User blog comment:Jrotc193/Are we there yet?/@comment-94.7.71.131-20130804233421

I like that Oda takes his time, maybe that's just me, but if he wants to make sure he fleshes out every bit of his story, then I say more power to him, One Piece has a whole world in it and Oda does a great job of making it seem truly enormous, partially through these long arcs. In this current arc through the arena we've been introduced to load of different kingdoms that will hopefully appear later in the story and not just be forgotten.