Nov 12, 2025
Look, I cannot say that these are the best chapters ever because I'd be lying.
But now, years and years later, on my third reread, I understand that the point of Skypea was never the fights and individual strength development.
This arc lays the foundations for the whole story that is to come, lore-wise this is definitely the most important arc: we get to know about the void century, about poneglyphs and Joyboy. The fights were never a central part of it, I feel like Oda had to include them because at the end of the day, it's a Shonen. But in the way the fights were rushed in this volume, lasting barely a few pages each, you can tell that they actually were the side story in this instance
