With a series that invites the sheer quantity of intense speculation that One Piece does, creator Eiichiro Oda has to throw us some curve balls from time-to-time in order to keep us all surprised and on the edge of our seats. As we enter what he has deemed the series' "Final Saga," we have some expectations about how things will go. The last of the franchise's final boss characters will be rounded up and put in the proper order of rising explosiveness, the long-awaited power-ups handed out, and the emotional pinnacles and mythological breakthroughs are within sight. We've read a manga before - we know how these things go.
Only Oda, as usual, seems discontented with the rote assignments that usually conclude a massive adventure story. Here's how One Piece continues to keep us guessing.
