Limited-Cover-Series-No-23-The-Saga-of-the-Self-Proclaimed-Straw-Hat-Fleet

The framing (“self-proclaimed Straw Hat fleet”) plus the Vol. 1 lead crew indicate an anthology keyed to the crews that swore allegiance to Luffy at Dressrosa. It opens on the Beautiful Pirates, captained by Cavendish — and Vols. 2–5 (Ch. 865–Ch. 868) stay with Cavendish, who narrates his own past, so the spotlight spans multiple installments per crew rather than rotating each volume. Vol. 6 (Ch. 869) is the FIRST hand-off — the anthology rotates off Cavendish to a second Grand-Fleet crew, Bartolomeo’s Barto Club Pirates, confirming the per-crew-vignette structure. Vol. 11 (Ch. 876) is the SECOND hand-off — after five Bartolomeo installments the spotlight rotates again, this time to Sai’s Happo Navy of the Chin Jao Family (“Don Sai of the Happosui Army Returns”), establishing that the anthology cycles through the Grand-Fleet crews several volumes apiece. Vol. 12 (Ch. 877) stays with Sai, the spotlight pivoting off the establishing junk-splash to his arranged-marriage subplot — his towering bride Ooklicia presses for a wedding date while Sai stalls. Vol. 13 (Ch. 879) stays with Sai for a third straight installment, the subplot turning as Sai annuls the betrothal and pays the price (“A Price to Pay for Betrothal Annulment”). Vol. 14 (Ch. 880) stays with Sai for a fourth straight installment, the romance thread pivoting off the annulled Ooklicia betrothal to the first meeting of Sai and Baby 5 at the “二宝 / Husband Club” (“I was going to do him the honor of being my 26th husband!!”). Vol. 15 (Ch. 881) stays with Sai for a fifth straight installment, the romance thread paying off its own setup as the cover serial marries off Sai and Baby 5 (“The Wedding of Don Sai ♡ Baby 5”). Vol. 16 (Ch. 882) is the THIRD hand-off — after five Sai installments the spotlight rotates to a fourth Grand-Fleet lead, Ideo (the “Cannon of Destruction”), shown sailing aboard the Yonta Maria, Orlumbus’s flagship of the Yonta Maria Fleet (“Trouble While Sailing on the Ship Fromorlumbus!!” — a pun on “from Orlumbus”). Vol. 17 (Ch. 883) stays with Ideo for a second straight installment — his combat faction is shown mid-brawl, the caption framing the crew as scrappers who dive into any fight and beat up both sides (“If there’s a fight going on, we’re gonna beat both sides!”). Vol. 18 (Ch. 884) stays with Ideo for a third straight installment — still sailing aboard Orlumbus’s ship, the brawl-loving crew blunders into a centuries-long war between the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes (“Looks like we stumbled on a thousand-year war between Long-Legs and Long-Arms”) — exactly the kind of fight the Vol. 17 caption promised they’d join on both sides. Vol. 19 (Ch. 885) stays with Ideo for a fourth straight installment — the fallout of the Vol. 18 war: the crew is moored on a lonely island and set to building a ship out of the undamaged parts of their wrecked vessels (“We’re moored on a lonely island, so build a ship out of the undamaged parts!!”) — the all-comers brawl having evidently cost them their ride. Vol. 20 (Ch. 887) stays with Ideo for a fifth straight installment — the Vol. 18–19 island thread pays off: the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribesmen, given the crew’s blunt ultimatum “make friends or kill each other, it’s up to you,” are drawn reconciled and waving the Ideo crew off as their newly-built ship (raised from the Vol. 19 wreckage) sails out of the bay (“Make Friends or Kill Each Other, It’s Up to You”) — the Ideo run now five volumes deep, matching the Bartolomeo (Vols. 6–10) and Sai (Vols. 11–15) runs. Vol. 21 (Ch. 888) stays with Ideo for a sixth straight installment — having salvaged a new ship from the wreckage (Vols. 19–20) and left the reconciled island, the crew formally constitutes itself as a pirate crew (“The Ideo Pirate Crew — I Guess We’re Pirates Now”), pushing the Ideo run to six volumes (Vols. 16–21) — the longest single-lead run in the anthology so far. Vol. 22 (Ch. 889) is the FOURTH crew hand-off — the spotlight finally rotates off Ideo to Leo, the Tontatta-dwarf warrior-swordsman of the Tonta Corps division. Unlike the earlier solo-splash hand-off openers, Vol. 22 is a group portrait that draws Leo together with the broader Straw Hat Grand Fleet cast — with Robin and Nami standing in the back — under the Tontatta-lisp caption “Now We Awe Piwates” (“are”→“awe”), echoing the Ideo Vol. 21 “I Guess We’re Pirates Now.” The whole-fleet-plus-Straw-Hats framing reads like a possible group-portrait finale, but the strip carries no on-page “final installment” marker, so the anthology’s conclusion is NOT pre-cast (§Forward guards). Vol. 23 (Ch. 891) stays with Leo for a second straight installment — the Tontatta-dwarf Leo and the broader Straw Hat Grand Fleet are shown rebuilding a town, under the Tontatta-lisp caption “Assist da Town in Weconstwuction!!” (“Assist the Town in Reconstruction”). The continuation disproves the Vol. 22 group-portrait-finale read — the anthology runs on, so status stays ongoing. Vol. 24 (Ch. 892) stays with Leo for a third straight installment — a “DON!!” splash of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet’s ships above a tearful Tontatta crowd, caption “A Present from Dressrosa,” extending the Leo/Tontatta run to three volumes (Vols. 22–24). Vol. 25 (Ch. 893) stays with Leo for a fourth straight installment — Leo and the Tontatta sail a heart-and-mushroom-decked “Usoland Pirate ship,” named for Usopp (the dwarves’ reverent “Usoland”/“Usohachi”/“God Usopp,” their hero since Dressrosa), under the Tontatta-lisp caption “We’re sailing on da Usoland piwate ship,” pushing the Leo/Tontatta spotlight to four volumes (Vols. 22–25). Vol. 26 (Ch. 894) stays with Leo for a fifth straight installment — and is the first installment in the whole anthology to hook a named, forthcoming MAIN-PLOT event: the Tontatta, drawn in pirate costumes inside a grand Mary-Geoise-style palace hall (arched windows, tall spear-bearing helmeted guards), have been “hired ta be secuwity for da Wevewie!!” — hired as security for the Reverie/Levely (the next arc). and no cover→main payoff is flipped. Vol. 27 (Ch. 895) is the FIFTH crew hand-off — after the five-volume Leo/Tontatta run (Vols. 22–26) the spotlight rotates to Hajrudin, the giant captain of the New Giant Warrior Pirates (the 6th division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet). The opener is a B/W splash of Hajrudin’s Viking longship under sail (a bull-skull figurehead), with Buggy screaming on the striped sail/emblem and circus tents on the right shore. The caption “Buggy’s Delivery’s Five Big Earners Just Quit” ties Hajrudin’s giants back to Buggy’s mercenary-dispatch outfit “Buggy’s Delivery” — the “five big earners” are the giant mercenaries who have just quit the company (the seed of how Hajrudin’s crew left Buggy to follow Luffy at Dressrosa). A backstory hand-off opener (cf. the Vol. 1 / Vol. 6 / Vol. 11 / Vol. 16 / Vol. 22 hand-offs); still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact at this read frontier (§Forward guards — the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the only main-plot hook, still unpaid). Vol. 28 (Ch. 896) stays with Hajrudin for a second straight installment — a full-figure B/W portrait of the giant captain (horned Viking helmet, fur mantle, plated armor, studded club) framed as a “wanted-poster”/roster mugshot. The caption opens Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List” — an itemized roster of the giants who quit (per Vol. 27’s “five big earners just quit”) — with its first entry, “Captain Hajrudin of the New Giant Pirates” (the on-page caption reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. Vol. 29 (Ch. 897) stays on the Hajrudin run for a third straight installment — the second entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List” (after Vol. 28’s Captain Hajrudin): a B/W full-figure “wanted-poster”/roster mugshot of a grinning, bearded giant in a horned Viking helmet, skull-studded fur mantle/pauldrons, polka-dot sleeves and a scale-patterned tunic, gripping a large studded club across his body before a radiating sunburst — the crew’s shipwright, Stansen (the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to follow Luffy at Dressrosa). The on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates” (= the New Giant Warrior Pirates). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans three volumes (Vols. 27–29). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. Vol. 30 (Ch. 898) stays on the Hajrudin run for a fourth straight installment — the third entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List” (after Vol. 28’s Captain Hajrudin and Vol. 29’s shipwright Stansen): the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ navigator, Rodo. The reader’s title-page panel records the strip’s giant drawn in Buggy-styled clown/delivery garb — a departure from the Vol. 28–29 Viking-helmet roster mugshots — and labels the figure Hajrudin, while the printed caption names the listed escapee “Navigator Rodo of the New Giant Pirates” (on-page “New Giant Pirates” = the New Giant Warrior Pirates). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans four volumes (Vols. 27–30). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). Vol. 31 (Ch. 899) stays on the Hajrudin run for a fifth straight installment — the fourth entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List” (after Vol. 28’s Captain Hajrudin, Vol. 29’s shipwright Stansen, Vol. 30’s navigator Rodo): the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ cook, Goldberg, shown in a pantry wielding a spiked mace and a face-emblazoned shield. The on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates” (= the New Giant Warrior Pirates). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans five volumes (Vols. 27–31). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). Vol. 32 (Ch. 901) stays on the Hajrudin run for a sixth straight installment — the fifth entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List” (after Vol. 28’s Captain Hajrudin, Vol. 29’s shipwright Stansen, Vol. 30’s navigator Rodo, Vol. 31’s cook Goldberg): the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ doctor, Gerd, the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa. The title-page art is a caped female giant standing on a ship deck, captioned the Doctor of the “New Giant Pirates.” The on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates” (= the New Giant Warrior Pirates). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans six volumes (Vols. 27–32), tying the Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) as the anthology’s joint-longest single-lead spotlight. NB the cover serial reuses the name Gerd already minted for the giant woman of Elbaf in Big Mom’s origin flashback (Ch. 866); @0901’s chapter note links the two, so “Doctor Gerd of the New Giant Pirates” is recorded as that same Gerd. Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). Vol. 33 (Ch. 903) is the SIXTH crew hand-off — after the joint-longest six-volume Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery run (Vols. 27–32) the spotlight rotates to Orlumbus (“Big Helmsman” Orlumbus) and his Yonta Maria Fleet, the 7th and final division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, under the subtitle “The Yontamaria Fleet Sails the Seas.” The B/W title-page art (not a color spread) shows Orlumbus’s flagship — the Yonta Maria (“4 Tamaria”/Yontamaria, the Grand Fleet’s largest ship, first glimpsed back in the Vol. 16 “Fromorlumbus” splash) — leading a line of “3 Tamaria”/“2 Tamaria” galleons across the open sea. With Orlumbus’s fleet, all seven Grand-Fleet divisions have now led a spotlight (Beautiful Pirates/Cavendish → Barto Club → Happo Navy → Ideo → Tonta Corps → New Giant Warrior Pirates → Yonta Maria Fleet) — yet the strip prints no on-page “final installment” marker, so the anthology’s conclusion is NOT pre-cast (§Forward guards). Notably, Vol. 33 is printed over the main story’s Reverie/Levely-arc opener — Luffy branded the “Fifth Emperor of the Sea” with a 1.5-billion bounty and the world’s monarchs sailing to the Holy Land — but the cover strip itself stays cover-internal: the Yonta Maria Fleet is merely shown sailing, with no Reverie content, so the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook. Vol. 34 (Ch. 904) stays on Orlumbus for a second straight installment — the spotlight pivots from his fleet-at-sea splash to his backstory (Orlumbus tendering a “Resignation” before a throne, “Retiring from being the pioneer adventurer of the standing kingdom” — his noble-explorer origin before captaining the Yonta Maria Fleet), extending the Orlumbus run to two volumes (Vols. 33–34) and again staying cover-internal even as the main story sits two days from the Reverie. Vol. 35 (Ch. 905) stays on Orlumbus for a third straight installment — the spotlight pivots again, this time to a slice-of-life daily-routine gag, “The Pirate Life, 6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas,” showing Orlumbus going about a pirate’s mundane morning aboard the Yonta Maria Fleet (the “6 A.M.” stamp reads like a possible day-in-the-life sub-run opener, but only this 6-A.M. strip is recorded per §Forward guards). It extends the Orlumbus run to three volumes (Vols. 33–35) and stays cover-internal even as the main story — “What a Beautiful World” — convenes the Reverie’s eve (the world’s monarchs ascending the Red Line on bondolas to Sacred Marijoa), so the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed is still unpaid. Vol. 36 (Ch. 906) stays on Orlumbus for a fourth straight installment — the second beat of the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run, “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check” (Orlumbus and crewmate Columbus as fastidious neat-freaks on a cleaning inspection). The cover strip stays cover-internal, but @0906 is the cover→main PAYOFF chapter: its main story (“Sacred Marijoa”) puts Leo (Tontatta, the Vols. 22–26 cover lead) and Sai (Happo Navy, the Vols. 11–15 cover lead) on-page at the Reverie on secret guard duty, paying off the Vol. 26 @0894 Reverie-security bridge seed — so the note is flipped to merged-into-main-plot (payoff_chapter @0906; see Straw Hat Grand Fleet Allies Serve As Reverie Security Cover Story Payoff). Vol. 37 (Ch. 907) stays on Orlumbus for a fifth straight installment — the spotlight pivots off the Vols. 35–36 “Pirate Life” hourly gag back to his backstory (cf. Vol. 34’s “Retiring from being the pioneer adventurer of the standing kingdom” resignation): a B/W title page (no color spread) of Orlumbus making a tearful departure with a 56-ship fleet (“Thank you for everything”) — the genesis of his Yonta Maria Fleet (the Grand Fleet’s 7th/final division, which numbers 56 ships), the caption framing how he “stole” the standing kingdom’s fleet to take to the seas. Extends the Orlumbus run to five volumes (Vols. 33–37). The cover serial stays cover-internal (the note is already merged via the @0906 Reverie-security payoff; status / payoff_chapter unchanged), printed over the main story’s “The Empty Throne” (the Reverie continuing at Sacred Marijoa). Vol. 38 (Ch. 908) stays on Orlumbus for a sixth straight installment — the spotlight resumes the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run (Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas” / Vol. 36’s “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check,” with Vol. 37 a backstory-departure interlude) at “3 P.M.: Planning Chart for Pirating Activities.” A B/W title page (no color spread) of Orlumbus seated at a desk in a high-backed throne-like chair, quill in hand drafting a pirating-activities planning chart, a Yonta Maria Fleet crewmate (a tall striped hat) standing before the desk — an office/admin slice-of-life gag. Extends the Orlumbus run to six volumes (Vols. 33–38), tying the Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) and the Hajrudin run (Vols. 27–32) as the anthology’s joint-longest single-lead spotlight. The cover serial stays cover-internal (the note is already merged via the @0906 Reverie-security payoff; status / payoff_chapter unchanged) — and pointedly so: @0908 carries the anthology’s biggest main story to date, “The Reverie Begins” (the Gorosei’s Nefertari-”traitor” / “great cleansing” talk, Kuma revealed a Celestial-Dragon slave, Sabo’s Revolutionary infiltration to free him, Bonney’s grief, Myosgard named a Donquixote, and the climactic Empty-Throne / “Great Imu” reveal), yet the cover strip shows only Orlumbus’s planning gag — no Reverie content. Per §Forward guards, only the in-range @0864–@0908 installments are recorded here (note Ch. 872, Ch. 874, Ch. 878, Ch. 886, Ch. 890, the Ch. 900 milestone color-spread chapter, and the Ch. 902 “SWEETS BUSTERS” arc-capstone color-spread chapter carried no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial skips Vol. 8→Vol. 9, Vol. 9→Vol. 10, Vol. 12→Vol. 13, Vol. 19→Vol. 20, Vol. 22→Vol. 23, Vol. 31→Vol. 32, and Vol. 32→Vol. 33 respectively); which crews (if any) later volumes feature is NOT pre-cast.

Installment table

Coverage / numbering

• Vol. 1 = the opener at Ch. 864 — the title page carries both the “Limited Cover Series No. 23” banner and the running series name “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet,” with the Vol. 1 subtitle “The Beautiful Pirates Beautifully Sail the Beautiful Seas.” The art shows the Beautiful Pirates’ galleon (horse figurehead; “Beautiful Pirates”/“Popularity” sails) sailing the open sea. NB: unlike the single-lead predecessors (whose running name first surfaced only at Vol. 2), this anthology states its full name at Vol. 1.
• Vol. 2 = Ch. 865 — stays with the Vol. 1 lead crew: Cavendish himself opens a first-person backstory narration (“As you probably know, years ago…”). The series therefore does not rotate to a new crew every installment as the Vol. 1-only data first suggested — the Beautiful Pirates / Cavendish spotlight spans at least two volumes; whether and when it hands off to the other Grand-Fleet crews is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast).
• Vol. 3 = Ch. 866 — still on Cavendish: the caption continues his first-person account, naming him Prince of the Bourgeois Kingdom, “so popular no young ladies are getting married.” A third consecutive Cavendish-led installment, confirming the per-crew spotlight runs multiple volumes deep before any (unknown) hand-off.
• Vol. 4 = Ch. 867 — a fourth straight Cavendish installment: the caption turns the prince-popularity premise into exile — “A life of misery in exile for being too popular, with only 74 servants and 500 million berries.” The self-mocking “only” (74 servants / 500M berries reframed as poverty) lands the comic beat of the origin while the Beautiful Pirates / Cavendish spotlight continues.
• Vol. 5 = Ch. 868 — a fifth straight Cavendish installment, dropping the caption to return to a present-day visual gag: Cavendish dances with a rose while two heart-decked fan ships (banners “MARRY ME” / “WE LOVE CAVENDISH,” crewed by cats) pursue him. The prince-popularity premise built across Vols. 2–4 pays off as a sight gag; the spotlight stays on Cavendish / the Beautiful Pirates with no hand-off to the other Grand-Fleet crews yet.
• Vol. 6 = Ch. 869 — the first crew hand-off: after five Cavendish-led installments the anthology rotates to Bartolomeo’s Barto Club Pirates, caption “It’s the usual raucous ruckus from the Barto Club.” Their galleon (jolly-roger sail, a “BARTO CLUB” banner, a Luffy figurehead) makes a noisy entrance to a cheering crowd. This confirms the series’ anthology structure — it does cycle through the (self-proclaimed) Straw Hat Grand-Fleet crews, just multiple volumes per crew rather than one. Whether and in what order the remaining Grand-Fleet crews follow is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast).
• Vol. 7 = Ch. 870 — a second straight Bartolomeo installment, caption “I find and crush the baddest guy in port.” The art shows Bartolomeo astride a felled giant figure amid a burning, castle-spired town. Like the Cavendish run (Vols. 2–5), the Barto Club spotlight spans more than one volume; still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 8 = Ch. 871 — a third straight Bartolomeo installment, caption “Passing off Straw Hat crew stickers and Mister Luffy pins to the hooligans on the cheap.” Same castle-spired port as Vol. 7: a grinning Bartolomeo sells Straw Hat crew stickers and “Mister Luffy” pins (a small Luffy figure / Straw-Hat jolly-roger badge visible) to two sweating, cowed brutes — the “hooligans” he crushed last volume. The two-beat gag (crush the port’s strongest, then peddle Luffy fan-merch to the survivors) caps the Barto Club’s port-hunt running joke. Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 9 = Ch. 873 — a fourth straight Bartolomeo installment, caption “We’re offering all citizens a half-off sale on stickers…” (Ch. 872 printed no cover-story page, so the serial skips straight from Vol. 8 to Vol. 9.) Bartolomeo presides over a fairy-tale castle town under a Straw Hat jolly-roger banner, escalating the Vol. 8 merch beat into a citywide half-off sticker sale for “all citizens” — the Barto Club’s port conquest converted into a captive Straw-Hat fan-merch market. Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 10 = Ch. 875 — a fifth straight Bartolomeo installment, caption “Emperor of the Sea?! So What?!!” (Ch. 874 printed only a main-story two-page title splash, no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial skips straight from Vol. 9 to Vol. 10.) Bartolomeo towers, unfazed, over the terrified Grand Fleet captains: confronted with the news that Luffy is pitted against an Emperor of the Sea, the assembled captains panic while the Luffy super-fan brushes it off. The strip thematically winks at the main plot’s Big Mom showdown but makes no on-page contact — still cover-internal.
• Vol. 11 = Ch. 876 — the second crew hand-off: after five Bartolomeo-led installments the anthology rotates to a third Grand-Fleet crew, Sai’s Happo Navy (the Chin Jao Family), caption “Don Sai of the Happosui Army Returns.” The art is a B/W splash of the Navy’s junk under sail — 八宝 / “eight treasures” sails and a tiger figurehead, extending the family’s Chinese-cuisine happōsai (eight-treasure stir-fry) motif. Confirms the per-crew spotlight cycles on (Cavendish Vols. 2–5 → Bartolomeo Vols. 6–10 → Sai from Vol. 11); whether and in what order the remaining Grand-Fleet crews follow is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Pudding Coincidentally Appears!!” — Big Mom clawing out of the lightning crater still in her craving-fit, Pudding and Chiffon arriving on the carpet-homie Rabian with the substitute-wedding-cake plan, the flight toward Chocolat Town, and Brook & Chopper defending the Thousand Sunny.)
