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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 are quite possibly looking at the longest and most earth shaking saga in the series thus far. And diving into things immediately following the events of Dressrosa, one faction of the Straw Hats are ferried to the island of Zo 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. And 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 Zo. And after a somewhat shaky start it is revealed that the Straw Hats are considered something of a heroic presence by the minks which has to do with the actions of the other half of their crew who during the events of Dressrosa had arrived on the island led by Sanji only to discover Zo and its citizens on the verge of death following a grand battle. Now this is 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 you just decide by 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 Raizo. Now Raizo is a comrade of Kinamon, Momonosuke, and Kandro 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 Raizo 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 Duke Inurashi during the day and Master Nekomon Mushi 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 received word that Don Quixote Dolflamingo had been defeated on Dressrosa by Monkey D. Luffy and that was important to say the least because Dolflamingo was responsible for trafficking weapons and artificial devil fruits and so Jack set off to reclaim Dolflamingo from the marines at which point he was met in battle by now Inspector General Sengoku Admiral Fujitora and Vice Admiral Suru which resulted in Jack's reported death, spoiler so he did not die. And 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 Kapungangbej 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 Prince of the German 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 and while we're here Bej also took Caesar as well because unfortunately for this Clown Big Mom just so happens to have business with him as well. Oh and finally Bej also ended up betraying Pekoms by shooting him in the back because Bej is very sneaky and he has some plans of his own to implement. Pekoms would of course recover Onzu which was his home island as he himself is a Mink and the Sorrel Hats would eventually come to be reunited Sanji. Now after Kinamon and Kandro eventually made it up the elephant because they encountered a, I'll show you what this, a series of misfortunes. The Mink tribe then revealed that Raizo 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. And when we are taken to see Raizo not only do we encounter the strangest one of 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 Raftel. At this point we also finally get to understand why we've been collecting these weird 1-0 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 agree 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 Zo' 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, Nami, Brooke and Chopper deciding to embark into the territory of Big Mom in order to reclaim him and on this trip they are also going to be taking Pekoms a 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 aboard Thousand Sunny and only made her presence known after they had departed. And 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 plan to take down Kaido which leads us into the next arc. On their way to Holkei Kailen the home territory of Big Mom situated within the greater empire of Tottenland our retrieval team encountered a ship transporting two members of the Vinsmok family being Vinsmok Yonji and Vinsmok Raju Sanji's younger brother and older sister respectively. Raju 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 on to enter Tottenland disembarking firstly on Kokkau Island where they actually meet the girl in question Charlotte Pudding the woman whom Sanji is forcibly betrothed to and she seems like quite an isolated to be honest even going so far as to give the Straw Hat a super special secret route to take into Holkei Kailen 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 Brule and Charlotte Cracker and this is where things would split with Chopper and Carrot being caught in Brule's mirror world but Goms having been captured earlier by Kapongang Bej while Brooke 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 and here we also begin to learn more about Sanji's history as the rest of his siblings are genetically modified superhumans with Sanji being the only child who was born quote-unquote normal due to the self-sacrificial actions of his late mother Sora. This disappointed judge greatly who would eventually imprison and even fake the death of Sanji and one day allow him to be free in East Blue 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 Jinbei 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 Zeph'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 Montaur who captured and imprisoned them in a whole cake chateau. Some good news though was Chopper and Carrot had managed to overpower their captors in the mirror world and forced Ruley into assisting them which would prove absolutely integral to the remainder of the arc. More very bad news though as Brooke with the assistance of Pedro had managed to find his way into Big Mom's Ponyglyph collection which tells three of the stones including the much needed road Ponyglyph. Now under normal circumstances this would be just super. However Big Mom arrived to put a halt to Brooke's actions which resulted in Brooke 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 into be freed by Jinbei a very very welcome sight to these two straw hearts 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 Jinbei joined Chopper and Carrot in the mirror world where they ultimately freed Brooke thanks to using Ruley's mirror powers to find him and furthermore after rejoining the crew Brooke opened up his usually empty skull and revealed that he had managed to take rubbings of all three Ponyglyphs thus submitting Brooke as a supreme candidate for MVP of Holkake 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 she 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. And the reasoning is so that Big Mom can take control of all of the advanced technology of the German Kingdom which is questionable because how would she know how to use any of it but whatever it's fine. And even though Sanji is still technically under the condition to blackmail he then makes the decision to rejoin Luffy who is waiting for him in the promised spot and 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 Ponyglyph rubbings and we have Sanji but things aren't quite that simple though because the life of Zeph is still being threatened and even though Sanji thoroughly despises his family he realized that he could not bring himself to abandon them to their fate and so Luffy suggests that they crash the wedding and in order to achieve this Jinbei has something of a cunning plan involving a figure who has popped up a fair bit at this point being Capone Gang Beige and in case you've forgotten Beige is a member of the worst generation just like Luffy and Law and as it turns out Beige has his own grand ambitions on Hawkeye Island and all this time he has been plotting to assassinate Big Mom. So of course Jinbei suggests they go and meet with Beige to form an alliance and so with three and a half 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 Saga's In Minutes we have course 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. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious One Piece business uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. But for now this has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.