User blog comment:BattleFranky202/Jimbei/Jinbe as the newest crewmember/@comment-66791-20110803233204

I posted this over on Raftel Forums, and I felt it was good enough to share with all of you.

Seriously, though, I think they need a person like Jinbe. Someone with age and experience in times of the world. ESPECIALLY the New World, which I'm sure he's been to many times if he's visited Whitebeard's ship often. Brook may be the oldest, but he's been all along for 50 years and has a fairly limited grasp on reality as it is. The closest things to actual adults besides him are Franky and Robin, and while Robin is very knowledgeable, Franky seems too eccentric to be a viable source of information on anything besides building stuff.

Jinbe, to me, seems like a necessary addition, to help even out the serious to goofy people. Kind of. Franky and Brook are near-insane, Luffy and Chopper are childish, Zoro and Sanji are the "cool tough guys", and Nami and Usopp are the closest things to normal people. Robin's the only serious one who never goes over the top. Jinbe has shown to be able to do "face faults" (eyes popping out, jaw dropping, etc.), but then again, with a face like that, it'd be hard not to do something like that. Still, for the most part, he's calm, relatively polite, if not kind of gruff, and he's very honorable. I think the Straw Hat Pirates need someone like that on the crew.