Summary:
The Going Merry narrowly escapes being hit by a “sea train”, the crew meets the old woman Kokoro and her granddaughter Chimney. Kokoro gives Luffy a map to Water 7. Luffy, Nami and Usopp buy ships run by sea monsters called “Yagara”.
After being defeated by Aokiji, the straw pirates fully recovered and managed to return to the sea. But along their way, Zoro spots a giant frog swimming crawling and informs the crew. He asks them to turn around and see it. Luffy orders his crew to get the Going Merry to follow her. Nami looks around with her binoculars and wonders why there was a lighthouse on the island. They think there are people there. A frog flies to the left of the ship and Luffy orders his crew to corner the frog. But they feel the ship hit something and they hear a sound around them. A traffic light can be seen and suddenly the sound of a train is heard approaching them. Nami warns the crew to turn one hundred and eighty degrees while Luffy is surprised after being hit.
The train goes inches past them and Sanji sees in surprise. Usopp is surprised by the iron thing that moves in the sea, but Nami is most surprised that there are trains that move in the sea with this shape. Luffy warns the frog to move away from the train track, but the frog ignores him and is knocked down by the train and passed out. Luffy, Usopp and Chopper are surprised.
A child sees pirates and calls his grandmother because there are pirates near their house. The grandmother orders the child to take the Den Den Mushi falling on the left side. A child passes Den Den Mushi to his grandmother. He starts to call but forgets who to call.
Straw hat Pirates and two make friends. She introduces herself as Chimney, her rabbit Gonbe and Kokoro. Kokoro asks if the crew is training thieves. Luffy introduces himself and Nami asks how the train moves on the sea. KomÃn replied that the crew had not seen them. Chimney also said it’s the only train in the world they can’t find. That train is called “Puffing Tom”. It moves with steam and walks along the sea path. It transports people from island to island with a path under water and walks the same route every day. It also transports food and stuff. It is dangerous to enter a marked and signaled trail. Usopp advises Chimney to signal near the traffic light since he and his crew know nothing about it. Luffy says that a frog was hit and Chimney asks if Luffy is talking about Yokozuna. She said that Yokozuna will not die and that is the biggest problem for the station. Chimney explains that the frog is testing strength against the train and Luffy exclaims that Yokozuna is really brave. Chimney gets angry and scolds Luffy to stop joking because it’s really disturbing. She says it causes her a lot of problems. Luffy says he won’t eat who was a hard worker. Nami said that Luffy hadn’t even thought about it before. Kokoro asks where the crew will go. He says that if the crew takes the train, he will take the crew to St. Poplar, Pucci and San Faldo, which are all fun places.
This is the first episode of the Water 7 Arc.
While DVD prints are now in their original 16:9 aspect ratio, analog broadcast prints remain cropped to a 4:3 aspect ratio