So, [Dubya/Sindbad] ordered the [NATO/SSA] armies to storm [Baghdad/Balbadd] and raze it to the ground, claiming that [Saddam/Kouen] is building thingummies of mass destruction or something like that, and besides it's all about ensuring [USA/Sindria] an enduring freedom, right? :ninja: Well, after all Sindbad's motto is "We come in peace, shoot to kill!", once you scratch away all the gilt and the smoke behind which he likes to hide…

^ Many months were basically skipped in the manga. We had plenty of chapters for the first year, some for the second, then we jumped straight toward the end of the third year. If I remember correctly, of course: I'm not totally sure about the 2nd year, though…

Quite surprised that Zoro didn't go to sleep like he did during Nami's flashback.
Besides: amnesia. How covenient and cheap…

@xan:

I can pretty much see Greece ending up in the same near-bankrupt position once again before One Piece ends

Before One Piede ends? This means 15 years at the very least (unless Oda dies, but that's another matter) and in 15 years Greece will be near-bankrupt at least another 3 times, if Germany keeps pretending this kind of "help", which only hekps creditors (a.k.a. foreign banks), while leaving the country to starve…

@The:

Wait, when was this? The only other time she could've commented on him from what I recall was during the Tenrou Island arc. I thought she was just suspicious of him because of the whole memory thing and her not knowing Doranbolt well? In the end, if this is as far as it goes, then all should be well. If it goes any further, things are going to get extremely uncomfortable in the manga, and that's saying something for this series.

Don't remember the number of the chapter (34X, I'd say), but it was when Erza was turned into a kid for the first time, back in the frozen village full of male giants. Soon after being turned into a little girl, she thought about how other people would react at the change: Wendy would think of her as a little sister; Natsu and Gray would be happy because she was easier to defeat; Jellal would turn her down saying something like "Sorry, but I'm not into kids"… and Doranbolt would blush and ogle at her.
Make what you want with it...

So Mashima reinforced the view (already shared by Erza in-universe) that Mest/peDoranbolt is actually a pedo… nothing surprising, after all.

Luffy's face covered with Rebecca's mucus: how sweet… Best way to end this arc :ninja:

^ Or, put another way, Doflamingo/Oda strenghtened birdcage with a mysterious element: plotium.

So, hard work really pays and can surpass even genius and destiny… outside of Kishimoto's Naruto.

After all, the last boss in Rave was called Lucia, which is another female name…