Episode 626

"Caesar Goes Missing! The Pirate Alliance Makes a Sortie" is the 626th episode of the One Piece anime.

Short Summary
Smooth seas stretch out before the Straw Hats as they leave Punk Hazard far behind—but while they fear Doflamingo's return and prepare to face him, another foe lies in wait, whose powers could be their downfall!

Long Summary
After the introduction to the episode, the Thousand Sunny is seen still in the water as a massive sea creature arises from the waters carrying Breed. As Brook, Luffy, Zoro, Momonosuke, Nami, Robin, Caesar Clown, and Kin'emon are sleeping, Usopp, Franky, and Chopper keep on the lookout for Donqiuxote Doflamingo, when all of the sudden, Breed and his army of Sea Laphans attack the Thousand Sunny and everyone on board. The Straw Hats and everyone else then start fighting off the Sea Laphans. Breed then calls off the attack, making the Sea Laphans jump back into the sea and revealing himself atop the Thousand Sunny. Breed then has caesar with him with the help of one of his Sea Laphans. Just as luffy goes to attack Breed to take back caesar, he is sneak attacked by a Kung Fu du gong with a Busoshoku infused fist. Breed runs off with caesar, while Law trys to use one of his abilitys. When Law tries to use Room, he is interuppted by Sea Laphans causing massive waves to rock the boat. Law recognizes the waves to look like bunnies. When everyone turns around, they see a massive ship the size of an Island which turns out to be Breeds ship as Sanji notices a pirate flag on top resembling Breed. Law, Luffy and Chopper decide to board the Shark Submerge 3 to go after Breed. Chopper askes Luffy if he recognizes the Sea Laphans to look identical to the Laphans back on Drum Island. Law asks Chopper if that's why he came with Law and Luffy, then proceeding to call him a Racoon. Chopper doesn't like that, and starts yelling at Law. Then Law notices the Sea Laphans going inside Breed's ship. As they step out of the Shark Submerge 3 and into Breed's ship, Law warns Luffy to be careful. Just then, Luffy decides to yell to Law that it's not as dark where he is. Law, Luffy and Chopper head towards the middle of theship, but then, Sea Laphans, an Octupus, and other sea creatures jump Law, Luffy and Chopper. They fight off the sea creatures, when the Kung Fu Dugong from earlier arrives and attempts to smash Luffy. Luffy defeats the Dugong, but then the Dugong has a flashback about Luffy defeating him in a fight back in Arabasta. Excited, he jumps towards Luffy and starts hugging him. Meanwhile, Caesar is seen locked in a cage with Sea Prism Stone handcuffs on him. He asks if anyone can let him free, when Breed comes into the room. Caesar sees a familiar face and asks him if he can set him free and allow him to see Doflamingo. Breed tells him to stop whining and calls him worthless scum. Caesar then gets the impression that Breed is not one of Doflamingo's subordinates. Breed tells Caesar his plan to make a kingdom full of pets and that he needs Caesar's help to do it. Caesar refuses to help Breed, when Breed reaches his hand out to Caesar to use his ability. It then cuts to Luffy catching up with his Kung Du Dugong buddy and training him. The leader of the Sea Animal Pirates apologizes to Luffy for attacking him and explains the reason why. He explains his journey to the New World and how Breed enslaved the crew after he found them. After that, Breed comes onto the intercom and commands them to fall in line, in which after, Dudong tells them to run away quickly. When Breed comes out and scolds Dudong for not listening to him, he sees the The straw hats and Law and explains that he is a pirate. After which, he hits Chopper with his green goop which turns into a green collar. He commands Chopper to attack Luffy and Law, then chopper eats a rumble ball which turns into monster point. Afterwards, he attacks both Law and Luffy. He uses Chopper to his advantage to distract Law and Luffy, then puts both of them in green collars.

Anime Notes

 * This is the first episode of the Caesar Retrieval Arc and the last to have its airdate in 2013.
 * Sanji and Kin'emon are not shown to be furious over Momonosuke sleeping with Nami and Robin like in the manga.
 * Breed ate the Peto Peto no Mi, which allows him to manipulate living things.
 * Caesar Clown is kidnapped by Breed.
 * Luffy, Chopper, and Law set out to Breed's base in order to recover Caesar.
 * Luffy reunites with a Kung-Fu Dugong from Alabasta, who has formed his own crew, the Sea Animal Pirates. It can also use Haki, making it the second animal to be capable of using this ability, the first being Alpacacino.
 * Breed puts a collar on Chopper, making him turn into his monster point form and attack Luffy and Law.
 * Breed manages to put a collar on Luffy and Law.
 * When Luffy, Chopper, and Law are in the Shark Submerge III, Law calls Chopper "Tanuki-ya", combining the running joke of people calling Chopper a tanuki (to which he always angrily responds that he is a reindeer, not a tanuki), with Law's habit of adding "-ya" to the end of people's names. However, according to SBS Volume 72, Law's nickname for Chopper is "Tony-ya".
 * Luffy mistakes Breed's power as a slime human because his Devil Fruit sounds like "Petopeto", or "sticky", which foreshadows Trebol's powers.
 * The preview for the next episode is shortened from its usual length.