User blog comment:Hawkinz340/Chapter 713-Usoland!!!/@comment-94.68.151.238-20130703152458

I would call this chapter: "Transition phase"

Before some chapters we had 7 separated points of interests (Colloseum, Factory, Thousand Sunny, Green Bit, Sanji's arlequin story, Kanjuuro, Shusui's hunt), in this chapter total points of interests reduced to 4 (Thousand Sunny, Colloseum, Factory and Green Bit).

I 'll try to sum up the sense this arc is giving me so far, since we ... changed phase:


 * Phase One: Contructing the Plot. Straw Hats, Law, allies and enemies are running wild all over Dressrosa. They are flirting, playing, sailing, fighting, sightseeing, relaxing, joking, they are doing everything else than working on their purpose. Through this phase we are learning more and more things about the island, we are welcoming new faces, we are measuring the power levels of our foes etc etc. Seems to be the first we have some many strong characters involved in one arc and so many events running all at the same time. It is totally a mess, but through this mess we manage to collect fast the "tools" we need to "construct" our story and go forward.


 * Transition Phase One. We are starting to move. Our goals are now clear and the important people are gathering to show what they really can do. That's what we did on this arc, we started to move forward in the 4 points of interests I mentioned in the beginning.


 * Phase Two: The Bad Guys are Winning. Here is when the action starts, we already got a nice taste of this with "Fujitora's training" with the ...meteor. Awesome scene in my opinion. We have conflicts all over the map and as usual our heroes gonna be in hard positions. Things won't go as they are planned and Donquixote Family gonna take the upper hand. During this phase Law will just try to "save time" as he already stated. He will give a tough battle he cannot win, just to stop Doffy from getting Caesar. We will learn Dressrosa's and Doffy's history and colloseum gonna continue with more and more fights and with more and more plot twists.


 * Transition Phase Two. Here is the chapter we are seeing Luffy builds his anger against the Donquixote Family. Who will be his target? Either Doffy or a Doffy's officer in my opinion (Trebol?). Colloseum gonna end one way or another and an army of New World combatants gonna head to Toy's House, or wherever the Straw Hats are.


 * Phase Three: Kicking Asses. Luffy gonna beat his opponent on this phase. Law won't be availiable. Either he will manage to keep Doffy away, so Luffy will kick someone else and he will have to hunt Doffy later or he will kick Doffy straight away, while Fujitora is leaving with or without Law. Without? really possible, Doffy could easily keep Law on this island by saying "hey, he is my subordinate".

One thing is sure. After this arc, the world of One Piece won't be the same and there won't be a quiet place for Straw Hats to relax. Things just got serious guys.

K