Doesn't Bambi girl break one of the "nakama guidelines and rules" where Luffy has to officially meet the new nakama before any other member? Bambi girl probably met the Swirlyhat members first. There is an off chance the little girl they are looking for isn't her but more than likely it is in my opinion.
Next Strawhat Crewmate (Vol. 6)
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A Furry for A nakama…... oda you devious man
We can ship someone with Chopper now. Now all we need is a lady skeleton for Brook.
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I'm a bit sad that Bellamy didn't join the SH crew.
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We still need a grandmother character, and her design is completely unique from any other female we've seen.
I'm down with it, aside from the awful personality.
Wouldn't Bonney also fill your grandmother role you wat so bad, and most likely has a touching and sad backstory :ninja:
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Wouldn't Bonney also fill your grandmother role you wat so bad, and most likely has a touching and sad backstory :ninja:
No She doesn't look or act like one, and we have no confirmation of what age she actually is, despite fandom speculation that she's hundreds of years old.
And its not that I want a grandmother role. Its that we lack one, pure and simple. If we didn't have Brook, it'd be a non-issue. But since we do….
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No She doesn't look or act like one, and we have no confirmation of what age she actually is, despite fandom speculation that she's hundreds of years old.
And its not that I want a grandmother role. Its that we lack one, pure and simple. If we didn't have Brook, it'd be a non-issue. But since we do….
So we also lack an aunt?
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Well we don't have an "uncle" yet. We dunno what Jinbe will be.
Jinbe definitely fits the respected uncle role.
One obvious one we don't have is the bratty little sister.
People say that Chopper fits the youngest child but he's always been too sweet to fit the brat and Sanji has matured out of the role.
I've been hoping that if we do get an eleventh it will be that one, if nothing else than to slightly even the gender imbalance.I don't think Jewelry fits the crew but I suppose one virtue is she can fill both that and the grand-mother role.
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Doesn't Bonney also break the "nakama guidelines and rules" since she met Zoro first instead of Luffy?
Bonney can cover grandmother, aunt, bratty child, and/or whatever other family role just from her using her Devil fruit powers. She could fill many gaps with family structure but what would be her job on the ship? Glutton? Has she shown any signs/skills of being a helmsman or lookout? And she would have to be elite at her job. The jobs interweave with the dreams. She hasn't even shown us a hint of what her skills are besides being a captain that eats a lot but that role is already taken.
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Doesn't Bonney also break the "nakama guidelines and rules" since she met Zoro first instead of Luffy?
Bonney can cover grandmother, aunt, bratty child, and/or whatever other family role just from her using her Devil fruit powers. She could fill many gaps with family structure but what would be her job on the ship? Glutton? Has she shown any signs/skills of being a helmsman or lookout? And she would have to be elite at her job. The jobs interweave with the dreams. She hasn't even shown us a hint of what her skills are besides being a captain that eats a lot but that role is already taken.
Well, it's pretty obvious that she can't join "now", she would have to be more developed…like any other character that has been dubbed as "wannabe nakama". There's nobody out there that can join right now (beside Jimbe, that is)
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Another week passed, so Jinbe had lot of time to do what he had to.
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Jinbe vs Weeble maybe? Jinbe has a strong bond with the Whitebeard pirates and he seems like a good match up. He has to tie into the story with a good entrance somehow.
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@Jinbe#10:
Another week passed, so Jinbe had lot of time to do what he had to.
I still say we will have Jinbe back when Luffy deals with Big Mom… I bet Luffy will have to "save" Jinbe as well
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I still say we will have Jinbe back when Luffy deals with Big Mom… I bet Luffy will have to "save" Jinbe as well
This would make the most sense. Jimbe always had that uncle vibe in my opinion.
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To be honest, with chopper around, do we even need a minkmen as a crewmate?
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If the two weeks thing since the Dressrosa incident and them reaching Zou is legit, Jinbe may have fallen out with or is caught by Big Mom already. Either way I don't see him coming back into play til well after Wano. If Zou, Kaido and Wano, Momo & Kin's plots are as connected as Oda is suggesting I see Zou being the precursor to Wano, like Punk Hazard was for Dressrosa.
