Who will be the next Strawhat


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I can see why that's the case for some. But you'd have to remember Pedro was more on the forefront of WCI because he had history of conflict there. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi are vassals of Lord Oden, so of course they'd have a stronger presence in an arc that has more to deal with their relationship with said character.

Carrot feels insignificant because she's never at the forefront of the narrative to move it anywhere, which makes her all the more curious. It leads you to think where is this going?
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You're assuming I said she'd fight Smoothie. I said that a confrontation with the Straw Hats will hopefully give incentive for her to get her ass up and do something.
Yamato would be one who fight smoothie
 
Personally want a parrot for the next crewmember.
That role is already reserved for Luffy with his whole "will be PK" spamming.

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@Ravagerblade @Jew D. Boy actually Yamato being creepy, mentally deranged, Oden cosplay or whatever is not an argument for her not joining the crew. It's not like Oda sets the standard for the main crew high. Luffy already accepted a psychopath who feed his own teammate with razor and scissor for lunch. Still accepted a traitor who KOed him and leaving him and the navigator to Big Mom's Enraged Army. If such a person is allowed to join, Yamato who looks like a saint in comparison, is obviously ok to join no matter she drops the whole Oden cosplaying or not.
 
You were actually talking about a hypothetical thing with a smoothie actually did make it up there. I was like thinking there’s no way carrot would survive that
It was already foreshadowed back in WCI that Carrot would have a confrontation with Perospero. She has a bone to pick with him specifically so this was inevitable. However, Big Mom isn't going down this arc, so I speculate she may participate in the inevitable confrontation of the Big Mom Pirates against the Straw Hat Crew.

Maybe Smoothie will finally get a fight and do something lol
This was what I said. I never insinuated Carrot would fight Smoothie. That was on you.
 
This was what I said. I never insinuated Carrot would fight Smoothie. That was on you.
Yes but if Carrot is among them she will not stand a chance against smoothie. Neither would Nami nor Robin. Sanji refuse to fight women, Jinbei water would ability easily counters. Luffy would have hands full big mom and zoro who know who going fight. It would be kind Yamato vs smoothie fight. Since there two yonko’s children
 
Yes but if Carrot is among them she will not stand a chance against smoothie. Neither would Nami nor Robin. Sanji refuse to fight women, Jinbei water would ability easily counters. Luffy would have hands full big mom and zoro who know who going fight. It would be kind Yamato vs smoothie fight. Since there two yonko’s children
Okay, you are free to think that. However, that wasn't what I was saying.
 
Very heavy blow for Yamao4nakama. Exactly what I and others predicted would happen is playing out as we speak.


Yamao does all her dumb shit when she's impersonating. That includes claiming that she expects to ride on Luffy's ship. People often spin what she said as saying that she wants to join the crew, but what she actually said is SPEAKING AS KOZUKI ODEN, with that logic, she expects to ride on the ship (Because that would parallel to Oden).

The expectation to ride on Luffy's ship isn't Yamao's, it's her speaking as Kozuki Oden.

Note, in this chapter, we get Yamao speaking as Yamato. An important distinction.

In this moment, Yamato poured out her heart telling Shinobu and Momo about her story, how much she not only admired Oden, but greatly valued them too. In her past, she tried to save Momo but at the time she was powerless to do so. However...Now she has that power to protect him. Yamao isn't just protecting Momo because she was told to, she is fulfilling a duty that she failed to do that day and is now making up for it by pledging her life to Momo.

It should go without saying, but yeah this is a nuke to Yamao's chances of joining the crew. How're you gonna pledge your life to someone, then just up and leave at the end of the arc, leaving them alone when they and their country are still weak and vulnerable. No straw hat got treatment like this. Developing such a new deep connection to an arc centric character. Obviously straw hats have connections to arc characters, but those are pre-established connections. Like Nami and Nojiko, Franky and Iceburg etc.

To make a comparison, this would be like if Franky pledged his life to Paulie and started heavily interacting with him, instead of Usopp, Robin and other straw hats. The only reason Oda would focus on developing such a deep new relationship would be if it would have big future relevance. Which at this point is extremely likely. Yamao is staying on Wano with Momo. Either as a daimyo, retainer or perhaps as another shogun that could co-rule Wano with Momo. Either way, it seems very clear after this chapter that she isn't joining.
 