• Vol. 12 = Ch. 877 — a second straight Sai installment; the Happo Navy spotlight pivots from the Vol. 11 establishing junk-splash to Sai’s arranged-marriage subplot. His towering bride Ooklicia (long blonde hair, a black flower-print dress) presses “I was thinking about the date of our wedding…” while a visibly squirming Sai (his “13” Happo Navy stripes, arms crossed and sweating) stalls — “So, Ooklicia, about that…” — before the Chin Jao Family’s Chinese-style castle town. The reluctant-groom gag opens a multi-volume Sai romance/marriage thread (cf. Cavendish Vols. 2–5, Bartolomeo Vols. 6–10); how it resolves is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Bittersweet” — the candy-coast escape aboard the Thousand Sunny and Pedro’s self-detonation against Charlotte Perospero; a wry thematic echo, as Big Mom rampages screaming “CAKE!! WEDDING!!” over the same pages the cover serial runs Sai’s own wedding gag.)
• Vol. 13 = Ch. 879 — a third straight Sai installment, caption “A Price to Pay for Betrothal Annulment.” (Ch. 878 printed no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial skips straight from Vol. 12 to Vol. 13.) The reluctant-groom subplot built across Vols. 11–12 turns: Sai annuls the betrothal to Ooklicia and pays for it — a B/W splash shows Sai collapsed in a tangle of bodies (a long-bearded elder in the heap) in the foreground, the towering Ooklicia reclining dramatically above and the Chin Jao Family’s tiered pagoda rising behind. The cover serial’s own Sai-wedding gag lands its punchline (call off the wedding → suffer the fallout); whether the Sai romance thread continues is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Big Mom’s Sweet 3 General, Katakuri” — the Sunny crew’s grief over Pedro in the rain, Big Mom striding across the open sea on a candy sea-slug homie homie, the Cacao Island cake plan, and Luffy’s duel with Charlotte Katakuri opening in the Mirro-World.)
• Vol. 14 = Ch. 880 — a fourth straight Sai installment, caption “I was going to do him the honor of being my 26th husband!!” The Sai-romance thread does continue (answering the Vol. 13 open question): having annulled the Ooklicia betrothal, it pivots to the first meeting of Sai and Baby 5 — a former Donquixote Pirates officer who compulsively accepts every proposal. The art is a glitzy nightclub under a disco ball with a neon 二宝 / “HUSBAND CLUB” sign (二宝 “two treasures” puns on the Happo Navy’s 八宝 happō “eight treasures”): Baby 5 reclines flower-decked among a knot of besuited suitors while Sai enters at right as a tall black silhouette. The printed line is Baby 5’s (she collects “husbands”). Whether this romance develops is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Zero Escape” — Charlotte Pudding’s memory-wipe of the WCI 31 chefs and Sanji rebuilding Streusen’s recipe to bake the substitute cake at Chocolat Town, the mirror-soldier raids on the Thousand Sunny from the Mirro-World, and Big Mom’s tidal-wave pursuit of the Sunny.)
• Vol. 15 = Ch. 881 — a fifth straight Sai installment, caption “The Wedding of Don Sai ♡ Baby 5.” The Sai-romance thread (Vols. 12–15) pays off its own setup — the Vol. 14 first meeting becomes the wedding here, answering the Vol. 14 open question. A B/W splash shows Sai on a raised dais hoisting the giant Happo Navy folding fan (八宝水軍 / “Happosui Army”), Baby 5 in a bridal gown clinging to his arm, and the Chin Jao Family / Happo Navy crowd cheering amid flying confetti before the family’s castle spires. Whether the married Sai × Baby 5 thread continues or the anthology now hands off to another Grand-Fleet crew is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Wave Room” — Jinbei helming the Thousand Sunny into the “Green Room” wave-pocket to escape Big Mom’s tidal wave, Nami’s order to smash every ship-linked mirror, and Luffy’s losing duel with Charlotte Katakuri in the Mirro-World.)
• Vol. 16 = Ch. 882 — the third crew hand-off: after the five-installment Sai run (Vols. 11–15) the anthology rotates to a fourth Grand-Fleet lead, Ideo (the “Cannon of Destruction”), caption “Trouble While Sailing on the Ship Fromorlumbus!!” The art is a B/W establishing splash of a huge galleon under sail — the Yonta Maria, Orlumbus’s flagship of the Yonta Maria Fleet (the largest ship in the whole Grand Fleet) — with smaller Grand-Fleet ships alongside (one flying a Straw Hat jolly-roger sail) and a ”!” thought-bubble bearing a top-hat + Straw-Hat jolly-roger icon. The caption “Fromorlumbus” puns “from Orlumbus”: Ideo is sailing aboard Orlumbus’s ship. Like the Vol. 1 (Beautiful Pirates’ galleon), Vol. 6 (Barto Club entrance), and Vol. 11 (Happo Navy junk) hand-off openers, this is an art-and-caption establishing beat for the new lead — Ideo himself is not visibly drawn yet, and what the “trouble” is is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Confirms the per-crew spotlight cycles on (Cavendish Vols. 2–5 → Bartolomeo Vols. 6–10 → Sai Vols. 11–15 → Ideo from Vol. 16). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 17 = Ch. 883 — a second straight Ideo installment, caption “If there’s a fight going on, we’re gonna beat both sides!” After the Vol. 16 Yonta Maria establishing splash the spotlight stays on Ideo: his combat faction is now shown mid-brawl, the caption characterizing the crew as scrappers who dive into any fight and pummel both sides. Like the Cavendish (Vols. 2–5), Bartolomeo (Vols. 6–10), and Sai (Vols. 11–15) runs before it, the Ideo spotlight spans more than one volume; how it develops is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 18 = Ch. 884 — a third straight Ideo installment, caption “Looks like we stumbled on a thousand-year war between Long-Legs and Long-Arms.” Still aboard Orlumbus’s “Fromorlumbus” ship (Vol. 16), the brawl-loving Ideo crew blunders into a centuries-long war between the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes — supplying the all-comers fight the Vol. 17 caption (“we’re gonna beat both sides!”) set up. The Ideo spotlight now matches the prior leads at three-plus volumes (Cavendish Vols. 2–5, Bartolomeo Vols. 6–10, Sai Vols. 11–15); where the war thread goes is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 19 = Ch. 885 — a fourth straight Ideo installment, caption “We’re moored on a lonely island, so build a ship out of the undamaged parts!!” The Vol. 18 Long-Leg/Long-Arm war has its consequence: the brawl-loving Ideo crew is left moored/stranded on a deserted island, Ideo ordering them to scavenge the undamaged parts of their wrecked ships and build a new one — the all-comers fight they leapt into apparently cost them their vessel. The Ideo spotlight now spans four-plus volumes, matching the prior leads (Cavendish Vols. 2–5, Bartolomeo Vols. 6–10, Sai Vols. 11–15); where the castaway-shipbuilding thread goes is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 20 = Ch. 887 — a fifth straight Ideo installment, caption “Make Friends or Kill Each Other, It’s Up to You.” (Ch. 886 printed no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial skips straight from Vol. 19 to Vol. 20.) The Vol. 18 thousand-year war between the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes and the Vol. 19 stranded-shipbuilding both resolve: the two tribes, given the brawl-crew’s blunt ultimatum “make friends or kill each other, it’s up to you,” are drawn reconciled — cheering and waving the Ideo crew off from a palm-fringed beach as their newly-built ship (raised from the Vol. 19 wreckage) sails out of the island bay, a ”!” burst carrying a top-hat + Straw-Hat jolly-roger icon overhead. The Ideo spotlight now spans five volumes (Vols. 16–20), matching the Bartolomeo (Vols. 6–10) and Sai (Vols. 11–15) runs; whether the anthology now hands off to another Grand-Fleet crew is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal with no main-plot contact.
• Vol. 21 = Ch. 888 — a sixth straight Ideo installment, caption “The Ideo Pirate Crew — I Guess We’re Pirates Now.” The serial does not hand off after the Vol. 20 island send-off (answering that open question): the spotlight stays on Ideo for a record sixth volume. Having salvaged a new ship from the wreckage (Vols. 19–20) and sailed off from the reconciled Long-Leg/Long-Arm island, the crew — once just a brawl faction riding aboard Orlumbus’s Yonta Maria (Vol. 16) — now formally constitutes itself as a pirate crew (”…I guess we’re pirates now”). This caps the Ideo run at six volumes (Vols. 16–21), overtaking the five-installment Beautiful Pirates/Cavendish (Vols. 1–5), Bartolomeo (Vols. 6–10), and Sai (Vols. 11–15) runs as the anthology’s longest single-lead spotlight. A B/W title page only (no color spread this chapter); whether the anthology now hands off to another Grand-Fleet crew is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact.
• Vol. 22 = Ch. 889 — the fourth crew hand-off: after the record six-installment Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) the spotlight finally rotates to Leo, the Tontatta-dwarf warrior-swordsman of the Tonta Corps division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, caption “Now We Awe Piwates.” Unlike the Vol. 1 / Vol. 6 / Vol. 11 / Vol. 16 hand-off openers — each a solo splash establishing a single lead crew — Vol. 22 is a group portrait that draws Leo together with the broader Grand Fleet cast, with Robin and Nami standing in the back. The Tontatta-lisp caption (“are”→“awe”) rhymes with the Ideo Vol. 21 “I Guess We’re Pirates Now.” The whole-fleet-plus-Straw-Hats framing reads like a possible group-portrait finale for the anthology, but the strip prints no on-page “final installment” marker, so whether No. 23 concludes here or hands off again is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast a conclusion; status stays ongoing). A B/W title page only (no color spread this chapter). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot.

Log

• Ch. 864 (Vol. 1) — Anthology opener. The Beautiful Pirates (Cavendish’s crew) sail their horse-figurehead galleon across the sea, sails marked “Beautiful Pirates” and “Popularity.” A purely art-only establishing snapshot — no narrative beat yet, no contact with the main plot. (Printed while the main story runs the Big Mom tea-party assassination.)
• Ch. 865 (Vol. 2) — The serial turns to Cavendish himself, who opens a first-person account of his past — “As you probably know, years ago…” He stands on a balcony beside a horse with a windmill behind him; an inset thought-bubble depicts a caped girl among orphan children and a goat (a flashback-frame teaser for the backstory he begins to tell). Narrative beat, but still cover-internal — no contact with the main plot. (Printed over the chapter’s Big Mom grief-scream and the cut to the “Elbaf, 63 years ago” origin flashback in the main story.)
