It's fricking Zoro in the preview! Long time no see, for sure.

Anyway, this episode surely worked sentimentally, I fully agree with DE on that. Even Makino was crying. Although she's so friendly and compassionate that it's guaranteed she would cry for Luffy's sake, but it's precisely because of those characteristics that she should never need to cry.

Luffy finally remembering he has a crew now in addition to Ace of the past was plotwise the most important part of the ep, no doubt.