Ninjas suck, we need a blind naked samurai girl musician, blind naked samurai girl musician!
ps toss in a logia power too.
Ninjas suck, we need a blind naked samurai girl musician, blind naked samurai girl musician!
ps toss in a logia power too.
I want a singing, dancing Devil Fruit. Somehow it was activated without being consumed, and now is free-living.
…....now you are just being brain dead.
Actually, I'm for Pandaman joining the crew just like Mister 0 said. Even if it is on the last chapter. That'd be a great twist. About the half-way done, does it really matter so much? No matter how much is left we'll still be enjoying it, trying to gauge how much longer OP is going to be is just (for lack of a better word) pointless. Though personally I think it'll be going on for quite awhile, we have too many loose-ends to tie up, ones that have been delved in to a considerable degree. I like open-endings as much as the next guy, but not when the issues are so detailed.
Umm, I havn't read this whole post but I can tell you it can end in a 2-3 years, because One Piece is dubbed, and most likely dubbed anime has to have an ending…. Just my theory -_-
Umm, I havn't read this whole post but I can tell you it can end in a 2-3 years, because One Piece is dubbed, and most likely dubbed anime has to have an ending…. Just my theory -_-
dubbed or not…it got nothing to do with when one piece will end
what if Oda gets too anxios to start his other works, and OP ends, like Digimon 02? eawwwwwwww. (i'm just being silly here, I know Oda isn't that cruel)
BTW, whoever posted about Dragon being Gold Roger's brother; what a great theory. They both look similar (cept the mustace) and they seem to both be charicters who just by their presence, show a great deal of strengh in charicter. That may be why Dragon wants Luffy to go on his jouney, to finish what his "brother" started.
Thus, with a clean slate, Oda could easily start off a manga as good if not better than OP at its end. As free-roaming and creative as the OP universe is, everything in our world has constraints. And a new series could completely shatter those restraints and put up some different ones.
But part of what makes OP great is that 400 chapters in, he still manages to work within the restraints he's created. We don't have someone choking back eight Devil Fruits, no sudden cure for the hammer curse, no SSJ16 moments, no "bigger more ominous shadow nobody noticed" since the WG made its debut…
He can't have that greatness from day 1. It takes time to prove the ability to stay true. Even if he's shown he can do it in the OP world, he could tie himself in too tight of a knot in another world.
BTW, whoever posted about Dragon being Gold Roger's brother; what a great theory. They both look similar (cept the mustace) and they seem to both be charicters who just by their presence, show a great deal of strengh in charicter. That may be why Dragon wants Luffy to go on his jouney, to finish what his "brother" started.
That would be me. I was just thinking randomly the other day abou how oda leaves little things lying around that are actually significant later on. I was also thinking of how strong noran was and how he let the king execute him like roger.
Norland may have been veeery strong, but that does not mean that he could have survived against the kings strongest fighters. But, I guess you have a point there.
Is it just me that starts to cry everytime I see how Norland cried before he died? =/ It's just too sad.
Actually, I'm for Pandaman joining the crew just like Mister 0 said. Even if it is on the last chapter. That'd be a great twist.
Let me get this straight. You want the final member of Luffy's crew to be a Panda-headed guy with hearts on his nipples?!? Franky and Chopper are weird enough.
@captain:
BTW, whoever posted about Dragon being Gold Roger's brother; what a great theory. They both look similar (cept the mustace) and they seem to both be charicters who just by their presence, show a great deal of strengh in charicter. That may be why Dragon wants Luffy to go on his jouney, to finish what his "brother" started.
I've always thought that Gol D. Roger could be Luffy's uncle. Not his father (seeing as he died before Luffy was born), but his uncle.
I suppose that would make Dragon (D. Ragon??) his father, or perhaps some other unknown "D" character.
How lame would it be if Shanks turned out to be Luffy's father?
I think it would be SOOOOOOO lame if Dragon turn out to be his real name.
@IT'S:
How lame would it be if Shanks turned out to be Luffy's father?
"luke…I mean Luffy, I am your father" :P
If his name is D. Ragon or something to that effect it would officially be the dumbest and lamest thing Oda has ever done in his career.
His name needs to be Dragon, it's nice and cool that way. Maybe even a nickname like "Hawk Eyes."
Dash "The Dragon" D. Ragon
@IT'S:
Let me get this straight. You want the final member of Luffy's crew to be a Panda-headed guy with hearts on his nipples?!? Franky and Chopper are weird enough.