• Ch. 866 (Vol. 3) — Cavendish’s narration continues: the caption names him Prince of the Bourgeois Kingdom, “so popular no young ladies are getting married.” The third straight Cavendish installment, fleshing out the prince-celebrity origin teased in Vol. 2 — still a cover-internal backstory beat with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s Big Mom / Elbaf origin flashback — “Natural Born Destroyer.”)
• Ch. 867 (Vol. 4) — Cavendish’s backstory reaches its punchline: the caption has him exiled “for being too popular,” bemoaning “a life of misery” left with “only 74 servants and 500 million berries.” The extravagant figures played as destitution cap the prince-celebrity origin arc — a fourth consecutive Cavendish installment, still cover-internal with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s Mother Carmel / “Happy Birthday” Elbaf flashback.)
• Ch. 868 (Vol. 5) — Cavendish dances with a rose while two heart-decked fan ships (“MARRY ME” / “WE LOVE CAVENDISH,” crewed by cats) chase him — the prince-popularity gag returns as a present-day sight gag after the Vol. 2–4 backstory. A fifth straight Cavendish installment, still cover-internal with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s KX-Launcher coup failing and Capone Bege’s “Big Father” castle-fortress transformation.)
• Ch. 869 (Vol. 6) — First crew hand-off. After five Cavendish-led installments the serial rotates to Bartolomeo’s Barto Club Pirates — caption “It’s the usual raucous ruckus from the Barto Club.” Their galleon (jolly-roger sail, a “BARTO CLUB” banner, a Luffy figurehead) makes a noisy entrance to a cheering crowd (“WOOOOOOOAH!!”). An art-and-caption establishing beat for the new lead crew — still cover-internal, no contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Castling” — the alliance retreating into Bege’s “Big Father” and Big Mom recovering to realize she has been betrayed.)
• Ch. 870 (Vol. 7) — A second straight Bartolomeo installment — caption “I find and crush the baddest guy in port.” A B/W splash shows Bartolomeo astride a felled giant figure amid a burning, castle-spired town, characterizing the Barto Club captain’s port-by-port hunt for the toughest brute. The new lead crew’s spotlight, like Cavendish’s before it, runs more than one volume; still cover-internal with no main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s alliance escape from Big Mom — Bege’s body-chamber airlift via Caesar and Sanji’s “parting” from the Vinsmokes — and Luffy & Sanji leaping out to strike Big Mom together.)
• Ch. 871 (Vol. 8) — A third straight Bartolomeo installment — caption “Passing off Straw Hat crew stickers and Mister Luffy pins to the hooligans on the cheap.” In the same castle-spired port from Vol. 7, a grinning Bartolomeo hawks Straw Hat crew stickers and “Mister Luffy” pins (a small Luffy figure / Straw-Hat jolly-roger badge shown) to two sweating, cowed tough guys — the brutes he just crushed. The recurring Barto-Club gag lands its punchline: the Luffy super-fan beats the strongest man in each port, then sells the survivors his fan-merch cheap. Still cover-internal, no contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s alliance escape — Bege’s “Big Father” airlift under cover of Caesar’s failing gas, Stussy’s CP0 reveal over the Tamatebako, and Luffy’s Gear 4 “It’s ME!!” strike on Big Mom.)
• Ch. 873 (Vol. 9) — A fourth straight Bartolomeo installment — caption “We’re offering all citizens a half-off sale on stickers…” (Ch. 872 had no cover-story page, so the serial jumps from Vol. 8 to Vol. 9.) Bartolomeo holds court over a fairy-tale castle town beneath a Straw Hat jolly-roger banner, turning the Vol. 8 sticker-peddling gag into a citywide half-off sale forced on “all citizens” — the conquered port repurposed as a captive Straw-Hat fan-merch market. Still cover-internal, no contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s post-collapse aftermath on Whole Cake Island — Charlotte Compote investigating the explosion, Jinbei confirmed as having joined the Straw Hats, Charlotte Katakuri’s vow to crush Luffy, Big Mom’s second craving-illness rampage downing Charlotte Opera, Charlotte Pudding’s plan to re-bake the cake at Chocolat Town, and the crew’s flight through the Seducing Woods with Nami commanding Kingbaum via Lola’s Vivre Card.)
• Ch. 875 (Vol. 10) — A fifth straight Bartolomeo installment — caption “Emperor of the Sea?! So What?!!” (Ch. 874 carried only a main-story two-page title splash, so the serial jumps from Vol. 9 to Vol. 10.) Bartolomeo towers, unfazed, above the terrified Grand Fleet captains — the Barto Club captain shrugs off the news that Luffy faces an Emperor of the Sea while the rest of the (self-proclaimed) Straw Hat Fleet panics. The first installment to pivot off the running port-conquest/merch gag toward the main plot’s stakes, but it stays cover-internal — only a thematic wink at the Big Mom showdown, no on-page contact. (Printed over the main story’s “A Woman’s Honor” chapter — Big Mom’s craving-fit pursuit through the Seducing Woods, Nami detonating “Tempo” inside the gluttonous Zeus, and Charlotte Chiffon’s vow to bake a substitute wedding cake.)
• Ch. 877 (Vol. 12) — A second straight Sai installment (following the Vol. 11 @0876 hand-off that rotated the spotlight onto Sai’s Happo Navy): the serial pivots from the establishing junk-splash to Sai’s arranged-marriage subplot. His towering bride Ooklicia (long blonde hair, a black flower-print dress) presses “I was thinking about the date of our wedding…” while a visibly squirming Sai (his “13” Happo Navy stripes, arms crossed and sweating) stalls — “So, Ooklicia, about that…” — before the Chin Jao Family’s Chinese-style castle town. A reluctant-groom gag opening a Sai romance/marriage thread; still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Bittersweet” — the candy-coast escape aboard the Thousand Sunny, Charlotte Perospero’s “Candy Wave,” and Pedro’s self-detonation against Perospero. A wry thematic echo runs across the page: Big Mom rampages screaming “CAKE!! WEDDING!!” in the main story while the cover serial plays its own Sai-wedding gag.)
• Ch. 879 (Vol. 13) — A third straight Sai installment, caption “A Price to Pay for Betrothal Annulment” (Ch. 878 carried no cover-story page, so the serial jumps from Vol. 12 to Vol. 13). The reluctant-groom subplot built over Vols. 11–12 turns: Sai annuls his betrothal to Ooklicia and pays the price. A B/W splash shows Sai collapsed in a tangle of bodies — a long-bearded elder among the heap — in the foreground, the towering Ooklicia reclining dramatically above and the Chin Jao Family’s tiered Chinese pagoda behind. The cover serial’s own wedding gag lands its punchline (break off the marriage, suffer the fallout); still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Big Mom’s Sweet 3 General, Katakuri” — the Sunny crew mourning Pedro in the rain, Big Mom walking across the open sea on a candy sea-slug homie since Zeus is gone, Sanji & Pudding’s flight to Chocolat Town to re-bake the cake, and Luffy’s duel with Charlotte Katakuri opening in the Mirro-World.)
• Ch. 880 (Vol. 14) — A fourth straight Sai installment, caption “I was going to do him the honor of being my 26th husband!!” The Sai-romance thread continues past the Vol. 13 betrothal annulment, pivoting to the first meeting of Sai and Baby 5 (a former Donquixote Pirates officer who can’t refuse a proposal and so racks up “husbands”). The art: a glitzy nightclub lit by a disco ball, a neon 二宝 / “HUSBAND CLUB” sign (二宝 “two treasures” puns on the Happo Navy’s 八宝 happō “eight treasures”) — Baby 5 reclines flower-decked on striped barrel-seats ringed by besuited suitors (one bowing/weeping at left) while Sai enters from the right as a tall black silhouette, hand to chin. The printed line is Baby 5’s, counting Sai as a prospective “26th husband.” Introduces the Sai × Baby 5 cover romance; still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Zero Escape” — Charlotte Pudding wiping the WCI 31 chefs’ memories so Sanji can secretly rebuild Streusen’s recipe for the substitute cake at Chocolat Town, the Mirro-World mirror-soldier raids on the Thousand Sunny, and Big Mom raising a tidal wave to swamp the Sunny.)
• Ch. 881 (Vol. 15) — A fifth straight Sai installment, caption “The Wedding of Don Sai ♡ Baby 5.” The Sai-romance thread that opened with the Vol. 14 first meeting pays off in the wedding itself: a B/W splash of Sai at center on a raised dais, hoisting the giant Happo Navy folding fan marked 八宝水軍 / “Happosui Army,” with Baby 5 in a flower-draped bridal gown clinging to his arm, while the Chin Jao Family / Happo Navy crowd cheers around them — raised arms and flying confetti, the family’s castle spires behind. The cover serial marries off Sai & Baby 5, capping the four-installment Sai-romance run (Vols. 12–15: stall the Ooklicia wedding → annul it → meet Baby 5 → wed her). Whether the thread continues or the anthology hands off to another Grand-Fleet crew is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact. (Printed over the main story’s “Wave Room” — Jinbei helming the Thousand Sunny into the “Green Room” wave-pocket to evade Big Mom’s tidal wave, Nami ordering every ship-linked mirror smashed, and Luffy’s losing opening duel with Charlotte Katakuri in the Mirro-World.)
• Ch. 882 (Vol. 16) — Third crew hand-off. After the five-installment Sai run (Vols. 11–15) the serial rotates to Ideo (the “Cannon of Destruction”), caption “Trouble While Sailing on the Ship Fromorlumbus!!” A B/W establishing splash shows a huge galleon under sail — the Yonta Maria, Orlumbus’s flagship of the Yonta Maria Fleet (the largest ship in the Grand Fleet) — flanked by smaller Grand-Fleet ships (one flying a Straw Hat jolly-roger sail), with a ”!” thought-bubble carrying a top-hat + Straw-Hat jolly-roger icon. The caption “Fromorlumbus” puns “from Orlumbus”: Ideo is sailing aboard Orlumbus’s ship. An art-and-caption establishing beat for the new lead (Ideo not yet visibly drawn); what the “trouble” is is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Beyond the Emperor’s Expectations” — Charlotte Katakuri beating Luffy in the Mirro-World and revealing his awakened Devil Fruit [“It’s that thing Doflamingo did!!”], every thread converging on Cacao Island, and Nusstorte’s force razing the Germa Kingdom while sparing its clone-production system.)
