User blog comment:Neowitch/Worst Story Arc/@comment-1595565-20120607164907

Logutown was pointless? It introduced Smoker and Tashigi, who, after Buggy, are the most commonly reoccurring antagonists in the whole series! It also introduced everyone's favorite speculative Devil Fruit user, Monkey D. Dragon. All the arcs you listed were for future plot and/or character development further down the line than just the next chapter. Without Skypiea we'd have no Clima-Tact, no Kabuto, no gold that would get exchanged for cash that would later get stolen in order to buy the materials to build Thousand Sunny. Fishman Island set up one of the larger antagonists in the New World as well as showed the readers the crew's development. Without Drum we wouldn't have had Chopper as he is today. As for Little Garden, I can sort of agree with you there. All it did was give the crew the Alabasta Eternal Pose, and a lot of build up for nothing. It did give Oda a chance to introduce characters for a cover story, though. And the catfight with Nami, Vivi, and Miss Valentine on fire wasn't bad either.