Sagas

The 20th One Piece story arc and the second of the Summit War Saga, this storyline strands Luffy on an island of warrior women after Kuma scatters his crew. There he clashes with and ultimately wins over the pirate empress Boa Hancock while learning his brother faces execution.

Vivi guides the Straw Hats through her drought-stricken homeland to stop a war that Crocodile has secretly manufactured. Duels with his Baroque Works agents fill the road to the capital, and the storyline closes the Arabasta Saga with a fresh crewmate signing on.

The 5th One Piece story arc and the finale of the East Blue Saga, this storyline exposes Nami's tragic past under the fish-man pirate Arlong. The Straw Hats fight to liberate both their navigator and her home village from his tyranny.

Within the East Blue Saga, this fourth arc sends the Straw Hats to a floating restaurant, where Luffy hopes to recruit its temperamental cook. A rival admiral's siege, Zoro's duel with the world's finest swordsman, and Nami's betrayal all collide across the ship's decks.

A short filler run bridging Punk Hazard and Dressrosa. A strange man with animal-controlling powers snatches the captive Caesar Clown from the Thousand Sunny, and the Straw Hat and Heart alliance must recover the scientist to keep their plan against Doflamingo and Kaidou on track.

A brief filler tale, also called the Carbonic Acid King Arc, that leads into the film One Piece: Stampede. A cola run turns into a fight as Luffy joins forces with Boa Hancock against a bounty-hunting guild that weaponizes carbonated water.

Dressrosa stands as the twenty-seventh story arc of One Piece, closing out the saga that bears the island's name. Luffy and his allies set out to topple the Warlord Donquixote Doflamingo, only to ignite a chain of consequences that reshapes the wider world.

The tenth story arc of One Piece sends the crew to a frozen kingdom in desperate search of a doctor for the gravely ill Nami. There they encounter a talking reindeer and clash with a deposed tyrant scheming to seize back his stolen crown.

The opening arc of the Final Saga takes the Straw Hats to the futuristic island of Vegapunk, where forbidden truths about the Void Century surface, Kuma's tragic past unfolds, and a government assassination order spirals into a world-shaking incident broadcast to every corner of the sea.

The second arc of the Final Saga lands the Straw Hats in the giants' homeland, where Robin reunites with Saul and Luffy meets the disgraced prince Loki. The buried history of King Harald, the Rocks Pirates, and the God Valley Incident emerges as the Knights of God move to claim Elbaph for the World Government.

The sixteenth story arc of One Piece stages an all-out war on the government stronghold of Enies Lobby. To save Nico Robin and Franky from the Gates of Justice, the crew and their allies storm the island and openly defy the World Government and its assassins.

The twenty-fifth story arc brings the reunited crew to the undersea kingdom of Fish-Man Island. There they confront the long history of prejudice between humans and Fish-Men while a radical group schemes to seize the kingdom and crown Fish-Men the supreme race.

A short anime-only arc, Foxy's Return brings back the silver-tongued schemer Foxy and his sidekicks for one more comedic skirmish with the crew. The encounter ultimately steers the Straw Hats into their first meeting with the Marine admiral Aokiji.

Widely praised among anime-only stories, the G-8 Arc strands the crew inside a heavily fortified Marine base after their fall from Skypiea. Scattered and disguised, the Straw Hats must outwit a brilliant vice admiral to reclaim their ship and escape.

An early anime-only story, the Goat Island Arc finds the crew sheltering on a fog-shrouded island inhabited by an old loan shark and a herd of goats. They help him finish a strange ship while dodging the Marines hunting them both.

Also called the Lovely Land Arc, this anime-only story follows the crew through the Florian Triangle into icy waters, where they tangle with the bounty-hunting Accino Family over their stolen Jolly Roger and aid the downtrodden Phoenix Pirates.

The twenty-first story arc plunges Luffy into the underwater hell of Impel Down on a desperate bid to free his condemned brother Ace. Infiltrating the world's most secure prison proves far easier than surviving its descending levels of torment.

The twelfth story arc opens the Sky Island saga as the crew investigates a wild claim: an island floating in the sky. On the lawless island of Jaya, Luffy clashes with the arrogant pirate Bellamy and meets a man who urges him never to abandon his dreams.