No, he's done that for any lady. He saved Reiju from Big Mom, despite her showing and knowing her combat capabilities. Saved Tashigi beforehand all because he "heard the tears of a lady dropping" without knowing how outclassed she was against Vergo. He refused to fight Kalifa at his full strength because of his chivalry to never hurt a lady, which Nami chastised him for.

He'll legit do it for any lady when a threat approaches. He trusted Usopp to protect Nami in the situation with Page One and Ulti because, despite knowing how resilient and tough Page One could be, he believed in his crewmate to protect Nami in his stead.
Reiju = because BM...
Tashigi = because she's fodder compared to Vergo...

I think Sanji trusts not only Usopp but Nami as well... He knows they can work together and believes that they're capable of beating Ulti and P1...

It only happened like 4 times, and 1 of those times it was intentional and not even her and the other one deserves no explanation.

And it rarely happens to Luffy? It happens to him quite frequently. Just back in Dressrosa, Luffy was trapped by Senor Pink into the ground and was about to be kicked by Dellinger before Zoro kicked him from behind. Luffy and Law, while traveling on Ucy, got tricked into a water passage and a Doflamingo clone was about to take them out till they were saved by Abdulla and Jeet. He was tied up by Doflamingo and had to fight his string clone and Bellamy before returning to the surface to fight against the real Doflamingo when Law was fighting him alone. After using Gear Fourth, which at the time was taxing on his body, Luffy needed the help from Sabo to keep Burgess off of him, the Coliseum fighters to slow down Doflamingo, Gatz as a means of travel throughout the entire scenario, and Law so that he could save Rebecca in time and resume his fight with Doflamingo. So its pretty safe to say that it does happen to Luffy, whether it is for the narrative or otherwise.

Besides, you used motherfucking KATAKURI as an example. The dude basically bodied anyone in his wake, including Luffy. Not the best look.
That's exactly why the crew needs a more powerful nakama than Carrot... If there are lots of people who can do that to Luffy, then the weaker his crewmate is, the more likely it is that there are more people more powerful than that nakama...

I'm not saying that they have to consistently recruit ZSJ tier persons, or even better, but they have to recruit more than "just above average" or more than just "a good fighter"... Pedro is a good example... Those kind of standards at the very least... From the looks of it, Carrot is not even half of Pedro's, largely due to a seemingly lack of Haki...

I don't find it an inconsistency. That's why Jinbe was actually worried if she was trained for it. It wasn't a matter of being surprised if she can do it because all Minks can, but if she could control it since she could potentially turn berserk and attack them if that wasn't the case. Presumably because it takes a long time to master said transformation as hinted at by Pekoms (27 years old), but she can, despite being 15 years old. Her being able to do so is probably foreshadowing how capable Carrot truly is.

Also, I'll never forget the fact she dodged Zoro's slash when she intentionally charged at him.
Hope her floating abilities gets addressed. Not sure if that's a Mink thing or her thing because outside Sulong, the only characters who have shown any levitation abilities so far was Pedro with his rotating tail and Neko when he charged at Jack.
I think I didn't expound the "inconsistency" part clearly, I actually agree with you with that part wherein Carrot is supposed to have at least either CoA or CoO since she's a protege of Pedro... What I find to be a consistency is that Pekoms managed to unlock Haki but Carrot can't when she can master Sulong...

That's what I'm hoping for because I feel like it would be foolish to think she can take him on by herself if she didn't have a plan to stop him. If she acknowledged like Brook did that she was too weak to fight Perospero, then maybe that would have meant that she knows she wouldn't be capable to fight him.
Brook is old enough to feel where to properly use confidence being a former captain so he's not as stubborn as Carrot may be...

Will bet more money on Usopp's frog than the dumb bunny :) #GamaPynousukeForNakama
I, too, hope that the frog tags along... But I don't think it will make another appearance...

