User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 957: More Info on Rocks/@comment-7614831-20190927204814/@comment-7614831-20190928085321

@Kaido Well, that's fair: as always with One Piece it's a wait and see game.

It's just a little bewildering sometimes as a reader being ladled all this contextual information at once before Luffy and the other Straw Hats have had to find out for themselves; reference was made to Arlong's connection to Jinbe in Chapter 69, at the beginning of that arc and long before Jinbe's physical debut in 528, but even then that was just Yosaku telling Luffy and Sanji his name and his rank as a shichibukai, and that was all that was needed to give context to Arlong's having gone under the radar for so long; anything more than that then, let alone halfway through the arc, like the history of fishman enslavement and Fisher Tiger's rebellion, would have detracted from the main action. Nowadays we get all these asides given solely to the reader, which is great and all (because who's really going to say no to more lore in a world they love?), but it feels less organic if Luffy and the other Straw Hats aren't privy to any of it and especially if they don't need to be for the purposes of this story arc either, so on that basis, why not wait to make these reveals and backstory things post-arc?

But yeah, as you say, just got to wait and see how things work out.

@Anon I don't think we need to worry about Captain John so much.