Would it really be that big a deal when the story is wrapping up? When I say the end, I mean at the very end. Just thought it'd be funny.
Maybe Dragon is actually One Piece!!! Wait hear me out…
This is the way I see it. When Roger got to Raftel, he found a man living all by his lonesome on the island. He looks at Roger and says, "I am One Piece." Roger laughs maniaclly, has him packed up and put on his ship and sails off. Then, just before he's executed, he never explicitly said that One Piece is at Raftel. But everyone assumes otherwise and runs of in an attempt to find it, while in reality One Piece is a storm summoning freak who's just wandering around 'cause he's bored and I don't know what the hell I'm saying and I think I'll stop here.
Seriously though, Dragon is very likely a former crew member of Roger's and has some intrinsic tie-in with the whole Will of D thing, and hence his interest in Luffy.
Am I the only one who has the opinion that Gold Roger didn't have any crewmates? I think he just made friends along the way that Luffy and his crew did. I'll probably end up proven wrong, but it just seems that way to me. Unless I missed where it explicitly stated that he had a crew. Then I just feel stupid.
Well unless he was some kind of psycho without a DF he could have sailed around on a raft like Mihawk. However since we don't know if he had a DF or not and we DO know Tom build his ship, I would assume he would need a crew to sail it.
It's fairly impossible, unless you're some kind of super speed freak to man every station on a full size sailing vessel.
Granted, it'd be quite difficult for one man to operate a full size sailing vessel. At the same time, we know nothing of the ship except that Tom built it for him. While I realize my theory is most likely wrong and he had a crew, don't forget that you know nothing of the ship. Unless I missed where they talked about it in detail and/or showed us what it looked like.
Maybe his ship was just a raft? Hahaha. :D
I really hope that Dragon is his nickname. Or, maybe, that it's a part of his name. Like Luffy D Monkey or Portgas D Ace (portgas is an animal if I'm not wrong?). If Oda would put it short and simple Dragon, like with Sanji, or if it's D Ragon, then it will suck in my opinion. =/
Like I said it could very well have been a raft like that psycho Mihawk, but if it was a full sized vessel, I couldn't really buy him sailing it alone no matter how skillful he was.
No, Roger definitely had a crew….I mean something called "The Oro Jackson!" and made by big Tom himself is gonna need people to man it.
Here's what bugs me more: How do Crocus and whatsername from drum (have not read anything between Reverse Mountain and Jaya so as to let ASJ keep it's suspense until my japanese course shows viable results) figure in? Crewmembers? Random friends?
And what about Norland and Cricket? That line has a lot of similarities to Roger. I know the D's aren't the only strong family line, but Norland had a lot of Roger-esque attitudes in certain situations, and a healthy dose of Luffyness alongside.
I'm guessing that maybe norland's grandson the one before the one that the mugiwaras met (bear with me) and roger knew each other somehow and probably set of to get to the same place (skypiea) seeing as that guy said him and every other decendant of norland have been trying to find proof.
Any way I think that roger like luffy probably was helping that one to get to skypiea somehow imagines roger strapping on cardboard wings as suggestion and jumping off a cliff and they may have accidently been in the spot with the upthrust of water probably thats how roger got there (like luffy). Somehow I think roger was more carefree and wasn't particularly looking for the glyphs at first but accidently stumbled upon them noticing he understood it and then made it his journey to seek them out to find the truth.
Also judging by robin's reaction to what he wrote in skypiea I think he knew he wouldn't be able to revisit some places and would be taken down eventually so made notes to hint to someone who would come after him and could read it as to where the others are that he knows of (or maybe just his thoughts).
I think Crocus and them just where people Roger meet and became friends with on his way. Like Luffy has been all the way now. :)
Water 7 is NOT the halfway mark. If there were 800 chapters, I would die of anxiety. Doing the math, Jaya/Skypeia is the halfway mark, which means it was at around Chapter 250-300 that is the halfway mark. I hope so, this sadly means only 200+ chapters left but seriously; do you want this to become Power-Rangers??? Great Legends never die.
But there's no reason to end it in 200 chapters, the SH haven't come close to ascending beyond mere pirates and come close to achieving their dreams.
I can hadly believe Zoro is a match for Mihawks speed after CP9, techniques yes, but his speed leaves something to be desired (although Luffy seems to have achieved the elite speed).
Chopper hasn't found the cure to all diseases… unless it has to do with his Rumble 3 form which I hope it doesn't.
