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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review
your source for everything One Piece
and most specifically, Sagas In Minutes.
The series that names to equip you
with the basic knowledge
to leap into the wilderness of One Piece.
And today we are on the verge
of catching up with modern events
as we step into the latest and what is sure to be
the longest saga in the entire series,
being the Yonko Saga.
The Yonko Saga is the ninth in the series,
which currently consists of four arcs,
one of which is still ongoing
at the time of this recording being Wano.
And so I am unable to give you an accurate assessment
of chapters and episodes at this point anyway.
However, currently it is startlingly approaching
the 200 chapter mark.
So we have quite possibly looking at the longest
and most earth shaking saga in the series thus far.
Diving into things
immediately following the events of Dressrosa,
one faction of the straw hats are ferried
to the Island of Zou
to meet up with the rest of their crew.
Only to discover that the quote unquote "Island,"
is actually a gigantic elephant
that houses an entire civilization on top of it.
After scaling the elephant, the straw hats are met
with one of the most beautiful landscapes
ever featured in the series,
as well as swiftly encounter the Mink Tribe.
The species of humanoid mammals who are native to Zou.
And after a somewhat shaky start,
it is revealed that the straw hats
are considered something of a heroic by the Minks.
Which has to do with the actions
of the other half their crew,
who during the events of Dressrosa,
had arrived on the Island led by Sanji
only to discover Zou and its citizens
on the verge of death following a grand battle.
Now this has because very recently,
a man by the name of Jack,
a key member of the Beast Pirates
who are captained by none other
than Emperor of the Sea, Kaido.
Who, as just sidebar for a second,
you may remember as the man who Luffy and Law
initially formed an alliance to take down.
In any case, Jack was charged with hunting down a Ninja
from the land of Wano by the name of Rizo.
Now Rizo is a comrade of Kinnaman Momonosuke and Kanjuro,
an assortment of very strange individuals
that we have been collecting over the last few arcs,
with their ultimate purpose to become clear shortly.
However, the Minks vehemently denied that Rizo
was on the Island.
And a battle lasting five days and nights would commence
with Jack and his forces engaging in brutal combat
with the Mink Tribe led by Inuarashi during the day
and Master Nakimushi at night.
But after five days,
both sides found themselves within a stalemate.
And so Jack resorted to using a chemical weapon,
which interestingly enough,
was actually developed by Caesar Clown.
And it pretty much instantaneously resulted
in the resounding defeat of the Mink Tribe.
But before he could cause too much damage
Jack receive word that Donquixote Doflamingo
had been defeated on Dressrosa by Monkey D. Luffy.
That was important to say the least
because Doflamingo was responsible for trafficking weapons
and artificial devil fruits.
And so Jack set off to reclaim Doflamingo from the Marines,
at which point he was met in battle
by now Inspector General Sengoku,
Admiral Fujitora, and Vice Admiral Tsuru.
Which resulted in Jack's reported death.
Spoilers though, he did not die.
So the Sanji faction of the Straw Hats arrived after this.
And given that they just so happened to have Caesar Clown
with them as a prisoner,
they forced him to develop a cure
for his own chemical weapon
and thus saved the entirety of the Mink Tribe.
Our problems most certainly do not end there though,
because with the exit of one Emperor of the Sea,
another came to take their place.
With Pekoms and Capone Gang Bege arriving on the Island
in the name of Big Mom.
And this team was charged with the task
of abducting Sanji of all people,
which was quite the surprise
with the plan being to forcibly have him marry
one of Big Mom's daughters known as Charlotte Pudding.
Now this is because Sanji has a ton of history
that we were not aware of up until now,
and is in fact a former of Prince of the Germa Kingdom,
led by his father Vinsmoke Judge.
Who offered Sanji up to form an alliance
with the Big Mom Pirates.
More on that later though.
While we're here, Bege also took Cesar as well,
because unfortunately for this clown,
Big Mom just so happens to have business with him as well.
Oh, and finally Bege also ended up betraying Pekoms
by shooting him in the back because Bege is very sneaky
and he has some plans of his own to implement.