  • Roger had shanks and buggy
  • Newgate had marco and probably jozu and teach seeing as their both younger then him
  • Oden had neko and inu travel with him
  • Xebec had kaido
We need a pirate apprentice
Especially with how much it's been talked about this arc alone
Let's say the crew will get those "juniors" like Shanks, Buggy, Inu, Neko and Bullet (included him for the sake of an example): Ulti, P1, Tama, Carrot, Caribou...

In terms of dreams and the roles they play in joining the crew, this is how I see it:

Zoro - Joining helps him meet stronger foes on his path to become the strongest swordsman.

Nami - Joining helps her see the world more so as to draw a whole map of it.

Usopp - Joining helps him meet stronger foes so as to become a brave warrior of the sea.

Sanji - Joining helps it make it more likely that he’ll see All Blue.

Chopper - Joining helps him get a better understanding of the diseases from all around the world and how to cure them.

Robin - Joining helps make it more likely that she’ll discover the Void Century.

Franky - Joining helps ensure that the Thousand Sunny will sail any sea so long as he keeps tending to it.

Brook - Joining helps ensure that he’ll meet back up with Laboon one day.

Jinbe - Joining helps give the crew more power in defeating the terrible forces in the world, including prejudice, and better result in there being less hostility and discourse and more equality and harmony between the fishmen and humans.

Carrot - ???

Yamato - ???
Carrot - Joining helps her collect all kinds of carrots in the NW...

Yamato - Joining helps her surpass the significance of her idol figure to a D clan...

I'd say wait as the raid continues. She's been sticking around this long, must mean something.
Just like Pauly and Kin'emon, and even Barto...

Very heavy blow for Yamao4nakama. Exactly what I and others predicted would happen is playing out as we speak.


Yamao does all her dumb shit when she's impersonating. That includes claiming that she expects to ride on Luffy's ship. People often spin what she said as saying that she wants to join the crew, but what she actually said is SPEAKING AS KOZUKI ODEN, with that logic, she expects to ride on the ship (Because that would parallel to Oden).

The expectation to ride on Luffy's ship isn't Yamao's, it's her speaking as Kozuki Oden.

Note, in this chapter, we get Yamao speaking as Yamato. An important distinction.

In this moment, Yamato poured out her heart telling Shinobu and Momo about her story, how much she not only admired Oden, but greatly valued them too. In her past, she tried to save Momo but at the time she was powerless to do so. However...Now she has that power to protect him. Yamao isn't just protecting Momo because she was told to, she is fulfilling a duty that she failed to do that day and is now making up for it by pledging her life to Momo.

It should go without saying, but yeah this is a nuke to Yamao's chances of joining the crew. How're you gonna pledge your life to someone, then just up and leave at the end of the arc, leaving them alone when they and their country are still weak and vulnerable. No straw hat got treatment like this. Developing such a new deep connection to an arc centric character. Obviously straw hats have connections to arc characters, but those are pre-established connections. Like Nami and Nojiko, Franky and Iceburg etc.

To make a comparison, this would be like if Franky pledged his life to Paulie and started heavily interacting with him, instead of Usopp, Robin and other straw hats. The only reason Oda would focus on developing such a deep new relationship would be if it would have big future relevance. Which at this point is extremely likely. Yamao is staying on Wano with Momo. Either as a daimyo, retainer or perhaps as another shogun that could co-rule Wano with Momo. Either way, it seems very clear after this chapter that she isn't joining.
Actually feels the opposite for me... The recent chapter further solidifies her joining the crew afterwards...
 
Very heavy blow for Yamao4nakama. Exactly what I and others predicted would happen is playing out as we speak.


Yamao does all her dumb shit when she's impersonating. That includes claiming that she expects to ride on Luffy's ship. People often spin what she said as saying that she wants to join the crew, but what she actually said is SPEAKING AS KOZUKI ODEN, with that logic, she expects to ride on the ship (Because that would parallel to Oden).

The expectation to ride on Luffy's ship isn't Yamao's, it's her speaking as Kozuki Oden.

Note, in this chapter, we get Yamao speaking as Yamato. An important distinction.

In this moment, Yamato poured out her heart telling Shinobu and Momo about her story, how much she not only admired Oden, but greatly valued them too. In her past, she tried to save Momo but at the time she was powerless to do so. However...Now she has that power to protect him. Yamao isn't just protecting Momo because she was told to, she is fulfilling a duty that she failed to do that day and is now making up for it by pledging her life to Momo.

