I have been following this series for 7 years now. And this might be the most significant thing we got in one piece. The roger pirates journey is truely mesmerising. Laughtale is such a clever name i dont know how oda sensei thinks about these things way back. He is such a genius when it comes to these reveals. We already know how Ceaser clown created "SAD" lab to manufacture the "SMILE" fruit and how it effects the people. But now we got the new infrormation that "JOY"BOY wrote an apology letter in fishman island and maybe left some message in "laugh"tale with his treasure that made everyone laugh.
No one expected this reaction from roger. Oda always does things in a unique and unexpected ways that surprise the fans. The long pause of oden before the revealing "He laughed!", The whole narration with the beautiful ost made the scene legendary. We have been eagerly waiting to see glimpse of one piece and this is it fellas we are nearing the end. One piece may not have crazy animation or crazy fights all the time and this is why it gets low ratings but its world building and pay offs make it top tier. I truely hope people understand the significance of the scenes and emotional impact on fans and not just blindly hate by giving false low ratings. This chapter and Roger's laughing panel went viral like crazy when the manga chapter came out so there were a lot of expectations from anime and I think they did deliver. A lot of fans are disappointed that they didn't play the ost to the Grand line as it was a popular notion they would but I liked there choice a lot so Thank You TOEI for playing memories at the end it was such a great way to end the episode made me tear up.