- [Narrator] Dressrosa holds a special place
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But one of the more poignant would be that
this is where Luffy revealed his new form.
One which really struck a chord with me,
being Gear fourth, subscribe man.
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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review,
your source for everything One Piece.
And more specifically Sagas in Minutes,
the series that aims to equip you with the basic knowledge
to leap into the wilderness of One Piece.
And today it is time to finally conclude
the mighty endeavor that is the Dressrosa Saga.
The Dressrosa Saga stated multiple times now,
is the eighth in the series consisting of two arcs
but an absolutely Manga 148 chapters.
Which contains a ridiculously jam-packed story
with a massive cast of characters
that we will be attempting to wrap up here today.
And last time we ended with the defeat of Sugar
and Officer with Donquixote Pirates,
whose dismissal resulted in everyone
who had been turned into a toy,
regaining the original forms and focusing
their rage on one man.
The current king of the island,
Donquixote Doflamingo.
In the first shot in this endeavor
would be taken by Kyros.
A former toy soldier who upon regaining his human body
leapt into action and decapitated Doflamingo
thus ending the entire saga
and actually no,
it turned out to be a string clone
because that's just something that Doflamingo can do
with his devil fruit which is insane.
First of many, many insane things actually,
because sensing this unprecedented danger to his position,
Doflamingo chose to activate a technique known
as The Birdcage.
Whereby he entrapped the entire island in a cage
of razor sharp strings,
which would slowly encroach on the land threatening
to kill everyone caught within it.
And with that,
we are now on a clock to defeat the Warlord of the Sea.
But that would be further complicated by the fact
that Doflamingo decided to broadcast a bounty system
in order to hinder the uprising on dressrosa,
Assigning various figures of star rating.
With each star being worth 100 million berrys to anyone
who is able to capture the individual in question.
So with this in mind both Luffy and Law who was now freed
from the grasp of Doflamingo were worth three stars each.
But rather surprisingly,
the most valuable figure would turn out to be God Usopp.
Who saw Doflamingo assumed a mighty five stars
due to him being the reason why all of the toys reverted.
So this hinders efforts somewhat as the full force
of Donquixote Pirates as well as many civilians
of Dressrosa and some miscellaneous bounty hunters
now set his sights on the prize in front of them.
And I should also say that he offered
a three star rating to Sabo.
Who often competing in the finals of the Corrida Colosseum
was successfully able to acquire the Mirror-mirror no Mi.
But in addition to this,
it is also revealed that Sabo is a high ranking member
of the Revolutionary Army and is here to investigate
Doflamingo's black market practices.
And shortly after Sabo would come into conflict
with Admiral Fuji Torah.
Which prevented the Marine from hunting down
Luffy and Law.
And with his new abilities,
Sabo was also able to fight Fuji Torah
into an effective stalemate.
At which point Fuji Torah had a change of heart
and decided to bet on Doflamingo
being taken down by Luffy.
Then turning his attention to saving as many civilians
as possible from the indiscriminate Wrath of Doflamingo.
Now during this time,
we take the opportunity to zero in on one Trafalgar Law.
The man responsible for bringing Luffy Straw Hats
into the situation under the guise of defeating one
of the Four Emperors.
In reality that was but a clever ruse
and Law's plan never extend this far.
And in fact this whole endeavor
was crafted in order to use Luffy to help exact
personal revenge against Doflamingo.
Because as it turns out,
he and Law have quite a history.
As a child law after a horrific childhood
in which he was stricken with Amber Lead Syndrome.
As well as a genocide conducted upon his homeland
would end up finding his way to a younger incarnation
of the Donquixote Pirates.
And specifically developing a relationship
with Doflamingo's brother Rosinante.
We also go another layer deep into this flashback
briefly focusing on Doflamingo
and how he was once a world noble
until his father took his family to live with the masses.
Which was a predictably tragic move.
And one day a child Doflamingo felt so bitter
that he murdered his own father.
Now his brother Rosinante would take a different path
by becoming an agent of the Marines
and then going on to infiltrate the
Donquixote Pirates on their behalf.
But everything would change one day when Rosinante
overheard Law's his real name.
Which was Trafalgar D. Water Law.
