Summary:
Luffy gets the wanted poster and the highest reward in East Blue. As news of Luffy’s success reaches Luffy’s allies and former enemies, the crew sails towards Loguetown, the birthplace and execution of Gold Roger.
While the crew is at sea, the News Coo arrives to deliver the newspaper. He discovers a wanted poster for Luffy, indicating that he has received a reward. It turns out that after Luffy defeated many of the most feared pirates in East Blue, the Marines saw him as a significant threat and placed a bounty of thirty million bellies on his head, the largest in East Blue.
News reaches both Luffy’s allies and old enemies, including Fullbody, who was demoted to a lower rank after getting into the fight at Baratia. Fullbody saw Luffy’s bounty as an opportunity to capture him and be promoted back to his former rank. When he spotted the Going Merry passing his ship, he ordered his soldiers to attack the ship. However, this attack is parried and Fullbody retreats after seeing Sanji. Meanwhile, Mihawk delivers news to the Red Hair Pirates, who are celebrating Luffy’s success.
Meanwhile, the crew determines their next target. The only entrance to the Grand Line is Reverse Mountain, but they decided to stop first at Loguetown, nicknamed the “town of the beginning and the end” because it is Gold Roger’s birthplace and place of execution. As they sail towards Loguetown, Buggy and Alvida decide to give chase.
Wanted posters in the Fullbody cabin are reused in the background of several later episodes and even tie-in material such as the Grand Battle! 3 and the ninth movie. They differ greatly in terms of canon.
Canonical: Buggy, Krieg, and Arlong, all direct reproductions from Brannew’s presentation (and by extension Chapter 95).
Quasi-Canonical : “Aluvida” and Kuro, whose wanted posters have never been shown in the manga before.
Non-canonical: D.R. (from Monsters), Hitokui (from Ikki Yako), Henna Oyag and Wild Joe (from Wanted!), Shupeal (from Romance Dawn v2) and Golass (from the first movie).
The said reason for Fullbody’s demotion contradicts the manga mini-arc Jango’s Dance Paradise, in which he helped Jango join the Marines at the cost of his rank.
In another contradiction to the manga, Zoro is shown slicing the cannonball in half; canonically, he wouldn’t learn to cut steel until the Arabast arc.
The newspaper that Nami reads is called Maichyo.
This is the first episode of the Loguetown Arc.