Next arc possibilities.

Urian

When Robin is going to be rescued by the crew our favourite fictional pirate group is going to have the next problems:

-DoFlamingo and his "new age" that is similar to the pirate summit that Ace talked to Luffy. He and his abuse can have an arc.

-If the Buster Call isn´t destroyed and the Strawhat survive they are going to face a continuous persecution by the Navi.

-Jinbei and his mermaids.

For me things like Whitebeard-Shanks alliance, Shichibuchai and Admirals are beyond the next arc with the logic in mind.

Obviously the Shichibukai aren´t going to follow World Government direct command but we have another groups of 5, the Blackbeard Pirates that are following Luffy.

5 Vice-Admirals+5 Blackbeard Pirates, exactly 10 people and if we add that now with Franky the crew has 9 members, add 1 more and you get the 10 exact people for fight against the menace. What do you think about all this?

KamiKage

I really hope the buster won't be pursuing them, it needs to be completly crushed once and for good, for multiple reasons. Robin need to get rid of her fear toward BC, and the last thing the crew would need is to run away from it (and how would they consistently run away without a ship first?).
As for the arc i really would like to see next, i think some whitebeard-Shanks reunion and then either DoFlam or Jimbei which could mark the end of the first half of GrandLine, would be the best ^^

MasterDee

After this arc is over Luffy and Co will mostly likely be marked as public enemy no.1 by the WG. Blackbeard and his group can't NOT go after the Strawhats after this if he wants a schichibukai seat. So I'm guessing (my gut tells me) the next arc will be the 'Blackbeard/Ace arc.'

Desperado

First there will be an intermission most likely. Like Laboon, Jaya or Foxy Arc.

Polygon

**I think it goes something like:

Water 7 > Mini-arc > Big-arc > mini-arc > Donflamingo arc.

perhaps the mysterious big arc could be the gyojin arc. but I wouldn't want luffy to defeat Jinbei before someone gets to Donflamingo, since he seems stronger. I think it also might go like this too:

Water 7 > mini-arc > Big-arc with no bounties > Donflamingo arc > mini arc > Big-arc with no bounties > mini-arc> Jinbei.**

Robot Chicken

I like all these theories you guys have, but if I had to pick, I would want the next arc to be either the Doflamingo/Kuma arc, the Jinbei arc, or the introduction of one of the two mystery Shichibukai (I'm not including Croc's replacement). A Whitebeard/Ace arc would be cool, but if WB is the closest to finding One Piece, then he should be farther down the line than the Mugiwaras. Maybe they'll run into WB after the nect arc, which will almost definently have a small filler arc separating them.

King Smack

Just because Blackbeard wants to became one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea doesn't necessarily that he teams up with the navy.. He's still a pirate right?

myogatheflea

After the Impel Down arc, I say Jinbei or Donflamingo.

Senshi Mizaka

I doubt that Oda will do something like this, but it would be interesting to see an arc not focusing on the Strawhats. Like one with Ace searching for Blackbeard. Or maybe something with Shanks and his crew? On second thought, no; I doubt that'll work.

But, it's pretty possible that we'll be seeing another Shichibukai after Enies Lobby. There are alot of possibilities: Jinbei, Doflamingo, Kuma, or maybe one that we don't know about yet. And I think Oda's saving Mihawk untill towards the end of the series.

Virgilijus

I feel Blackbeard's arc should be before Jinbei and Doflamingo's because Blackbeard is fighting for the spot in the Shichibukai; if two more positions just popped up he may not need to really prove himself. I also feel Jinbei would be before Doflamingo as I believe Oda likes to change the pace in terms of locations and Merman island could be very different than the city of Water 7 and Enies Lobby.

King Smack

I would like to personally just like to see someone totally new and a few good looks into the Shichibukai like maybe discussing Luffy and the whole Strawhat issue? I really don't want to see Blackbeard yet, I hope its just about a new person, with some Shichibukai info and a little chapter or something on Shanks/Whitebeard.

Taleran

since Jinbei has only been mentioned in name doesn't by law of Shonen make him stronger? (or if his arc is later in series)

King Smack

@Taleran:

since Jinbei has only been mentioned in name doesn't by law of Shonen make him stronger? (or if his arc is later in series)

One Peice doesn't really go by that. Look how strong Crocodile was, and Foxy's bounty was only what? 24 million?

