Episode 353

Statics

 * Air Date: 2008-05-11 (Funimation DVD:)
 * Opening: Jungle P (9th Opening)
 * TV Ranking, Rating: 8.7 Rank: 4
 * Manga Chapters: 458 p. 14-18 and 459 p. 1-12
 * Funimation Title:

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 crewmates 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)