The thirtieth story arc gathers the world's royalty at Mary Geoise for the Levely while the Straw Hats sail toward Wano. As kings convene and the Revolutionary Army plots war on the World Nobles, a hidden ruler named Imu quietly begins pulling the strings of the planet.

The Little East Blue Arc is a four-episode anime-original story built to set up the film Strong World. The Straw Hats stumble onto an island modeled after their home sea and must defend a giant beetle and the local villagers from a band of mariachi pirates working for the legendary Shiki.

The Little Garden Arc is the ninth canon storyline of One Piece, part of the Arabasta Saga. With Princess Vivi now aboard, the Straw Hats land on a prehistoric island where two ancient giants have dueled for a century, only to be ambushed by agents of the criminal syndicate Baroque Works.

The final East Blue arc brings the crew to the town where the Pirate King was born and died, gathering supplies before the Grand Line. A relentless Marine captain and a pair of returning foes stand in their path as Luffy tempts fate on the very execution platform.

Also called the Davy Back Fight Arc, this lighter interlude opens the Water 7 Saga. On a stretched-out island the Straw Hats are goaded into a series of contests by the Foxy Pirates, with their own crewmates wagered as prizes, before a chilling encounter with an admiral ends the fun.

The Marineford Arc is the twenty-second canon storyline of One Piece and the climax of the Summit War Saga. Having freed himself from Impel Down, Luffy storms the Marine stronghold to save his brother Ace, joining Whitebeard's all-out war against the Marines and the Warlords in one of the series' defining battles.

An anime-original filler run set mid-voyage toward Big Mom's realm. With their rations gone, Luffy and his companions raid a Marine outpost for food and end up dueling a teenage officer named Grount, whose left arm hides a monstrous, world-wrecking power.

An anime-only filler in which a boy playing a seahorse-shaped horn strips the sleeping Straw Hats of their memories. Only Robin, awake at the time, is spared, leaving the amnesiac crew to work out who they are before every recollection is stolen for good.

The Orange Town Arc is the second canon storyline of One Piece, part of the East Blue Saga. Drifting into a town terrorized by the clown pirate Buggy, Luffy and Zoro cross paths with a pirate-robbing thief named Nami, whom Luffy hopes to recruit as his navigator.

The Post-Arabasta Arc is a set of five standalone anime-original episodes following the Arabasta Arc. Grouped together as the second filler arc, each installment spotlights the history or ambitions of a single Straw Hat, with Luffy and Robin the only members left out.

The Post-Enies Lobby Arc is the seventeenth canon storyline of One Piece, closing the Water 7 Saga. Recovering at Water 7, the Straw Hats welcome a visit from Luffy's grandfather Garp, receive new bounties, gain a ship and a shipwright, and reunite their full crew before sailing on.

The Post-War Arc is the twenty-third canon storyline of One Piece and the end of the Summit War Saga. As the world reels from the war, a grieving Luffy relives his childhood with Ace and Sabo, comes to terms with his loss, and resolves with Rayleigh to make the whole crew stronger before reuniting.

Punk Hazard opens the Dressrosa Saga and serves as the Straw Hat crew's first true ordeal in the New World. A frantic distress call drags Luffy and his friends onto a quarantined island split between scorching flame and brutal cold, where the deranged chemist Caesar Clown breeds living weapons and traffics drugged children.

Two years after their crushing defeat and forced separation, the Straw Hat Pirates regroup on Sabaody Archipelago. Before they can finally dive toward Fish-Man Island, they must deal with a pack of impostors trading on Luffy's name and the Marine forces patrolling the lawless port.

The Straw Hats climb the treacherous rapids of Reverse Mountain to reach the Grand Line, only to be greeted on the other side by a colossal whale named Laboon and a pair of scheming strangers. A short arc that opens the Arabasta Saga and seeds threads that pay off many years later.

The very first chapter of the One Piece saga follows a young Monkey D. Luffy as he idolizes the pirate Shanks, gains a rubber body, and ten years later sets out to chase the throne of the Pirate King. His path quickly leads him to the swordsman Roronoa Zoro and his first true crewmate.