And knowing that there would be no mercy whatsoever
if Doflamingo were to discover this name.
Rosinante fled the crew with Law hand
and traveled far and wide find a doctor
who could heal Law's affliction.
All to no avail though.
Until an opportunity to source certain devil fruit
came up being the Ope-Ope No Mi.
Now Doflamingo was on the hunt for this fruit
because it was fabled to allow it's user to make others
somewhat immortal.
Or not immortal but more accurately, perpetually youthful.
Which was something that very much interested
in Mr. Flamingo.
And in a series of more tragic events,
Rosinante's identity as Marine would be uncovered
and Doflamingo would go on to murder him with the
exact same gun that he had used on their father.
However, this was not before Rosinante acquired
the Ope-Ope No Mi and fed it to Law.
Which allowed him to kill his Amber Lead Syndrome
and grow up into the figure that he is today.
Hell bent on destroying Doflamingo
for what he did to Rosinante.
So back to the mundane now and the current developments
are not going into Doflamingo's favor.
As his crew were being systematically dismantled
by the small army marching upon him.
Several key Colosseum fighters
were able to take down prominent offices.
And Straw Hat member Franky rounded this out
by defeating Senor Pink in what can only be described
as a true battle between manly men things.
At this point this left only Doflamingo
and his top officers remaining.
The first of which to go down would be Diamante.
Who was defeated by kyros in an active retribution
as Diamante was responsible for murdering Kyros' wife
and Rebecca's mother Scarlet.
Also Scarlet was the daughter of former King Riku
thus making Rebecca royalty of the Riku Dynasty.
Next up Pica would be dismantled quite literally
by the efforts of Straw Hat swordsman Zoro.
Who chopped and chopped and chopped until Pica
was forced to face off against Zoro directly.
Which definitely did not work
in his favor at all.
And finally, Trebol would come to kind of defeat
himself actually, after a poorly thought out explosion
technique designed to kill Law.
But it pretty much just ended
up knocking Trebol out himself.
During this time we also had a brief rematch
of Luffy vs Bellamy.
Which ended in just as one side of the result
as it did the first time around.
Except this time it was much more heartfelt
because Bellamy had resigned himself
to having pledged his loyalty to Doflamingo.
But was also more than happy to be brought down
by the only other men in the world that
he respected being Luffy.
Now despite putting up a grand effort against Doflamingo,
including severely damaging his internal organs.
Trafalgar law still fairly gravely injured himself mind you
would be taken out of action.
Leaving only two combatants on this dramatic stage
being Luffy and Doflamingo.
Now that isn't to say that everyone else
was just standing about doing nothing.
Because after rippling Senor Pink,
Franky and the Tontatta forces
finally reached the SMILE Factory.
Where they freed the enslaved tribe,
including princess Mansherry.
In the ensuing chaos Kinemon also very notably found
the samurai he was hunting for on the island being Kanjuro.
Another nice piece in the samurai mystery puzzle
that would not be answered in the saga.
However, both kinemon and Kanjuro would go on to contribute
to the defensive Dressrosa by attempting to stop
the Birdcage from encroaching further alongside Zoro.
And this effort would be joined from
all sides by various factions.
One of which would be the Colosseum fighters
who all push back against the Birdcage.
Thanks to a large barrier created by Bartolomeo.
And Franky and his faction were also able
to use the Sea Stone SMILE Factory as a barrier
for them to attempt to stop the Birdcage.
And finally, Marine Admiral Fuji Torah would even join
this effort with the combination of everyone
managing to hold the cage very briefly.
But very importantly.
Cutting back to the main action
Luffy would now reveal a new form to take on Doflamingo
Being Gear fourth, Bound Man.
The transformation that outclassed Doflamingo
in both speed and power.
Although it was unable to deliver the final blow
before Luffy ran out of time and was force to accept
the assistance of the civilians Dressrosa
to buy him enough time to regain his use of Haki
to use the form once more.
In addition to this,
Sabo also hopped into action once more in order to prevent
Jesus Burgess of Blackbeard pirates from killing Luffy.
A fight that Sabo would go into convincingly win.
But here we are now,
cutting it very very close to everyone's demise
at this point.
