Also, including Rockstar, the Red Hair Pirates have 10 main members...
This doesn't seem like a coincidence to me.
@Shiroyru @Paperchampion23 etc
This has been something ive been bringing up for a while actually.
10 or 11 is the magic number. Imo, the safest guess is 10, but not every crew member gets a fight and sometimes secondary characters (read Kyros, Inu, etc) get main fights.
However, it works pretty nicely for a lot of the final major factions
- Luffy: 10
- Blackbeard: 11 (w/ Kuzan)
- Shanks: 11 (w/ Rockstar)
- Akainu: 10 (2 Admirals, 7 Zodiac VAs; assuming Kizaru loses at Egghead, otherwise 11)
- Im: 10 (w/ God's Knights; But this assumes the Gorosei are separate factors or not fighters)
You take away Kuzan (either via some plotwist or circumstance where hes not fought with BB) or Rockstar (not a RHP commander), then you are at a clean 10 members per faction.
Mihawk and CG currently are the weird ones though since theres no clean way they make 10, even if they recruited former Shichibukai. They would literally need Kuma, Weevil, Moria, Doflamingo, Law, and Hancock to even only make 9, and theres no way some of those are joining.
But it definitely makes you think......