 So one of the biggest mysteries surrounding Doflamingo has always been what is behind them, their glasses. A mystery that would never be solved until now. Because I am here to present Doflamingo's deep dark secret, which is that his eyes were surgically replaced with YouTube subscribe buttons. Pressing either one of which will result in a subscription to the Grand Line Review, which will allow you to receive regular One Piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. And the reason why Doflamingo always wears glasses is because well here he got sick of people consistently poking him in the eyes. 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 shall leap into the wilderness of One Piece and today it's time we continue one of the most ambitious sagas ever constructed that is Dressroser. The Dressroser saga is the eighth in the series consisting of two arcs but an absolutely mega 148 chapters which does make it the longest saga we have covered to date and hence why we need this whole part two business because we have a lot to cover here today. Where we last left off the Straw Hat Slash Trafalgar Law Alliance had been split into three groups, one of which was tasked with infiltrating Dressroser to destroy the smile factory led by Luffy, whilst another headed to Green Bit to exchange his acclamatory hostage led by Law and a faction to protect the Thousand Sunny led by no one in particular but will say Nami because she usually ends up being in charge. So a couple of things here, with Luffy's group they almost immediately encounter a marine admiral although they don't know it as he is currently passing himself off as a run of mill blind gambler although things do get somewhat serious. When Luffy informs him that he is being cheated and he buries the game masters in an awfully deep hole. In any case this man is later revealed to be marine admiral Fujitora who wields a particularly powerful paramecia fruit known as the Zushi Zushi No Mi which allows him to control gravity to varying degrees. Following this Luffy discovers that there is a tournament being conducted nearby in the Corridor Coliseum the prize of which is the Merimero No Mi, a devil fruit once used by his brother. And so Luffy takes Doflamingo's bait and enters the tournament under the brilliant alias of Lucy. And here Lucy meets a whole cast of characters who were going to become wildly important during this arc, one of which we will specifically zero in on being Cavendish, a pirate who holds a supreme hatred for every member of the worst generation and who is hell bent on killing them which yes does include Luffy at this stage. And another one of note would be Bartola Mayo who is the exact opposite as he worships Luffy and the straw hats like a deranged fanboy. A lovable deranged We were also introduced to a figure named Ricky who was not touted to be anything important but who would turn out to be King Riku Dodo III, the former King of Dressrosa who a decade ago had his island commandeered by the current King Doflamingo who used his string devil fruit abilities to force Riku to sort his own people and to sway public opinion away from the Riku family to say the least, allowing Doflamingo to take control of the island. And I would also be remiss not to single out Rebecca, a fairly at this point mysterious gladiator who was fighting to win the Merimeranome in order to use it to kill Doflamingo. Oh and rather interestingly Dressrosa also sees the return of Bellamy, the opponent who Luffy one shot back in the sky pierced Saga, who still works for Doflamingo but who has matured beyond all belief and who now holds a huge degree of respect for Luffy. And the tournament breaks down as follows. Essentially all of the fighters are grouped into four blocks A, B, C and D. The members of these blocks then all thrown into the arena at the same time and a battle royale is conducted until only one fighter remains standing. And getting into things the winner of block A would be, rather surprisingly, Jesus Burgess, member of the Blackbeard Pirates, who was masquerading as a character named Happy Store. But the fact that the Blackbeard Pirates have any presence on Dressrosa whatsoever imbues this arc with a whole new layer of sinister feelings. And Luffy even briefly spoke to Blackbeard Valeen Denden Mushi and declared that he would not allow them to take Ace's devil fruit. Moving to block B and this was quite a chaotic affair, featuring a newly almost heroic Bellamy and a man whose punch was rumoured to be able to take down one of the four emperors. Neither one of them would win though, as in the end the ultimate troll Bartolomeo proved victorious due to his Barry-Barry-Nomi abilities, despite stopping mid-combat to take a piss. To the main event we now look to Block C, which came down to a fierce battle between Monkey-D Luffy and Don Chin-Jowl, a veteran pirate who held a grudge against Luffy's grandfather Garp, although not only was Luffy able to defeat him, but he also incidentally fixed Chin-Jowl's head, causing the veteran pirate to pledge his loyalty to Luffy, which will become a common feature during the saga. And as for Block D, the eventual winner would be Rebekah, after Cavendish revealed his split personality Hakubah, who proceeded to wreck every other contestant by Rebekah and then promptly fell asleep. Resulting in one final battle royale consisting of Jesus Burgess, Bartolomeo, Lucy, Rebekah, and the champion of the Colosseum, Diamante, who was one of Dolphemingo's most trusted officers. However, Luffy would not actually fight in this match, as prior to its commencement, he received the shock of a lifetime when Savo, a childhood brother of Luffy thought to be long dead, revealed himself and requested permission to consume Ace's devil fruit, which Luffy gave gladly and just in time to exit the Colosseum and begin to deal with the true meat of Dressrosa. Because while these events were occurring there was no shortage of shenanigans elsewhere, Asanji had found himself in a precarious position with Viola, a member of the Don Quixote pirates, who fooled him with her feminine wiles, but of course it is later revealed that Viola is a princess of the former Monarchy the Riku family, and despite her villainous actions thus far, was all four bringing down Dolphemingo, and so Viola would also go in to inform Sanji that his crew was in imminent danger. At the same time Frankie was exploring the island and ended up making friends with a toy soldier, who would reveal a seedy underbelly of Dressrosa, as it turned out that there was a member of Dolphemingo's crew named Sugar, who had the ability to turn living beings into toys, as well as to go on to enslave them, and this toy soldier himself had been a victim of