User blog comment:Uknownada/Top 10 Emotional Moments/@comment-4899461-20120630032051

While I really didn't care too much the first time I watched it, Sabo's death is really moving. I think the whole hint that he may be alive kind of ruined it for me. But when I watched it the second time, presuming that he was in fact dead (even if I still believe he is alive) it sunk in a lot more. I think it's more the reactions to his death that make it. It just DESTROYS Ace, and the Dadan Family. Luffy gets pretty broken up about it too (though not as bad as with Ace's demise.) Ace becomes a completely different person afterwards. Ace & Luffy's goal to be as free as they can be on the sea because of Sabo becomes the most powerful dream in the series, in my opinion. They just want to do it because their brother can't accomplish his own dream anymore...