Robins poneglyphs haven't made any grand revelations just yet, she lacks too much information to make up the 100 year history.
etc et cetera
@Masta:
Water 7 is NOT the halfway mark. If there were 800 chapters, I would die of anxiety. Doing the math, Jaya/Skypeia is the halfway mark, which means it was at around Chapter 250-300 that is the halfway mark. I hope so, this sadly means only 200+ chapters left but seriously; do you want this to become Power-Rangers??? Great Legends never die.
If Jaya is the half way point then we have only 6 volumes left to wrap up the entire series.
Jaya covered the 220's and 230's mostly….
So round it to 230 and multiply by two...
460 chapters of One Piece. Were at 411 right now.
There is no way that would be the ending, or even a good ending.
The fact is....is that Oda still has ALOT of plot threads open. And a low quality series isn't one thats long, but one that dosen't ever deal with half its mysteries and aspects.
One Piece should be as long as it needs to. And it needs to be long.
@Masta:
Water 7 is NOT the halfway mark. If there were 800 chapters, I would die of anxiety. Doing the math, Jaya/Skypeia is the halfway mark, which means it was at around Chapter 250-300 that is the halfway mark. I hope so, this sadly means only 200+ chapters left but seriously; do you want this to become Power-Rangers??? Great Legends never die.
Doing what math??? Where do you get the number of 500-600 chapters as the end of the story?
Like what other people have said, there are so many plot threads yet to be addressed.
Just to name a few:
Who are the other Shichibukai? (There are still 2 totally unknown, 1 not seen, 2 not met by the SHs)
What's happening with Shanks and Whitebeard?
Who the hell is Dragon, and why is he revolting?
What about the Blackbeard pirates?
Are we ever going to find out what really happened in the blank 100 years?
We have yet to see Elbaf, or Merman Island.
To fully answer these questions could really take an arc each, even if they aren't as long as the current one. But even if we take a "conservative" guess of say 50 chapters per arc (counting each shichibukai individually along with the 2 islands), that's still over 500 chapters remaining. Beyond that, there's gathering more crew, possibly meeting the other admirals, and everything else I can't think of, but Oda will certainly come up with.
One Piece is never going to end
what are you guys talking about =-p
NOO! Will I be 40 when One Piece ends? Gah I will be an old man by then :unsure:
Doing what math??? Where do you get the number of 500-600 chapters as the end of the story?
Like what other people have said, there are so many plot threads yet to be addressed.Just to name a few:
Who are the other Shichibukai? (There are still 2 totally unknown, 1 not seen, 2 not met by the SHs)
What's happening with Shanks and Whitebeard?
Who the hell is Dragon, and why is he revolting?
What about the Blackbeard pirates?
Are we ever going to find out what really happened in the blank 100 years?
We have yet to see Elbaf, or Merman Island.To fully answer these questions could really take an arc each, even if they aren't as long as the current one. But even if we take a "conservative" guess of say 50 chapters per arc (counting each shichibukai individually along with the 2 islands), that's still over 500 chapters remaining. Beyond that, there's gathering more crew, possibly meeting the other admirals, and everything else I can't think of, but Oda will certainly come up with.
Also don't forget to mention on that list:
The origins of devil fruits
What laboo is up to and will they visit him again
Luffy's origins
and a lot more
Actually, if the grand line takes the the WHOLE WAY AROUND THE WORLD, and they're just coming up on Red Line….they'd be close to half done.
I never thought of halfway in chapter btw, I thought of halfway in arcs. That way, if the rumor is true, we can still have a HELL of a lot of chapters left.
Yeah, and seeing how it's feeling like Oda is making every arc longer and longer, then the last arcs are gonna be reeeaaally long. ^^
I wonder if Oda has the ability to make the SH take out every big foe that is left all by themself and not make it repetive. It would be really easy for someone to just make a big battle/war in one of the last arc destroying the most of them, but it feels like Oda won't go for the easy way. :P
Lots of unanswered questions and seeing all these hints that Oda has left along the way, I doubt the next few acrs are gonna conclude anything.
I'm still wondering who in Zombie Jesus is Dragon!
The man who appeared in Loguetown who sort of stopped Smoker from killing/capturing Luffy. People seem to think he's all powerful or that he has a DF that controls winds. No one knows for sure, because it isn't confirmed. Yet, he just may have a power. He's quite the mysterious figure, who seems to be a revolutionary in the OP world.
