One Piece is one of the most well propagated, financially successful, and critically acclaimed anime around. It is an adventure that is well revered for its expansive writing, detailed world design, and an uncanny ability to reference and tie back to the slightest, seemingly inconsequential detail.

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However, it isn't a series without fault. Every now and then, the series runs over a few too many speed bumps for the fans to ignore, leaving tons of questions and complaints within its wake. One such part of the story that left quite a few gaps was the series' famous time skip, a plot thread that may have helped elevate the world and change the characters but left quite a few dubious details out of the mix in terms of how this happened. In a bit of a dissection of one of the series' most pivotal parts, here are 10 things that just didn't make sense about the time skip.

10 Zoro Getting to Sabaody First

Zoro Sabaody

Possibly the most dubious detail of all, Zoro, for the first time in the series, managed to find his way to the Sabaody Archipelago first. For the uninitiated, Zoro is infamous among the Straw Hats for having an extraordinary lack of direction. He has issues just going straight and often finds himself in wildly different areas than he intended to go.

While he did reach the island with the help of Perona, it's still a baffling feat that Zoro was able to get there faster than even the crew's navigator and even more audacious that he would complain about it.

9 Luffy Thinking Everybody Would Be Alive

A major gamble on his part, after the Straw Hats' defeat at the hands of Bartholomew Kuma, there really wasn't much of a guarantee that any of the Straw Hats were safe. At the very least, not from their point-of-view. Working from how things turned out on Sabaody, the Straw Hats saw a humiliating, destructive defeat at the hands of the Warlord.

For all they knew, Kuma could've sent them and the rest to either dangerous locations or traps and holding centers for the Marines. For all Luffy knew, all he would expect to meet two years later would've been a couple of his friends, possibly battered and injured. While it certainly didn't hurt to try and contact them, Luffy didn't seem too concerned that something horrific might've happened to the rest of his crew.

8 Female Character "Plot" Development

In a considerable change in overall aesthetics and tone for the series, the entirety of One Piece's female cast all elevated to having larger busts.

To take things a step further, in a series beloved for its diverse character designs, most of its post-time skip girls are made with the same top heavy bust placed over an overly-skinny hourglass figure with the added bonus of all of them having longer hair. It's enough to make one think whether or not Eiichiro Oda has a type.

7 Making Two Admirals Fight to the Death

One Piece's World Government has always had a lot of shady, questionable business going on. Political interests certainly have a bottleneck towards the rich and empowered, and the tactics of their policing force have a tendency to be a bit aggressive. However, in a move baffling even for their standards, the Marines decided to promote their next Fleet Admiral by making two of their top officers fight to the death.

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While they may have had significant differences, why did two important pieces of military power have to fight...to the death? They will literally have less power because of this. They are losing an entire guy with years of experience and confidence from the Marines.

6 Everyone Simultaneously Getting Back to the Archipelago

To an extent, Luffy's belief that his friends would return fine wasn't all that ridiculous. However, stepping back a bit, it was a bit coincidental and strange that they were all able to reach Sabaody Archipelago around the same, exact time. No one really had to wait that long. They didn't really have to make a tough choice of having to move on without a member of the original crew.

Isn't it strange that they all managed to get there around the same time despite coming from vastly different parts of the world? Also, wasn't there a chance that some of them wouldn't just know if they happened to miss that exact newspaper? Usopp was literally on a lost, seemingly inescapable island. A lot of their meeting was kind of dictated by conveniently training and traveling at the same rates and managing to get that specific newspaper on time.

5 Zoro Fighting Everyday for Two Years

While Shounen anime characters do have a tendency for doing ridiculous feats of power, some are just straight up beyond the means of human, rational understanding. For Zoro, this meant his constant fighting for two years straight. While it has yet to be seen if he literally did that, especially with Mihawk providing personal guidance, Zoro had to constantly surpass an ever evolving group of monkeys trained in the art human combat.

The idea here being that a lot of Zoro's training involved a lot of rhetoric hyping up how awesome he is, and it's possibly the most ridiculous and dubious his character has ever been.

4 Sanji Learning to Fly

Sanji's training parallels Zoro and was possibly even more ridiculous. Whereas Zoro claims to have fought every day for two years, Sanji had to run for his life every day for two years. While he was on a hunt for the various, super recipes of Emporio Ivankov's kingdom, Sanji spent quite a bit of time running away from its overzealous citizens.

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On a day when he was actually cornered, Sanji somehow learned one of the sacred martial arts moves of the series: moonwalk. He learned moonwalk on the fly, because he was being chased by guys. It's amazing that One Piece characters can literally become stronger through gags.

3 Kuma Protecting the Thousand Sunny

This one really could be explained soon; but as is, it's really strange. After having gone his final preparations as a Pacifista, Kuma's final request was to have himself programmed to protect the Straw Hat's ship, the Thousand Sunny. In doing so, he spent two years guarding the thin on Sabaody Archipelago, possibly sustaining a lot of damage from the feat.

Beyond questions involving what exactly he did during those two years, it's odd that a Warlord and a literal tool of the World Government would possibly go without use or command for two years, especially during a harsh reform period for the Marines. Did no one try to look for him? And if they did, did Kuma attack or kill them? Who did Kuma have to fight?

2 Chopper Changing How Rumble Balls Work

Chopper holding a Rumble Ball in One Piece with a determined expression.

It makes sense that characters would become stronger from constant training and change. However, a major part of Chopper's power and move set doesn't necessarily involve training but science and chemicals. His unique ability to change into a variety of different, tactical combat forms is due to him taking a special drug called his "Rumble Ball."

Prior to the time skip, he would need to take them in order to undergo the transformations. However, post-time skip, he's just able to transform into any of his base forms, with a Rumble Ball just being used to go Monster Point. Did Chopper actually change the chemical makeup of the Rumble Balls or did he just legitimately change how he reacts to it? There's not a lot explained, and it's weird thinking that he accomplished this by just working out. That's not how chemicals work.

1 Luffy Learning Red Hawk

Last but not least is one of Luffy's coolest looking yet strangest powers. In honor of his brother Ace, Luffy was somehow able to "inherit" his flame and use it for a few attacks that use both Haki and Gear Second traits to ignite himself. The question here being: How?

There's some speculation that this could be one of the made up, convenient effects of Haki or, in a much more unexplained angle, the result of vulcanization, the process of rubber moving at fast enough velocities to ignite into flame. Neither have been confirmed in the series, and it doesn't really seem like they're going to explain either how it works or how Luffy doesn't hurt himself when using it.

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