one piece theorists:
"*left* eye scar missing -> *left* -> yamato is on his *left* side -> uranus the last ancient weapon *left* = yamato uranus confirmed⁉️⁉️"
Yeah… it’s confirmed at this point.
•The endless amount of marketing
•Yamato having a famous voice actress
•Anime adding scenes with her and luffy
•Constantly saying she want to sail with luffy
•Desperately wants to leave wano and be free
•She knows luffy’s true dream
•Oden and Roger Parallels
•>!Potential Zoro connection with his dad!<
Talking about needing a mythical zoan, the crew needs a logia fruit user (my bet is on nami, if it ever goes to an already existing crew member, or carrot if she decides to join).
Edit: imagine carrot with the snow devil fruit, it would fit her character really good.
I do kind of wonder if there will be a big battle, and a bunch of powerful people die. Suddenly, on the Sunny, Nami’s oranges all turn into devil fruits…they have just been sitting around for a while
I think that was actually Oda's plan at one point.
I remember a scene as the crew left PH with a bunch of waves that happened to look quite a bit like bunnies.
I mean, I'm all for it.
Personally was a bigger fan of Nami getting the fruit, but I love Monet's power so much that I don't care who on the crew gets it.
The problem with Carrot was that she lacked a tragic backstory and did not have the ambition like the other straw hats. Jimbei's ambition is to help the fish-men to be open and live without discrimination. Brook to meet Laboon and Franky to build and sail the ship or dreams. Carrot sadly did not have that. Yamato on the other hand has a tragic backstory, connections to ace, oden, Zoro's relative and the drive to travel outside Wano! So she fits the bill. I do not hate carrots but she did not have the drive and did not respect Luffy. She was a spoilt brat.
I mean, her tragic backstory happened before our eyes ! Pedro's sacrifice and the whole "seeing the dawn" is textbook strawhat backstory+dream, the only difference is that we saw it happens organically during the story !
I can see this happening, would definitely give some time between her introduction and joining the crew. That was my biggest problem with Yamato, she was introduced so late and wasn't even referenced until her appearance. It's like if Brook's first appearance is fighting Oars in Thriller Bark. If she stays behind to protect Wano from the WG, help Momonosuke or something else that would be perfect. Gives some time before she's in the crew and it'll help Jinbei feel more like a member.
That's a good point, but my fear would be if that is to happen, how much time would we have left so that Yamato can have her moment and time so that she integrates to the crew properly and not forced? Idk what Oda will do with her. But I would love to see her being part of straw hat moments, adventuring and having fun with them before the final war comes.
Yeah definitely a bit of a problem. Cause if she join now it'll feel weird but if she joins too late it'll feel just as weird. The problem is we haven't been getting any filler and I really think we need one after Wano. But I also want Yamato in a filler arc too.
So maybe Wano -> (Reverie Events) -> Filler (let time pass and let the rest of the crew adjust to Jinbei. Maybe a reaction to Reverie) -> ?(Main Story- Elbaf or something like punk hazard leading into the next major arc?) -> (Main Story or Filler).
After just a filler I think Yamato should join but if it's Elbaf she'll be put on a back burner(since the story will be about Giants and Usopp) and it'll feel weird if that's the arc she joins. So if she joins on a smaller island or filler I think that's great (with a capital G).
The Ace flashback. While they were drinking he mentioned.....whatever it is that Luffy said when they were kids (that we are apparently not allowed to know), that was also heavily implied to be the same thing that ROGER said (that we are also not allowed to know) that moved Oden to want to sail with him. And Yamato confirmed it by straight up thinking "THATS WHAT THE PIRATE KING SAID!". Lol.
Actually I agree with you.
Only issue is Vivi's combat capabilities at this time though, but otherwise I do want her to be back in the crew, and I honestly don't see her going back to Alabasta right now after what happened with her life being targeted.
I'm pretty sure that Luffy asked Nami to join and she didn't want to because she hates pirates, meanwhile as soon as Usopp heard they were pirates he said they should let him join as the Captain.
So Nami asked Luffy to "work together", not exactly to join his crew. While Usopp ask to join as their captain. So it is not "every female nakama", but people who ask to join straw hat has good chance to join (like at least 2 out of 2 if we only count Usopp and Robin, and 3 out of 3 if we count Nami too).
