Episode 353

"A Man's Oath Never Dies!! To the Friend who Waits Under a Far-Away Sky" is the 353rd episode of One Piece.

Short Summary
Usopp, Chopper, Robin, and Franky return to the Thousand Sunny, discovering their ship had been ransacked but Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji returned to them without their shadows. After updating the other three of their current status and Nami's abduction, Franky reveals what Brook told him, why he was still alive and drifting after fifty years, which was in order to return to Reverse Mountain where one of his most valuable crew mates waits for him: the whale Laboon.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Nico Robin
 * Franky
 * Usopp
 * Tony Tony Chopper
 * Sanji
 * Roronoa Zoro
 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Nami
 * Absalom
 * Brook (flashback)
 * Laboon (flashback)
 * Crocus (flashback)