all nations and unify taxes and systems, while the second year would bring people into a shared census and governance system.
• Leo outlined plans for the third year to transform the Calm Belt, flatten the Red Line, and make global sea travel easier.

Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s Five-Year Plan, promising to connect the Four Seas, protect people’s basic rights, bring everyone under its jurisdiction, and eliminate piracy. He ended by asking people worldwide to join the effort, while the Five Elders insisted the plan was impossible.

• Leo’s proposal to open the Four Seas and cut through the Red Line stunned the audience, while the Five Elders panicked and declared it impossible.
• Merchants celebrated the prospect of freer trade, trusting the Revolutionary Army because it had kept its promises and paid them on time.
• Leo argued that the Celestial Dragons controlled Mary Geoise and the Sabaody Archipelago to exploit trade routes, and that replacing them with another monarchy would only restart the cycle of rule and decay.
• Leo announced that the Revolutionary Army would bring everyone under its jurisdiction, guarantee safety and basic Human Rights, and eliminate all pirates between the fourth and fifth years of its plan.
• Leo invited people around the world to join the Revolutionary Army as workers and talented recruits, then concluded his speech.

After Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s plans, pirates began raiding naval bases while the Revolutionary Army attacked governments around the world. Big Mom prepared to strike the Whitebeard Pirates, as Teach rallied division commanders against Whitebeard’s decision to surrender to the Revolutionary Army.

• After Leo ended the broadcast, pirates rushed to raid nearby naval bases, and Revolutionary Army forces launched attacks on governments.
• Big Mom declared that her crew must defeat the other Four Emperors and claim One Piece before confronting the Revolutionary Army.
• Big Mom named the Whitebeard Pirates as her first target and mobilized Totto Land for war.
• Teach gathered dissatisfied Whitebeard Pirates division commanders and sought to break them away from Whitebeard’s decision to surrender to the Revolutionary Army.

Whitebeard faced a revolt from Blackbeard Teach and division captains who opposed joining the Revolutionary Army, but he refused to change his decision. When Teach demanded to leave the Whitebeard Pirates, Whitebeard told everyone who agreed with him they were free to go.

• Jozu and Marco confronted Teach as division captains gathered behind him to oppose joining the Revolutionary Army.
• Teach secretly hoped to split the Whitebeard Pirates and gather captains and divisions to build his own power.
• Marco recognized that Teach's followers were provoking Whitebeard, while the growing crowd pressured him to reconsider.
• Whitebeard silenced the crew and declared his decision final.
• Teach demanded to leave the Whitebeard Pirates, and Whitebeard told him and anyone who shared his views to go.

Blackbeard left the Whitebeard Pirates with three Division Captains after Marco failed to stop his recruitment, while a newspaper reported that Big Mom planned to attack Whitebeard. Whitebeard rallied his crew for war and refused Marco’s suggestion to notify the Revolutionary Army.

• Blackbeard invited the Whitebeard Pirates’ captains to leave with him, and Marco’s warning drove more pirates to side with Teach.
• Teach departed with an auxiliary ship and the flagships of Blamenco, Curiel, and Atmos, then mocked those who stayed under Whitebeard’s protection.
• A News Bird delivered a newspaper reporting that Totto Land might declare war on the Whitebeard Pirates, and Marco alerted Whitebeard.
• Whitebeard told his crew that Big Mom was targeting them because they were the strongest and rallied them to prepare for battle.
• Marco asked whether they should notify the Revolutionary Army, but Whitebeard refused outside help.

The Revolutionary Army learned that Big Mom was targeting the aging Whitebeard Pirates and ordered full support for its allies to prevent a powerful pirate alliance from forming. Four Revolutionary Army warships sailed toward the New World, while residents of the Sabaody Archipelago called on the army to protect them.

