Who will be the next Strawhat


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I think we should be looking at design hints. For example, what has Brook or Sanji worn in story or color spread that could hint at the next straw hat?
Brook striped trousers in Zou Arc resembles Caesar Clown's striped outfit....Caesar also Is a pervert having spent lots of Big Mom's Money for women a s alcool :D (I don't seriously think Caesar will join....)
 
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So you want Law to stop doing what his parents taught him and what he’s been interested in since a young child? You want him to stop doing the job all his techniques are based off of… that’s like saying Sanji can stop being a chef. It makes no sense for his character.
So you want Luffy to not become a revolutionary and marine? So you want Sabo to not become a noble? So you want Sanji to not become some pirate Nazi?

Law doesn’t have to stay a doctor just because his parents were one. Huge theme of One Piece is kids going their own way and not following their parents footsteps
 
So you want Luffy to not become a revolutionary and marine? So you want Sabo to not become a noble? So you want Sanji to not become some pirate Nazi?

Law doesn’t have to stay a doctor just because his parents were one. Huge theme of One Piece is kids going their own way and not following their parents footsteps
All of laws abilities are based on him being a doctor. Law loves being a doctor and showed great interest in it since he was a child. It’s not like Sabo who didn’t want to be a noble or Luffy who wanted to be a pirate.

Law wants to be a doctor. So again you want him to give up what he likes doing just to join the straw hats
 
Law loves being a doctor and showed great interest in it since he was a child.
Law wants to be a doctor.
We literally only get 2 panels of him showing interest in medicine and they’re all him with his parents, we truly don’t know if Law wants or loves being a doctor. You know who loves being a doctor? Chopper. You know how I know? Because he had an entire flashback dedicated to it

this easily allows Oda to mold Law’s character differently, because as far as we know he only studied medicine because his parents did.
 
its funny how you say that meeting every straw hat is a low bar that Yamato hasn't accomplished yet, well if it was a low bar to begin with then it probably wasn't all that important in the first place.
That's not how bars work, lol. It's a low bar because it's very easy to pass, not because it's of little importance.

It's very easy to meet someone that can fight in the new world. That doesn't mean it isn't absolutely essential to be able to fight in order to join the crew at this stage.
Going by your logic, Sanji should have never joined the crew because he never talked to Zoro *before he joined
Except that he did though, lol. On numerous occasions. Including multiple very stand out moments in the arc. Go refresh your memory.
Jinbe's never talked to Zoro directly either. And in Wano, Jinbe still refers to Zoro in a formal way by his full name Roronoa Zoro. Why did Jinbe still join the crew?
Jinbe still joins since he's very familiar with the crew as a whole. He's known Luffy since before the timeskip, he fought alongside all the straw hats during the battle at fishman island and was in the big spread with them.
And then at WCI he further interacted with the group. As previously mentioned, recently when someone's about to join the crew, Oda tends to have them develop a more significant relationship with 1 or 2 existing members in particular other than Luffy.

Chopper had Nami and Sanji
Robin is an obvious exception with narrative reasoning
Franky had Robin and Usopp
Brook had Zoro and Franky
Jinbe had Nami and Sanji

They don't have to have a specific interaction with each and every single member of the crew, but they need to be known and associated with enough of them that their integration into the family would feel natural. There's heaven and earth between how the crew knows Jinbe (even before he joined) and how the crew knows...or rather *doesn't know Yamao.
Your argument that: a potential straw hat must meet all of the straw hats and interact with them in order for them to join and its non-negotiable
My argument is that a potential straw hat needs to be friends with and familiar to the crew as a whole. If they don't have a bond with one specific member, that's fine as long as they have interacted with and are known to the majority of the straw hats.

You can literally check this easy requirement off for each of them. And these panels are just one of many interactions multiple of them had with the crew.
You can read around the panels posted above too. It's multiple pages of just the future straw hat talking/interacting with the current straw hats. It always happens. It can even be an antagonistic interaction such as in the case with Robin. Nonetheless, Oda always makes sure to present them very early on to the crew and rapidly makes them a familiar face, not only to readers, but to the actual straw hats themselves.