Zou–-> Wano----> Big Mom/Jinbe conflict
I think Oda kinda hinted at this with Jinbe's cover story with the kids crawling up his back. http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/e8/Chapter_765.png/revision/latest?cb=20150427000039
-The kid closest to Jinbe's face, half of his body is obscured but you can clearly see his head, I think that symbolizes the mid point of Dressrosa's arc.
-The two kids in the middle represent the Zou and Wano arcs respectively, notice both of them are fully visible.
-The kid with the "10" on his shirt clearly represents Jinbe and the arc surrounding his conflict with Big Mom imo. 10th member of the crew and the ninth to join.
That's just a crack theory of mine.
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and a toddle !
And the non-related to your family person who lives in your house anyway.
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To be honest, with chopper around, do we even need a minkmen as a crewmate?
Was thinking the same, Choppers mere existence seems to block any possibility for all the minkmen.
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To be honest, with chopper around, do we even need a minkmen as a crewmate?
Why? we have 8 humans and they all look different Franky is even Half Cyborg and Brook is a Skeleton but they are all human, Chopper is a Reindeer with a fruit human fruit so maybe even he can count as human, we don't have a Minkmen so why can't we get a Minkmen just because we have a reindeer in the crew?
I still would have liked to see Oda add one of each race as a crew member but it would be to obvious plus it would be hard to get a Giant on the sunny unless we get a ship upgrade again(which I doubt will happen).
So right now we have 8 different humans, 1 reindeer/human hybrid and eventually a Fishman, so why not add other races? Oda seems to like diversity and I don't see much more diversity to be added on the human side unless maybe we get someone with a Logia DF or a Zoan, so a different race is the way to go imo.
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This is going to sound out there; How cool would it be to have a Honey Badger Minkmen melee fighting female join? HUH? HUH?! :ninja:
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Doesn't Bonney also break the "nakama guidelines and rules" since she met Zoro first instead of Luffy?
Wasn't that proven to not be true with Chopper and Franky? Nami I think met Chopper first and Usopp met Franky first. Before that the crew was small enough that it was a group meeting the next crew mate or just Luffy only because nobody else had joined.
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This is going to sound out there; How cool would it be to have a Honey Badger Minkmen melee fighting female join? HUH? HUH?! :ninja:
How cool would be to have honey boo boo as a crew member?
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So Luffy has to be the first one to meet the character? or does he just have to be the first straw hat to meet the next nakama?
Also None of the crew members have a name that starts with the same letter. So I guess Bonney can't join since Brook.
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Damn! Because of Franky we can't get Three-Eyes-Girl.
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I'm going with Giant from Elbaf as my pick. One of the few things the crew lacks, chopper is enough minkmen-ish. I would pick dwarf too but guess chopper is also a bit dwarf-ish in his normal form and fits that too. And he and luffy are also gullible enough.
And the fact that the new unknown nakama is likely to fight San Juan Wolf, only makes it more likely.
Franky sunny zord vs San Juan Wolf is more of a fangasm, and I think they have a cybord thing already in the crew.
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I'm going with Giant from Elbaf as my pick. One of the few things the crew lacks, chopper is enough minkmen-ish. I would pick dwarf too but guess chopper is also a bit dwarf-ish in his normal form and fits that too. And he and luffy are also gullible enough.
And the fact that the new unknown nakama is likely to fight San Juan Wolf, only makes it more likely.
Franky sunny zord vs San Juan Wolf is more of a fangasm, and I think they have a cybord thing already in the crew.
Hajrudin already fills that niche.
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Why? we have 8 humans and they all look different Franky is even Half Cyborg and Brook is a Skeleton but they are all human, Chopper is a Reindeer with a fruit human fruit so maybe even he can count as human, we don't have a Minkmen so why can't we get a Minkmen just because we have a reindeer in the crew?
I still would have liked to see Oda add one of each race as a crew member but it would be to obvious plus it would be hard to get a Giant on the sunny unless we get a ship upgrade again(which I doubt will happen).
