User blog comment:Juraquille Mihawk/Rayleigh, your era is over./@comment-72.193.52.189-20121102061242

Luffy had to rise, not Rayleighs generation, why didn't shanks get there sooner? alot of factors, including the fact that luffy pretty much led the whole damn army, rescued ace from his prison and they both almost got away. the war meant something with whitebeard and ace dying. Luffy rose up.