User blog comment:Neowitch/670 - Good, old-fashioned ass kicking/@comment-5155645-20120606203227

One Piece is struggling to remain interesting and succeeding for the most part, but that's only because Fishman Isalnd was 10 times worse than this arc.

The problem with OP is that the characters burned themselves out and plot alone can't drive the story. Only way to make the series interesting is to intruce a TON of fresh new characters.

BUT, Robin was so friggin cute on the cover that I'm not complaining. But jezuz, they're all sooooooooooooooooooooo predicteable hope CC's a good lay.