If this ship-switch bullshit was pulled in, say, Naruto or Bleach, it would have been mocked every two posts for the next 10 years or so, and rightfully so. but it's Oda doing it so "meh it does make sorta sense", even if it doesn't, and its a terrible cop out for a TOTALLY NEEDLESS cliffhanger.
Really, these are fairy tail levels of pointless fake tension.Also, someone care to explain why the fishmen pirates feel so invested in jimbe's new crush to the point of cheerfully decide to simply throw away their lives for the sake of it? The guy changed his allegiance FOUR TIMES by now, Luffy being the fifth, each time basically betraying what he supposedly stood for the day before and two of these times it was just to save his fat ass. Still he gets revered as some paragon of heroic virtue. Bah.
Finally, i still miss the point for friggin' fishmen to have a ship at all.
I guess they realized that too this week and decided to get rid of it for free instead of just pulling the sunny underwater.
"but that's the legendary ship our dead captain and hero left us as a legacy and perpeutal memento of his deeds and ideals!"
"who cares lol it was a stupid idea to begin with. The ship of the teenage boy our middle-aged captain craves to get ordered around by is what matters the most right now!"
I would hope this wouldn't be called BS if it happened in Naruto and Bleach. It happened because Wadatsumi has big hands and risked boiling temperatures for a couple of seconds.
The Sun Pirates' motivation was laid out in Chapter 830. Jinbe's whole life has been spent in service of others for the sake of Fishman Island, and now his crew wants him to do something he wants to do for once. And Jinbe has done so much for them that they're willing to do whatever it takes to serve his interests.
Why do they have a ship? Well, I'd expect just swimming to be tiresome.