Sabo's alive and the reunion will be incredible.
Just keep in mind that there has to be a really good reason for him to have been prevented from meeting/contacting Luffy.
so wow
588
Oda you bastard pulling that out.
Okay so with the fb we got a LOT of insight into Luffy which while we didn't need any, it's certainly NICE to have.
We got to properly say goodbye to Ace after learning a bit more about him.
We got to learn about a character that's going to be amaaaaaaazing.
And we got an explanation for why Ace wouldn't stand down.
Of these, the only I wasn't fully sold on, which also seems to be Oda's big 'moral/message' justification for the fb, was why Ace wouldn't stand down.
In the fb it made perfect sense and his line was haunting. I dunno how it is in translation but the text Oda used was incredible for that line.
However, when I went to Volume 58 to see if that's exactly how it applied, it wasn't quite that way. Luffy didn't seem to be in immediate danger and in fact, Ace put him in more danger since Luffy just stood around. Does it cheapen anything? No. But it doesn't make the fb as strong as it should have been if it linked DIRECTLY to his reasoning for not standing down at MF where it had nothing to do with 'not letting the enemy away' and simply, "Don't say that about my 'oyaji'!"
So that was a bit sad to see Oda let that chance slip away but no big deal.
In other news.
wow.
I dunno how it came across in translation but Ace, a hero, actually said 'bukkoroshiteyaru'.
Holy fuck.
I think I'll cum in my pants if Luffy ever says that by the end of the series.