User blog comment:Plainblack/Trouble In Paradise? The Strawhats Are Too Weak!/@comment-3119203-20121119053426

Good thoughts, first of all, but I disagree with you on a few things.

First of all, the Straw Hats are not going to be fighting the Big Mom Pirates alone. I'm willing to bet that the Heart Pirates, and perhaps even the Kid/On Air/Hawkins Pirates Alliance are going to join the fray. With that kind of military might (five crews on par with, or close to it, the Straw Hats), I think that the task of defeating a Yonko will seem smaller.

About the size of Big Mom's fleet, I don't think it's as much as Whitebeard's. Losing a couple ships, according to Tamago, was a huge dent in the crew's finances, which makes it seem that they aren't as powerful as the Whitebeard Pirates were. And the Yonko don't necessarily have huge crews, as Blackbeard shows with his 10-man (and one horse) crew, and Shanks displays with his one-ship crew. I'm also pretty confident that Roger did not have a fleet either. If he did, where were they at Edd War? No, his crew was more or less on its own.

Your whole idea of Straw Hat recruitment by ship is probably not going to ever happen. As shown previously, crew members only really come into the crew after the Straw Hats spend an entire arc fighting alongside them. I don't really think we have the time to do that before the tea party in the next few days. The Straw Hats are unique as a very close-knit, very family-like crew. Adding divisions and shit would ruin that whole feel.

I do agree with you on how the Straw Hats need to step it up, but I personally think it's pretty impressive how they took on the whole of Enies Lobby (I think Luffy alone defeated 2000 soldiers, Blueno, and Lucci) along with a handful of shipwrights, two giants, and the Franky Family. Luffy will be able to stand against these odds because he is Luffy. He makes these things happen.

Good first blog, I look forward to your future works.