So right now we have 8 different humans, 1 reindeer/human hybrid and eventually a Fishman, so why not add other races? Oda seems to like diversity and I don't see much more diversity to be added on the human side unless maybe we get someone with a Logia DF or a Zoan, so a different race is the way to go imo.
We won't have two furry animals in the crew. That's for sure. That's like saying that we can get an android in the crew because the one we have is technically only half-robot.
Chopper is special because he is the crew's animal.
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If the two weeks thing since the Dressrosa incident and them reaching Zou is legit, Jinbe may have fallen out with or is caught by Big Mom already. Either way I don't see him coming back into play til well after Wano. If Zou, Kaido and Wano, Momo & Kin's plots are as connected as Oda is suggesting I see Zou being the precursor to Wano, like Punk Hazard was for Dressrosa.
Zou–-> Wano----> Big Mom/Jinbe conflict
I think Oda kinda hinted at this with Jinbe's cover story with the kids crawling up his back. http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/e8/Chapter_765.png/revision/latest?cb=20150427000039
-The kid closest to Jinbe's face, half of his body is obscured but you can clearly see his head, I think that symbolizes the mid point of Dressrosa's arc.
-The two kids in the middle represent the Zou and Wano arcs respectively, notice both of them are fully visible.
-The kid with the "10" on his shirt clearly represents Jinbe and the arc surrounding his conflict with Big Mom imo. 10th member of the crew and the ninth to join.
That's just a crack theory of mine.
Didn't get your theory at all.
But save that for the future: Jinbe has a samurai background and he will be in Wano arc. He had a friend? A teacher? Other? He had business in Wano? I can't say.
But I'm sure. His style is the same as a samurai: clothing, sandals, even hairstyle is exactly the same as samurai's (see Ryuma, Kin, Momo…).
No fishman has his style. Hack or Kuurobi, who use karate like Jinbe (who is the master) are dressed like karateka.
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Hajrudin already fills that niche.
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We won't have two furry animals in the crew. That's for sure. That's like saying that we can get an android in the crew because the one we have is technically only half-robot.
Chopper is special because he is the crew's animal.
We haven't even seen any of the Minkmen yet, but you've already determined that none of them can possibly join because hey have fur and Chopper has fur….that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm not jumping on the possibility of a character joining that hasn't even been introduced yet, but it's ridiculous to rule out the possibility before you've even seen them. It's kind of ridiculous you're even calling them animals. They're just as much a separate race as the Fishmen. Chopper doesn't prevent a minkman from joining any more than he prevents Jimbei from joining. They could be a wholly individual species completely different in fur color and general appearance from Chopper.
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We haven't even seen any of the Minkmen yet, but you've already determined that none of them can possibly join because hey have fur and Chopper has fur….that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm not jumping on the possibility of a character joining that hasn't even been introduced yet, but it's ridiculous to rule out the possibility before you've even seen them. It's kind of ridiculous you're even calling them animals. They're just as much a separate race as the Fishmen. Chopper doesn't prevent a minkman from joining any more than he prevents Jimbei from joining. They could be a wholly individual species completely different in fur color and general appearance from Chopper.
Except they aren't going by what we have seen from that little girl. They're pretty much furry humans, a niche that Chopper already fills in the crew and is the main reason he's unique (in fact, it is the whole reason Luffy was even interested in him in the first place).
Jinbe and Chopper are completely different in terms of animal thematics.
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Wasn't that proven to not be true with Chopper and Franky? Nami I think met Chopper first and Usopp met Franky first. Before that the crew was small enough that it was a group meeting the next crew mate or just Luffy only because nobody else had joined.
Luffy met Chopper first. He was briefly conscious when Chopper pulled him up onto the top of the peak on Drum and he asked Kureha to save his friends with Nami and Sanji both unconscious.
Technically Usopp was the first to meet Franky, though he wasn't unmasked until he met Luffy.
In any case, I don't think it means much. I think it's more, first meaningful encounter with the crew that is significant. Jimbei (and Smoker :ninja:) did meet Luffy before any other crew member. Luffy was among the first to meet Kinemon's ass, and he was the first to meet Momonosuke. I'm not making any definitive statements on the latter two as potential crew members. Depends what happens with Wano.
