ONE PIECE Episode 46 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Chase Straw Hat! Little Buggy's Big Adventure!

The ship sails toward the Grand Line while Luffy's crew idles in games and meals. Buggy finishes a raft, vows revenge on Luffy, and reaches an island where Gaimon, claiming to be its guardian deity, warns him off. Gaimon reveals he was once a pirate abandoned by his crew, shares liquor, declines Buggy's invitation to join his crew, and refuses to leave the animals he has lived with for twenty years. Buggy recalls his defeat by Luffy, helps build another raft, and parts with Gaimon as friends after Gaimon warns him of dangerous creatures. Buggy survives another danger and thanks an unfamiliar woman who searches for the rubber-powered enemy, and the two agree to an alliance.

• Ship sails toward the Grand Line

  Luffy orders the ship onward while the crew plays tag and eats, and Nami and Usopp discover a hermit crab aboard.

• Buggy's raft and the island encounter

  Launched away by Luffy with several body parts missing, Buggy lands on a deserted island, paddles off on a raft, is snatched up and dropped by a giant bird, and lands on the Island of Rare Animals, where he meets Gaimon, its self-proclaimed guardian deity.

• Gaimon's past and the parting

  Gaimon, a former pirate left behind by his crew, declines Buggy's invitation, shares liquor, and parts with him as friends after warning about dangerous waters.

• The woman's alliance proposal

  Buggy survives another danger, thanks an unfamiliar woman, and agrees to an alliance against the rubber-powered enemy.

Recent Timeline

• Arlong Park falls and Nezumi surrenders (Episode 43)

  Luffy and Arlong fight on the top floor until the collapse of the building brings Arlong's rule to an end, and the villagers celebrate their freedom. Nezumi, captain of the Navy's sixteenth branch, then interrupts the celebration to claim the victory and Arlong Park's wealth. Struck down by Nami and others, he surrenders, agreeing to deal with the fish-men, help rebuild Gosa, leave the remaining wealth for the island, and return Nami's money.

• Nami leaves Cocoyasi Village (Episode 44)

  After the villagers are freed from Arlong, Nami departs the island with her crew. She leaves all one hundred million berries behind with a letter, and although the villagers wanted a proper farewell, Luffy orders the sails raised.

• Bounties set and key rivals encountered (Episode 45)

  Marine officers review the crew's defeat of Morgan and the pirate forces and judge the unusually high initial bounty of thirty million berries justified, arguing the threat should be eliminated before it grows; the notice also bears Usopp's face. Fullbody orders his guns aimed at the crew, but after the cannon cracks and explodes his close-combat assault quickly collapses, and he flees in terror on recognizing the waiter again. Mihawk comes seeking the pirate crew's leaders and, with Shanks having lost his left arm, declines to settle their rivalry, remarking that an interesting pirate reminds him of Shanks's story about a boy from a small village. The route discussion establishes Reverse Mountain as the apparent only entrance for ships, and the crew decides to enter head-on because it sounds exciting.

• Buggy's stay with Gaimon (Episode 46)

  Buggy arrives at Gaimon's island, where Gaimon claims to be the guardian deity and warns him away from the animals. After a friendly evening of shared liquor and Gaimon's account of being abandoned by his former crew twenty years earlier, Gaimon declines Buggy's offer to join his crew because he will not leave the animals. The two part as friends after Gaimon helps build Buggy a new raft.

• Buggy forms an alliance with a woman (Episode 46)

  Buggy survives another dangerous encounter and thanks a woman who recognized him and was searching for the rubber-powered enemy he wants revenge on. After she invites him to eat, she proposes an alliance, and Buggy agrees because they share the same objective.

Character Graph

Shanks

Red Hair Pirates

Pirate captain of the Red Hair Pirates who lived in Luffy's home village; lost his left arm rescuing Luffy from Higuma; entrusted his straw hat to Luffy before setting sail for the Grand Line.

• Luffy (Friend, Affinity)

  Befriended Luffy in childhood and is Luffy's idol; gave Luffy his straw hat to protect.

Boodle (the mayor)

townspeople

The mayor of the town, who treats the townspeople and the town itself as his treasure and resolves to defend them against the pirates.

• Protective resolve

  Ashamed to stand by while Chouchou and Luffy fought, he resolved to defend the town, insisting the pirates had no right to destroy forty years of work.

• Buggy (Other, Hostility)

  Challenges Buggy to a fight to protect the town, opposing the pirates' bombardment.

Cabaji

Buggy Pirates

Chief of staff and acrobat of the Buggy Pirates. Offers to fight the group on Buggy's behalf and rides a unicycle; uses Richie as a human shield.

• Buggy (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Serves Buggy as chief of staff and fights on his behalf.

• Roronoa Zoro (Other, Hostility)

  Duels Zoro one-on-one and is defeated by his Oni Giri.

