User blog comment:Neowitch/This can't be it.../@comment-3119203-20111202013818

This island kinda drags readers back to the OP world, and like Zoro said, is simply a warmup for the New World. The first couple arcs of OP werent that great either, and the New World is the same way: all of the Straw Hats have to reestablish their strength and show us what they have got later on.