Bursting Out! Fish-Man Arlong, Fearsome Attack From The Sea!

Arlong opens his onslaught by chomping clean through a stone pillar and grinding Luffy's borrowed swords to scrap. Leaning on his crew for support, Luffy drives a fist into Arlong's jaw and shatters his teeth, only for the fish-man to grow a fresh, fiercer set and wield the discarded ones as handheld blades. Never one to waste an advantage, Luffy snatches a loose set of teeth and clamps them in his own mouth to fight back, matching his opponent fang for fang inside the park.

For his next gambit Arlong submerges and rockets upward as a living harpoon, aiming to skewer Luffy with his pointed nose in the move Shark on Darts. Though he launches the strike again and again, Luffy halts each charge mid-flight by catching him with his elastic hands. Pushed into a fury, Arlong taps a rage similar to that of the Sea Kings and enters a heightened, more savage state, hauling out his signature zanbato, the saw-edged Kiribachi lined with tooth-like blades.

With the Kiribachi in hand, Arlong batters Luffy through a wall and deep into the compound. Crashing inside, Luffy stumbles upon the cartography room where Nami once drew her sea charts, and the discovery cements his resolve, declaring on the spot that Nami will be his crew's navigator. The episode debuts several techniques, including Arlong's Tooth Gum and Shark on Darts alongside Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Tate and Gomu Gomu no Ami. Production notes recall that 4Kids spliced parts of this episode with neighboring ones to assemble their own broadcast edit.