User blog comment:Xyriel 14/Who are those Mystery Brokers?/@comment-1595565-20121104191855

I can tell you for a fact that they are all characters we've never seen before. That's why only Pekoms, Tamago, and Kid were not shadowed, because we've already met them. That's what Oda does with new characters he wants to show but not introduce, he shadows or otherwise obscures them. He did it with Hody, Duval, and to a lesser extent Momonosuke. None of them have made a prior appearance if we can't clearly see their face.