There were many easy opportunities for Oda to do this with Yamao. As I said, she literally ran past the entire crew in order to get to the top of Onigashima. We've seen how frequently people move around and interact with one another in comedic ways such as Sanji, Zoro and Law recently, or Usopp, Nami and Tama. Oda completely skipped all of that with Yamao. Her only real interactions were with Momo and Shinobu despite all the straw hats being right there along her path.
Meeting most of the straw hats isn't only a extremely low bar, its also a inconsistent and inconsequential one.
Only if you're intentionally trying to ignore and downplay the importance of relationships and group dynamics within the main cast and a crew like the straw hats in order to make excuses for a total rando to rat her way in.
 
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We literally only get 2 panels of him showing interest in medicine and they’re all him with his parents, we truly don’t know if Law wants or loves being a doctor. You know who loves being a doctor? Chopper. You know how I know? Because he had an entire flashback dedicated to it

this easily allows Oda to mold Law’s character differently, because as far as we know he only studied medicine because his parents did.
Because his fruit making a room where anyone who enters it becomes his patience, moves like “injection shot” and “Antibacterial Curtain” as well as Law using biology into his attacks isn’t on the nose enough for you? Or that his name is the “Surgeon of death”

“Law can stop being a doctor” yup. Being a doctor isn’t a major part of his character at all…
 
Because his fruit making a room where anyone who enters it becomes his patience, moves like “injection shot” and “Antibacterial Curtain” as well as Law using biology into his attacks isn’t on the nose enough for you? Or that his name is the “Surgeon of death”

“Law can stop being a doctor” yup. Being a doctor isn’t a major part of his character at all…
Ok? Are jinbe’s attacks based on him being a helmsman?

law could still have surgery related attacks and give up doctor duties on the ship. Actually Oda could make it a gag where Law is actually Chopper’s assistant

the fact is Chopper’s dream and goal doesn’t conflict with Law. Chopper wishes to cure every disease, Law can’t do that and as far as we know doesn’t care to
 
Ok? Are jinbe’s attacks based on him being a helmsman?

law could still have surgery related attacks and give up doctor duties on the ship. Actually Oda could make it a gag where Law is actually Chopper’s assistant

the fact is Chopper’s dream and goal doesn’t conflict with Law. Chopper wishes to cure every disease, Law can’t do that and as far as we know doesn’t care to
Laws a doctor and his skills honestly surpass choppers at this point in time in that role. Chopper couldn’t heal the children in pink hazard but law did it in an instant to showcase their difference in skill.

Laws not joining because it would diminish what is left of choppers character. Or you’d rather law join give up one of his main characteristics and diminish his character.

Yeah, not happening.
 
Laws a doctor and his skills honestly surpass choppers at this point in time in that role. Chopper couldn’t heal the children in pink hazard but law did it in an instant to showcase their difference in skill.

Laws not joining because it would diminish what is left of choppers character. Or you’d rather law join give up one of his main characteristics and diminish his character.

Yeah, not happening.
Law didn’t cure the kids, he specifically said he can’t do that and just tried to take the stimulants out. There’s a reason why the kids went to Vegapunk

There’s no diminishing here, did it diminish Franky’s role that he could steer the Sunny again? Did it diminish Usopp’s role that he couldn’t be the craftsman of the crew?

Oda could easily add a role for Law to command and highlight him in. He could also add a gag to make his character more quirky. Law doesn’t wish to become the greatest doctor in the world and his character is more interested in other things. Honestly being a tactician/strategist sounds a lot better and his character is already being highlighted as such

You keep saying it’s not happening while the series and hints make it clear it is. We’ll see
 
Law didn’t cure the kids, he specifically said he can’t do that and just tried to take the stimulants out. There’s a reason why the kids went to Vegapunk

There’s no diminishing here, did it diminish Franky’s role that he could steer the Sunny again? Did it diminish Usopp’s role that he couldn’t be the craftsman of the crew?