It should go without saying, but yeah this is a nuke to Yamao's chances of joining the crew. How're you gonna pledge your life to someone, then just up and leave at the end of the arc, leaving them alone when they and their country are still weak and vulnerable. No straw hat got treatment like this. Developing such a new deep connection to an arc centric character. Obviously straw hats have connections to arc characters, but those are pre-established connections. Like Nami and Nojiko, Franky and Iceburg etc.

To make a comparison, this would be like if Franky pledged his life to Paulie and started heavily interacting with him, instead of Usopp, Robin and other straw hats. The only reason Oda would focus on developing such a deep new relationship would be if it would have big future relevance. Which at this point is extremely likely. Yamao is staying on Wano with Momo. Either as a daimyo, retainer or perhaps as another shogun that could co-rule Wano with Momo. Either way, it seems very clear after this chapter that she isn't joining.
You know that all the straw hats in someway shape or form protected someone before they join right and even risked there lives process
zoro- protected little girl for several days when the Marines got him
Nami-Work her but off to try buy certain village and win back freedom in the process
Ussop-was trying protect kaya and former crew members from captain Kuro and Jango
Sanji-wanted to protect zeff and reiju in two separate arcs
Chopper-wanted protect dr. hirluke’s flag, Dr. Kirehea, Nami, rest members straw hats, and animals
Robin-wanted To protect and sacrifice her life for friends alongside the journey she had with them
Franky-was trying his to help retrieve robin, trying boasting her morale of believing her existence is not crime and when she was suffering from her psd after the buster call
Brook-save several members of the crew and trying protect Afro.
Jinbei-has willing lay down life on several occasions since impel down, marineford, whole cake island

if anything it does boast Yamato chance even further. With her there sense of honor, respect, Loyalty, and regret that is there. As well possibilities we might be getting flashback from her perspective in incoming chapters pretty soon. Even in the previous chapter it has me worried about Yamato futures since she is the descendent of Kaido. Is likely she will start Journey just similar what Oden did as she originally intended.
 
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Yamato development is really big in this chap. We see her strong determination and emotional scene. Im glad she has that.

As expected, yamato would get along with momo. She puts her life for momo seems like she put herself as momo servant. Well servant probably not the right word to describe it but it's more like prince (yamato) and princess (momo) lol. Whatever is that, this moment really deepen their relationship

To me this chapter make yamato more loveable but does not really give me a hints on wether she staying or leaving.
But imo it's the plot to make a new home for her, a place that people really care for her, a place to return, whether she staying or leaving.




Powerlevel wise, I think she's strong like monster trio. She tanked the explosion just like it's nothing and she one shotted a gifter in a surprising way. Did she uses ryuo this chap? There's high chance that she did coz maybe oden write something about ryuo in his journal. Ryuo or not, she did make sasaki surprised twice. If she join, she'll definietly join the monster division.

But idk it feels so wrong to have 2 monster joining for the new nakamas at the same time

I feel like she is the wano arc katakuri. They're both yonko kid + they're strong. But the different is that yamato flashback connected to the main plot unlike katakuri flashback
 

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That role is already reserved for Luffy with his whole "will be PK" spamming.

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@Ravagerblade @Jew D. Boy actually Yamato being creepy, mentally deranged, Oden cosplay or whatever is not an argument for her not joining the crew. It's not like Oda sets the standard for the main crew high. Luffy already accepted a psychopath who feed his own teammate with razor and scissor for lunch. Still accepted a traitor who KOed him and leaving him and the navigator to Big Mom's Enraged Army. If such a person is allowed to join, Yamato who looks like a saint in comparison, is obviously ok to join no matter she drops the whole Oden cosplaying or not.
Coming in hot with the body slam on Sanji as well as a shot across the bow to Yamato haters...we truly love to see it :finally:
 
Reiju = because BM...
Tashigi = because she's fodder compared to Vergo...

I think Sanji trusts not only Usopp but Nami as well... He knows they can work together and believes that they're capable of beating Ulti and P1...
And in both of those situations he helped them when they were threatened, did he not? So your previous comment has no basis, my dude.