Darkestsith6

We'll have that brief intermission before that big arc. Similar to the end of the Jaya Arc right before the Siepiea Arc where we were introduced to all the Blackbeard Pirates and we saw that Schibukai meeting (Episode 151).

My guess is:
Small arc. Then a meeting between Shanks and Whitebeard is shown. Some more discussion at the Marine HQ about the Straw Hats, with boosted bounties. I would like to say Blackbeard would be next because it would be more probable that if blackbeard can capture or kill Luffy and his crew, the World Government will love him for getting vengeance and accept him as one of the Schibukai. But I have a feeling the Straw Hats will run into never before seen enemy (possibly Jenbie (sp?)) and then followed by Blackbeard

KrnxAJa

@Urian:

-DoFlamingo and his "new age" that is similar to the pirate summit that Ace talked to Luffy. He and his abuse can have an arc.

Man, I hope that the pirate's summit that you're thinking of is not a mountaintop or some other land formation.

Bounty1Berry

@King:

One Peice doesn't really go by that. Look how strong Crocodile was, and Foxy's bounty was only what? 24 million?

Foxy's threat to the government was completely negligible.

He was actually probably more of a threat to other pirates (by skimming their forces) than to the WG. I could see him robbing a Marine ship of men, but only if they played the DBF.

Sanji Of Straw

I'm hoping its not the Merman Island yet. Next I think they'll go to a smaller arc which leads into Don Flamingo. Then after that a another mini arc, then merman Island.

Tokoro Ataru

@KrnxAJa:

Man, I hope that the pirate's summit that you're thinking of is not a mountaintop or some other land formation.

How many times do we have to repeat this: when Ace says it, its sort of like "See you at the top". There is no mountain with pirates nor is there a pirate convention. (as neat as the latter would be, why would they all meet in one place with the Government and the Marines everywhere in the later part of the Grand Line?)

Personally, I really would like to see DonQuixote DonFlamingo's "dreamless era" plan bear fruit in the next arc. After that cameo between Skypiea and the DBF, there were probably some that were expecting him…but instead, Oda chose to go with "that guy riding the bicycle on the ocean", leading to all we've seen in the Water 7/Eneas Lobby arc. Though something that's been nagging is that perhaps the "dreamless era" plan is already bearing fruit now: if the government has a huge blow with the SH action in their stronghold, then their weakness could cause more unstable pirates who "claim to hold allegiance to the government" like DonFlamingo to show more influence...

Laffite

After the all the Enies Lobby and getting a new ship I expect a few filler arcs.

If they are planning on the mugiwara's to fight all of the shichibukai then I'd say they would fight them from the smallest bounty up.

Robot Chicken

Meh, changed my mind. I'd rather not see a Jinbei/Gyojin Island arc right after Water 7/Enies Lobby, mainly because of the association with water. So I guess now I really want to see some Doflamingo and Kuma action (I wanna know whether or not DD's power is from a Devil Fruit or not, and what kind of strength does Kuma have)

Kurigiri

I'd like to see Elbaf next, for the little arc.
Maybe after/during the arc, Oda will connect it to Shanks or Blackbeard, for the big arc afterwards..

King Smack

@Bounty1Berry:

Foxy's threat to the government was completely negligible.

He was actually probably more of a threat to other pirates (by skimming their forces) than to the WG. I could see him robbing a Marine ship of men, but only if they played the DBF.

What I meant was that in One Peice the villains don't necessarily get stronger after each successive one. Crocodile was stronger than Foxy and Enel probably was as well.

Personally I think Buggy is stronger than Kreig and Kuro and maybe even Arlong, but thats just me.

Darkestsith6

Buggy is not stronger than Arlong at all.

What is it and people's infatuation with believing Buggy is something bigger than he really is?

Polygon

@Darkestsith6:

Buggy is not stronger than Arlong at all.

What is it and people's infatuation with believing Buggy is something bigger than he really is?

Buggy would give Arlong a good fight. Plus it's highly likley Buggy is getting stronger just as Luffy is. He is traveling the GL after all and Luffy didn't exectly defeat him last time either.

Laffite

@Octogon:

Buggy would give Arlong a good fight. Plus it's highly likley Buggy is getting stronger just as Luffy is. He is traveling the GL after all and Luffy didn't exectly defeat him last time either.