The reason people think he has a DF is how amazingly lucky the weather became when he was around. Miraculous lightning rescued Luffy, then a big gust of wind knocked the Marines away, and there's Dragon, acting for all the world like nothing weird is going on at all.
BTW, whoever posted about Dragon being Gold Roger's brother; what a great theory. They both look similar (cept the mustace) and they seem to both be charicters who just by their presence, show a great deal of strengh in charicter. That may be why Dragon wants Luffy to go on his jouney, to finish what his "brother" started.
I always had the thought that Dragon was Gol D. Roger. Think aboot this theory, Gol D. Roger ate a devil fruit, making him a logia users. He fakes his death by making it look like the Marines killed him, but after placing his body where ever, he leaves and goes off. Shaves the stash off, gets a tattoo on his face and calls himself Dragon. The wind that effected smoker capturing Luffy was a attack that his logia power allows him to do. Like how Crocodile could control the desert, Dragon can control the wind.
Also, another theory that I have had. Luffy really has never killed anyone. Well the major characters. The final battle could be just a huge orgy of all the old straw hat defeated pirates verus the Straw hats. Add in the marines and that would be an interesting final battle with the remaining people getting one piece.
I always had the thought that Dragon was Gol D. Roger. Think aboot this theory, Gol D. Roger ate a devil fruit, making him a logia users. He fakes his death by making it look like the Marines killed him, but after placing his body where ever, he leaves and goes off. Shaves the stash off, gets a tattoo on his face and calls himself Dragon. The wind that effected smoker capturing Luffy was a attack that his logia power allows him to do. Like how Crocodile could control the desert, Dragon can control the wind.
Also, another theory that I have had. Luffy really has never killed anyone. Well the major characters. The final battle could be just a huge orgy of all the old straw hat defeated pirates verus the Straw hats. Add in the marines and that would be an interesting final battle with the remaining people getting one piece.
Actually, following that logic, that would not be the final battle. The final battles will be Luffy VS Godzilla, Luffy VS King Kong, Luffy VS Frankenstien, Luffy VS Dracula, Luffy VS The Mummy…..
Seriously though, that takes "been done" to a new, ever towering height. And Oda isn't that kind of author.
The man who appeared in Loguetown who sort of stopped Smoker from killing/capturing Luffy. People seem to think he's all powerful or that he has a DF that controls winds. No one knows for sure, because it isn't confirmed. Yet, he just may have a power. He's quite the mysterious figure, who seems to be a revolutionary in the OP world.
I'm pretty sure the people, like me, who were asking "who the hell is Dragon" didn't mean "who is he" as in we don't know the character. We mean more along the lines of "what is his identity." Like you said, he's a very mysterious figure who seems to be a revolutionary, and that's all we know. We know nothing of his past, why he is revolting, where he is from, why he helped Luffy, etc.
How Long Could One Piece Go? imagine's OP being as Long as "Kochira Katsushikaku Kamearikouenmae Hashiyutsujiyo" Or "Hajime no Ippo"
….. that is a LOT of OP! XD
I would Love OP to go on that long or Longer as long as it didnt Get Stale. I hope Oda ends it when its the Right time instead of Drawing it out or ending it early, leaving plot holes and loose ends
It would be possible to end it in the next 200+ chapters. Here me out:
-There are several arcs which are extremely small and short in length, yet they answer lots of questions and cover lots of material. A PERFECT example is Roguetown. It explained that people world-wide are suffering from the world govt., proved that there are a very small majority in the Navy who have clean hearts (Tashigi, Smoker), it let us know some villains may be returning with vengance (Buggy), AND it foreshadowed conections between Luffy, Roger, and the other 'D's and that they all may die the same way–laughing. And thats not even the only "tiny" arc that covered a crap-load of material: The same goes for Morgan (Zoro's past and Coby's departure), Romance Dawn, etc...
-All of the things we have left behind/unanswered (Shanks, Whitebeard, Blackbeard, Buggy, Dragon, True history, Raftel) are ALL connected in one way or another and it is most likely they will be explained/resolved within the same or close-connected story arc. Seriously, do you think theres is going to be an Alabasta 2.0 just about the relationship between Shanks and Whitebeard, and who Dragon is???
-All of the n00bs left behind probably aren't going to even scratch the surface. The only one significant so far is Teach (Blackbeard) and the shady Sichiukai. Even Buggy won't be that big, he's probably just gonna talk.
-The World govt. arc isn't finished yet. Whatever conflict the Straw-Hats may have with them is gonna be settled now, or a little later in a nicely wrapped package.