However Luffy,
thanks to the efforts of almost
literally everyone on the island.
Was given just enough time to invoke Gear forth once more
and finally defeat Doflamingo
with an incredible King Kong Gun.
Shattering both the glasses and the global standing
of the warlord.
Dispelling the Birdcage and saving the entire kingdom.
Following this, Admiral Fuji Torah
would issue a formal apology to King Riku,
who was reinstated as the monarch of the nation
along with Viola and Rebecca,
regaining their place as royalty.
And at this time Sabo's investigation on behalf
of the Revolutionary Army would conclude.
And to make him Vivia cuff Luffy,
he left alone with his forces.
Now elsewhere in the world.
Big Big things were happening.
Specifically in regards to the other alliance
comprised of Worst Generation members.
Who had found themselves all of a sudden under attack
by a profound bold figure.
This man Neya the Screacher had found their base
by jumping off a Sky Island and landing 10,000 meters
onto the hard ground.
And after emerging with nothing but a light headache,
he was introduced as Hundred Beast Kaido.
One of the Four Emperors and a being known
as the strongest creature alive.
Which sent out very unfortunate Worst Generation members
into a slight panic to say the least.
Now also by this time,
the Sanji led faction of the Straw Hats
had made it safely to Zou.
Although Zou itself was proving to be less than safe
with contingent of the Beast Pirates, Kaido's crew.
They're allegedly searching for a certain samurai.
There's that word again, samurai.
The search was not going well though
as they went on to be dispatched by Sanji and Brook.
Back to Dressrosa now and Luffy and the crew
would be forced to flee soon enough.
Although when doing so he was faced with
a rather large blockade.
In the form of Fuji Torah.
Whom Luffy engaged in combat with only to be
interrupted by the citizens of Dressrosa.
Who under the guise of shouting angrily at Luffy
actually strategically positioned themselves
on the battlefield.
Preventing Fuji Torah from invoking his gravity powers.
And Fuji Torah then had no choice but to acquiesce.
Developing quite a liking for Luffy
and even regretting the fact that he had blinded himself
as he now had a profound desire to look at Luffy
with his own eyes.
Now usually the escape from the island is where
things might end but no.
Because something very very fascinating had occurred
during Luffy's recovery period.
Which was that a force of individuals had banded together
and pledged their loyalty to Luffy.
Proposing to become his underlings.
These individuals included Cavendish
Captain of the Beautiful Pirates.
Who after being saved from his toy fate by Usopp
no longer held any ill will towards Luffy.
As well as Bartolomeo our resident fanboy
and Captain of the Barto Club.
In addition to them though there was Sai Commander
of the Happo Navy.
Ideo who led the newly formed Ideo Pirates.
The Tontatta pirates owned by Leo.
A giant that Luffy had actually defeated
in the Corrida Colosseum named Hajrudin.
Who himself was in charge of a small cohort
of giants.
And finally Columbus who was in command
of the Yonta Maria Grand Fleet.
Which Worsted a crew totaling roughly 4300 members.
And all of these figures had come to decide amongst
themselves that they would follow Luffy.
To Luffy swiftly rejected this idea
in the name of freedom and well,
just not wanting to do it.
Which only endeared him further to this band.
Who went on to form their own Association anyway,
which is now known as the Straw Hat Grand Fleet.
Furthermore, even Bellamy became something of an ally
because while he didn't join the Grand Fleet,
he did take a piece of Luffy's Vivre Card.
And will go on to retire from piracy
instead becoming an apprentice dyer.
And using his newly acquired skills
to create a Jolly Roger.
Assumably for the Grand Fleet.
And with that matter settled,
the Grand Fleet went their separate ways.
With Luffy in the Straw Hats coming aboard
Bartolomeo's ships the Going Luffy-senpai.
In order for them to journey to the Island
of Zou to meet up with the other half of their crew.
Who we're currently facing all sorts of issues,
but that is a story for the next saga.
Next time on Sagas in Minutes we are hopping
into scarily mundane events.
Because we are now done dealing with our seemingly
minor enemies, like Warlords of the Sea.
As the crew are now setting this sights
on the Four Emperor's as we embark into the Yonko Saga.
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