User blog comment:Plainblack/Nostalgia/@comment-4754162-20130528014842

Merry's final decease. The one and only that makes me, a full grown man, into uncontrollable tears. It was just a manga, dammit, just pictures and words (I have not seen the anime version of it at all) but the emotion was so darn powerful, the tears just flow like a running tap.

We knew Merry will not survive for long, just a matter of time for it to come but still there's this hope... the thought "Hey, they are the protagonists, they NEED Merry to sail to the end of Grand Line, surely some miracle will happen and Merry will be a-OK again!" is there, but when the obvious became obvious... *tears*