Buggy

Buggy Pirates

Captain of the Buggy Pirates; a fearsome pirate with his own Devil Fruit ability; his territory is where Luffy lands after being dropped by the bird.

Former fellow apprentice of Shanks in the same pirate crew; plotted to steal a Devil Fruit and treasure map before being caught.

• Power

  Can separate his body parts and is immune to being cut apart, due to the Bara Bara Fruit.

• Roronoa Zoro (Other, Hostility)

  Fought Zoro and stabbed him; claimed Zoro's wound decided the fight.

• Nami (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  Accepted Nami into his crew as a supposed defector; ordered her to fire a Buggy Ball at Luffy as proof of loyalty.

• Shanks (Other, Colleague, Mixed)

  Holds a very strong grudge against Shanks and curses his name.

  Fellow apprentice in the same pirate crew; Shanks caught Buggy just as he was leaving with the fruit, causing him to accidentally eat it.

• Luffy (Other, Hostility)

  Fights Luffy and pierces his straw hat with knives, enraging him.

  Luffy struck Buggy down during the attempt to seize his treasure and later blasted him out of town.

Sanji

Baratie · Baratie cook · cook

Sous chef of the Baratie; kicks Fullbody after Fullbody wastes the food he made.

A cook at the Baratie who owes his life to Zeff and refuses to surrender the restaurant even at the cost of his life.

• Crew invitation

  Luffy asked him to become the cook aboard his pirate ship; Sanji refused while staying at the restaurant.

• Infatuation with Nami

  Became infatuated with Nami and declared himself willing to become a pirate for her.

• Debt to Zeff

  Insists he can only repay his debt to Zeff by risking death to protect the restaurant Zeff treasured.

• Kindness to Gin

  Fed Gin for free and urged him to survive rather than die for pride, which moved Gin to spare him.

• Fullbody (Other, Hostility)

  Argues with Fullbody after Fullbody places a fly in his soup, then beats him with his legs.

• Luffy (Colleague, Hostility)

  Luffy invited him to be the cook of his pirate ship; he refused at first but was later told to join Luffy's group.

  Sanji was angered when Luffy announced he would sink the ship and argued with him over the debt and the restaurant.

• Nami (Other, Affinity)

  Infatuated with Nami and willing to become a pirate for her.

Luffy

Would-be pirate who set sail to begin a pirating career; cast adrift at sea in a barrel after his dinghy was destroyed by a whirlpool. Aims for the Grand Line to search for the One Piece, and first sets out to recruit Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro into his crew.

Pirate who confronts Arlong, introduces himself as a pirate, and demands that Arlong stop making his navigator cry.

• Origin at sea

  Dinghy destroyed by a whirlpool, left trapped in a barrel

• Response to Nami's plea

  Readily agreed to help after Nami broke down and asked, then called for the others to go.

• Roronoa Zoro (Colleague, Affinity)

  Rescued by Zoro in the fight against Buggy's men; Luffy told him to run.

• Gaimon (Friend, Affinity)

  Befriended Gaimon and then invited him to join the crew, which Gaimon declined.

• Nami (Other, Colleague, Affinity)

  Offered help, which she first refused, and later accepted when she asked for it.

  Luffy calls Nami his navigator and confronts Arlong on her behalf.

Roronoa Zoro

Straw Hat Pirates

Pirate-hunter swordsman whom Luffy first finds crucified at the Marine base in Shells Town and sets out to recruit.

Pirate who offers to fight Hatchan so the others can continue, and declares that the pirates intend to crush the fish-men.

• Crucified at base

  Held on a cross at the Marine base and refuses to be fed by others; he eats the dirt-stained rice Rika brought.

• Childhood training

  Was a dojoyaburi who challenged local dojos; after defeat by Kuina he joined her father's dojo and trained harder than peers.

• Vow to Kuina

  After Kuina's fatal fall, decided to become the world's greatest swordsman; received Kuina's katana Wado Ichimonji from her father and trained eight more years before becoming a pirate hunter.

• Pursuit of the hawk-eyed man

  Revealed that the attacker on the Grand Line is the man he went to sea to find, and became more determined to head there.

• Buggy (Other, Hostility)

  Fought Buggy, who wanted to kill him to enhance his reputation; stabbed during the clash.

Nami

Straw Hat Pirates · Arlong Pirates · Arlong Pirates (surveyor) · navigator

A thief who targets pirates and steals sea charts; infiltrates Buggy's crew under a false pretext while secretly aiming to recover the chart and steal his treasure.

Bellemere's daughter who left the island to pursue her dream of charting the world's seas as a pirate.

• Ambition

  Aims to earn one hundred million berries for reasons she keeps secret.

• Motive

  Works for Arlong to earn 100 million berries for the village's freedom, and vows to earn it alone.

• Forced chart-making

  Was made by Arlong to produce sea charts over eight years, which he called his treasure.

• Departure from the island

  Left Cocoyasi with her companions and drew her own charts, after the villagers gained freedom.

