User blog comment:Neowitch/This can't be it.../@comment-1595565-20111201171130/@comment-3213092-20111201192502

Warm-up for the New World... Basically it gave the opportunity to Oda to show the Straw Hats' new powers.. The villains in this arc were only there for that..

To be the Straw Hats' punchin bags...