• Ch. 883 (Vol. 17) — A second straight Ideo installment, caption “If there’s a fight going on, we’re gonna beat both sides!” Following the Vol. 16 @0882 hand-off (the Yonta Maria establishing splash), the spotlight stays on Ideo: his combat faction is now shown mid-brawl, the caption framing the crew’s M.O. as fighters who dive into any fight and beat up both sides. Like the prior leads, the Ideo spotlight runs more than one volume; how it develops is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Merienda” — Charlotte Katakuri burying Luffy under a multilayered Mirror Mochi, the reveal of Katakuri’s hidden ripped/jagged shark-toothed mouth as Luffy crashes his solitary teatime, Katakuri turning Edged Mochi on his own pastry chefs to keep the secret, the first explicit statement that Busoshoku/Armament Haki has levels of color, and Luffy’s kick landing for the first time once Katakuri’s future-sight composure cracks — then Gear Four “Kong Gun.”)
• Ch. 884 (Vol. 18) — A third straight Ideo installment, caption “Looks like we stumbled on a thousand-year war between Long-Legs and Long-Arms.” Still sailing aboard Orlumbus’s “Fromorlumbus” ship (set up in Vol. 16), the brawl-loving Ideo crew blunders into a centuries-long war between the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes — the all-comers fight teased by the Vol. 17 “we’re gonna beat both sides!” caption finds its battlefield. Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Who Is That?” — Luffy solving Katakuri’s intangible-mochi riddle and pinning his true edge as future-sight Observation Haki in the Mirro-World, the debut of Charlotte Oven driving off Pound at the Chocolat Town cake factory, and Big Mom singing her own Territory Sea Slug surveillance network free so the fleeing Thousand Sunny goes unchased.)
• Ch. 885 (Vol. 19) — A fourth straight Ideo installment, caption “We’re moored on a lonely island, so build a ship out of the undamaged parts!!” The Vol. 18 thousand-year war between the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes pays off its cost: the brawl-loving Ideo crew is now moored/stranded on a deserted island, Ideo directing them to salvage the undamaged parts of their wrecked ships and build a new vessel out of the wreckage — the all-comers fight they jumped into having evidently sunk their ride. Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “I’m Brulee!!!” — Luffy’s Gear Fourth Boundman deflating mid-duel with Charlotte Katakuri in the Mirro-World, leaving him unable to use Haki for ten minutes, so he hostage-grabs Charlotte Brulee to flee through the mirror network past Big Mom’s craving rampage; Sanji, Pudding and Chiffon finishing the substitute wedding cake with Sanji’s secret “Simsim Whip” cream at Cacao Island; and the Big Mom Pirates issuing a fleet-wide order to sink the Straw Hats, the Pirates of the Sun, and the Firetank Pirates.)
• Ch. 887 (Vol. 20) — A fifth straight Ideo installment, caption “Make Friends or Kill Each Other, It’s Up to You.” (Ch. 886 carried no cover-story page, so the serial jumps from Vol. 19 to Vol. 20.) The two-volume Ideo island thread resolves: the Long-Leg and Long-Arm tribes that fought the Vol. 18 thousand-year war are now reconciled, cheering and waving the Ideo crew off from a palm-fringed beach as the newly-built ship salvaged from the wreckage in Vol. 19 sails out of the bay; a ”!” burst overhead carries a top-hat + Straw-Hat jolly-roger icon (recurring since Vol. 16). The caption is the brawl-loving crew’s parting ultimatum to the warring tribes — “make friends or kill each other, it’s up to you” — and they chose to make friends. Caps the Ideo run at five installments (Vols. 16–20: Yonta Maria → beat-both-sides → the war → castaway-shipbuilding → tribes reconciled, ship departs). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Someone Somewhere Is Wishing for Your Happiness” — Bege’s amphibious “Nostra Castello” fortress springing its tank-tread gimmick to break off Cacao Island past Oven’s heat-boiled blockade, Sanji one-leg-lifting the giant wedding-cake cart aboard, the 26-years-ago caretaker who cooled the sea and wished Chiffon happiness, and Big Mom still personally chasing the Thousand Sunny across her territory.)
• Ch. 888 (Vol. 21) — A sixth straight Ideo installment, caption “The Ideo Pirate Crew — I Guess We’re Pirates Now.” The serial does not hand off after the Vol. 20 island send-off — the spotlight stays on Ideo for a record sixth volume. Having salvaged a new ship from the wreckage (Vols. 19–20) and sailed off from the now-reconciled Long-Leg/Long-Arm island, Ideo’s crew — formerly just a brawl faction riding aboard Orlumbus’s Yonta Maria (Vol. 16), now masters of their own vessel — formally declares itself a pirate crew (”…I guess we’re pirates now”). Caps the Ideo run at six volumes (Vols. 16–21), the anthology’s longest single-lead spotlight, overtaking the Beautiful Pirates/Cavendish (Vols. 1–5), Bartolomeo (Vols. 6–10), and Sai (Vols. 11–15) five-volume runs. A B/W title page only (no color spread this chapter). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Lion” — Luffy resuming his Mirro-World duel with Charlotte Katakuri (“I came back… to beat you!!!”), the Thousand Sunny escape crew (Jinbei, Nami, Carrot, Chopper) boxed in by converging Big Mom Pirates fleets (Perospero, Smoothie, the genie-wielding Daifuku, Bavarois’s cannonball homies, and Big Mom herself), and Carrot’s first Sulong “Moon Lion” transformation under the full moon, smashing Daifuku’s fleet apart.)
• Ch. 889 (Vol. 22) — Fourth crew hand-off. After the record six-installment Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) the serial rotates to Leo, the Tontatta-dwarf warrior-swordsman of the Tonta Corps division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, caption “Now We Awe Piwates.” Unlike the prior hand-off openers (Vol. 1 Beautiful Pirates’ galleon, Vol. 6 Barto Club entrance, Vol. 11 Happo Navy junk, Vol. 16 Yonta Maria), this one is a group portrait — Leo drawn together with the broader Grand Fleet cast, Robin and Nami standing in the back. The Tontatta-lisp caption (“are”→“awe”) echoes the Ideo Vol. 21 “I Guess We’re Pirates Now.” The whole-fleet-plus-Straw-Hats framing reads like a possible group-portrait finale, but the strip carries no on-page “final installment” marker — kept ongoing, conclusion not pre-cast (§Forward guards). B/W title page only. Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Unfamiliar Mama” — Carrot’s Sulong “Guillotine” wrecking Daifuku’s genie-led fleet, Pekoms explaining the Sulong rule-set, Sanji forbidding Bege from weaponizing the wedding cake, and Big Mom’s ~8-hour craving wasting her to a gaunt monster as she orders Napoleon “change into your blade” and descends on the Thousand Sunny.)
• Ch. 891 (Vol. 23) — A second straight Leo installment, caption “Assist da Town in Weconstwuction!!” (Ch. 890 carried no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial jumps from Vol. 22 to Vol. 23.) Leo and the broader Straw Hat Grand Fleet / Tontatta are shown rebuilding a town — the Tontatta-lisp caption (“are”→“awe” elsewhere; here “Reconstruction”→“Weconstwuction” and “Assist the”→“Assist da”) reads “Assist the Town in Reconstruction.” The hand-off to Leo at Vol. 22 was therefore not a one-volume group-portrait finale: the serial continues into a Leo/Tontatta beat playing to the dwarves’ signature helpfulness (cf. their Dressrosa rescue work). The Vol. 22 “possible finale” read is disproved; status stays ongoing (§Forward guards — conclusion still not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “They Believe in Me” — Luffy and Charlotte Katakuri’s future-sight duel in the Mirro-World, Charlotte Flampe’s poison-needle sniping from hiding, Katakuri’s “Cacao Island at one o’clock” fleet-ambush reveal, Sanji with Pudding and Chiffon finishing the substitute wedding cake, and Big Mom’s craving-rampage bearing down on the Thousand Sunny.)
• Ch. 892 (Vol. 24) — A third straight Leo installment, caption “A Present from Dressrosa.” The Leo/Tontatta spotlight continues for a third volume (Vols. 22–24, further disproving the Vol. 22 group-portrait-finale read): a “DON!!” splash of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet’s ships above a tearful Tontatta crowd. After the Vol. 22 whole-fleet group portrait and the Vol. 23 town reconstruction, this is a present-day fleet-and-Tontatta beat (the caption’s “present from Dressrosa” ties the Tonta Corps back to the dwarves’ Dressrosa homeland). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Threat Confirmed” — Bege’s substitute-cake ship deliberately drawing Big Mom and Perospero off toward Liqueur Island while the Thousand Sunny runs to rendezvous with Luffy at Cacao Island at one o’clock, Oven commanding the Cacao blockade and ordering every island mirror smashed save one to seal off Mirro-World escape, the on-page naming of Smoothie, Citron and Cinnamon, and Katakuri sensing Luffy “getting closer and closer to Color of Observation” before unleashing a “Mochi Thrust” cliffhanger.)
• Ch. 893 (Vol. 25) — A fourth straight Leo installment, caption “We’re sailing on da Usoland piwate ship” (Tontatta lisp: “the”→“da”, “pirate”→“piwate” — “We’re sailing on the Usoland pirate ship”). Leo and the Tontatta crew a heart-and-mushroom-decked galleon, the “Usoland Pirate ship” — named for Usopp, whom the dwarves revere as “Usoland”/“Usohachi”/“God Usopp” (their hero since the Dressrosa liberation). The Leo/Tontatta spotlight now spans four volumes (Vols. 22–25), yet further past the Vol. 22 “possible finale” read; status stays ongoing (§Forward guards). Still cover-internal, no on-page contact with the main plot. (Printed over the main story’s “Flampe, 36th Daughter of Charlotte” — Charlotte Flampe’s secret silent numbing-needle sabotage of Luffy’s Mirro-World duel with Charlotte Katakuri, Katakuri stabbing his own leg to even the odds and baring his hidden fanged “pelican-eel” mouth in solidarity with Luffy, both duelists unleashing Conqueror’s Haki to flatten the jeering spectators, and Katakuri conceding “I no longer assume that you are inferior to me.”)
• Ch. 894 (Vol. 26) — A fifth straight Leo installment, caption “We got hired ta be secuwity for da Wevewie!!” (Tontatta lisp: “the”→“da”, “Reverie”→“Wevewie”, “security”→“secuwity” — “We got hired to be security for the Reverie!!”). The art breaks the anthology’s pattern: a B/W splash set inside a grand pillared palace hall — arched windows, chandeliers, the Mary-Geoise-style interior of the Reverie venue — with tall spear-bearing, helmeted guards and a large polka-dot-caped figure in back, while the Tontatta, in pirate hats and costumes (one shouting in a Straw-Hat jolly-roger tricorne, another mushroom-capped), crowd the foreground. Leo and the Tonta Corps have been hired as security for the Reverie/Levely — the world-monarch summit that is the next arc. The Leo/Tontatta spotlight now runs five volumes (Vols. 22–26). ⚠️ This is the FIRST installment in the entire anthology to make explicit contact with a named, forthcoming MAIN-PLOT event — every prior strip was logged “no main-plot contact.” It is the textbook setup for a future cover→main payoff (cf. Caribou→Wano): recorded here as a Grand-Fleet allies actually appearing at the Reverie) lands in the forthcoming Reverie arc, forward of @0894, so status stays ongoing and no payoff_chapter / Foreshadowing flip is made yet. (Printed over the main story’s “12
  ” — the exhausted Luffy & Katakuri squaring up for the finish of their Gear-Fourth duel in the Mirro-World, the Rusukaina training flashback in which Rayleigh reveals the mightiest Observation-Haki users can “see a little bit into the future,” the Charlotte siblings massing on Cacao Island to ambush Luffy, and Luffy’s “Gear Fourth… Snakeman!!!” cliffhanger.)