Pekoms would of course recover on Zou
which was his home Island, as he himself is a Mink.
The Straw Hats would eventually come
to be reunited, San Sanji.
Now after Kinemon and Kendro
eventually made it up the elephant
because they encountered a, how shall I put this?
A series of misfortunes.
The Mink Tribe then revealed
that Rizo is indeed on the Island and that he is safe.
Meaning that each and every one of them
endured harsh torture and potential death
just to keep this ninja hidden.
When we had taken to see Rizo, not only do we encounter
the strangest Wano citizen yet,
but also a very funky red Poneglyph
known as a Road Poneglyph.
One of only four in the world,
which when combined will reveal the location
of the legendary Island of Raftel.
At this point, we also finally get to understand
why we've been collecting these weird Wano people
because their country had been taken over by Kaido
and they are searching for allies
to help them bring him down.
Which Luffy does eventually agreed to do
along with Trafalgar Law and the Mink Tribe.
And as such the Ninja, Pirate, Mink,
Samurai alliance was born.
But immediately after this alive and well,
Jack would attempt to return to Zou
only to be promptly struck down by the trunk of Zunisha
in one of the most glorious pieces of action
within One Piece.
But we aren't headed to Wano just yet
because we still have a little bit
of a Sanji problem to solve,
which sees Luffy, Naomi, Brook and Chopper,
deciding to embark into the territory of Big Mom
in order to reclaim him.
On this trip, they are also going to be taking Pekoms
member of the Big Mom Pirates
to guide them, which also results
in a Mink by the name of Pedro coming along
in order to keep Pekoms in line.
Oh, and very, very sneakily another Mink named Carrot
snuck aborad The Thousand Sunny
and only made her presence known after they had departed.
So the Sanji retrieval team said their goodbyes
to the Dressrosa Straw Hat faction,
and they promised to meet up again on Wano
to implement their plans to take down Kaido.
Which leads us into the next arc.
On their way to Whole Cake Island,
the home territory of Big Mom
situated within the greater empire of Totto Land,
our retrieval team encounter a ship
transporting two members of the Vinsmoke family
being Vinsmoke Yonji and Vinsmoke Reiju.
Sanji's younger brother and older sister, respectively.
Reiju then uses her abilities to save Luffy's life
after he poisoned himself
with his own cooking, because Luffy.
And Yonji very predictably
fell immediately in love with Nami
and the two vessels then parted ways.
The Thousand Sunny does then go onto enter Totto Land,
disembarking, firstly, on Cocoa Island
where they actually meet
the girl in question, Charlotte Pudding.
The woman whom Sanji is forcibly betrothed to.
She seems like quite a nice lady to be honest,
even going so far as to give the Straw Hats
a super special secret route to take into Whole Cake Island.
Which they do end up using
although it lands them squarely in the territory
of the Seducing Woods,
where the team are assailed by Charlotte Brulee
and Charlotte Cracker.
This is why things would split with Chopper and Carrot
being caught in Brulee's Mirro-World,
Pekoms having been captured earlier by Capone Gang Bege
while Brook and Pedro went off in search
of Big Mom's Road Poneglyph.
Leaving only Luffy and Nami to face off
directly against Cracker,
one of Big Mom's sweet commanders
and thus one of the most powerful combatants
of the entire crew.
However, the combination of Luffy and Nami
would prove superior to this.
And after 11 hours of fighting Cracker was defeated,
which prompted the Big Mom Pirates
to muster a supreme force to march on Luffy.
In the meantime,
Sanji was having something of a family reunion,
which was rapidly becoming violent when he engaged in combat
with two of his brothers and his father.
Here, we also begin to learn more about Sanji's history
as the rest of his siblings
are genetically modified super humans
with Sanji being the only child who was born, "Normal,"
due to the self sacrificial actions of his late mother Sora.
This disappointed Judge greatly,
would eventually imprison and even fake the death of Sanji,
and one day allow him to be free in a slue
on the condition that he would never, ever
reveal his lineage, not that Sanji would even want to.