• Luffy (Colleague, Affinity)

  Met Luffy after he defeated armed men; proposed a partnership, then declined his invitation to join his crew upon learning he was a pirate.

  Recruited as a crewmate by Luffy, who vowed to destroy Arlong and accepted her into the crew.

• Buggy (Hierarchy, Other, Hostility)

  Infiltrated Buggy's crew by claiming to have quarreled with her boss; privately plans to steal from him.

  Nami was attempting to leave with Buggy's treasure when he spotted her, and she restrained him with rope.

Dracule Mihawk

World's greatest swordsman, rumoured; attacked the Krieg Pirates for his own amusement and destroyed their flagship.

Swordsman who arrived seeking the leaders of a pirate crew and was brought to Shanks.

• Duel with Zoro

  Defeated Zoro in a duel, wounding him with his blade, then spared him and told him to grow stronger to surpass him.

• Rivalry with Shanks

  Declined to settle his rivalry with Shanks now that Shanks had lost his left arm, instead recalling Shanks's story about a boy from a small village.

• Roronoa Zoro (Other, Mixed)

  Duel opponent who spared Zoro's life and urged him to become stronger; Zoro vowed to defeat him.

• Shanks (Other, Mixed)

  Rivalry; Mihawk declined a duel because Shanks had lost his left arm.

Fullbody

Marine · Baratie customer

Marine lieutenant who enters the Baratie for a date and orders his men to destroy the crew's ship; attacked by Sanji after he places a fly in his soup.

Former Marine headquarters captain, now commanding a remote, inferior unit after a disgrace he blames on a waiter; sees capturing Luffy as a way to regain his former rank.

• Vow

  Decided he wanted nothing more to do with the restaurant and vowed never to return.

• Motive

  Wants to capture Luffy to regain his former rank after the disgrace at headquarters.

• Sanji (Other, Hostility)

  Argues with Sanji after placing a fly in his soup; Sanji beats him for wasting the food.

  Confronted by Sanji for wasting soup and insulting the cook; the feud escalated.

Gaimon (the island's guardian deity)

former pirate · island hermit

A man who was trapped in an empty treasure chest for twenty years on the island; refuses to join Luffy's crew and lives freely on the island.

A former pirate who was left behind by his companions and has lived on the Island of Rare Animals for twenty years, claiming to be its guardian deity.

• Past life

  Formerly a boy aboard a pirate ship that came to the island searching for treasure; after a month of failing to find any, his crew left him behind.

• Current stance

  Content to stay with the animals and refuses Buggy's invitation to join his crew.

• Luffy (Friend, Affinity)

  Quickly befriended by Luffy, who later invited him to join his crew; Gaimon declined.

• Buggy (Friend, Affinity)

  Met Buggy on the island, shared liquor and a friendly parting, and helped him build a raft; Gaimon believed Buggy and the young pirate could become friends.

World Memo

• Loguetown as town of beginnings and endings

  Loguetown is described as the birthplace and execution site of Gold Roger, giving it a reputation as the town of beginnings and endings.

Battle Record

Gaimon fired at Buggy after ordering him off the island and missed; the clash ended in conversation and a friendly parting.

Arlong Park final clash

Luffy vs Arlong on the top floor · Episodes 31–43

Location: Arlong Park, top floor

Trigger: Luffy confronts Arlong over Nami being forced to draw sea charts for him

Straw Hat Pirates vs Arlong Pirates

• Straw Hat Pirates — attacker: Luffy
• Arlong Pirates — defender: Arlong

Outcome: Arlong Park collapsed during the exchange of attacks and the villagers celebrated the victory

Aftermath

• The villagers were urged to spread the news of Arlong Park's destruction across the island

Fullbody's attack on Luffy's crew

Marine assault at sea · Episode 45

Location: sea near the sea restaurant

Trigger: Fullbody, seeking to regain his former rank, targeted Luffy after a new wanted notice

Marines vs Straw Hat crew

• Marines — commander: Fullbody / soldiers: Fullbody's men
• Straw Hat crew — crew: Luffy, Zoro, Usopp

Outcome: Fullbody's assault collapsed; the cannon exploded after cracking

Aftermath

• Fullbody reacted in terror on recognizing the waiter again

Gaimon's warning shot at Buggy

Brief confrontation on an unfamiliar island · Episode 46

Location: An unfamiliar island with forest animals

Trigger: Gaimon, claiming to be the island's guardian, ordered Buggy to leave and warned him not to harm the animals

Guardian vs intruder

• Gaimon — island guardian: Gaimon
• Buggy — intruder: Buggy

Outcome: Gaimon's shot missed; the quarrel ended after Buggy identified himself as a pirate and they shared drinks

Aftermath

• Gaimon and Buggy became friends and parted as friends
• Gaimon helped Buggy build another raft

Ability Table

Music Releases

• We Are! (OP)
• RUN! RUN! RUN! (ED)