• Ch. 895 (Vol. 27) — The fifth crew hand-off, caption “Buggy’s Delivery’s Five Big Earners Just Quit.” After the five-volume Leo/Tontatta run (Vols. 22–26) the spotlight rotates off the dwarves to Hajrudin, the giant captain of the New Giant Warrior Pirates (6th division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet). A B/W title-page splash of Hajrudin’s Viking longship under sail (a bull-skull figurehead), with Buggy screaming on the striped sail/emblem and circus tents on the right shore. The caption ties the new lead back to Buggy’s mercenary-dispatch outfit “Buggy’s Delivery” (Buggy Pirates): its “five big earners” — Hajrudin’s giant mercenaries — have just quit, the backstory seed of how the giants left Buggy to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa. Like the Vol. 1 / Vol. 6 / Vol. 11 / Vol. 16 / Vol. 22 hand-off openers, this is an art-and-caption establishing beat for the new lead; where the giants’ story goes is unknown at this read frontier (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “Luffy the Pirate vs. General Katakuri” — Luffy unveiling Gear-4 “Snake-Man” against Katakuri in the Mirro-World.)
• Ch. 896 (Vol. 28) — A second straight Hajrudin installment, caption “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List: Captain Hajrudin of the New Giant Pirates.” The spotlight stays on the giant captain: a B/W full-figure portrait of Hajrudin in a horned/crested Viking helmet, fur-trimmed mantle, plated breastplate + armored kilt and buckled belt, gripping a large studded club, fists clenched amid drifting smoke — a “wanted-poster”/roster-entry mugshot. Where Vol. 27 established Hajrudin’s longship and the caption that Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery” lost its “five big earners,” Vol. 28 formally opens that company’s “Escapee List” of the giants who quit — its first entry being “Captain Hajrudin of the New Giant Pirates.” NB the on-page caption reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates (Buggy Pirates = the Buggy’s-Delivery outfit they left to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans two volumes (Vols. 27–28). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “One Last Thing” — the Cacao Island ambush war-gaming of Luffy’s 1-o’clock mirror escape, Sanji & Pudding’s tearful farewell, the finish of Luffy’s duel with Katakuri in the Mirro-World, and Pekoms revealed alive as the masked “Mystoms” having captured Brulee to honor Pedro’s sacrifice.)
• Ch. 897 (Vol. 29) — A third straight Hajrudin-run installment, caption “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List: Shipwright Stansen of the New Giant Pirates.” Following Vol. 28’s first roster entry (Captain Hajrudin), the serial prints the second entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List”: a B/W full-figure “wanted-poster”/roster-entry mugshot of a grinning, bearded giant in a horned Viking helmet, skull-studded fur mantle/pauldrons, polka-dot sleeves and a scale-patterned tunic with a skull-emblazoned midriff, gripping a large studded club across his body before a radiating sunburst — the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ shipwright, Stansen (the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa). NB the on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates (Buggy Pirates = the Buggy’s-Delivery outfit they left). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans three volumes (Vols. 27–29). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “Pekoms’s Cacao Island Escape Plan” — Pekoms going Sulong to burst out of a Cacao Island mirror with Brulee as a shield and cover Luffy’s escape, Oven scorching him and ordering his eyes crushed “so he can never see the full moon again,” Sanji Sky-Walking in to catch Luffy, and the Germa 66 fleet arriving to bombard the Big Mom Pirates for tea-party payback.)
• Ch. 898 (Vol. 30) — A fourth straight Hajrudin-run installment, caption “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List: Navigator Rodo of the New Giant Pirates.” Following Vol. 28’s first roster entry (Captain Hajrudin) and Vol. 29’s second (Shipwright Stansen), the serial prints the third entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List”: the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ navigator, Rodo — the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa. The reader’s title-page panel records the strip’s giant drawn in Buggy-styled clown/delivery garb — a departure from the Vol. 28–29 Viking-helmet roster mugshots — and labels the figure Hajrudin, while the printed caption names the listed escapee “Navigator Rodo of the New Giant Pirates.” NB the on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates (Buggy Pirates = the Buggy’s-Delivery outfit they left). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans four volumes (Vols. 27–30). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “I Will Return” — the Germa 66 fleet arriving to bombard the Big Mom Pirates and cover the Straw Hats’ Cacao Island escape, Brûlée publicly revealing that Katakuri lost his fight against Luffy, the Vinsmokes laying down covering fire (Reiju’s “Pink Hornet”), and Sanji Sky-Walking the unconscious Luffy off the island to reunite with the Thousand Sunny crew.)
• Ch. 899 (Vol. 31) — A fifth straight Hajrudin-run installment, caption “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List: Cook Goldberg of the New Giant Pirates.” Following Vol. 28’s first roster entry (Captain Hajrudin), Vol. 29’s second (Shipwright Stansen) and Vol. 30’s third (Navigator Rodo), the serial prints the fourth entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List”: the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ cook, Goldberg — the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa. The splash shows the giant cook in a pantry, gripping a spiked mace and a face-emblazoned shield. NB the on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates (Buggy Pirates = the Buggy’s-Delivery outfit they left). The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans five volumes (Vols. 27–31). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “The Final Fortress” — Perospero’s three-outcomes calculus making the wedding cake’s flavor the sole hinge of the Big Mom Pirates’ survival, Big Mom’s craving rampage razing her own Totto Land (Nuts Island leveled, subjects fleeing), Germa 66 covering the Straw Hats’ escape while Judge’s “failure of Germa” denunciation reads, line for line, as a catalog of Sanji’s virtues, and the Sun Pirates with the giant Wadatsumi erupting from the sea to shatter the encircling fleet and “see off” former captain Jinbe.)
• Ch. 901 (Vol. 32) — A sixth straight Hajrudin-run installment, caption “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List: Doctor Gerd of the New Giant Pirates.” Following Vol. 28’s first roster entry (Captain Hajrudin), Vol. 29’s second (Shipwright Stansen), Vol. 30’s third (Navigator Rodo) and Vol. 31’s fourth (Cook Goldberg), the serial prints the fifth entry in Buggy’s “Buggy’s Delivery Escapee List”: the New Giant Warrior Pirates’ doctor, Gerd — the next of the giant mercenaries who quit “Buggy’s Delivery” to pledge to Luffy at Dressrosa. The title-page art is a caped female giant standing on a ship deck, captioned the Doctor of the “New Giant Pirates.” NB the on-page caption again reads “New Giant Pirates”; this is the Grand-Fleet 6th-division crew elsewhere named the New Giant Warrior Pirates (Buggy Pirates = the Buggy’s-Delivery outfit they left). The cover serial reuses the name Gerd already minted for the giant woman of Elbaf in Big Mom’s origin flashback (Ch. 866); @0901’s chapter note links the two, so “Doctor Gerd of the New Giant Pirates” is recorded as that same Gerd. The Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery backstory run now spans six volumes (Vols. 27–32), tying the Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) as the anthology’s joint-longest single-lead spotlight. NB Ch. 900 carried only the chapter-900 milestone color spread (no No. 23 cover-story page), so the serial jumps Vol. 31 → Vol. 32, skipping @0900. Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “Don’t Let Even Death Stop You!!!” — Big Mom sated by the re-baked wedding cake and “back to the old Mama,” the Sun Pirates surfacing Fisher Tiger’s legendary ship as a decoy while the giant Wadatsumi hides the Thousand Sunny in his mouth, Wadatsumi’s apology to Luffy for his old Fish-Man Island crimes, Luffy’s “Your captain is me now!!!” claim on Jinbe (“…come to Wano alive — don’t let even death stop you!!!”), and Morgans’s prophecy to Stussy that a Worst Generation pirate will rise to claim the Pirate King title.)
• Ch. 903 (Vol. 33) — The sixth crew hand-off, subtitle “The Yontamaria Fleet Sails the Seas.” After the joint-longest six-volume Hajrudin/Buggy’s-Delivery run (Vols. 27–32) the spotlight rotates off the giants to Orlumbus (“Big Helmsman” Orlumbus) and his Yonta Maria Fleet, the 7th and final division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. A B/W title-page splash (no color spread) of Orlumbus’s flagship the Yonta Maria — “4 Tamaria”/Yontamaria, the Grand Fleet’s largest ship, first glimpsed back in the Vol. 16 “Fromorlumbus” establishing splash — leading a line of “3 Tamaria”/“2 Tamaria” galleons across the open sea. With Orlumbus’s fleet, all seven Grand-Fleet divisions have now had a spotlight (Beautiful Pirates/Cavendish → Barto Club → Happo Navy → Ideo → Tonta Corps → New Giant Warrior Pirates → Yonta Maria Fleet); the whole-fleet completion reads like a possible wind-down, but the strip prints no on-page “final installment” marker, so the conclusion is not pre-cast and status stays ongoing (§Forward guards). Ch. 902 carried only the “SWEETS BUSTERS” arc-capstone color spread (no No. 23 cover-story page), so the serial jumps Vol. 32 → Vol. 33, skipping @0902. Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “Fifth Emperor” — the Reverie/Levely-arc opener: the World Economic Journal proclaiming Luffy the “Fifth Emperor of the Sea” with a 1,500,000,000 bounty, Brook recounting the zeros; the new bounty posters (Sanji 330M printed “Vinsmoke Sanji,” Zoro 320M); Zeus now living inside Nami’s upgraded “Sorcery Climate Baton”; Koby (now a Navy HQ Captain, Rocky Port hero) intercepting a torpedo and Helmeppo at “New Marineford”; the Neptune family + Shirahoshi and the monarchs of Dressrosa/Prodence/Lulucia sailing to the Holy Land Mary Geoise; and Kaido / Big Mom / Blackbeard all marking the new “Emperor.” The cover strip itself shows none of this — only the Yonta Maria Fleet sailing — so it stays cover-internal.)