-The other mugiwara's don't need an entire Arlong arc to explain them and their back-stories. Remember how short Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp were?????? No arguements here.
So seriously people, it's not impossible this can be done in 200+ chapters or so. Don't get me wrong, I will be as dry as a desert crying when it's over, but do you want to be paying for your 18-year-old son's college tuition while still keeping up with this...? All good things...must eventually come to an end...
@Masta:
-The other mugiwara's don't need an entire Arlong arc to explain them and their back-stories. Remember how short Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp were?????? No arguements here.
Yeah but that was because Oda was still starting out. Now that Oda is getting used to it, he'll make the backstories more detailed.
Also some pirates could fight each other instead of the Strawhats fighting them. Like the Whitebeard and Blackbeard pirates. Then they'll be able to save chapters and such.
I'd like to see the Mugiwaras Finally Fight Marines! Enies Lobby is the First Time a whole arc was Committed to Fighting actual Marines! Loguetown was almost all Marine, but Then Buggy and Alvidia Showed up. I'd like to see more Marine Fights later.
! and since they declared war on the World Government, i think it's safe to say there will be
@Masta:
It would be possible to end it in the next 200+ chapters. Here me out:
-There are several arcs which are extremely small and short in length, yet they answer lots of questions and cover lots of material. A PERFECT example is Roguetown. It explained that people world-wide are suffering from the world govt., proved that there are a very small majority in the Navy who have clean hearts (Tashigi, Smoker), it let us know some villains may be returning with vengance (Buggy), AND it foreshadowed conections between Luffy, Roger, and the other 'D's and that they all may die the same way–laughing. And thats not even the only "tiny" arc that covered a crap-load of material: The same goes for Morgan (Zoro's past and Coby's departure), Romance Dawn, etc...
I think the only problem with this logic is that Logue Town didn't really answer much, and I don't really agree that a lot happened. It introduced characters like Smoker/Tashigi, reintroduced characters like Buggy/Alvida, and gave Zoro his 2 new swords. And foreshadowing the connection between Luffy and Roger, was just that. Foreshadowing. To me, it really only opened up more questions (particularly, Dragon, how Tashigi/Zoro will evolve, Smoker's obsession w/ Luffy), and it's a lot easier to pose questions than to answer them. Trying to prove a math theorem can be taken as an extreme example of this. The statement of the problem can be done in 1 line, but can often take pages upon pages of derivations to prove or disprove.
For the other short "arcs" you mention I think a lot of why they were so short is that there weren't a lot of characters yet. Romance Dawn was basically about Luffy and Shanks, Morgan was mostly Luffy, Zoro, Coby, Helmeppo, and a little Morgan. Also, each fight took like 2 pages, as opposed to 2+ chapters.
@Masta:
-All of the things we have left behind/unanswered (Shanks, Whitebeard, Blackbeard, Buggy, Dragon, True history, Raftel) are ALL connected in one way or another and it is most likely they will be explained/resolved within the same or close-connected story arc. Seriously, do you think theres is going to be an Alabasta 2.0 just about the relationship between Shanks and Whitebeard, and who Dragon is???
For your second point, saying all those things are closely connected is just conjecture. None of them have really been addressed in detail. I can give you Shanks-Whitebeard-Blackbeard, since it was said in the manga itself. I can even say maybe Dragon-True History, and True History-Raftel are related, since Dragon seems to be a pretty big player, and Robin's remarks in Skypeia. But it's hard to say the two different groups are related.
I agree with you that it could take just a few chapters to answer a lot of the questions…IF Oda was just trying to answer the questions. But Oda is trying to tell a story (naturally flowing, proper introduction, good build up of tension, interesting climax, good resolution), and in order for it to be interesting, and for the answers to come out as a natural part of the story, I think it will take significantly longer.
I admit, there is a bit of thruthiness here, but please forgive me.
Just as curiosity, how do you feel the rest of the story will pan out? Here's my guess:
end of Enies Lobby ~20 more chaps.
Arriving at Red Line (including some mini arc suggesting they're getting closer) ~20 ch.
Crossing Red Line (and they'll encount some problem) ~20 ch.
Conflict with Doflamingo ~ 40 ch.
Approaching Fishman Island + some conflict with Jinbei ~ 30 ch.
Finding 3 more crewmembers along the way ~100 ch. total (this might be an underestimate, considering the whole Long Ring-Current is really about losing 3 crewmembers [Robin, Usopp, Merry], and gaining 4 [Robin, Usopp, shipwright, ship], a net of +1, while hinting at the true history)
BTW, this is already 200+ ch.
