One Piece thread (Spoilers)

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.

...Each character has a purpose, or practicality. What? He even said why he needs each character lol

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.

Sounds more like an assumptions but I have no idea.

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.

Er if you consider a random image of him foreshadowed, while jinbe was actually introduced..especially at such a crucial point.

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?

We know as much about jinbe as we knew about robin when she joined. You're jumping the gun on his personality, frankly I'd at least let him guide them to the new world and see how he reacts. One piece is about friendship and I think jinbe saved his ass at the most critical conditions.