I'd also say Arlong Park. The Chopper flashback on Drum was also great, though, ending with one of the most memorable quotes ever.

Wow, now that I read it in bold capital letters, it makes so much more sense!

This is just like in Matrix 3 when Neo wakes up and encounters Mr. Smith and gets blind. Clearly Mr. Smith didn't use a Devil Fruit, thus Mr. 4 doesn't use one either.

Shanks: "Luffy… you... cough... dragon... your mother... key to... ancient weapons... the lost century... one piece ... i beg you... raftel.... gold roger.... don't... please!!!!... ugh... " dies.

Yeah, something like that.

@whaleblue:

Yomi Yomi fruit is just a fruit that Oda use to make Brook a skeleton to match the thriller Bark theme.
Luckily Brook found his body after his body skeletonization, If not he will be a Zombie if his body is half the way of decomposition. yuck!~

Yomi is Hell, that make brook fruit name actually a Hell Hell fruit, Brook fruit have a nice and cool name but don't have actual power.

After brook revived, this fruit is useless to him..
it just like a Human eaten a Hito Hito No Mi, he gain not much power, but he losing the ability to swim..

That's true from what we've learned about his powers up until now - but then again I would've never expected something like Gear 2 and 3 to happen or Chopper's Monster-Transformation.

As far as we know there is a way of powering-up your abilities and I wouldn't be surprised if Brooke also discovered a new facet of his powers one day.

The one below shanks, obviously! Go train your Sanji women radar skills D:

Oda said on one of his fanmail-pages (during the final fight on enies lobby) that he has drawn Luffy's parents already. His father is dragon and his mother also has to be someone who appeared during the first 40 volumes '_';

It was the german translation though and I dunno where to look an english version up. Any ideas? D:

@Angel:

If you reread the chapter Lola and her crew appear in, there is that foreboding shadow hidden by the fog. This all left me with the impression Lola and co have since met a cruel fate in the FT, because moments later it pretty much said Luffy and co were the fortunely ones this day. If Lola and co didn't make it, Moria can still be a Shichibukai.

Does that actually make sense? Why shouldn't Moria be a Shichibukai if Lola and her crew made it out of the Florian Triangle? Moria was outside of the FT anyway, fleeing on his little ship with Moria and Absalom, or wasn't he?

Btw: The chapter didn't say that the Strawhats were fortunate, but that it was a lucky day in general, that the mist was thick and everything. On the last page of 490 you furthermore see how Thriller Bark (with Lola on it) leaves the Florian Triangle. I doubt that they met some untimely demise, but i can be wrong, of course XD

20 mil sounds right. He's somewhere between Usopp and Nami; scared most of the time, going all out when necessary.

He really needs an upgrade, though D: Usopp and Nami got new weapons, but Chopper just got some weird Monster-Mode which he cannot use without going berzerk D:

Are you actually allowed to post spoilers here? XD"""""

The design of the grandline still gives me the chills. Does it really begin AND end with the reverse mountain? Well, anything else wouldn't make sense as the one piece world is probably still a sphere just like other planets are. So if you get around the whole planet you'll necessarily arrive at the beginning D: Which was reverse mountain….

The idea of Raftel being underneath reverse mountain isn't exactly necessary, because if there's an entrance you could still just jump down from the back of reverse mountain and enter that way; without all the effort of a trip around the world...

I like the idea more that there's a large gap between raftel and the back of reverse mountain, filled with all kinds of unpassable stuff, so that you can't simply approach from the other side. But then again, how to get from Raftel to the reverse mountain again. And how to get up???

Not that it would make any difference ...

How come he didn't bleed to death, losing an arm in the middle of nowhere?

He just wanted to show off how awesome he is.