#ch497

I would tell them not to be mean, but they're 100% right

With all the evidence since all-but confirming some sort of moon-based shenanigans, I think that it's really cool that such a huge plot point can be inferred from their design alone. That's really strong character work

Oda excels at contrasting the brutal horrors of oppression with the bright, candy-sweet appearances of his world. The reader got to see several pages of the Straw Hats innocently goofing off buying souvenirs, so this statement by a dying man hits harder than it would have without that context.

The Celestial Dragons have the dubious honor of having the shortest page time to visceral hatred ratio in the manga.

This is a pretty off-hand statement, but it sets up one of the most important moments of Sabaody, when Luffy makes it very clear that he wants to discover what's ahead for himself rather than be told

It's cute how Usopp became Franky's unofficial helper with Sunny maintenance

I will remind everyone that Kumadori's mother is not, in fact, dead