This chapter basically shows Nami, Robin, Brook, Franky, and Ussop showing determination to make themselves stronger so that they can help Luffy become Pirate King.

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Interesting that Ace's tattoo is different on the cover page. I wonder if Oda did that deliberately. And seeing Sabo there just adds to my suspicion that he was never really killed off.
It'd be funny to see Usopp return as some super-buff guy instead of his old scrawny self. I'm kind of wondering how Brook and Robin will improve. The others improvements seem fairly obvious. And I wonder how long this seemingly-inevitable time skip will be. I thought t would be ~16 days, but with everyone's planned improvements, it seems much longer than that.



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Great chapter and worth the wait after a one week hiatus.

Anyone wanna bet that Franky's bounty will double after this arc?

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Liked the chapter. I still want to know the message!! And I loved seeing the grown-up Sabo on the cover page. He would be a nice character to see~ fufufufu
And the preparations everyone's making imply that they'll be staying put for a long-ish time. More than just a couple of days. So I'm curious as to how that will work out. Looks like there will definitely be some sort of time-skip... The only other way this could work out would be Luffy going on his own/with Jimbei to pick them all up one by one.

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well one piece never really had a training arc so there should be a time skip and just explain their newly found skills later.
Just cant wait for all the crew to get together ....

i don't know how this will work......how will usopp become the king of sniping with sogeking around lol

on another note i also think that if they end up doing the type of time skip where they just skip ahead xxxx years i think they should wait an extra week (not that i would want that) just because it wouldn't make sense for it to be year xxxx one week and then year xxxx the next week

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Please oh please Oda lets get rid of that cowardly personality that Usopp has! Make him an sniping badass! PLEASE!

"bone to be wild" that really cracked me up xD

nice chapter, shows the crew getting serious, hope things will go a bit faster but not X years skip :s
few months should do.

At first, i kinda agree with u on that one but on second thought, changing Usopp personality imo won't be good for the manga, i think i like him the way he is, he's funny that way and sort of a comic relief kinda character or a mood changer

Besides, Usopp has his "moment" too, when the times call for it he's can be a pretty badass in his own right.

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That would be nice. I hope all of them get a bounty 'power up', but it does not seem possible...


Hell no! He is showing signs of mild split personality disorder(Usopp/SogeKing). I think that would be more interesting and I hope Oda sticks with that.

Seems like there won't be any One Piece chapters in Jump for the next 3-4 weeks after chapter 597.

http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2042206& postcount=2327

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I hope the skips only like 16 weeks and not any more than a year also im extremely worried that robin is going with luffys dad cause robin x luffy is my fav pairing of all time and im gonna get so pissed if she gets together with luffys dad once they meet, though i doubt oda would do that its still a possibility and it was my first reaction to her deciding to go meet dragon. other than that i hope sabo is alive hes most likely with dragon and the revolutionaries if he is.

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Robin leaving the crew after everything the crew has done for her? She will never leave the crew. No one will.

u do know that oda did say that the strawhats are only in love with adventure right? so i doubt that robin will get with anybody

Sanji would like to have a word with you.

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