Ice Hunter Arc

The Ice Hunter arc in an anime only filler arc in the One Piece anime. It ran from episodes 326-present (episode 328). It chronicles the journey of the Straw Hat Pirates from Water 7, into the Florian Triangle, coming close to a winter island. They encounter a damaged ship, whose members they help, but who then try to trick them. They are then revealed to be working for the bounty hunter group, named Achino Family. Meanwhile, Salco of the Achino family recieves Stansen's report on the Straw Hats and begins "trap kamome", using hundreds of fake marine ships (simply sails on rafts,with gloving, hologram like lights) to lead the Straw Hats into a field of iceburgs. These move according to the Sunny's movements and lock them in.

The meanwhile, the Straw Hats learn that the former Phoenix Pirates reportedly sailed into the New World but were heavily beaten there,loosing the life of Vigaro, a crewmember and vice-captain. Thereafter, they lost their flag to the Achino Family and became their soldiers-though only Stansen shows any "loyalty" to them. When their heavily injured captain, Puzzle recovers, he says that Stance's decision "wasn't bad", that they will no longer be pirates or sail to the New World and that they will stay the bounty hunters underlings. No one in the crew agrees with this, especialy the wery young and pasionate Jirou, but the captain is not moved at all. Luffy, who was with Chopper on the Phoenix's ship to look on the injured Puzzle, head back, but the rope that was used to hold the ship close to the Sunny breakes in a rampage of several mysterious underwater "eruptions".

The traped Sunny is encountered by Lilo, Salco, Arabelle, and Hockera. They claim that its impossible for them to escape and that all the crew will die. Franky, however, gets the ship out by using a "Coup de Burst". Salco calls either Brindo or Kanpachino (as they are twin brothers, that only difer in the color of their shirts and the adressed person was in a partial silhouete, its uncertain exactly witch one of the twins it was) and he then decides to leave, before Don Achino points out that he should "take the flag first".

Meanwhile, Lilo's flying fish manages to steal the Strawhats flag. They realize this, shortly before noticing that Zoro, who helped them by cuting through one of the icebergs, but got lost, is stil missing.

Meanwhile, the Straw Hats try to follow the bird, but the icebergs cut their way, so Franky and Nami use "Shark Submerge" to go under the icebergs, where they discover that the icebergs are in reality moved around by flocks of penguins, who begin to chase after the sub. Meanwhile, an iceberg is rammed into the Sunny and throws off both Usopp and Sanji, because Robin is unable to grip them in time.

When the Shark Submerge get back on the surface, Nami and Franky are confronted by Hockera on the Sunny, and Robin is confronted by Lilo. In an ice rift, Sanji and Usopp found themselves chased by penguins and later faced of by Salco and Arabelle, whom Sanji tries to court.

Meanwhile, on the ship of the Phoenix pirates, Chopper and Luffy try to leave in a rowboat, but come back just in time to stop Brindo, who just arrived from severly injuring Stansen. When Brindo tells Luffy, how his family have already stolen their flag, he gets angry and begins to fight him.

As all this ocurs, Zoro wanders the snow, coming to a huge, strange mansion in the ice.