User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/The Nature of the Zou Arc/@comment-1595565-20151208075523

This is some of the best work you've written, and maybe even that I've ever read. You make some very intriguing points. Your last point made me think. Luffy only ever fights people who hurt his friends, and right now Sanji is MIA for reasons unknown. I feel like Sanji will be the lynch pin to make Luffy want to fight Jack and/or Kaido, like they either captured him or stomped his ass. I don't think anything will be done conclusively this arc, but there will be some battles that will set the stage for what is to come. Too many native characters are getting too much development for this to only be transitional, and each race the crew encountered has had their own arc so far; fishmen, dwarves, now minks. We're getting too much information otherwise to just leave it as is. This arc obviously won't be as long as Dressrosa, but I don't think it will be over quickly, either. I feel like it will do both things you're asking. It will set the stage while still being its own full story.