Buggy is doing better than I expected. He's traveling the Grand Line which is feared in the East Blue. He's met White Beard in person also and there must be a good reason why Buggy could meet him.

King Smack

Buggy is definitely stronger than Krieg and Kuro. ~_~

Duce of Transilvania

Well i think there is going to be a little arc where they introduce some strong/important people. After Alabasta Oda introduced Flamingo and Kuma and the Gorousei and Whitebeard, after Skypia whe had Aokiji the strongest man in the Marines. There will be some shichibukai action after this, those five old bastards will send everything after the Strawhat's for what they did to Eneis Lobby.

Polygon

I don't like jinbei and donflamingo arc to be anywhere near eachother. REason is because they would get bounties both arcs, and thas too fast an increase in bounty. But I think everytime there is a bounty we will see the big guns in OP like in jaya or when Mihawk went to shanks.

King Smack

I dunno why everyone talks about Doflamingo so much and not about Kuma. I mean, he just looks tougher and we know nothing about his powers. Obvoiusly controlling people can earn a high bounty, but like.. Look at Kuma, he's so mysterious and we know nothing! He'll come before I think

Polygon

@King:

I dunno why everyone talks about Doflamingo so much and not about Kuma. I mean, he just looks tougher and we know nothing about his powers. Obvoiusly controlling people can earn a high bounty, but like.. Look at Kuma, he's so mysterious and we know nothing! He'll come before I think

**Luffy already had a run in with Bellamy.And we saw Donflamingo take care of Bellamy as well. We know he is planning to end the era of dream. and we also know Luffy doesn't like this idea, at all. And we know he is planning something. It is already revealed that Donflamingo is no a good person, and Luffy won't fight a good guy.

Kuma on the other hand, has some nothing. We don't know if he is an enemy of the strawhats or not. We don't know if we'll ever fight him. And some people are even predicting he'll join the crew. But is entirley possible he wll be a villian. Apart or toeghter with don.

but if they are toeghter then it is obvious don will be the main villian.**

sabret00the

Jinbei will be the next major arc, they aren't quite equipped to go after Doflamingo yet imo.

King Smack

I think Kuma will come first as he is the one that we know so little about. I see your reasoning, but I just think Kuma will come first. Its like a gut feeling..

unchipu

What I'm wondering is why no one has said anything about the Red Line. It seems the SHs should be approaching it soon, and something big should happen there.

Polygon

@unchipu:

What I'm wondering is why no one has said anything about the Red Line. It seems the SHs should be approaching it soon, and something big should happen there.

gyojin island is near the redline.

Cr4zy

What's Impel Down? Never heard of that before…..

Robin Stjernberg

Impel Down is the worst prison in the world. It's underwater and is located somewhere near Enies Loby.

ITSALION

@King:

I think Kuma will come first as he is the one that we know so little about. I see your reasoning, but I just think Kuma will come first. Its like a gut feeling..

Kuma referred to Luffy as "now we have a target"
Meanwhile, luflamingo was farting around in Jaya with Bellamy.
Although I think it would be cool if Blackbeard took out Luflamingo. Dreams vs. dream-hater? That = cool.

RixileKetchupKing

I'm pretty sure we'll have a nice mini arc after this, a bounty hunter arc. Seriously, where are all the bloody bounty hunters? There hasn't been a prolifent one in the series yet. And I've got a feeling in the seat of my pants that good ol' Smoker should be popping up anytime now. Luffy screws with the government and Smoker's not there? Just doesn't click. He'll be back.

Next big arc though, I have a feeling it will be a new shichibukai. One of the weaker, unknown ones though. Not in Kuma or Flamingo's leauge. Blackbeard will show up in about two major arcs, I'll wager. Jinbei? Maybe he'll make a grand entrance at the end of the fishman isle arc (it'll happen soon)

Jinbei: Hey guys! What'd I miss?
Fishman: Dude, we got totally wrecked by these Strawhat pirates!
Jinbei: JINBEI SMASH!!!!

Ha! Mihawk will show up really late in the series, like in the end. If Zoro beats him any sooner, his dream will be fuffilled too quickly.

Wouldn't it be funny if at the end of Enies Lobby, Oda leaves us with a cliffhanger, and then hops into a Buggy mini arc?

