Summary:
The Straw Hat Pirates, Kin’emon, Momonosuke and Law are on a course to Dressrosa. Back at Punk Hazard, Caesar’s former minions set out to find those who were petrified by the deadly gas. Suddenly, Doflamingo appears and attacks G-5. Smoker is badly injured by Doflamingo. Sunny starts sliding down the sea slope. Law and Luffy explain the alliance and the intended plan. A mysterious man appears at Punk Hazard.
Back at Punk Hazard, Caesar Clown’s former minions set out to find those who were petrified by the Shinokuni. Suddenly, Doflamingo appears from the sky and throws Baby 5 and Buffalo’s heads back onto their bodies. Before any of the G-5 soldiers could attack, Doflamingo uses Conqueror’s Haki and knocks out the vast majority of them. Even then, the remaining soldier couldn’t control himself due to his devil fruit powers. Doflamingo even had several G-5 soldiers kill each other and demand where the law was. Smoker enters the fray and launches a White Blow at Doflamingo. As the fight progressed, some of the G-5 soldiers decided to help Smoker. Doflamingo moves to face the soldiers but his attack hits Smoker instead as he defends the soldiers by being a shield for them and is seriously injured.
Back at Sunny, Luffy asks why they are going to Dressrosa. The law says he has something to do. Suddenly the sea current begins to shift at an angle as they slide down the sea slope. After they get out of the rough water, Luffy explains to the crew about the alliance and the plan to kill Kaidou.
Back to Punk Hazard, Doflamingo is just about to deliver the final blow to Smoker. Kuzan then appears and asks Doflamingo to back off as he is his friend.
The following are added in the anime:
Another scene with the Straw Hats relaxing on the Thousand Sunny after they leave Punk Hazard.
During the same scene, Franky mentions the order of people asking him about the Mini-Merry and a flashback is shown with Franky finding the Thousand Sunny.
Kin’emon and Momonosuke have a cup of tea.
While Franky was telling the story of getting the Thousand Sunny and Mini-Merry in the manga, Sunny was on the sea slope. In the anime, Sunny was on calm waters and hit the sea slope a little later.
During Doflamingo’s confrontation with the G-5 Marines in the manga, he cuts them with his strings. In the anime, Doflamingo uses his strings to shoot each other instead. Additionally, Doflamingo also stomps on an injured G-5 Marine, asking about Law and the Straw Hats and preparing to kill him when he doesn’t give him any useful information before Smoker intervenes.
Smoker and Doflamingo are shown having an actual battle and Smoker is badly injured while protecting his men.
The animation quality and detail increases drastically during the fight between Doflamingo and Smoker and Kuzan’s arrival in Punk Hazard.
This is the first time that Doflamingo’s ability is referred to as a devil fruit power in the anime, while in the manga it was only mentioned later in the Dressrosa arc.
In the manga, Lawa asked about Den den Mushi Luffy’s earlier call. In the anime, the one asking is Robin.