User blog comment:Bankai99/No New Crew/@comment-75.133.158.244-20110423233806

7 things: I have hesitations believing we will have a new character we have not yet been introduced to in some way. I like the idea that there will be either a female character and/or a supernova. Sabo was introduced for some reason. He was not necessary for the development of Luffy and Ace as characters. Numerology is important in these shows and he seems to like prime numbers. In Japanese culture 9 is an unlucky number. It will not be a fishman we have met so far as they have not been developed in that direction at all. Luffy did say 10 members besides himself before leaving the East Blue (though slightly out of context) and that would be 11.