That's exactly why the crew needs a more powerful nakama than Carrot... If there are lots of people who can do that to Luffy, then the weaker his crewmate is, the more likely it is that there are more people more powerful than that nakama...

I'm not saying that they have to consistently recruit ZSJ tier persons, or even better, but they have to recruit more than "just above average" or more than just "a good fighter"... Pedro is a good example... Those kind of standards at the very least... From the looks of it, Carrot is not even half of Pedro's, largely due to a seemingly lack of Haki...
You can't be the judge of her strength when you don't know what she's fully capable of doing. Sulong is only one aspect of her fighting capabilities and that's conditional. The rest as far as we know is still unknown, so that's why I'm anticipating this fight against Perospero; we'll finally see the extent of her abilities.

Besides, people already suspended their disbelief that Kinemon could hurt Kaido despite Oden telling him (and to the readers by proxy) to not underestimate his samurai. If Pedro says she's a good fighter, now is the best chance to see how good.


I think I didn't expound the "inconsistency" part clearly, I actually agree with you with that part wherein Carrot is supposed to have at least either CoA or CoO since she's a protege of Pedro... What I find to be a consistency is that Pekoms managed to unlock Haki but Carrot can't when she can master Sulong...
We don't know if she does yet. Honestly, it could be a base requirement in order to be a Musketeer/Guardian. We don't know that. But Carrot did imply that in order to be one of the "elite fighters" on Zou, you'd need to have control over the Sulong transformation.


Brook is old enough to feel where to properly use confidence being a former captain so he's not as stubborn as Carrot may be...
She's stubborn, but she's not stupid. That much we know for sure. How she plans on beating a guy that literally beat Brook and Chopper casually and to subdue Pedro easily is something I plan to see. She already knows what he can do and she has enough awareness to know what to do in a required situation.



Just like Pauly and Kin'emon, and even Barto...
Pauly was with the Galley-La company most of the time during Enies Lobby. He didn't even fight a major antagonist or help the crew escape.

Kinemon has always represented the Samurai throughout his journey with the crew. His quest was finding Kanjuro and Raizo, head to Wano to confront Kaido, and fulfill Oden's will on opening Wano's borders.

Barto was one of many coliseum fighters that assisted the crew in taking down the Donquixote Pirates and liberate Dressrosa. He was also a captain of his own crew, so he easily was an ensured ally, especially in the creation of the Grand Fleet.

None of that applies to Carrot. Carrot's reasoning for being in WCI isn't established outside of her desire for adventure. She doesn't really need to be where she is for circumstantial reasons, she just is. She can, quite literally, do whatever the fuck she wants, as seen by the fact she stowed away with the Straw Hats to Totland without asking permission from the Dukes to leave and is not participating in the battle with the Beasts Pirates on the top of the Skull Dome. Guess where she is, though?
 
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What vibes is Yamato giving you so far?
If I had to explain, it would be a character moment that provides the opportunity to make a distinction on the qualities of the character themselves. The type of moments that make you feel a certain type of way, in this case, the vibes I got were very similar to the Strawhats in their respective arcs before they joined.
 
Really hoping Yamato fights Smoothie. This chapter pretty much showed me how powerful she really is. Her and Smoothie are roughly the same age and are both children of their respective Yonko.

Everytime Yamato clashes with a F6, it doesnt feel like its her proper fight, just instances of a prior relationship with them. Just like Ulti, I don't think Sasaki is Yamato's opponent, but still Franky's.

I'm starting to think she is really being built up as part of Luffy's top 4, in that:

- Zoro may fight King/Queen
- Sanji may fight King/Queen
- Jinbe may fight Queen/Jack
- Yamato may fight Smoothie

His top 4 finishes off the 4 remaining commanders between the 2 Yonko this arc. All that this hinges on is the BMP actually arriving and playing significant factors in the battles.

Same goes for Carrot too, there is a deep significance with her clashing with Pero, and that already seems to be happening. Hopefully both join to payoff the last 200 chapters tbh. Pero and Smoothie need their moments at least, and I'd love it if some others fought Daifuku/Campote/Amande.
 
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