Haha I was just like you when I first saw One piece. I was like what a rubber man? That's wack. Then a few years later I was like I'll give it an honest try and was surprised by how good and how cohesive the story was. There's no random power ups except the enies lobby arc with diable jiamble and asura. The old characters and connections are brought back. Usually things are explained sufficiently. There's supposed to be 10-12 more years of One Piece and I'm not mad at all.That's the great thing about one piece. It could go on for a long time. I could be 30 still reading one piecelol
I remember catching part of an episode on adult swim a long time ago. I think it was the episode when they were in loguetown and they were fighting buggy and I was like man what is this crapluffy was stretching his arms and **** I was like man this looks so dumb. So I always thought it was Wack
little did I know
Then I seen that pic floating around of that cool *** luffy tattoo. I was like man it's gotta be pretty dope for someone to get it tatted
) and it felt like a little kids show. Luckily I picked it back up when I really started reading Naruto, that was right before the train reached Enies Lobby. Been hooked ever since 
Man, 4kids dubs almost ruined One Piece for me. The dialogue was lame and so were the voices (Sanji
I believe after the war the Gorosei named Marco as one of the few people including the Yonkou who could stop Blackbeard and his crew. Although I don't know if it was mentioned in the manga so that may not be canon even though it was in the Anime.marco from my interpretation of the manga, is regarded very highly in terms of strength. and he is the number 1 now of the whitebeard pirates. they are MIA now, but i wouldn't be surprised if they come up again down the road as luffy's allies. after all they fought together during the war, and the whitebeard pirates are probably the strongest crew luffy could squad up with against yonkou.
i do agree the mugiwaras have a long way to go, and plenty of time to grow. luffy training with rayleigh may be to surpass him, or simply to give him the blueprint to take on the new world and get stronger with each passing adventure. time will tell. either way, luffy stands to be the next gol d roger, as he carries the will of D, which imo is key.
lets not forget, the will of D is a very ambiguous concept at this point in the anime. its been referred to numerous times by old heads on the show including nico robin, but its never been explained. one thing is for certain, people take notice to those with the middle initial D. and we have no idea about whats good with dragon or how strong dude is. i can only imagine dragon's power level is ridiculous if the gov't put out the biggest undisclosed hit out him and labeled him as world enemy number 1.
...i feel like this dressrosa arc will last thru the winter
Yeah but it's also been foreshadowed that Luffy also has the ability to "hear the voice of all things" like Roger when he heard the Sea kings at the end of the FI arc in the same way Roger heard the sea kings when he was headed to FI.
marco from my interpretation of the manga, is regarded very highly in terms of strength. and he is the number 1 now of the whitebeard pirates. they are MIA now, but i wouldn't be surprised if they come up again down the road as luffy's allies. after all they fought together during the war, and the whitebeard pirates are probably the strongest crew luffy could squad up with against yonkou.
i do agree the mugiwaras have a long way to go, and plenty of time to grow. luffy training with rayleigh may be to surpass him, or simply to give him the blueprint to take on the new world and get stronger with each passing adventure. time will tell. either way, luffy stands to be the next gol d roger, as he carries the will of D, which imo is key.
lets not forget, the will of D is a very ambiguous concept at this point in the anime. its been referred to numerous times by old heads on the show including nico robin, but its never been explained. one thing is for certain, people take notice to those with the middle initial D. and we have no idea about whats good with dragon or how strong dude is. i can only imagine dragon's power level is ridiculous if the gov't put out the biggest undisclosed hit out him and labeled him as world enemy number 1.
...i feel like this dressrosa arc will last thru the winter
I believe after the war the Gorosei named Marco as one of the few people including the Yonkou who could stop Blackbeard and his crew. Although I don't know if it was mentioned in the manga so that may not be canon even though it was in the Anime.
Also I'm pretty sure Haki and Strength > than DFs because Garp doesn't have a devil fruit and I don't think Roger had one either and they stood at the top of the Era as the strongest. And I think there are different levels of Haki b/c it was mentioned for Law to cut Vergo his Haki had to be stronger than vergo's. And with Conquer's Haki we saw Shank's CH was able to cause physical damage to Whitebeard's ship and he apparently has some of the strongest CH around. I did see one interesting theory that fully developed CH could cause weather changes and the examples were Roger using it to cause a storm when he fought Shiki's armada, Dragon causing the storm at Lougetown, and Shanks and Whitebeard's clash caused the rip in the sky.
The Will of D. and the Void century add a whole nother level of mystery to the series.
