Decent chapter today. The bit with Senor Pink and Franky was pretty cool/funny. Not much progressed with the overall story though but we did get a big new character with the princess of the Tontatas being introduced which ultimately means more chapters in this arc yay -__-. Also I would like to close my post by saying that I am tired of Usopp and I really wonder what he is even doing in the crew sometimes. Dude is a coward all of the time. It gets old.

@DemetriusCapone:

I totally dont want to be right. But given the shit we got today, I just might be, you got any estimation? For how much longer do you think it will last?

After what we saw today? Including breaks I say January 2015 until they officially leave this island.

@Darth:

That many chapters puts us around March without breaks.

I was just guestiamating but thank you sir.

@DemetriusCapone:

A proffesional estimation: how many more chapters do you think this arc will last? We're currently far into the latter half and what we are waiting for is more or less the battles to really ensue. It may take Luffy 2 chapters ( minimum ) to reach Dofla. Once he begin fighting him, how many do you think it will take for him to beat him? 5? 10? 20? 25?. Include flashbacks ( which is bound to happen because of that stupid *#2^§%& Corazon sideplot, can last 5 chapter ) and then just wrap everything up ( take gratitude from citizens, get new allies, decide the next moves etc ) that can take 4-5 chapters? Is it a leap of faith to say it may be over in 30-35 chapters?

This arc has been kind of unpredictable so I really don't know. Personally I would like for it to end as soon as possible just for the simple fact that we most likely will get new bounties and I've been waiting on the crew to get new bounties for literally years now. Realistically though I say around December it will be all wrapped up. I pray it's not 30-35 chapters as you predicted though because with the breaks that I'm sure will be inserted in there every 3-4 weeks that would put us around March or something probably lol. That would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long.

@Kishido:

I bet Beck26 wrote this

http://forums.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=35030&page=28&p=3259552&viewfull=1#post3259552

Yeah this is the one, thanks Kishido. He doesn't explicitly say "there won't be anyone from Dressrosa to join" but he's kind of speaking in future tense so I just assumed that's what he was implying…..whether that be intentional or unintentional I don't know.

I want Bart to join but I read an interview with Oda recently were he kind of implied that we will see new nakama later rather than sooner.