• Ch. 904 (Vol. 34) — A second straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “Retiring from being the pioneer adventurer of the standing kingdom.” After the Vol. 33 fleet-at-sea hand-off splash, the Orlumbus spotlight pivots to his backstory: a B/W title-page of Orlumbus tendering a “Resignation” before a throne. The strip establishes Orlumbus’s noble-explorer origin — a “pioneer adventurer of the standing kingdom” who formally resigned his post before taking to the seas as captain of the Yonta Maria Fleet (the 7th and final division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet). Extends the Orlumbus run to two volumes (Vols. 33–34). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “Introducing the Revolutionary Army Captains” — the Revolutionary Army regrouped at the Kamabakka Queendom after losing Baltigo, Sabo declaring the army will “declare war on the Celestial Dragons” at the Reverie, the four Army Commanders (Belo Betty, Morley, Karasu, Lindbergh) routing the Peachbeard Pirates at Lulucia, and the Reverie now two days out — but the cover strip stays cover-internal.)
• Ch. 905 (Vol. 35) — A third straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “The Pirate Life, 6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas.” After the Vol. 33 fleet-at-sea splash and the Vol. 34 resignation-backstory, the Orlumbus spotlight pivots to a slice-of-life daily-routine gag — a B/W title page (no color spread) showing Orlumbus going about a pirate’s mundane morning aboard the Yonta Maria Fleet. The “6 A.M.” time-stamp framing reads like the opener of a possible day-in-the-life sub-run within the Orlumbus arc, but only this one 6-A.M. strip is recorded (§Forward guards — do not pre-cast later hours). Extends the Orlumbus run to three volumes (Vols. 33–35). Still cover-internal, no on-page main-plot contact (the Vol. 26 Reverie bridge seed remains the lone, still-unpaid main-plot hook). (Printed over the main story’s “What a Beautiful World” — the Reverie’s eve: the relocated “New Marineford” on the New World side of the Red Line under Fleet Admiral Sakazuki; the world’s monarchs — the Neptune family with Shirahoshi, plus visiting royalty — ascending the Red Line from Red Port on bondola bubble-lifts to Sacred Marijoa; Shirahoshi weeping at her first sight of the surface sun; Admiral Ryokugyu’s first on-page appearance (fasting three years); Stelly now King of Goa; and the Marijoa cliffhangers — a giant with a trident glimpsed in the Red Line wall, crows swarming “this high,” and a hidden figure at Stelly’s side. The cover strip itself shows none of this — only Orlumbus’s morning routine — so it stays cover-internal.)
• Ch. 906 (Vol. 36) — A fourth straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “The Pirate Life, 10 A.M.: Cleaning Check” — the second beat of the hourly day-in-the-life sub-run opened at Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas.” A B/W title page (no color spread) draws Orlumbus and a crewmate Columbus as fastidious neat-freaks running a cleaning inspection aboard the Yonta Maria Fleet (“Orlumbus and Columbus — very fastidious!”). Extends the Orlumbus run to four volumes (Vols. 33–36). The cover strip itself is cover-internal — but @0906 is the cover→main PAYOFF chapter: ⭐ the Vol. 26 (@0894) Reverie-security bridge seed pays off in this chapter’s MAIN story. “Sacred Marijoa” shows Leo (the Tontatta / Tonta Corps cover lead of Vols. 22–26) and Sai (the Happo Navy cover lead of Vols. 11–15) physically on-page at the Reverie on secret guard duty (pp. 11–12) — the Grand-Fleet allies serving exactly the Reverie security the Vol. 26 cover seed (“hired ta be secuwity for da Wevewie!!”) announced. This is the textbook cover→main convergence (cf. Caribou→Wano): the note is flipped to status: merged-into-main-plot, payoff_chapter: [[Chapters/0906]], and the payoff is minted as Straw Hat Grand Fleet Allies Serve As Reverie Security Cover Story Payoff (technique/cover-story-payoff). NB the cover SERIAL is not concluded — only its lone main-plot bridge thread has merged; the anthology keeps printing Orlumbus vignettes. (Printed over the main story’s “Sacred Marijoa” — the Reverie continuing at Sacred Marijoa: the world’s monarchs (the Neptune family
  • Shirahoshi) ascending the Red Line by bondola and riding the “travelator” into Pangaea Castle’s mingling courtyard, Vivi / Rebecca / Leo / Sai reuniting over Luffy’s exploits, Wapol (now King of the Evil Black Drum Kingdom with queen Kinderella) sparring with Dalton & Dr. Kureha of Sakura Kingdom, Saint Charlos coveting Shirahoshi through a window, a chained Doflamingo in Impel Down Level 6 cackling about “Marijoa’s hidden treasure,” and a hooded figure carrying Luffy’s wanted poster into the hidden globe-and-throne chamber atop Pangaea Castle.)
• Ch. 908 (Vol. 38) — A sixth straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “The Pirate Life, 3 P.M.: Planning Chart for Pirating Activities.” The spotlight resumes the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run (Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas” / Vol. 36’s “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check,” with Vol. 37 a backstory-departure interlude). A B/W title page (no color spread) of Orlumbus seated at a desk in a high-backed throne-like chair, quill in hand drafting a pirating-activities planning chart, a Yonta Maria Fleet crewmate (a tall striped hat) standing before the desk — an office/admin slice-of-life gag. Extends the Orlumbus run to six volumes (Vols. 33–38), tying the Ideo run (Vols. 16–21) and the Hajrudin run (Vols. 27–32) as the anthology’s joint-longest single-lead spotlight. Still cover-internal — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. The cover-internal framing is conspicuous: @0908 carries the anthology’s biggest main story to date — “The Reverie Begins” — yet the strip shows only Orlumbus’s planning gag, no Reverie content. (Printed over that main story: the Reverie convening at Mary Geoise; the Five Elders branding the Nefertari line “traitors” and foretelling a “great cleansing”; Kuma revealed as a Celestial-Dragon slave (ridden by Saint Roswald, captioned former King of Sorbet Kingdom); a disguised Jewelry Bonney weeping with rage over him; Sabo’s Revolutionary Army team infiltrating Mary Geoise to free Kuma; Myosgard named a Donquixote; and the climactic Empty-Throne / “Great Imu” reveal — the Five Elders kneeling before a hidden sovereign in the Chamber of Flowers — but the cover strip stays cover-internal.)
• Ch. 909 (Vol. 39) — A seventh straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “4 P.M.: First Pirating Campaign! Launch Attack!!” The spotlight continues the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run (Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas” / Vol. 36’s “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check” / Vol. 38’s “3 P.M.: Planning Chart for Pirating Activities”): the Vol. 38 planning chart is now executed as the day’s first pirating raid (”…Launch Attack!!”). Unlike every prior installment, this strip is NOT a dedicated B/W cover-story title page — @0909’s title page carries the main story’s own “SEPPUKU” art (Whitebeard-marked ships at sea, the Wano-arc opener), with the No. 23 serial running only as a footer caption beneath it (the reader recorded the caption text; no separate cover-story art panel). Extends the Orlumbus run to seven volumes (Vols. 33–39) — now the sole longest single-lead spotlight in the anthology, surpassing the joint six-volume Ideo (Vols. 16–21) and Hajrudin (Vols. 27–32) runs. Still cover-internal — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. The cover-internal framing stays pointed: @0909 opens the Wano arc, yet the serial shows only Orlumbus’s pirating-raid gag, no Wano content. (Printed over the main story’s “Seppuku” — Marco found by Cat Viper and the Mink Guardians on Whitebeard’s poor New World home island (Marco now the village doctor; Edward Weevil hunting all who bear the Whitebeard name; a message entrusted to Cat Viper for Luffy); and the Straw Hats infiltrating the Wano capital in disguise — carpenter “Franosuke” (Franky), toad-oil salesman “Usohachi” (Usopp), geisha “Orobi” (Robin), ronin “Zorojuro” (Zoro) — under Shogun Kurozumi Orochi, where a Magistrate ties Zoro to the night-killer “Tsujigiri” and the grave-robbed remains of the legendary swordsman Ryuma and his blade Shusui, sentences him to seppuku, and Zoro breaks cover.)
• Ch. 910 (Vol. 40) — An eighth straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “4
  P.M.: They were poorer than anticipated, now distributing supplies.” The spotlight continues the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run (Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas” / Vol. 36’s “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check” / Vol. 38’s “3 P.M.: Planning Chart for Pirating Activities” / Vol. 39’s “4 P.M.: First Pirating Campaign! Launch Attack!!”) — and delivers the comedic turn of the Vol. 39 raid: the targets proved poorer than anticipated, so Orlumbus flips from raiding to handing out supplies (charity, not plunder). Returns to a dedicated B&W cover-story title splash (Orlumbus in a town) after Vol. 39’s footer-caption-only strip. Extends the Orlumbus run to eight volumes (Vols. 33–40) — now even more decisively the sole longest single-lead spotlight in the anthology, surpassing the joint six-volume Ideo (Vols. 16–21) and Hajrudin (Vols. 27–32) runs. Still cover-internal — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. The cover-internal framing stays pointed: @0910’s main story “Onward to Wano” lands the Thousand Sunny in Wano Country for the first time in the present day — yet the serial shows only Orlumbus’s supply-distribution gag, no Wano content. (Printed over that main story: the Straw Hat group reading the Reverie newspaper at sea (Luffy’s 1.5-billion-berry bounty caption); the Thousand Sunny riding the giant koi up Wano’s waterfall through storm-walled, fast-shifting seas; and Luffy — scattered from the crew on arrival — confronting a katana-wielding baboon in the pine-clad feudal landscape.)
• Ch. 913 (Vol. 41) — A ninth straight Orlumbus installment, subtitle “5 P.M.: Given a Hero’s Send-Off — My Big Pirate Debut Was a Failure.” The spotlight continues the “Pirate Life” hourly day-in-the-life sub-run (Vol. 35’s “6 A.M.: Folding Pajamas” / Vol. 36’s “10 A.M.: Cleaning Check” / Vol. 38’s “3 P.M.: Planning Chart for Pirating Activities” / Vol. 39’s “4 P.M.: First Pirating Campaign! Launch Attack!!” / Vol. 40’s “4
  P.M.: They were poorer than anticipated, now distributing supplies”) — but the hour-stamp now folds back to backstory (cf. Vol. 34’s resignation and Vol. 37’s “Stealing a 56-ship fleet in a tearful departure: Thank you for everything”): a dedicated B&W cover-story title splash of a harbor crowded with ships giving Orlumbus a hero’s send-off, with an inset thought-bubble silhouette of an old bearded pirate captain (his aspiration), under the self-deprecating punchline that his “big pirate debut was a failure.” Extends the Orlumbus run to nine volumes (Vols. 33–41) — now even more decisively the sole longest single-lead spotlight in the anthology, surpassing the joint six-volume Ideo (Vols. 16–21) and Hajrudin (Vols. 27–32) runs. Ch. 911 (a “Previously in One Piece” recap page) and Ch. 912 (a color spread) carried no No. 23 cover-story page, so the serial jumps Vol. 40→Vol. 41, skipping @0911–@0912. Still cover-internal — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. The cover-internal framing stays pointed: @0913’s main story “The Crane Returns the Favor” continues the Wano arc — yet the serial shows only Orlumbus’s send-off / failed-debut gag, no Wano content. (Printed over that main story: the disguised Luffy & Zoro vs. Headliner Basil Hawkins in poisoned Kuri; Hawkins’s long-mysterious Straw-Straw stand-in-lives Devil Fruit (Wara Wara no Mi) named and explained at last (“minus one life,” up to ten stored lives); the trio fleeing on Komachiyo as Otama burns with river-poison fever; Otsuru/Tsuru — “the crane” Zoro saved earlier — leading them to her Okobore Town teahouse and its “evil-purging” antidote herb; the dignified waitress Okiku fending off the self-styled yokozuna Urashima; and the Heart Pirates (Bepo et al.) spotting the Straw Hats from atop a mountain.)
