User blog comment:Yountoryuu/Don't read if not seen chapter 579!/@comment-138564-20100327140942

I just imagined how things might continue. I thought that Sengoku, Shanks and Mihawk fighting Blackbeard together would be highly symbolic. Each of them represents one of the "old" three great powers and Blackbeard wants to become the new superpower. I know that a swordsman using haki would have a good chance against Blackbeard, that's why I wrote that Blackbeard will be wounded and escape form the battlefield. However, I think that with both Yama Yama and Gur Gura powers he would be able to defeat the three. I think that Akainu is the most likely successor for Sengoku. and as to Garp: the events in Chapter 0 (that's the right number) were 20 years ago. Many things have chaged since then, and his thoughts might have changed as well. At least he's the only of the vice-admirals for whom it's easy to dermine a color+animal pair. He wore a dog mask, and I think that this might be a foreshadowing of his future promotion to admiral.