Stuff happens on Elbaf ~ 20 ch.
Conflict with Blackbeard ~ 30 ch. Probably, Ace will show up here, but I doubt Whitebeard will yet.
Stuff happens with the other 3 Shichibukai (Bear, 2 unknown) ~ 100 ch. total
Conflict with Whitebeard ~ 40 ch.
Dragon/Revolution ~ 70 ch. (if they get involved. significantly less if not)
Reuniting with Shanks ~ 10 ch.
Resolution of the SH's dreams ~ 10-20 ch
Post One Piece, after Robin reads the Rio Poneglyph? ~ xx
Total: 520 ch.
For the ones that seem kind of long, I included the mini arcs that lead up to the main one. Consider that this number does not include arcs that come out of nowhere, like the whole Skypeia arc. This is just counting the ones that I can kind of assume are sure to show up.
Whew…That was long.
Yeah, I can see it the other way too unchipu. I was just saying that since a lot of the things left behind are connected, maybe they will be explained at around the same time or gradually within the same arc. Also, unless he is going to be an enemy, Dragon will NOT have 100+ chapters devoted to him, I'm sure of it. And btw, there are TWO mugiwara's left to join (Excluding Franky if he joins and Usopp and Robin) but yeah, I see how bunched up it would be.
Two?
Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin and Franky. That's seven. Zoro was "The first member", so, I wouldn't count Luffy as the first, if that was the case, Zoro should have gotten the second one.
I actually think OP will get exactly 1000chapters. A friend of mine and I are agreeing of that we think OP is beginning it's Real adventure now, after EL. This is when everything is gonna get so much deeper and heavier. East Blue was a prouloge, and all the chapters until now was a build up.
First, I never said it would be 100+, I said 70, and possibly much less. I think the whole Dragon thing is highly variable, and depends on how involved the SH's get in his revolution. If the revolution has a large impact on them and they have to fight some strong enemy, it could be this long. Else, if there is very little fighting going on, it could be as short as 20. Although it seems unlikely such little time would be devoted to this character.
But, you never know. Oda might get tired of the series and just decide to cut it short without fully answering all the open questions.
I always had the thought that Dragon was Gol D. Roger. Think aboot this theory, Gol D. Roger ate a devil fruit, making him a logia users. He fakes his death by making it look like the Marines killed him, but after placing his body where ever, he leaves and goes off. Shaves the stash off, gets a tattoo on his face and calls himself Dragon. The wind that effected smoker capturing Luffy was a attack that his logia power allows him to do. Like how Crocodile could control the desert, Dragon can control the wind.
Also, another theory that I have had. Luffy really has never killed anyone. Well the major characters. The final battle could be just a huge orgy of all the old straw hat defeated pirates verus the Straw hats. Add in the marines and that would be an interesting final battle with the remaining people getting one piece.
Actually when I first saw Dragon, for a second I thought he was Gold Roger! He looks so similar!
@Robin:
I actually think OP will get exactly 1000chapters. A friend of mine and I are agreeing of that we think OP is beginning it's Real adventure now, after EL. This is when everything is gonna get so much deeper and heavier. East Blue was a prouloge, and all the chapters until now was a build up.
I agree that East Blue was the build-up. There was no "main villain," just Luffy building up his crew and his reputation. Enies Lobby is a major turning point. The Straw Hats have declared war on the World Government. That puts them on par with Whitebeard, or even Dragon. THEY ARE REVOLUTIONARIES NOW. They may not have the same reasons, but change is coming.
The Pirate Age shall have one of two outcomes: Destruction of Lawlessness and the Rise of Final Justice with the resurrection of the ancient weapons, or…
REVOLUTION.
I think some of the plotkeys all of you quoted in this thread are to be solved together, and not one by one.
See the Blackbeard crew members. They offer good match-up opportunities for some Strew Hats (Sogeking, Chopper…) but they are outnumbered. Only a small part of the crew would be enough to deal with them while the others could fry another fish (Doflamingo ? An Amiral ? Dragon ? What if Dragon and Blackbeard were somehow connected ? Who knows ?)
As for basic georgraphics, there may be a way to locate where Luffy is on the map right now. I don't know if it has already been said, but back in vol.31, Monblanc Norland said something about a way to go from Grandline to Northblue through Marie-Joa. Considering Luffy and his crew are just near Marie-Joa now, do the maths..