Luffy said he wanted 10 people.
Oda is a fan of soccer and has consistently likened the strawhats to a soccer team.
BB's crew, which is the evil counterpoint, has 10 crew members.
The variety of kinds of family members, as well as boat positions, is pretty heavily exhausted.
The line has to be drawn somewhere before the end of the series for latecomers to get reasonable amounts of screentime.
You really don't see any problems with any of those points?
Luffy said…bla bla...so what? Luffy is Luffy. Taking seriously what he said at the beginning of his journey is at least ridiculous. You really think he would even remember that? He can't even remember most of characters he met during journey. If i recall correctly during Thriller Bark Luffy proposed to two strange creatures to join him, and during PK to one more. It might not be that important but lets consider for a second that Luffy was serious and the fact that he actually proposed more "things" to join him means, that he doesn't really care if there will be more than 11 in his team. Luffy also said "If it's more crew members i need, i can do that in grandline too". So if he will find anyone interesting or unique he will propose him to join for sure. Also read this http://i38.mangareader.net/one-piece-databook/1/one-piece-databook-1583255.jpg
What about a pattern Oda used ?
1st Recruit
2nd Recruit
3rd Failed to recruit
4th Recruit
Will there be any more members joining the Luffy Pirate Crew?
"That depends on Luffy’s heart’s content." That's what Oda said.
I really don't like that point…Simply because people think "oh 11 people play soccer, so 11 members!" If one understands soccer, he/she would know there so much to consider rather than "11 people on the field" .There's more than 11 "positions/roles" in soccer team or on the field .At least include substitutes who are very important part of the team. Defeated nakama during the battle can be switched to another and that's where "substitutes" will come handy.
SH don't necessarily have to match BB's crew. In many fights throughout the journey SH members teamed up against one enemy. For example during battle against BB crew they can team up to fight Sanjuan Wolf. Also BB crew is huge excluding division commanders. I'm sure there will be a worthy fighter in each division.
Luffy can recruit characters which they had interactions with earlier. Which means less time will be needed to develop the character. Just think about Ussops development... So actually not much time will be needed to develop few more characters. There's still long journey to the end. I highly doubt they'll go till the end with just 11 members.
Myself, I'd like to see 13 members. More people more fun.
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@uniaka:
As much as I would wish someone new, I think Bonney will steal the last seat. Don't like her or that DF that can be as broken as law's ope ope.
Yes! Bonney please :3 I wanted her to join since she was introduced. She is too freaking awesome.