User blog comment:Thie5014/New Strawhat Pirates./@comment-3164520-20101027152241

Personaly I'm inclined to think the Jinbei will join as a helmsmen since he already has great respect for Luffy and he promised Ace to look after Luffy (just like the rest of the crew). This would also greatly increase the safety of the devil fruit users having a fishman on the ship. And since they are going to the new world any new crewmate would have to already be strong enough to fight well there. Thus Jinbei fits in nicely. He has even already quit as a Shichibukai. I would like to see a new strong female character join the crew, but a fishman would also add to the variety of the Strawhats. If Jinbei joins the crew the real question would then be if his fighting alongside Luffy during the war counts as his fight before joining or if there will be a backstory battle arc on fishman island.