Oda could easily add a role for Law to command and highlight him in. He could also add a gag to make his character more quirky. Law doesn’t wish to become the greatest doctor in the world and his character is more interested in other things. Honestly being a tactician/strategist sounds a lot better and his character is already being highlighted as such

You keep saying it’s not happening while the series and hints make it clear it is. We’ll see
Usopps role was never craftsman. Frankys role was never helmsmen. No ones going to come in that’s a better shipwright than franky nor a better sharpshooter than Usopp.

You’re drawing straws saying Odas going to disregard Laws childhood, Laws talent, Laws current occupation, and the thing law themed his abilities around for a gag.

The actual characters show it’s not going to happen. You want proof, Oda planned out the straw hats final crew number at the beginning of the story, he never even thought up laws character until Sabaody archipelago by his own volition.
 
You’re drawing straws saying Odas going to disregard Laws childhood, Laws talent, Laws current occupation, and the thing law themed his abilities around for a gag.

The actual characters show it’s not going to happen. You want proof, Oda planned out the straw hats final crew number at the beginning of the story, he never even thought up laws character until Sabaody archipelago by his own volition.
Laws childhood was mainly focused on his relationship with Corazon. Unlike Robin, Franky or chopper his “occupation” wasn’t the main focus of his flashback. His impending death, fate and Corazon were.

Yes, and according to Oda’s sketch the crew is complete and Robin isn’t part of his crew yet here we are talking about the next crew member and Robin is part of the crew.

Quick question? What skills have been mainly highlighted this past arc? Law’s doctor skills or his strategist skills?
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Law, a doctor, went ahead to fight Big Mom instead of healing Zoro, delegating it to Sanji/Chopper

It’s literally in front of you, Oda prefers to make him a fighter/strategist
 
People need to realize the only way Yamato doesn’t leave Wano as a straw hat would be if she leaves wano in a casket.

Yamato is not staying in wano and at this point it’s either they become a straw hat or Oda kills them off. I’m putting my money on straw hat
There is a third choice,she can travel on her own
 
Laws childhood was mainly focused on his relationship with Corazon. Unlike Robin, Franky or chopper his “occupation” wasn’t the main focus of his flashback. His impending death, fate and Corazon were.

Yes, and according to Oda’s sketch the crew is complete and Robin isn’t part of his crew yet here we are talking about the next crew member and Robin is part of the crew.

Quick question? What skills have been mainly highlighted this past arc? Law’s doctor skills or his strategist skills?
His doctor skills… even on the rooftop that was showcased with lines like “I don’t know the biology of a dragon but the heart should be around here.”

Or after Law left the rooftop with Zoro: “I gave him emergency treatment”

He makes plans, but there are a lot of strategic minded individuals but that’s not their main roles. If that’s the case then Kinemon is the main strategist.

To mention your point Robins character evolved from the botanist. Laws character was completely new in Sabaody.
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There is a third choice,she can travel on her own
Does she know how to sail? I’m assuming she doesn’t since she’s never left the island
 
His doctor skills… even on the rooftop that was showcased with lines like “I don’t know the biology of a dragon but the heart should be around here.”

Or after Law left the rooftop with Zoro: “I gave him emergency treatment”

He makes plans, but there are a lot of strategic minded individuals but that’s not their main roles. If that’s the case then Kinemon is the main strategist.

To mention your point Robins character evolved from the botanist. Laws character was completely new in Sabaody.
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Does she know how to sail? I’m assuming she doesn’t since she’s never left the island
Robin herself was a last minute addition. The botanist was scraped.

Law is the strategist. Kinemon strategy was trashed and who saved him? Law.

It is no coincidence that every time a Straw Hat is going to join a role is suddenly being highlighted. Nami gets sick so Luffy wants a doctor, The Merry is broken down so they need a shipwrights, Jinbe is shown to be a top notch helmsman on his flashback.

What we’re seeing right now is Law create strategies both before and during battle. His doctors skills aren’t being highlighted

And no, making side comments isn’t a “highlight” highlights are dedicating multiple panels to show a characters strength in said topic
 
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