I hate all "Zoro is Luffy's equal!" "Sanji isn't as strong as Zoro or Luffy!" "Sanji/Zoro/Luffy would kick [the other two]'s collective butts!" style comments. I just say all three kick so much butt that they can't be measured or compared.

Win.

We're just lucky Luffy is the one that fell to that island, if it was any other man (one not made of rubber) they would be a eunuch right now, see how hard that amazon is pulling between Luffy's legs?

What happens when Kizaru sneezes while explaining his fruit? He'd say "I ate the pika pikachu!"

@sabret00the:

When i said "all manga" i meant all 510 chapters of One Piece.

And Illusions can't cut people. Even Naruto obeys that law.

Except since chapter 1 or so….

Kagebunshin anyone?

Thirty-Nine characters of cool! thanks!

Yay! Danke! All that!

Continuing the line of thought on how seastone affects a paramecia, when Califa was taking a bath and was half-submerged Nami noted that she couldn't use her powers in that state and Califa agreed.

I think the reason Luffy could still stretch is that his Devil's Fruit Power does not 'let him become rubber' but 'turns his body into rubber'. So Luffy can stretch against his will, because his body is rubber regardless of what Luffy does.

That said, if we assume there are (at least) two types of powers, ones you activate and ones that are always active, then the seastone would negate only powers that you activate, and having the seastone handcuffs on Luffy would not affect his body's ability to stretch.

So applying that theory, if Kuma's paw reflects things regardless of a conscious effort, then I think even if Zoro's sword was seastone it would have been fine. But if Kuma needs to actively repel objects (which it seems to me that it does, but nowhere does it say that) then Zoro would not have gotten shot backwards.

@Festizio:

http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/484/13/

In this panel it looks like Shuusui touches Kuma's hand, if it were made out of seastone it would have nullified his Paw powers and sliced through his hand, since that doesnt happen we can reasonably assume that the sword is not made of seastone.

Excellent find, until you posted that I was thinking that it was quite possible that his sword was seastone.

I now think that either Zoro's sword can't be seastone, or they made an error in that fight… which I doubt...

@Angel:

Everyone already knew most of these…

Why the hell does there always have to be someone to criticize anything posted that they think everyone always knows?

That said, didn't realize the furigana pronounced the X as diez, thanks for the post.

Honestly, as the Apostle said, there is no way Luffy will even think about Mermaid island now that he knows Ace's life is in danger.

I assume others as well, but Luffy is the important one as the crew seems to follow his choice of destination.

Only way we won't is if we have an important reason to stop somewhere else. I can't think of a good reason, but if anyone can it's Oda.

Nami wanted to rush to Alabaster to ease Vivi's worry over her own pain, Zoro and Sanji willing to sacrifice their lives for Luffy's, Robin committing herself to a life in prison to avoid a buster call being called on the crew, it seems that self sacrifice is a continuing theme, as well as the theme of family/friends.

That said, no way is Luffy going to leave his brother who he knows is dying to his own devices so he can go visit an island he wanted to see. If anything, the more talked up mermaid island becomes, the more I hope we won't visit there before we rescue Ace.