Short Summary
A special four part tie-in arc for the then upcoming tenth movie, Strong World. Shiki contacts a band of pirates and offers them to join in on his upcoming plan, but under the condition they bring back a overgrown bug that had escaped from him. Said bug happens to be the protector of a island based around East Blue Seas which the Straw Hats just so happen to stumble upon.
Main Summary
Tropes:
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Boss, though a friendly example in this case.
- Chekhov's Gun: The cage Franky builds to capture Boss.
- Fanservice: The shrine some of Nami's "fan club" built from her poster. With the exclusion of her clothes. She is not amused when she sees it.
- Gang of Hats: The Amigo Pirates.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Largo when trying to capture Luffy in his body net. Didn't take into account that Luffy could inflate himself.
- Inescapable Net: The basis of Largo's devil fruit powers which allow him to create various nets out of the objects he eats, as well change his body into a net.
- Masked Luchador: Corto
- Punched Across the Room: More like punched into a submarine.