The only way I could see Rayleigh dying is of old age, and I doubt he'll die during the timeskip XD

Regarding Coby one day becoming an admiral, I see Coby turning into a Garp sort of characters. Coby's original goal is to be at the top of the marines so he can promote justice onto the world, my point is I believe Coby will rise above the image of just being an admiral.

Garp, as we have seen obviously is one of the more important vice admirals, and if we can take Chapter 0 as cannon, he did not want to be an admiral. I think the point that was trying to be made is, he did not care about his position and did not want to sit on the top hierarchy of the government, he simply wanted to truly promote justice in the world and not be a puppet. Since Coby is a good character and since he is Garp's disciple I do not ever think he will become an Admiral, but most likely a Vice-Admiral. And I also think that him and Luffy will one day have their obvious face-off. Though I think by then Coby will have a few assistants.

For me its
1. Brand New World
2. Kokoro no Chizu
3. Jungle P
4. Hikari e
5. Bon Voyage
6. Believe
7. We Are
8. Crazy Rainbow

No One piece them has really been bad, the worst is Crazy Rainbow which isn't bad compared to many other animes. BTW whoever was saying new OP wasnt at the end of Thriller Bark, according to the episode titles, its the episode when the Strawhats defeat Oz. So technically its not the very end which makes it kind of weird on why they didn't wait until the next arc started..

Chapter 500 we establish 3 new characters:
Kidd- From what we see he has a strong sense of morality while being a pirate. He looks as if hes going to fight Law.
Law- An overall jacka. Probably just a character to be beaten up by Kidd to show his strength.
From this we are already seeing a theme: The guys name is Law, Kidd believes the law is evil, the government is corrupted, therefore he will go against the "Law". He obviously wants to be pirate king but most likely has a great goal of taking down the World Government. Kidd seems to already be seen as a strong character. Most likely he will not fight Luffy, but befriend him.

And then Silver Raleigh- He's the most interesting from this chapter, hes the coating guy they are going to see and has this interesting power which kills a man.

The most important line is: "If someone interesting shows up we should buy them". Basically hinting that Kidd is going to buy Camie. Not for the intentions of evil, but justice, selling people is immoral. I think we judged a book by its cover. Kidd seems like a morally strong person, not an evil killer.

@Imitorar:

Why has nobody come up with the obvious answer to the "Who captured Roger" question? Sengoku. He WAS a major player on the seas back then, he was an Admiral too, if I remember the Ohara incident correctly, and now he's Fleet Admiral. A combination of capturing Roger and destroying Ohara probably got him a promotion. It makes sense that the highest ranking Marine would be the one who caught Roger.

As to Dragon… I doubt he was a Marine before, because as was stated before, if Dragon was a rogue Marine, the World Government would have gone to great lengths to capture him, because keeping a high-ranking Marine's betrayal under wraps would be hard, the other Marines at least would learn of it. He might have been, but certainly not as high-ranking as to catch Roger, because that would mean that the World Government would have been taking Dragon seriously from the beginning.

I agree with most of it, besides the fact that we know and that it is confirmed that Dragon was an ex member of the marines…

Obviously something happaned to Kuma, you don't have a former bounty if you were never against the World Government.

I just thought of something. If Kuma was made by the world government and is their tool, then why does he have a former bounty? It would mean that he was not always the world governments tool. Disucuss.

@Coolnerd89:

If you wanna get technical about satan, they say he was a serpant… Meaning it could be a snake, a lizard, a dragon or anything else.
I kinda like Dragons, so I'm going with that.
But this theory is good, I like it.
Maybe this is where Oda get's his idea's from...

once again, the church associates the serpant with satan though in reality they have no connection. When anything before the Post-exilic period was written, none of it would have involved Satan, since he wasn't an idea. Regarding the larger theory at hand. Who says the Gol D. Roger is even dead. NEVER have we seen him actually die, just right before. Also, no one has ever said he was dead either. I'm going to take this one step further and say that Dragon saved him at Roguetown. Discuss.

Fine, I will fuck myself as I say that you could've gotten all of that in a more meaningful arc, Skypeia could have had a more original character than another Logia user trying to take a place over.

Thats like saying there's an explination on why Gecko Moria is that big…