Luffy was the first or among the first in a group to meet Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Brook, Jimbei, and Vivi. It's not an absolute rule as Franky does kind of break the trend, but it's a pattern that may be somewhat indicative that a character who has been around for a while in an arc and hasn't yet come face to face with Luffy might not really be a fitting candidate.
I don't really look to trends like this very much for evidence. It does support my long-held theory about Smoker though….
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Wasn't that proven to not be true with Chopper and Franky? Nami I think met Chopper first and Usopp met Franky first. Before that the crew was small enough that it was a group meeting the next crew mate or just Luffy only because nobody else had joined.
Luffy met Chopper first. He collapsed right after climbing the mountain, but he still met him first.
And Luffy was the first to see Franky without the mask, in all his dancing speedo glory.
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@Jinbe#10:
Jinbe has a samurai background
No, he has a japanese mafioso background.
Just because he's wearing kimonos doesn't make him a samurai. Especially contrasted to what we've seen of other Samurai and the specific values they hold.
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The only thing that we are actually missing is a Marine gone wary on the crew, just think about it for a second… I still have my hopes in Sentomaru joining the crew after the Vegapunk arc!
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This is going to sound out there; How cool would it be to have a Honey Badger Minkmen melee fighting female join? HUH? HUH?! :ninja:
You just read Killing Bites, didn't you?
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No, he has a japanese mafioso background.
Just because he's wearing kimonos doesn't make him a samurai. Especially contrasted to what we've seen of other Samurai and the specific values they hold.
In fact, not only kimonos, but also sandals and even hairstyle.
Please stop extrapolating words from my text.
I did not say he is a samurai.
Because it sure isn't.
I said he has some background with a samurai or in Wano.
And that is why his style is exactly the same.
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You just read Killing Bites, didn't you?
Whats killing bites?
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In fact, not only kimonos, but also sandals and even hairstyle.
Please stop extrapolating words from my text.
I did not say he is a samurai.
Because it sure isn't.
I said he has some background with a samurai or in Wano.
And that is why his style is exactly the same.
Because his style is surely the same.[qimg]http://s8.postimg.org/8igg6xhvp/Senza_nome_1.jpg[/qimg]
Look, 17th century Yakuza.
Same robes, same hair, same sandals.
Jinbe's got Japanese influence. So does Zoro. It doesn't make them them same. A lot of the japanese styles cover hundreds of years largely unchanged, so seperate influences are going to overlap. A 17th century gangster is going to look like a 17th century samurai is going to look like a 17th century farmer.
Jinbe's manner of speaking and how he's treated is completely mafia, not Samurai. (And he's not shaving out the bald pate… and Kinemon's topknot is completely different from Momo's.)
If you go back to the fishman island flashback, Jinbe was wearing the kimono and Sandals the entire time except for when he was in the military. Including in his childhood when he was wearing a karate robe.
[hide][/hide]Now, he didn't get the topknot or eye scar until somewhere in the 10 years between that flashback when he became a warlord and the present, so yes, there's plenty of room for him to have had an outing at Wano and being influenced… I'm not dismissing the possibility. And I'd rather have him back sooner than later, so sure, make Wano the rejoin spot. But it's not where the majority of his style comes from, or where he developed most as a person. I'd say it'd probably more likely come from whoever taught him karate.
But just because he's wearing something japanese doesn't instantly mean he's connected inherantly. (He's also not a swordsman or constantly going on about honor which is a big deal for them.) He's also got the face of a lion-dog. He's traditional japanese all around.
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Not too sure why there's the idea that Jinbe learnt his fighting style at Wano. It's Fishman Karate.
Maybe in the far past they were related but I think it's unlikely that the style was originated just for Jinbe, or that he was the one who adapted it from a land style.
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Whats killing bites?
manga series about a Honey Badger melee fighting female competing in a fight-to-the-death tournament against other animal-human hybrids.
It's from the same author of Arachnid.
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Not too sure why there's the idea that Jinbe learnt his fighting style at Wano. It's Fishman Karate.
Maybe in the far past they were related but I think it's unlikely that the style was originated just for Jinbe, or that he was the one who adapted it from a land style.
