User blog comment:Yountoryuu/Raftel Predictions/@comment-1712781-20110823151659

I've always felt that the Marines would have Raftel occupied, have some defensive parameters around it or at least the waters surrounding it, with their Kairoseki ship technology i can see them at least attempting to get in there and occupy the place, as a form of taking care of the threat beforehand..but something like you need to be a D to enter the inner sanctum preventing them from actually getting in to where OP is. (sure they have Garp but maybe they tried after he quit, or he just said fuck off) i dont see things ending there though..i see it setting up the final arc, like Luffy, Shanks and co fight their battle with BB pirates there and win, and i'd say Law sneaks in and tries getting OP, but i see only the SH"s and their biggest antagonist making it allll the way to Raftel, the supernovas will be beaten/allied with by that time. But then that sets up the real final fight where the straw hats round up all their allies they've gained throughout their travels along with getting the weapon from Skypeia/Raftel and join up with the revolutionaries for up a worldwide enies lobby, overthrowing the WG who have fleets of Pluton now (and hopefully some hot shot goes too far and ends up enslaving and/or killing all the world nobles..) Either way, if you see fishman island arc as the arlong/logutown arc for the New world (last pre-NW fights) imagine what the arabasta of NW will be...not to mention the whitebeard war parallel at the end, which is what im hoping for