User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Four Weeks Hiatus and Two Years Later/@comment-423448-20100826022904

did anyone else realize this. while within the confines of the next chapter, we can assume 2 years have passed right? well get this.... If you read every chapter released since the crew was seperated (staring with zoro in chapter 512) and read one new chapter a week since then up until reaching this weeks revelation; the amount of time that has actually physically passed since being seperated comes to exactly 2 years in the real world! (give or take; accounting for when the chapters were "officially" released and factoring date/day shifting over the course of 2 years; ch. 512 was released ~ August 29, 2008)! my point being, it will literally be like a 2 year reunion for us too! Does that not just blow your mind!