well ,
not really its only 3 chapter after the 2years break =P
and they need to be more powerfull before they could fight PX ( remember ivankov couldnt own 1 px in 1v1 , so i dont think they could fight vs 2px + sentomarou ... sentomarou is the bodyguard of dr.vegapunk , he has to be strong maybe the level of amiral .. )
i think rayleght will hold the px for some time , then they will escape ( in last picture they say " marines are coming , " )

doesnt need action right now
needs hype to build up our anticipation of how strong they are
then bam itll surpass our expectation

THATS what makes it good

Oda stated that the manga is only at its halfway point, so it's understandable that he's taking it slow and telling a good story instead of just going straight to the action.

i still think luffy will go SS2 and pwn them all within few secs then sunny will arrive and everybody will be surprised

I think you guys are interpreting HALFWAY POINT the wrong way. Just because it took 600 chapter to get half way, doesn't mean it's going to take 600 to finish. Keep in mind that a lot of the early chapters were testing the water and ultimately defining the crew and their personalities/relationships...


And the halfway declaration was awhile back IIRC. So while the STORY is probably more than half way finished, it doesn't guarantee another 600 chapters.


edit: a good example of this was the thriller bark arc. It was awesome, introduced a new member to the crew, and got him affixed with the other members. IMO it was one of the fastest arc's but it still did alot of story telling. Oda is getting better at melding these things together so they take less time. The build up to the sand arc was insanely long, and even longer to finish.

This past arc was mildly long, but only because we've seen more story in this last arc than like every other arc combined.



This post was edited by Eep on Oct 15 2010 01:48pm

yes, 1200 more chaps ~~

you can pray all you want but I don't think it'll happen

noone knows, if OP will earn enough money, they will just make it longer longer until it becomes crap like bleach

OP will never become crap because that would be implying that ODA is on the same level as Tite or Kishimoto, which he obviously isn't.

I believe it was in the SBS around the late 40's to early 50's that Oda said that he was on the second third of the manga. Ofc he didn't say how much of the second third was already written. but i believe chapter 598 marked the beginning of the third third.