Little Garden Arc

The Little Garden arc is the ninth story arc in the manga and anime series One Piece. It is the third arc in the Baroque Works Saga, chronicling the group's stop at a pre-historic island and their battles with four of the Baroque Work officers.

It was left out of the 4Kids dub, presumably due to its violent content which would've been difficult to downplay even for them. Little Garden is the second island the Straw Hat Pirates encounter on the Grand Line. It is a summer island, which is unpopulated except by dinosaurs and two giants named Dorry and Brogy.

A Grand Duel Between Giants and a Mad Artist


With a newly acquired Princess Vivi on board, the Straw Hats soon find themselves on the island of Little Garden, which is a misnomer as the island is anything but little- it is stuck in the prehistoric time period and teeming with huge dinosaurs and massive plant life. While Usopp and Nami feel uncomfortable leaving the ship, Vivi and Luffy decide to go explore the island. They soon meet Dorry, a giant warrior from the village of Elbaf who befriends them. Meanwhile, still back on the ship, Usopp and Nami are left alone when Sanji and Zoro decide to compete against each other to see who can bring back the most amount of meat. They are terrified when Brogy, another giant, shows up and decapitates a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He decides to bring them home with him, much to their alarm.

Elsewhere, Baroque Works agents Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, Mr. 3 and his partner Miss Goldenweek come together and reveal the 100,000,000 Beli bounty on each of the giant's heads and it is suggested by Mr. 3 that they kill them, along with the Straw Hats.



Back at Dorry's campsite, Dorry explains that Brogy and he are forever destined to continue their 100 year long war, which was started over a reason Dorry had long forgotten (it is later revealed that a quarrel about their hunting competition which resulted in their exile from Elbaf). When Dorry and Brogy are just about to continue their bout, Dorry suffers from an internal explosion from his intake of the Straw Hats' wine, that of which was tampered by Mr. 5 and his Devil Fruit abilities. When Dorry chose to continue fighting Brogy despite his injuries, Brogy noticed a deficiency in his performance but was too late in identifying the perpetrators.

A series of battles begins as the Officer Agents try to kill or capture the Straw Hats and their giant hosts. Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek capture Nami, Vivi and Zoro and imprison them in a trap which slowly turns them into wax sculptures. It is up to Luffy, Usopp and Carue to defeat Mr. 5, Mr. 3, Miss Goldenweek and Miss Valentine before this happens. With the giants' help they succeed and all four agents are put out of action.

Meanwhile, Sanji enjoys tea in Mr. 3's candle house and receives a call from Mr. 0 (referred to by other parties as Crocodile) who mistook him for Mr. 3. He is ordered to go to Arabasta (later revealed to be a ploy to make assassinating him easier for Mr. 2) by way of the permanent Log Pose which is sent by the Unluckies, Mr. 13 and Miss Friday who attack Sanji and are defeated upon making the delivery. Dorry and Brogy bid farewell to the Straw Hats by destroying a Giant Goldfish who eats ships leaving the island. With that the Straw Hats head for Arabasta using an Eternal Pose they got from the Unluckies.

Manga-to-Anime Changes
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4kids Edit

 * In the 4kids dub, this arc was skipped entirely for many different reasons. Most of it due toward unavoidable violence, such as Mr. 5's gun, Zoro trying to saw off his legs from his binding wax prison, and Dorry decapitating a dinosaur, setting Luffy free from its neck. The second was minor sexuality of Nami spending a small amount of time with no shirt (only a black bra)

This would lead to several plot holes later on in the story. The only parts fixed was instead of Nami getting bitten by a deadly bug while her stomach was exposed, she instead just became sick due to the climate of the Grand Line. While skipping the return of Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine, did not effect the major plot

Mr. 3's failure to defeat the crew however, would have Crocodile leave him for dead, for pointless reasons. Miss Goldenweek, who although would never return in the anime, was mentioned when listing officer agents, even though due to the arc skip, no one would have known. Usopp's friendship with Dorry and Broggy would later play a large role in the Enies Lobby Arc

Story Impact
Little Garden Arc introduces the second non human race of One Piece: the Giants, and their country Elbaf. Usopp is really impressed by those warriors and wishes he could become such a brave one himself. Usopp's friendship with Dorry and Broggy, would play a large role in the Enies Lobby Arc. Where he (as Sogeking) told Oimo and Kāshī the truth of Dorry and Broggy's fate, and they in turn provided help to save Robin.

It also introduces two more members of Baroque Works - Mr. 3 and Ms. Goldenweek, the former whose devil fruit powers, the ability to make and manipulate wax, would later help Luffy and Ace in the Impel Down and Marineford Arcs.

This is also an arc where Vivi learns more about the crew and shows more and more signs of friendship (Ex: When she wonders about Luffy's behavior after he had been trapped by Dorry in Chapter 109, when Zoro and Nami stop worrying once Luffy appears in Chapter 123, when she hugs Sanji after he recovers the Eternal Pose in Chapter 128.)