Little Garden begs to differ.
And outside the manga, fans've been talking about Elbaf since early 2000s, back when you were still inside your dad's balls, by the look of it.
(and yes, I've read your nick)
Nope, no one talked about Elbaf until BM brought that up in WCI.
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Bro, the islands are converging to Lodestar. Thats actually how it works. And Luffy, Kid and Law are not all on different paths on GL. They all left from the same island. It was already implied thar Luffy has to make up the distance that Kid and Law gain on him with their routes. We are going to Elbaf lmao.
Imagine fighting this argument
Like you said island are converging to Lodestar which means there is more than one route to it. Doesn't matter if they were all in the same island at a point now they are going their own paths. Nothing indicates that Luffy will travel to the same islands Kid and Law travelled.
- Little Garden (Dorry and Broggy say they will meet again at Elbaf)
- Enies Lobby (Oimo and Kaashi tell thrm they will meet again at Elbaf)
- Cover Story (Oimo and Kaashi leave for Elbaf)
- Sabaody (The giant Rayleigh saved said the same exact thing after being rescued).
- Punk Hazard (Gigantification and teasing Elbaf's danger to the rest of the world)
- Dressrosa (Hadjrudeen talks about Elbaf several times)
And more. But no, just referenced at WCI with an island silhouette that Oda refuses to show and an unfinished BM plotline lol
I was talking about fandom. No one was talking about Elbaf until WCI.
But Ok, Dorry and Broggy mentioned Elbaf for the first time. An introduction but not a build up. Is something Usopp wants to do in the future nothing that they need to do now. They were in Baroque Works Saga so that introduction was highly hidden by the main issue of the time(Alabasta Arc and defeat Crocodile). No reason to going to Elbaf.
Enies Lobby another 2 giants talking about Elbaf and again being highly hidden by the main issue of the time(Save Robin). No reason to going to Elbaf.
Cover Story doesn't mean a shit. No reason to going to Elbaf.
Sabaody we had a random giant talking about Elbaf, who cares? At least the other giants had a little more dialogue/interaction. No reason to going to Elbaf.
Punk Hazard, giantification not at all related to Elbaf so far all Giants met in One Piece looked like shit to be considered relevant. No reason to going to Elbaf.
Dressrosa, the giant fodder that was one-shotted by Luffy and suddenly became relevant in the arc and then relevant to the whole story. He said he would reunite Giants again. Himself not Luffy so no reason to going to Elbaf.