One Piece thread (Spoilers)

That's kind of ignorant considering he was clearly written in the story to guide luffy requested by Ace, who was one of the only human's he's tolerated. Jinbe has been foreshadowed since like episode 2x? He offers more experience and flexibility for the SH's

But what is fun about that? I don't care about practicality. One Piece is not a world where practicality remotely matters. There are islands floating in the sky and a mountain where water flows up and blood loss only matters if it's plot relevant.

Do you know why Luffy has rubber powers? It's because it enables Oda to keep the story lighthearted even at serious and tense moments because his attacks are inherently goofy looking. This is at its heart a fun story, not a realistic one.

And Rayleigh was foreshadowed before Jinbei was. Oda has slipped references to later characters all the time before actually introducing them, that doesn't really mean anything besides Oda has a direction. And if Jinbei sticks around just because Ace asked him to babysit Luffy, then now we have somebody on board that non-comically tries to stop luffy from doing dumb things, which makes the story that much less fun.

Forget about anything practical for a moment. What about Jinbei's personality do you enjoy? What about his fighting? Is it particularly interesting or creative? Why do you still want his character around?