Recaps

The Navy launched its campaign against the Emperors while Sakazuki used Uta’s execution to provoke Shanks and the other pirates. The World Government then erased seven Revolutionary Army islands, leaving Dragon to hide the scale of the disaster as the conflict widened.

• Shanks fought Enel and confronted Bullet over Yasopp and Dege, while Beckman explained that Sakazuki had turned the End Point islands into a trap and Shanks proposed gathering the Emperors.
• Sakazuki mobilized the Navy, appointed Issho and Aramaki as Admirals, and sent Aramaki to destroy the Vinsmoke fleet and capture Judge.
• Carol killed Cavendish and Kid’s crew, while Crocodile told Robin to preserve Rain Dinners and Katakuri warned Shanks that the Navy had breached Totto Land’s defenses.
• Sakazuki revealed that the Navy had captured Uta, then ordered her public execution, after announcing that she was Shanks’s daughter, he killed her before the world and threatened the Emperors.
• Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, Hale Nock, and the other pirate forces clashed with the Navy as Borsalino, Fujitora, Aramaki, and Garp faced the Emperors and their commanders.
• Luffy set sail from Foosha Village, while Dragon and Sabo prepared to declare war on the World Government and Bonney traveled with Sabo toward the Sorbet Kingdom.
• Imu erased seven islands with devastating blasts, destroying the Sorbet Kingdom and Revolutionary Army bases, and Dragon learned that more than a hundred thousand people had died.
• Sakazuki ordered the Navy to prepare defensively and commissioned Pluton’s original cannon, while Dragon concealed the disaster’s scale to protect Revolutionary Army morale.

Sakazuki escalated the Navy’s war against the Four Emperors while secretly maneuvering to draw pirates into a decisive confrontation. As the Revolutionary Army prepared to strike at Mary Geoise and Luffy set out with Zoro, Sengoku suspected Sakazuki planned to destroy Sabaody Archipelago.

• Dragon declared war on the World Government and launched the Revolutionary Army’s advance across the Four Blues, while Hubert died destroying Fruit Island’s defenses.
• Sakazuki concentrated the Navy’s attacks on Big Mom and Kaido, and Sote’s forces devastated Whole Cake Island, seized its Poneglyph, and abducted Pudding.
• Sakazuki displayed the Poneglyph at Marine Headquarters and challenged pirates to take it, while Shanks decided the Red Hair Pirates would prolong the war.
• Sakazuki attacked Kaido’s forces at Qibu Island, killed Ulti, Who’s-Who, and Queen, and drove Kaido to flee toward Wano by convincing him his country and family were in danger.
• Big Mom arrived in Wano and clashed with Kaido, while Shanks rallied the Red Hair Pirates and Hale Nock prepared to join their counterattack.
• Dragon learned the World Government might be monitoring Revolutionary Army communications, ordered new Den Den Mushi, and planned attacks on Mary Geoise using ships able to cross the Calm Belt.
• Luffy and Zoro argued over the dangers of the widening war, while Nami returned to Cocoyasi Village and took oranges from Bellemere’s home.
• Rosinante warned Sengoku that Sakazuki might plan to destroy Sabaody Archipelago, but Sakazuki told Sengoku to follow orders.

Sakazuki escalated the Marines’ war against the pirates while the Five Elders worked to undermine him, and the conflict devastated the Red Hair Pirates. In Alabasta, Crocodile’s hunt for Pluton ended with his death and the revelation that the weapon lay beneath Wano’s magma.

• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to evacuate Sabaody and spread their forces across the New World, while Enel’s Aerial Fleet helped evacuate troops and destroyed pirate ships.
• Sakazuki planned to use magma strikes and Marine advances to funnel pirates toward Whole Cake Island and Wano, while the Five Elders backed the pirates to keep the Marines occupied.
• Crocodile prepared to seize Pluton in Alabasta, but Carol, Enel, and Bullet secretly monitored him as Sakazuki weighed whether to intervene.
• Sakazuki attacked the Red Hair Pirates alone, killed Yasopp and Howling Gab, and forced Shanks to retreat after a fierce battle.
• Usopp and Luffy learned of the Red Hair Pirates’ defeat, while Sakazuki continued his campaign and the Five Elders increased their support for the pirates.
• Carol recovered the Ripe-Ripe Fruit and helped Sakazuki mature Pudding, restore her Third Eye, and send the removed eye to Charlotte Linlin, who called on Kaido to attack the Marines.
• Robin and Sabo reached Alabasta as Crocodile seized Cobra and Robin, but Robin found no mention of Pluton on the hidden Poneglyph and Crocodile prepared to kill her.
• Sabo tried to rescue Robin and Cobra, but Bullet captured them and Cobra died, and Carol revealed that the Poneglyph placed Pluton beneath Wano’s magma, then killed Crocodile with Bullet’s help and greeted Robin in Rolka’s voice.

Sakazuki destroyed the Four Emperors and declared the Great Pirate Era over, then turned his campaign toward the Revolutionary Army and Mary Geoise. As the final battles spread, the Marines faced mutiny and heavy losses, while Sakazuki’s magma devastated Fish-Man Island.

• Carol revealed to Robin that he was Rolka and told her that Sakazuki had written both books, while Bullet killed Sabo and Carol extracted his Devil Fruit.
• Bullet massacred the prisoners at Impel Down, including Shiryu, Redfield, and Ivankov, then left Magellan to evacuate as the prison collapsed.
• Robin learned that Sakazuki planned to destroy islands with civilians still on them, and Carol defended his methods by comparing them with Ohara’s disregard for others’ suffering.
• Sakazuki destroyed dozens of islands and announced total war, then killed Pudding during a worldwide broadcast and launched a Buster Call on Sabaody.
• Sakazuki and Bullet killed Hale Nock, Shanks, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido, while Carol helped capture Luffy and sent him to Egghead for forced maturation.
• Carol displayed the four Emperors’ heads on the Execution Platform, and the Marines declared the Great Pirate Era over as fighting continued across the blockade.
• The Charlotte Pirates attacked Marine forces, Doberman died in a Dyna Stone explosion, and Dragon led the Revolutionary Army’s assault on Mary Geoise.
• Sakazuki prepared for battle beneath Marineford while Jack headed for the final End Point, and Issho tried to save Fish-Man Island before Sakazuki’s magma destroyed it.