User blog comment:Fusionater/The Top 10 Arcs of One Piece/@comment-24850639-20151006160345

People who say Skypiea is not related are idiots, and have clearly not been following the series.

- The introduction of Kenbunshoku Haki

- A poneglyph that foreshadowed Fishman Island, and showed us that Roger was somehow able to read them

- Zoro learns the flying slash - for swordsmen, something as monumental as learning to cut steel

- A stream of water can knock an island into the sky.....permanently. Opened the possibility of more, which Urouge's introduction and Ballon Terminal confim

- The introduction of dials

- Enel's post-arc adventures. He's discovered evidence on the moon of some kind of connection between life there, and life on earth. I won't go into the specifics because there's so many theories, but what's he's discovering there WILL be important. There is some sort of connection between Shandora, the Void Century and the Shandia and his discoveries seem to give some type of insight. If only he'd brought a native Skypiean/Shandian with him...

Anywho that aside, I don't disagree with Skypiea and Whiskey Peak being on the list, but top 3 is pushing it. Yeah Skypiea had some important moments, but 2 of the 4 priests were complete jokes. The presence of the Shandia warriors felt more like them getting in the way than an interesting plot development in the background like the revolution in Alabasta. I don't actually like any of them at all, and in fact I hate Wiper's character. The Calgera/Noland relationship was great, but aside from that you spent the majority of the arc just wondering when the hell Luffy would finally fight Enel. I would have definitely added Enies Lobby, Little Garden, or Thriller Bark. Still like your list though, I agree that Alabasta has been the most complete arc so far, and everything was just perfect about it. It was long, but the different elements involved made it all feel worth it, and I never lost interest in watching, even with the added filler.