• The Revolutionary Army's intelligence network detected Big Mom's mobilization and determined that her target was the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Leo ordered the Revolutionary Army to fully support the Whitebeard Pirates and sent three Peace Class battleships and a Supply Ship to the New World.
• Kyros, Ace, and Issho sailed aboard the battleships with the force dispatched to aid Whitebeard.
• Twenty days after the Battle of Marineford, the four warships passed through the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Residents from across the Sabaody Archipelago waved red flags and asked the Revolutionary Army to station troops there.

Kyros, Issho, and Ace reflected on how the Navy’s failures had strengthened pirates, while the Revolutionary Army restored security in the Sabaody Archipelago. The Army refused to delay its campaign against the Four Emperors to celebrate with residents, leaving the people impressed by its discipline and convinced it was a better force.

• Kyros and Issho agreed that the people’s pleas for help reflected their desire for order, and Ace explained how the Navy’s weak bases had filtered strong pirates toward the Four Emperors.
• Ace regretted that the Commander-in-Chief had been forced into war with the Navy, while Issho argued that the brief lawlessness after its defeat showed why order mattered.
• The Revolutionary Army drove off pirates and restored security, prompting residents of the Sabaody Archipelago to invite its soldiers ashore to celebrate.
• The Revolutionary Army refused to camp near civilians or accept their celebration, explaining that it had to maintain discipline and continue its mission against the Four Emperors.
• The soldiers saluted the people from the warships, and the residents welcomed them as the Army of Kings.

Blackbeard Teach celebrated his departure from the Whitebeard Pirates and persuaded several division captains to join his new crew, promising they could aid Whitebeard by striking the Big Mom Pirates from behind. The crew prepared for battle while unaware that the Revolutionary Army was advancing into the New World.

• Blackbeard Teach read the news of the Big Mom Pirates attacking the Whitebeard Pirates and celebrated the opportunity to build his own crew.
• Blackbeard Teach reflected that leaving the Whitebeard Pirates let him start as a captain and recruit division captains, though he lacked the Marines’ bounties and fame to attract more pirates.
• Blamenco asked whether they should return to help Father Whitebeard, and Blackbeard Teach persuaded him and the other captains to attack Big Mom’s forces from the rear instead.
• Blackbeard Teach set the crew’s next combat objective, and the crew celebrated in a city within Whitebeard’s territory.
• The Revolutionary Army advanced toward the New World, while Blackbeard Teach and his men lacked access to the intelligence he had once received through the Whitebeard Pirates.

Big Mom learned that the Revolutionary Army was approaching and ordered her fleet to race toward the Whitebeard Pirates before the reinforcements arrived. The Whitebeard Pirates remained unaware of her desperate plan and celebrated, believing the Revolutionary Army would deter her.

• Big Mom received news that the Revolutionary Army had entered the New World and recognized the danger of facing it alongside Whitebeard.
• Katakuri advised Big Mom to withdraw to Totto Land because a war against Whitebeard and the Revolutionary Army would be difficult to win.
• Big Mom refused to retreat and ordered the Queen Mama Chanter and the rest of her fleet to speed up and attack Whitebeard before the Revolutionary Army arrived.
• The Whitebeard Pirates feasted, unaware that Big Mom was racing toward their encampment to strike before reinforcements reached them.

Whitebeard prepared the Whitebeard Pirates for Big Mom’s expected attack while Marco tasked Jozu with landing the decisive strike that would defeat her. As Marco scouted from the sky, Big Mom’s forces captured him and brought him before a tall woman.

• Whitebeard ordered Marco and Jozu to prepare for battle, certain Big Mom would not abandon her pursuit.
• Marco told Jozu to take controlled injuries, conceal his abilities, and strike Big Mom at the critical moment so the Whitebeard Pirates could continue without Whitebeard.
• Marco struck Jozu to stop his doubts, and Jozu regained his resolve.
• Marco transformed into a phoenix and flew out to scout the sea.
• A cloud opened its eyes, pulled Marco into a strange space, and delivered him into a tall woman’s hand.