• Ch. 914 (Vol. 42) — A bonus-story installment that breaks the Orlumbus-named caption pattern of the nine straight Vols. 33–41: the on-page caption reads “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 42, Bonus Story: ‘Village of Dyed Goods’” — carrying no character name (unlike each “Orlumbus: …” installment before it). A B&W title splash of a hillside village of dyed goods: rows of windmills hung with many colorful dyed banners, flags and windsocks (a carp/koi streamer among them, koinobori-style), with a small cloaked figure walking past in the foreground carrying a bag. The figure is not identifiable on-page and the caption names no lead, so whether Vol. 42 continues the Orlumbus run or hands off to a new lead/sub-thread is unknown — not pre-cast (§Forward guards). Still cover-internal — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. The cover-internal framing stays pointed: @0914’s main story “Okobore Town” continues the Wano arc — yet the serial shows only the dyed-goods village, no Wano content. (Printed over that main story: Okobore Town of Kuri — the “town of leftover scraps” surviving on the officials’ refuse and poisoned river water; Otama’s cheek-dumpling power teased; the Gifters Bat-Man & Gazelle-Man abducting Otama; the dignified teahouse waitress Okiku revealed a samurai; the Headliners Hawkins / Holdem / Speed holding Bakura Town; and Trafalgar Law & the Heart Pirates moving to intercept the Straw Hats.)
• Ch. 915 (Vol. 43) — A second straight bonus-story installment (after Vol. 42’s “Village of Dyed Goods”) — and the one that resolves Vol. 42’s mystery figure. The on-page caption reads “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 43, Bonus Story: ‘No more pirating, Bellamy is now a master dyer.’” The No. 23 serial appears not as a dedicated cover-story title page but as a footer cover-story strip beneath @0915’s main “Bakura Town” title spread (cf. the Vol. 39 @0909 footer format): art of Bellamy working as a master dyer, his own jolly-roger design printed on the dyed cloth. Naming Bellamy in a dyed-goods trade retroactively identifies the unidentified small cloaked figure of the Vol. 42 “Village of Dyed Goods” splash as Bellamy — the dyed-goods village is the new home of the retired pirate. NB Bellamy is not one of the seven Straw Hat Grand Fleet crews (he never pledged at Dressrosa, though Luffy spared him there) — a Luffy-admiring ex-pirate the anthology now spotlights, here shown having given up piracy (“no more pirating”) for the dyer’s craft. A cover-internal vignette: the strip itself makes no contact with the main plot — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. (Printed over the main story’s “Bakura Town” — the Wano arc continuing: the prosperous castle town of Bakura Town in Kuri (home to Shogun Orochi’s officials and Kaido’s Gifters, opposite starving Okobore Town); the Headliner Holdem and his Lion SMILE holding the captured Otama and threatening to pull her cheek-dango Devil-Fruit power out with pliers; the Gifters Gazelle-Man & Mouse-Man; the undefeated yokozuna Urashima publicly courting Okiku, who shears off his topknot when he calls the commoners “chattel”; and Luffy charging in on the komainu Komachiyo and flooring the gate crowd with a casual burst of Conqueror’s Haki — but the cover strip shows only Bellamy the dyer, no Wano content.)
• Ch. 917 (Vol. 44) — A third straight bonus-story installment (after Vol. 42’s “Village of Dyed Goods” and Vol. 43’s ”…Bellamy is now a master dyer”) and the third straight Bellamy/dyed-goods strip (Vols. 42–44). The on-page caption reads “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 44, Bonus Story: ‘There Is Unbreakable Fabric in This Town’” — it names no lead (like Vol. 42), but the figure is unmistakably Bellamy: a blond muscular man with his spiral jolly-roger printed on the back of his white tank top and a skull-and-crossbones waste bin in the lower-left corner. Returns to a dedicated B&W cover-story title page (the @0917 page-1 title-page art) after Vol. 43’s footer-only strip: Bellamy seated on a stool at a slanted drafting/design table in a cluttered workshop — a hanging lantern, shelved jars, pinned notes, scattered fabric, drafting tools (T-square/ruler, compass) in hand — sketching a garment design. The dyed-goods town’s “unbreakable fabric” is the dyer’s new medium: the strip extends Bellamy’s post-piracy craftsman second life from Vols. 42–43, advancing him from dyeing cloth to designing clothing out of the town’s signature fabric. Ch. 916 carried no No. 23 cover-story page (a “Stylish Summer” color spread instead), so the serial jumps Vol. 43→Vol. 44, skipping @0916. A cover-internal vignette: the strip makes no contact with the main plot — the note is already merged-into-main-plot (the Vol. 26 Reverie-security bridge seed paid off at @0906); status + payoff_chapter unchanged. (Printed over the main story’s “Food Treasure Barge” — the Wano arc continuing: Speed’s Food Treasure Barge hauling clean Paradise Farm food as tribute for the Beasts Pirates while Okobore Town starves; the Headliner Holdem and his Lion SMILE (Kamijiro) torturing the captive Otama’s cheeks with pliers; Jack the Drought revealed alive and holding Kuri for Kaido; Luffy snatching Otama free and detonating Holdem with Red Hawk; and Hawkins arriving at Bakura Town — but the cover strip shows only Bellamy the dyer at his drafting table, no Wano content.)
• Ch. 918 (Vol. 45 — ⛳ FINAL CHAPTER) — The anthology concludes on-cover. The @0918 page-1 title-page caption reads “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 45, Final Chapter: ‘Pleased to Make Your Acquaintance (Part One)’.” This is the first installment to carry an explicit on-page “final chapter” marker — the Vol. 22 (@0889) whole-fleet group portrait and the Vol. 33 (@0903) all-seven-divisions beat both only read like possible finales and were deliberately left un-pre-cast (§Forward guards); Vol. 45 states the conclusion outright, so it is now recorded as the serial’s end. The strip is a triptych group portrait of three Grand-Fleet captains — a curtain-call return to the anthology’s three earliest leads: Sai (Don Sai) above the Happosui Army 八宝 / “eight treasures” flag (the Vol. 11–15 lead), Bartolomeo above the Barto Club jolly roger (the Vol. 6–10 lead), and Cavendish of the Beautiful Pirates (the Vol. 1–5 lead). No color spread this chapter. The subtitle’s “(Part One)” frames the finale as a two-part send-off — only this Part-One triptych is recorded; Part Two and any successor cover series are not pre-cast (§Forward guards). The on-cover conclusion is not a new cover→main payoff: the anthology’s lone main-plot bridge thread already converged and paid off at @0906 (the Tontatta/Sai Reverie security — Straw Hat Grand Fleet Allies Serve As Reverie Security Cover Story Payoff), so no new technique/cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is minted; the note stays merged-into-main-plot, payoff_chapter: [[Chapters/0906]]. The finale curtain-call is itself cover-internal. (Printed over the main story’s “Luffytaro Returns the Favor” — the Wano arc: Otama’s cheek-dumpling taming the SMILE-Zoan Headliner Speed into absolute loyalty; Trafalgar Law — disguised as a Flower-Capital ronin — vs. Hawkins at Bakura Town (Hawkins inferring the Straw-Hat / Law alliance from Sabaody); Luffy distributing the stolen Food Treasure Barge of food and clean water to starving Okobore Town under the name “Luffytaro,” framed as “a rebellion against Wano”; and Law leading the group to the ruins of Oden Castle and the “ghosts of Wano” — grave markers bearing the names of living men (Momonosuke, Kin’emon, Raizo) beside Kozuki Oden — but the cover triptych shows only the three captains’ farewell, no Wano content.)
• Ch. 919 (Vol. 46 — ⛳ FINAL CHAPTER, Part Two) — The two-part finale completes; the serial truly ends on-cover. The @0919 page-1 title-page caption reads “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 46, Final Chapter: ‘Pleased to Make Your Acquaintance (Part Two)’.” This delivers the Part Two the Vol. 45 (@0918) “(Part One)” subtitle promised — the two-part send-off now resolves and the open watch-item is closed. The strip is a second group portrait, the companion to the Vol. 45 triptych: the four remaining Grand-Fleet division captains with their jolly rogers — Ideo (4th div., Ideo Pirates), Leo (5th div., Tonta Corps / Tontatta), Hajrudin (6th div., New Giant Warrior Pirates), and Orlumbus (7th div., Yonta Maria Fleet). Across both halves all seven division captains take the curtain call: Part One @0918 closed on the first three leads (Cavendish / Bartolomeo / Sai = divs. 1–3), Part Two @0919 on the latter four (divs. 4–7) — a symmetric send-off for the whole (self-proclaimed) Straw Hat Grand Fleet across Vols. 1–46 / @0864–@0919 (skipped chapters noted in the Installment table). As with Part One, the on-cover close is not a new cover→main payoff (the anthology’s lone main-plot bridge thread already converged and paid off at @0906 — Straw Hat Grand Fleet Allies Serve As Reverie Security Cover Story Payoff), so no new technique/cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is minted; the note stays merged-into-main-plot, payoff_chapter: [[Chapters/0906]]. Whether a successor numbered cover series (No. 24) follows is forward of @0919 — not pre-cast (§Forward guards). (Printed over the main story’s “The Ruins of Oden Castle” — the Wano arc: Speed carrying Otama home as her loyal servant; the Flower-Capital classroom propaganda naming Shogun Kurozumi Orochi; Kyoshiro reciting Oden’s wife’s “nine shadows / night woven of 20 years” prophecy; the Oden Castle graves bearing the names of the living; the Straw Hats’ reunion with Sanji returned; and Kin’emon’s cliffhanger that five retainers crossed through time from the Wano of 20 years ago — but the cover group portrait shows only the four captains’ farewell, no Wano content.)