How big a connection is it really?
If one of the main points of what Oda wants to explore is the disagreements of how to respond to a history and continued opression by another species, showing three generations of leadership of the people among Fishmen who fought back is incredibly important. The founder of the entire resistance especially.
I mean fuck, this is Jimbei telling the story not Arlong, don't you think Tiger was probably an incredibly important person in his life?
Especially since the focus will come on to essentially his failure at keeping the Sun Crew together, his contrast with Tiger will be needed.
Granted, Tiger will be an important figure who we can count on being referenced many times. I just don't think we need the whole story yet, and I don't expect to get it until towards the end of the arc.
Why later?
You know, just the story's main theme which has to do with living without regrets and fighting for your dreams.
That has nothing to do with this.
The same reason why I think Luffy will ultimately destroy FI, in order to force all the merfolk to face their fears and go out into the world.
…..what???
Jesus fucking christ, take what you just said it and apply it to a real world equivalent.
Do it. What you just said was disgusting.
You're also acting like the damn fear is some fucking arachnophobia or something, there is a very real and very dangerous world of racism going on right above them.
"Go little fishies! Be free! Be hunted down! Lynched! Enslaved! Nothing to fear!"
Did you forget that he treated all slaves equally? I don't ever recall hearing about him immitating the humans he hated in order to establish a base of power.
It was directly stated that he hated humans.
He treated the human prisoners fairly, but hated them.
These are both true and it's hilarious that you just decided to completely ignore one of them because you couldn't make sense of both at once.
This is why Tiger would be a moderate origin for all the strands of resistance we see now.
Between the violent Fishmen supremacism, and the benevolent self-defense and non-divisionary ideals of Jimbei and presumably the Queen.
In the middle would be Tiger.
You need to seriously familiarize yourself with civil rights movements and organizations. I don't think your American which I guess would make this forgivable (not that Oda is either!). But either way, find a point of reference in your own country and learn the difficuilties and nuances among the people of a minority struggling against a larger and oppressive culture around them.
We won't need the whole Fisher Tiger story in order to make sense of the events ten years ago, so we won't get it.
We don't need the origin of resistance to analyze it's evolution? I beg to differ.
I am saying that he wont combine a detailed accounting of Fisher Tiger's expliots with the events that took place a decade ago.
Fisher Tiger did his thing in Mariejois five years before the Queen dies and Jimbei joins the Shichibukai.
I'm not saying we'll follow the life and death of Fisher Tiger.
But that we'll probably start with him still being alive, with Jimbei as a subordinate.
Tiger wasn't leading the crew eleven years ago though was he?
We don't know when exactly he died. But it would be between 15 and 10 years ago at some point. None of which would be a very long time from the Queen/Arlong stuff.
The legend of Fisher Tiger starts before the formation of the crew, the very fact that we're looking at an established pirate flag makes me think he's probably not around anymore.
That's absolutely moronic, why are thinking so fucking technically about a blatant presentation of a symbol.
I didn't say it would, I said that it would be incidental to whatever kind of opponent Luffy fights, but they will likely be found in the vicinity of the main villan.
Why the fuck, with all this exciting and troubling racial conflict, with all these past and present scars being visited, off all stupid things….you care so much about two background mermaids.
Ultimately it has consequences that are farther reaching, but the conflict itself to this point is an internal power struggle. Now that three of the strawhats have been captured though I guess Luffy has more than enough reason to poke his nose in.
Luffy would have done it regardless. He already has stuck his nose into things by taking the princess's situation into his own hands.
Who he ends up fighting once that happens though is still up in the air.
Clearly instead of someone involved in the clash of ideals won't be it, it will be some boring ass slave trader.
I'm not debating this, but I also have no doubt that someone is pouring oil all over this issue for some reason.
Why.