I'm not that far from where I was last time I posted.

It is safe to say that Shanks is my favourite character now. I love Zoro and Sanji but Shanks just makes me happy any time I see anything with him in. I also have a bit of love blooming for Law even though I hated his character before I'd even read a single thing he'd done.

I really am finding the Fishman arc sad, think it is one of the best written stories and really brings across the whole second class citizen thing really well. I feel for everyone involved other then Hordy who just wants to hate for the sake of hating. But the message is something I've always tried to get across to people in debates. The hatred gets passed on whether or not the kids ever meet the people they are meant to be hating the only way to move forward is to let the next generation make up their minds themselves.

I've been in tears lots.

I also don't get why no one pointed out to Jinbe that Arlong isn't his fault! He lets his brother go his separate ways and no one ever knew what Arlong was up to. Surely someone should have pointed that out. I mean to be fair I understand stupid Sanji's reaction, I'd expect nothing less from him but there should have been someone there to point out properly that Arlong had nothing to do with Jinbe.

Need to finish this arc, to be honest the big dream of being up to date before Christmas is still alive! Only 125 chapters to go!