User blog comment:Ranger94/The Best moment in one piece/@comment-2226235-20150913153113

Mine is the Going Merry's funeral. It was the perfect ending to that subplot and is one of the most emotional scenes I've seen in any anime. I still tear up every time I watch it. It's also an example of Oda following through with what he set up beforehand. I can easily imagine a lesser writer making up some magic solution to save the Merry instead of following through with everything that was said back in Water 7.