User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/KOALA is The Next Strawhat Crewmate for Sure/@comment-3075024-20110501214924/@comment-98.181.59.190-20120519062434

I feel that she may just reappear and help them. I have a strong feeling we haven't seen the last of her. This is the first character I saw in this whole arc so far that I thought might join. Jimbei is strong and has been around for a while.. If he was gonna join, it may have been done already. And there would be no excitement in someone as strong as him joining. The straw hats need to have problems to overcome not a powerful fishman at the ready. Also, we never see Jimbei as a child while we do Koala. Every other crew member, except Brook, has been seen as a child. However, she has yet to appear again... THEN AGAIN, the arc seems far from over so we may see her as an adult. She is around their ages.

I think her role would be to clean the Sunny Go. That'd be so awesome and the straw hats do need another female member. Luffy is pretty messy on his own not to mention all the other guys. Another female would be perfect right now.

After seeing her mother tell her she was hearing nothing, I figured she would reappear. There is little to no way Oda would just leave her clueless like that. All alone with her ideals in her town of fishmen haters. I almost cried when she was introduced. All the smiles and creepiness only to be punched by Arlong and then begging not to be killed countless times..Poor thing. But that's such a compelling backstory. 8/9 of the Straw Hats suffered as children while Jimbei has yet to be shown in such a manner.

Finally, I say I get surprised often in this series. Jimbei joining the crew is WAY too obvious so I think Oda's gonna slap everyone in the face with KOALA BAM! lol. This is all pure assumption though. And a little bit of my wanting for her to show up and join them. The only flaw in this idea is that I'm 75% certain the next member will be a fishman... Just got that feeling and that's Jimbei's ONLY leg to stand on in my mind.. Give it another opening or two (in the anime) and we should see who the 10th member will be :)

Koala ftw! :D