User blog comment:WhitzellBlood/The Newest Crewmate and his Duty Aboard the Sunny/@comment-2007679-20101031113946

I don't think you can predict something like this, Oda always comes up with characaters I would have never thought of myself. Besides, if the crew becomes to big it wouldn't be fun. You would have to split the 15-20 pages of each chapter over 10 members, instead of the already big number 9.