User blog comment:GrilloSama/Jinbe For 1st Mate/@comment-12.106.174.131-20170925145458

Your reasoning on Jinbe giving up his life for Luffy is incorrect, he did it because he couldn't protect Ace. Much of what happened between Luffy and Jinbe in Marineford had nothing to do with what he thought of Luffy but rather what respect he had for Ace. Another thing you mention is the number of years as a pirate, irrelevent as Robin and Brook have also been pirates longer than Jinbe.