And this time period also properly introduced us
to Charlotte Linlin,
aka Big Mom, who was quickly portrayed
as quite possibly the strongest human on the planet
with a bit of a tendency for hunger pangs
that on one occasion was quelled by Jinbe.
Who was on the Island to sever his allegiance
with the Big Mom Pirates
in order to properly accept Luffy's invitation
to join The Straw Hats.
Now Luffy and Nami, after their vicious battle with Cracker
would then encounter Sanji with his family.
However, the Chef refused to return to the crew
as he was still being blackmailed with Zeff's life.
Even going so far as to escalate this matter
to a full on fight with Luffy.
And in a particularly heartbreaking scene
a very tired Luffy was defeated.
Although Luffy being Luffy,
he then made a very stubborn decision
and boldly declared that he would not eat anything
until Sanji returned to the crew.
After which Luffy and Nami were assailed by a small army
led by Charlotte Mont-d'Or
who captured and imprisoned them in Whole Cake Chateau.
Some good news though is Chopper and Carrot
had managed to overpower the captors in the Mirro-World
and forced Brulee into assisting them,
which would prove absolutely integral
to the remainder of the arc.
More very bad news though,
as Brook with the assistance of Pedro
had managed to find his way
into Big Mom's Poneglyph collection,
which housed three of the stones,
including the much needed Road Poneglyph.
Now under normal circumstances, this would be just super.
However, Big Mom arrived to put a halt to Brook's actions,
which resulted in Brook engaging in one on one combat
with an Emperor of the Sea.
And then promptly getting destroyed
and becoming captured himself.
More good news though,
because Luffy and Nami would go onto be freed by Jinbe.
A very, very welcome sight to these two Straw Hats
But stubborn Luffy being stubborn,
decided to head back to the spot where he told Sanji
he would wait and not eat.
Whilst Nami and Jinbe joined Chopper and Carrot
in the Mirro-World, where they ultimately freed Brook,
thanks to using Brulee's Mirro powers to find him.
Furthermore, after rejoining the crew
Brook opened up his usually empty skull
and revealed that he had managed to take rubbings
of all three Poneglyph,
thus submitting Brook as a Supreme candidate
for MVP of Whole Cake Island.
Cutting back to Sanji now though,
things aren't exactly looking up for him
as just as he had accepted his fate of marrying Pudding,
he just so happens to discover that sheet is in fact evil
and spearheading a plot to murder Sanji,
as well as the rest of the Vinsmoke family
at their own wedding ceremony no less.
The reasoning is so that Big Mom can take control
of all of the advanced technology of the Germa kingdom.
Which is questionable because how would she know
how to use any of it or whatever, it's fine.
And even though Sanji is still technically
under the conditions of blackmail,
he then makes the decision to rejoin Luffy
who was waiting for him in the promised spot.
After a tearful reunion, the captain and the chef,
once again, joined forces.
Now in theory, this is the point
where we've actually accomplished everything
we came here to do.
We have the Poneglyph rubbings and we have Sanji,
but things aren't quite that simple though
because the life of Zeff is still being threatened.
Even though Sanji thoroughly despises his family,
he realized that he could not bring himself
to abandon them to their fate.
So Luffy suggests that they crash the wedding.
And in order to achieve this
Jinbe has something of a cunning plan involving a figure
who has popped up a fair bit at this point,
being Capone Gang Bege.
In case you've forgotten, Bege is a member
of the Worst Generation just like Luffy and Law.
And as it turns out Bege has his own grand ambitions
on Whole Cake Island.
All this time he has been plotting to assassinate Big Mom.
So of course, Jinbe suggests that they go and meet with Bege
to form an alliance.
So with 3 1/2 hours until the wedding ceremony
is set to begin, the two factions secretly gather
to discuss how they're going to topple
Big Mom's entire empire.
Next time on Sagas In Minutes,
we have cause for celebration
as we will not only be attending a wedding ceremony,
but we will be concluding the series for the time being
with part two of the Yonko Saga.
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