An anime-only detour, also called the Rainbow Mist arc, in which the Straw Hats land on an island ruled by a greedy ex-pirate and venture into a strange fog that traps people across time. It holds the distinction of being the final arc dubbed by 4Kids.

Reaching the halfway point of the Grand Line, the Straw Hats arrive at the bubble-strewn Sabaody Archipelago to prepare for the descent to Fish-Man Island. There they collide with a brutal slave trade, the cruelty of the World Nobles, and a wave of rookie rivals before suffering their most devastating defeat.

A filler adventure leading into One Piece Film: Gold. Luffy and his adoring fan Bartolomeo are abducted by a treacherous pirate alliance and locked inside a fortress raised over a huge silver mine, and the two must break out before the mine's ore-crazed boss buries everyone with them.

Blasted into a sea of clouds, the Straw Hats reach the floating land of Skypiea and chase a legend of a lost golden city. They land in the middle of a bitter three-sided war involving a self-styled god who rules by lightning, the sky's angelic natives, and a warrior tribe seeking to reclaim its home.

A lighthearted filler stay at an artificial resort island, where the Straw Hats befriend two sisters guarding their late father's research notebook. When Foxy and his crew resurface to steal it, the vacation turns into a fight to protect the girls and uncover the truth behind their father's legacy.

Searching for a ship, Luffy, Zoro, and Nami reach a quiet coastal village and meet its resident teller of tall tales, Usopp. When they uncover a butler's plot to murder Usopp's sickly friend Kaya and seize her fortune, they join him to drive off the disguised pirate captain Kuro.

Adrift in the haunted Florian Triangle, the Straw Hats land on a vast ghost ship of an island ruled by the Warlord Gecko Moria, who steals their shadows to power a zombie army. With the help of a lonely talking skeleton named Brook, the crew must reclaim their shadows before sunrise destroys them.

A brief filler tied to One Piece Film: Red, unfolding as a flashback to the childhood friendship of a young Luffy and Uta, the singer raised by Shanks. Their bond in Foosha Village ends in grief when Uta suddenly departs the Red Hair Pirates to follow her own calling.

The Wano Country Arc is the towering centerpiece of One Piece's second half, where a coalition of pirates, samurai, ninja, and minks storms an isolated nation to overthrow the Emperor Kaidou and his puppet shogun. Along the way, the buried legacy of Kouzuki Oden surfaces, and Luffy unlocks the truth of his own Devil Fruit.

Sometimes labeled the Apis Arc, this stands as the anime's very first filler story, an original adventure absent from the manga. Set between Loguetown and the Grand Line, it follows the Straw Hats as they help a girl named Apis carry a dying, thought-extinct dragon back to its homeland while a greedy Marine and his mercenary give chase.

Set in a canal-threaded city of shipwrights, this fifteenth arc anchors the Water 7 Saga. A simple errand to repair the Going Merry unravels into stolen gold, a feud with the city's dismantler gang, Robin's disappearance, and a wrenching quarrel that nearly breaks the crew apart.

A fresh Log Pose steers the crew to a town that showers visiting pirates with cheers, but the friendly welcome hides a nest of bounty hunters tied to the syndicate Baroque Works. The confrontation there begins the Straw Hats' bond with Princess Vivi. It is the second arc of the Arabasta Saga.

Also called the Totto Land Arc, this twenty-ninth story arc sends a small rescue party into Emperor Big Mom's candy kingdom to free their cook from a forced marriage. The extraction soon tangles with a plot to kill Big Mom herself and drags Sanji's brutal royal bloodline into the open.

Riding on a millennia-old walking elephant sits the reclusive Mink Tribe, and the Straw Hats climb up expecting a reunion. Instead they find Sanji dragged into a wedding scheme and the settlement wrecked by Kaidou's henchman Jack. The chapter opens the Whole Cake Island Saga.

Z's Ambition is the tenth filler arc and the first set after the time skip, built to lead into the film One Piece Film: Z. In the volatile Maubeugemour Sea, the Straw Hats befriend a size-shifting giant named Lily and race to rescue her captured chef father from both the Marines and the renegade Neo Marines.