No one was talking about his fighting style, they're talking about his style of dress.
Also , it's quite notable that the Fishman Dojo was absent from the entire Fishman Island arc (even the flashback) , yet Hachi made such a big deal about it to some of the crew. Think Oda is saving the story about that institution for later , along with the story behind Jinbe's scar.
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I haven't read through all 13,000+ posts of this thread, so my apologies if I mention something already discussed but I would like to bring up a few things regarding new crew members and certain common elements among them.
First, they all have a dream and goal they are striving for. Secondly, they all have tragic pasts, often brought to our attention via flashback. Thirdly, they all have had an arc in which they AND their past has taken front and center (except for poor Zoro. He's never had an arc of his own). Each and every single member of the crew has had this. And if we count Vivi, these three criteria apply to her as well. And Jinbe also fits this.
Now, if we take that criteria and apply it to all the characters we've seen so far in the New World, this would make the top contender, (though admittedly, it is pretty far fetched, even with this criteria, I still don't think he should be counted out) Trafalgar Law. He has a tragic past. We've seen it via flashback, and he is front and center for Dressrosa. The haziest of this criteria is the dream he's striving for, but defeating DoFlamigo or Kaido could count as that, or it is something that we haven't had revealed to us yet.
After Law, Bellamy and then Rebecca (who is likely out at this point, given recent manga chapters). Of course, it also is entirely possible that the next crew member is someone we haven't even met yet. There is still clearly a lot of story to go.
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(except for poor Zoro. He's never had an arc of his own
Yes he did, it was just early on and super short. It was the Ax Hand Morgan arc.
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Yes he did, it was just early on and super short. It was the Ax Hand Morgan arc.
I wouldn't necessarily count that as an arc of his own. Zoro himself hardly did anything. He got a mini-flashback elaborating on why he wants to become WSS but that lasted for 7 pages. He defeated Morgan but Luffy was the one who fought him. The arc seemed to focus more on Coby and Luffy than it did on Zoro. Unlike every other strawhat, we barely know anything about his life. His life wasn't affected by whatever went on with Morgan unlike the other SH's and the antagonists of their arcs. I'm thinking that Wano might go more in-depth with his character since I'm assuming he's related to it somehow.
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I'm hoping for at least one more non human crew member, and since we've got representatives from dwarves, giants, fishman, long arm, and long legs, and mermaids can't get around on land,so i'm seriously hoping for this arc for some really cool minkmen to stand out above the crowd and show off there stuff…... but alas that will most likely not happen
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I wouldn't necessarily count that as an arc of his own. Zoro himself hardly did anything. He got a mini-flashback elaborating on why he wants to become WSS but that lasted for 7 pages. He defeated Morgan but Luffy was the one who fought him. The arc seemed to focus more on Coby and Luffy than it did on Zoro. Unlike every other strawhat, we barely know anything about his life. His life wasn't affected by whatever went on with Morgan unlike the other SH's and the antagonists of their arcs. I'm thinking that Wano might go more in-depth with his character since I'm assuming he's related to it somehow.
That was early in the series. Things moved at a quicker pace. Usopp's flashback is like one panel.
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I'm going to be a rebel and say nobody. To be fair that's how I feel.
But if I had to choose somebody from the Dressrosa Arc… just for the hell of it...
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I'm going to be a rebel and say nobody. To be fair that's how I feel.
That's more like the general consensus :happy:
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That's more like the general consensus :happy:
Yeah, pretty much. A lot of people don't like Brook as much as the others (Not that they hate him, just not as much loved as the others) "because he's very recent". Just adding another character wouldn't give him any time to develop and warm to the readers. :happy:
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Yeah 15 years is a bit short …
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Yeah, pretty much. A lot of people don't like Brook as much as the others (Not that they hate him, just not as much loved as the others) "because he's very recent". Just adding another character wouldn't give him any time to develop and warm to the readers. :happy:
Recent smecent. Brook joined how many years ago and missed out on 3 years worth of on panel adventures. For a long time Jinbe had more story time than him. There is still plenty of time to develop any Straw Hat Oda wants to.