Sugar, and while he was human he was named Curus, formerly known as the Invincible Gladiator, as well as the commander of the Riku Royal Army, and perhaps most importantly of all, the father of Colosseum Gladiator Rebecca. Meanwhile the sunny protection team were being assaulted by a member of the Don Quixote pirates named Jorah, who turned everyone into splendid modern art, but was promptly defeated by the very quick thinking of an underrated straw hat member by the name of Brooke, and things had not gone to plan for the Caesar exchange team either on Greenbit, as by this time both Robin and Usopp had been captured slash stumbled into the territory of the Tontata tribe, a group of very gullible dwarves, who as with many factions in and around Dressrosa, were planning to mount an assault on the current king Dolphemingo, and in their case this was because he had enslaved a huge portion of their tribe for the purposes of creating artificial devil fruits in the Smile Factory. But here Usopp did what Usopp does best, and he ended up lying about being some legendary hero, and he became known by the Tontata tribe as Usoland, and was subsequently charged with leading their assault on Dolphemingo. That's alright though, I'm sure Usopp can handle it, although if he can't then luckily the Tontata tribe would eventually liaise with the toy soldier as well as Frankie in order to discuss their impending assault. Also on Greenbit, Law's plan to exchange Caesar had rapidly gone downhill, as he found himself in a two-on-one battle against not only Dolphemingo, but also Marine Admiral Fujitora, and it's safe to say that Law was not expecting to deal with an admiral due to the fact that part of his bargain was to have Dolphemingo resign from the Seven Warlords, and thus cut all ties with the world government. Unfortunately for Law this turned out to be but a clever ruse by Dolphemingo, who had used his mysterious leverage over the world government to publish his resignation and then have it revoked. With the people of Dressrosa being informed of this by CP0, the strongest cell of Cypherpole agents, who worked directly for the world nobles, and in the case of Fujitora while he was sent specifically to deal with Trafalgar Law as well as Monkey D. Luffy. But in a last-ditch effort Law was able to make sure that Dolphemingo did not reclaim Caesar, with him ending up back on the Thousand Sunny along with Sanji who briefly took on Dolphemingo directly. However in this dire dire situation, the decision was made to have the Sunny Protection Team, now including Sanji, immediately move on to the next island However this was much easier said than done because at this very moment the flagship of the Big Mom Pirates, the Queen Mama Chanta appeared, who in addition to being incredibly hostile to the Straw Hearts, also had a vested interest in capturing Caesar Clown. Really is kind of amazing the efforts that all of these individuals would go to in order to secure a single clown boy. But faced with a faction of the four emperors, Sanji made the simple request to Luffy over at Dended Mushy, which was permission to strike back. Which Luffy instantly gave because well he had already declared war on back on Fishman Island. Now as for everyone else on the island, which at this stage consisted of Luffy, Zoro, Robin, Frankie, Usopp, Law and Kinamon who we haven't spoken about much yet, but he's also there. In any case this group would make the decision to remain on Dressrosa to complete their mission of destroying the Smile Factory and more importantly to defeat Dolphemingo. And once again this was much easier said than done especially when Zoro and Kinamon were confronted directly by both Dolphemingo and Fujitora, the latter proving to briefly overwhelm Zoro with his gravity-related abilities. As such Zoro and Kinamon made a hasty retreat as Fujitora and Dolphemingo made their way to the country's palace with a gravely wounded Trafalgar Law in tow. Upon reaching the palace though Fujitora made it very clear that his actions on the island were only being conducted as a result of his direct orders and he warned Dolphemingo not to consider him an ally. Fujitora then stated that his ultimate ambition was to make sure that the seven warlord system would be abolished by the world government, which of course included Dolphemingo's status. And having said all of this to a very volatile madman, this led to a violent clash between Fujitora and Dolphemingo, but the action did not proceed from there. In any case our group of protagonists all had one clear mission now, with Luffy, Zoro and Kinamon gunning straight towards the palace to deal with Dolphemingo. Whilst Frankie was to act as a rather loud diversion for the Don Quixote Pirates, whilst Usopp, Robin and a host of the Tontata Tribe members infiltrated Dressrosa's underground port with the goal of bringing down Suga. As with her Devil Fruit powers, the Allied forces would stand no chance in this mission. And just on Suga for a bit, her abilities were put to predictably sinister use in regards to the Corridor Colosseum, as every fighter wounded and admitted to medical treatment was subsequently turned into a toy by Suga and then put to work as slaves in the underground port. And so when Usopp and Robin marched in with no joke the fate of the entire island on their shoulders, not only were they unfortunately met by Suga but also Treble, another one of Dolphemingo's most trusted officers, and this duo succeeded in defeating everyone except for Usopp, who was forced to admit the reality that he was no legendary hero. However, instead, he made a new claim that from today onwards, he would become the Tontata Tribe's legendary hero. Proceeding to take on both Suga and Treble heroically and promptly losing. However, in one of the most incredible twists of fate in the entire series, Suga would end up feeding Usopp the weapon designed to bring her down, which resulted in what can only be described as this face, which terrified Suga and knocked her out. And at this very moment, the tide of the Dressrosa saga rapidly shifted, as every single being that had been turned into a toy be they a citizen of the country or a Coliseum fighter was reverted back to their original form. And they were pretty pissed off to say the least, as they decided that the Straw Hat Pirates had been their saviours and en masse marched on Dolphemingo, which would be the catalyst for one of the largest and most chaotic battles that we have ever seen in the series. Next time on Saga's In Minutes, we are finishing this very convoluted story in nothing less than an epic fashion as we take on part three of the Dressrosa Saga. But what do you guys think? 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