Recaps

Sakazuki joined the Marines and fought in the battle of God Valley, where he helped destroy Rocks’s forces and trigger the island’s eruption. Afterward, he chose to patrol the Four Seas, where pirate crews were spreading violence, and hurried toward another burning island.

• Sakazuki joined the Marines, earned a captaincy, and reached Marineford’s elite training class after years of hunting pirates.
• During the God Valley battle, Sakazuki devastated the attacking pirates with magma and fought Kaido and Charlotte Linlin while Roger, Garp, Sengoku, and the Five Elders confronted Rocks.
• Sakazuki prepared God Valley’s underground magma to erupt, then warned the Marines to evacuate as the island grew dangerously hot.
• Rocks was driven toward the deep pit, proclaimed his name as he burned through his life, and the island exploded in a volcanic eruption.
• Sakazuki carried survivors across the magma, rescued Sengoku, Garp, Kong, and the two Five Elders, and reported the Marines’ losses after the battle.
• In 1484, the Marines concealed parts of the God Valley incident and celebrated Garp, while Sakazuki volunteered to patrol the Four Seas and hunt pirates.
• As pirates preyed on communities and recruited across the Four Blues, Sakazuki’s patrols curbed their violence until his crew spotted another burning island ahead.

Sakazuki advanced through the Navy while confronting pirates, helping Cricket pursue the truth about Noland, and seeking peace between Skypiea’s peoples. The arc left Sakazuki and Carol with Enel after he ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

• Sakazuki crushed a pirate attack, rescued the town’s children, and inspired one boy to seek a place in the Marines.
• Sakazuki received his Vice Admiral promotion, gave Morris his Faith and Justice booklet, and led his crew through training and a battle with the Kuja Pirates.
• Sakazuki killed Dobin, met Monkey D. Dragon, and comforted Cricket by affirming that Noland had not lied about Shandora’s gold.
• Sakazuki and Cricket rode the Knock Up Stream to Skypiea, where Gan Fall asked Sakazuki to help seek peace with the Shandia.
• Sakazuki revealed Shandora and its bell to Cricket, but the Shandia chief rejected reconciliation before Kulen later rang the bell and called for Cricket’s return.
• On Birka, Sakazuki and Carol found Enel, learned of his powerful Observation Haki, and brought him aboard their warship.
• Sakazuki and Carol entered hidden ruins beneath Birka’s altar, found records and blueprints for the Ark Maxim, and uncovered the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Carol persuaded Enel to eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Enel swallowed it.

Sakazuki took Enel and Bullet under his wing while pursuing pirates and building the Marines’ strength. The story left Sakazuki locked in battle with Whitebeard as Roger, Garp, Sengoku, Zephyr, and Shiki fought across the Sgrily Sea.

• Sakazuki fought Roger on Kegesi Island, then escaped the collapsing battlefield and returned to Marine duty with Enel.
• Sakazuki introduced Enel to Kong and entrusted his education to Morris before leading the attack that killed Byrnndi World and his crew.
• Three years later, Carol rescued Douglas Bullet from the Wheel Pirate Crew, and Bullet joined the Navy with Sakazuki and Carol.
• Enel rescued Zephyr’s son from pirates, and Sakazuki killed the swordsman who came after Enel before Zephyr recovered his child.
• Whitebeard attacked the G4 Branch to rescue Theodore, and Sakazuki fought him as the island broke apart and became covered in magma.
• Roger, Garp, Sengoku, and other forces arrived at the battle, while Zephyr attacked the Oro Jackson and killed several of Roger’s crewmates.
• Roger fought to reach his ship as Shiki joined the conflict, while Sakazuki and Whitebeard resumed their battle amid the ruined island.
• Sakazuki unleashed Lava Burial against Whitebeard, and Golden Lion formed giant lion heads from the ground as Garp fought to stop them.

After the Sgrily Naval Battle, Sakazuki recovered and strengthened his forces while testing Enel’s convictions against the Marines’ corruption and the world’s cruelty. He crushed Golden Lion’s fleet, planted the seeds of a revolution, and turned his attention to Kaido.

• Sakazuki and Whitebeard fought to a devastating finish at Sgrily, where Whitebeard died after unleashing an attack that wrecked both fleets and left Sakazuki comatose.
• After waking half a year later, Sakazuki formed the Roaring Assault Squad around Bullet, then arrested Vegapunk and his fellow MADS scientists while arranging for Enel to learn from Vegapunk.
• Sakazuki showed Enel the slave trade, corrupt Marines, and the cruelty of the Celestial Dragons, then forced him to confront the cost of allowing even celebrated pirates to live.
• Garp found Sengoku on Palini Island and restored his memories, while Golden Lion attacked G-3 Branch and drew Sakazuki and the Marines into a trap in the Lana Sea.
• Sengoku and Garp ambushed Golden Lion, and Sakazuki helped destroy his fleet, though Golden Lion escaped with one arm lost.
• Sakazuki wrote a revolutionary booklet and tasked Carol with protecting it until the right opportunity to release it.
• Sakazuki learned that Vegapunk wanted Enel’s help finding a mythical creature, identified Kaido as a Mythical Zoan user, and ordered Carol to investigate him.