I'm hoping for a small elbarf arc, that would own.

Juicy

I don't personally think Jinibei will be even mentioned until after the Flamingo/Kuma arc. I agree with format of Water 7 arc-mini-arc-big arc(Blackbeard?)-mini arc, big arc(Flamingo/Kuma arc?).

During the first mini arc I hope to see a deeper background of Admiral Akinau. Even better, a confrontation between Akinau and Akoji at the Marine Headquarters concerning the SH's. If it doesn't happen in the first mini arc then I expect a deeper background on Kuma in the second mini arc. I still can't shake that feeling that there is more to Kuma's bible than meets the eye.

Polygon

Blackbeard is being saved for the end of the series. **He's a D.

Was is whitebeards crew

Even the Red Hairs are involved in his dilemma**

valiantt

Actually Bartholomew Kuma's arc would be very interesting (I hope for a huge Romanesque Cathedral like island or such that would be really interesting) though if Kuma does have a fruit…please don't make it predictable and have him have Kuma kuma no mi that would be something predictable as Kishimoto work.

Chubbychez

@Octogon:

Blackbeard is being saved for the end of the series.

He's a D.

Was is whitebeards crew

Even the Red Hairs are involved in his dilemma

You shouldn't make a prediction like that. Oda might want to reveal some of the mysteries behind the D well before the end of the series, or he might not. No one knows what direction the story will take except for Oda.

Plus it would seem kind of absurd for Luffy and Blackbeard to meet again only near the end of the series, especially since Blackbeard is one who is actively hunting for Luffy. It took Smoker only one arc to catch up to Luffy. It's been 2 arcs now since we last saw Blackbeard. Sooner or later they're going to meet and I doubt it'll be near the end of the series. Also remember that Blackbeard is contesting for a Shichibukai spot. Somehow it'd seem like less of a contest if more Shichibukai spots were to open before the eventual Blackbeard vs. Luffy fight. Like I can sort of picture the world government offering the one spot to Luffy. Then it'd be a fight between the two for the spot. Of course we all know that Luffy would never seriously consider becoming a Shichibukai so it'd really only be Blackbeard who'd be fighting for the spot.

Polygon

@Chubbychez:

You shouldn't make a prediction like that. Oda might want to reveal some of the mysteries behind the D well before the end of the series, or he might not. No one knows what direction the story will take except for Oda.

We all know the kingdom, raftel, rio ponyglyph, D and other things are going to be resolved at the end of the series. I mean they basiccly ARE the show.

Plus it would seem kind of absurd for Luffy and Blackbeard to meet again only near the end of the series, especially since Blackbeard is one who is actively hunting for Luffy. It took Smoker only one arc to catch up to Luffy. It's been 2 arcs now since we last saw Blackbeard. Sooner or later they're going to meet and I doubt it'll be near the end of the series. Also remember that Blackbeard is contesting for a Shichibukai spot. Somehow it'd seem like less of a contest if more Shichibukai spots were to open before the eventual Blackbeard vs. Luffy fight. Like I can sort of picture the world government offering the one spot to Luffy. Then it'd be a fight between the two for the spot. Of course we all know that Luffy would never seriously consider becoming a Shichibukai so it'd really only be Blackbeard who'd be fighting for the spot.

I'm not saying they won't meet each other on the way, and maybe have little skrimishes. But the big fight, and everything of that nature is coming near the end.

eblob88

Now if you think about it we know DoFlamingo and Kuma's bounty price. Oda usually make the price high as the story continues. So this would be my guess, DoFlamingo and Kuma aren't the top 2. They might be strong but not the best or the second best. Maybe Jinbei is reserved and haven't been shown because he's more of a badass than DoFlamingo and Kuma. So I would guess if they're gonna meet the 7bukai it would be either

Kuma -> Doflamingo -> Jinbei
or
Kuma + Doflamingo -> Jinbei

but it's just a guess…

id personally like to see a mini arc with… whats those 2 kids's faces that joined the marines way long ago and we never heard from them again T_T yeah its been too long they need to make a come back and like fight buggy or something~

warp

I say after water 7 they cross the red line, so they go to the 2nd half of the grandline.*

*= right? Is it the second or the first half. I ask this because in episode 65 mr.5 says "You think we would come all the way to the end of the grandline just to 'back you up'." Something like that

Chubbychez

@Octogon:

We all know the kingdom, raftel, rio ponyglyph, D and other things are going to be resolved at the end of the series. I mean they basiccly ARE the show.

