The arc is filled with so many important characters that it is amazing that Oda manages to use everyone efficiently. It may be easy to forget that Luffy isn’t present in this arc for several episodes, yet we fully get grown towards Whitebeard pirates who act as the protagonists initially. We finally get to meet the long-teased Whitebeard and his crew in action.
It shows the long-awaited war between Whitebeard Pirates and the World Government of Navy and Warlords. There are several things that make Marineford amazing.
Marineford arc is one of my favorite arcs of all time in manga. Water 7 Episodes: 229 to 263 Chapters: 332 to 374 Overall, Sabaody Archipelago is one of the arcs that make One Piece special.ģ. Luffy uncharacteristically asking everyone to just escape still remains one of the most heartbreaking moments in the show. Strawhats losing utterly and getting scattered is something I thought I will never see in the show. I expected that they will somehow escape or even defeat the admiral by fighting somehow. But none would have expected the utter defeat that Strawhats would experience in this arc. We expect that Strawhats will get involved with the slavery system at one point in this arc. In this arc, we get introduced to the concept of slavery and discrimination, the Supernovas and Rayleigh. At that time, Sabaody Archipelago seemed like a transition arc to Fishman, similar to Jaya or Loguetown arc. One Piece is so damn good.Sabaody Archipelago arc subverts the expectations of the readers. Then that hugely emotional climax of Luffy finding the source of Nami’s pain, destroying it, and yelling out that she is his friend. Luffy doesn’t judge his friends on their past, he looks at the person as they are now. As soon as Luffy placed his hat on her head, you just got this incredible feeling of friendship between these characters. After repeatedly telling him to go away, she finally lets out the words “Luffy… Help me”. Luffy appears in front of a completely broken down Nami, despite the fact she betrayed his trust. When she has finally made all the money, Arlong breaks his promise and continues his rule over the people of Nami’s hometown. The reason being that Arlong made a deal with Nami, saying that if she can pay him 100,000,000 berries, he will leave the island. This arc revolves around Nami and her backstory and reasoning behind swindling and double-crossing so many people up to this point. This arc has some absolutely incredible moments that I re-watch to this day, specifically the scenes towards the end. I’ve left this one until the end because I feel that it’s during the Arlong arc that most people’s interest in One Piece, evolves into something more.
After the crew wakes up, Sanji rushes to Zoro who is standing in a huge puddle of blood asking what on earth happened? Zoro answers “Nothing happened”. We see his entire body distort in pain after which, Kuma says that taking on all of this pain would certainly kill Zoro. After extracting all the pain and fatigue from Luffy’s body, he gives a small amount to Zoro. Realising he can’t win, Zoro begs for Kuma to take his life instead. Everyone refuses and Kuma blows everyone away with a huge blast, but then Zoro strikes once more. Kuma offers everyone a compromise saying that he will allow everyone to leave safely, in return he will take Luffy’s life. Zoro, already extremely worn out, prepares himself to fight even saying that he is willing to fight to the death should he have to. Bartholomew Kuma arrives on the scene under orders to capture the crew and make sure that word of a Schichibukai’s defeat does not get out into the public. After an absolutely insane battle that pushed all of the Straw Hats, but especially Luffy, to their limits fighting Gecko Moria.
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