You're just making assumptions based on unsupported theories. And once again no one KNOWS what direction the story will take except for Oda. Also it would be terribly boring, not to mention terribly fustrating if Oda left every major mystery unexplored until near the end of the series. And who knows when that'll be? 5, 10, maybe 20 years down the line perhaps? I'm not saying the mysteries have to be resolved, just explored and maybe expanded a bit.

@Octogon:

I'm not saying they won't meet each other on the way, and maybe have little skrimishes. But the big fight, and everything of that nature is coming near the end.

Blackbeard isn't even a Shichibukai, only a candidate Shichibukai, and an unknown who was once a subordinate of Ace. He's far from being one of the power players of the One Piece world the same way Shanks, Whitebeard, Aokiji or even some of the Shichibukai are. It makes no sense why his fight would be near the end, especially with some of the reasoning I've already given and given the way the story has progressed so far.

Polygon

@Chubbychez:

You're just making assumptions based on unsupported theories. And once again no one KNOWS what direction the story will take except for Oda. Also it would be terribly boring, not to mention terribly fustrating if Oda left every major mystery unexplored until near the end of the series (and who knows when that'll be, 5, 10, 20 years down the line perhaps?). I'm not saying the mysteries have to be resolved, just explored and maybe expanded a bit.

Of course it's going to be explored and expanded before the end. But all this stuff about the kingdom and D IS the show. The mystery about the kingdom and such things aren't going to be solved until the end. I'm not making a prediction either, it's fact. Raftel is at the end of the grandline and therefore the show. The Rio ponyglyph is at Raftel. We aren't going to fuly understand all this until the end. Luffy isn't going to be pirate-king matieral until the end. We aren't gonna have something as major as D be resolved anytime before the end. There will be hints to the solution but it won't be solved until the end.

Blackbeard isn't even a Shichibukai, only a candidate Shichibukai, and an unknown who was once a subordinate of Ace. He's far from being one of the power players of the One Piece world. It makes no sense why his fight would be near the end, especially with some of the reasoning I've already given and given the way the story has progressed so far.

**Why wouldn't his fight be near the end? He just like Luffy is travelling the GL. We KNOW he is getting stronger. We know he is already strong. We Shanks knows about him and Ace. We know he might be in luffys family. We know Oda is building him up. From what we have seen he is the anti-luffy.

You don't currently have to be great pirate matieral to fight at the end. Buggy is most likley gonna fight at the end as well. he's not a major player in the OP worl YET, but rest assured he will become one.**

Chubbychez

@Octogon:

Of course it's going to be explored and expanded before the end. But all this stuff about the kingdom and D IS the show. The mystery about the kingdom and such things aren't going to be solved until the end. I'm not making a prediction either, it's fact. Raftel is at the end of the grandline and therefore the show. The Rio ponyglyph is at Raftel. We aren't going to fuly understand all this until the end. Luffy isn't going to be pirate-king matieral until the end. We aren't gonna have something as major as D be resolved anytime before the end. There will be hints to the solution but it won't be solved until the end.

You're assuming that the mystery behind Raftel/Rio Poneglyph and the mystery behind the D are so connected and intertwined that resolving one of those mysteries resolves the other. You're also assuming that Blackbeard is the key to completely solving the mystery behind the D when we've seen no clear indication of this. And all those assumptions you're making are all based on unsupported theories.

@Octogon:

Why wouldn't his fight be near the end? He just like Luffy is travelling the GL. We KNOW he is getting stronger. We know he is already strong. We Shanks knows about him and Ace. We know he might be in luffys family. We know Oda is building him up. From what we have seen he is the anti-luffy.

Actually, I'd say Don Flamingo is more of an anti-Luffy than Blackbeard is.

@Octogon:

You don't currently have to be great pirate matieral to fight at the end. Buggy is most likley gonna fight at the end as well. he's not a major player in the OP worl YET, but rest assured he will become one.

I'm finding it difficult to take your last statement seriously. I'm sorry, but we're just going to have agree to disagree here.