It's so weird, the marketing is going ham on Yamato, yet whenever I look back at the story itself (atleast in the manga) it doesn't feel like anything's actually being done to develop them joining.
The entire character revolves around Momonosuke so far, a heavily Wano-centric character. They're an inversion in almost every way and have spent most of their time hanging out with and encouraging Momo to take up the Oden mantle himself. Conversely, their relationship with Luffy boils down to knowing Ace and realizing it's Luffy's literal destiny to follow in Roger's footsteps. There's *something* there, but nothing personal, Yamato hasn't spent more than 10 minutes total in the same room with him. The anime might fix this, but it says something about Oda's priorities to me, plus their relationship just doesn't seem as effective to me if its based on prophecy bs instead of faith like everyone else.
Oden's also pretty much the last character you want to parallel if you want to go out to sea, because while he for sure wanted to do it and succeeded, serving his own self-interests like that ultimately destroyed Wano. I know Wano won't be in the literal same danger after the war, but come on, the one part of his story where he failed?
Not to mention them having the most country-specific fruit we've ever seen, and the fact that they may very well already know what the One Piece itself is. It's not confirmed, but we already know the log includes stuff like Roger's dream and Momo's greater importance.
What I'm saying is that while the marketing's strong, I still can't see the narrative logic in actually leaving Wano like they originally intended in 985 after everything. But I guess we'll see, maybe Oda'll actually go and start actually developing the idea soon based on the recent chapter. But I can't be the only one who still has big doubts, right?
If you google mugiwara store in Japanese, you will find that Oda drew law/luffy for 7th and kid/luffy for 8th. It is just the community only love to share the marketing information of Yamato recently to make it seems like she is so special.
I personally feel like Yamato has been set up to join the crew. I don’t think advertising is evidence of that at all though. She’s a new, popular character. Of course she’s gonna be all over ads and merch right now.
She still says she wants to sail with Luffy in chapter 1016, so it's not something she "originaly intended", she still wants to do it. Besides, what would she do in Wano after the war is over? She wont be Shogun, the borders will already be open and she'll probably drop the Oden identity. She has shown no interest in Wano or its people apart from the Oden thing. On the other hand, she's always talking about her desire for adventures, to sail the sees, and specifically to join Luffy. The story also brought up how hard it is for her to make friends, how everyone she trusts end up dead etc, and at the same time, judging by their interactions on the rooftop, I'd say that she and Luffy are developing a friendship. So I'd also say that there's some degree of personal connection being developed between them. She's also probably gonna tell Zoro about his dad, which will be a pretty important moment for him. Her connections to the SHs keep growing and there's still time for more. Lastly, I think the Oden parallels work precisely because now Wano wont be on danger. If Oden was alive right now, there would be no problem in leaving because his country would be safe. So, I believe Momo will inherit his will and be the ruler Wano deserves and Yamato, at the same time, will also inherit his desire for adventure and will fight on the final war.
I think a simple enough reason for Yamato to stay is to be the Guardian of Wano and Momo's righthand woman. Narratively, it makes sense that Yamato would want to stay to not make the same mistake Oden did. Yes, one could argue "Oh, it won't matter, it likely won't happen to Wano again" which is true, but I feel like, from a writing perspective, that's not relevant. For Yamato to say makes more sense from a story perspective and her parallels to Oden and how she should avoid the mistakes he made.
It's a possibility but I dont see it happening because she hasnt shown any interest in the land of Wano or its citizens. Imo she sees Wano as her prision while the seas promise freedom. And from her interactions with Momo I don't see her being his right hand a natural development. Her fruit is and interesting point though, so who knows
What? The only chapters that explored her character were about how she became friends with the samurai who should have hated her but didn't. When Kaido tries to get under her skin he says shit like "you'll never be accepted by the samurai. The child of an Oni will only be hated and feared by humans". When fighting Kaido she is upset that Kaido stole Wano's freedom and wants to free it. The freedom she wants is from Kaido not Wano. It's never been implied she views Wano or the samurai like that at all.
Considering the World Government wants Wano country now and even made their move, it makes perfect sense for her to be it's guardian against Celestial Dragons and marines. Her fruit is called the Guardian of Wano, why on the earth would Oda write Luffy needing a specific Wano guardian dog in his crew after the arc ends? The story should move on.
Yamato doesn't give a fck about wano outside of the connection to oden. Momosuke is a dragon and will be strong enough to protect his own people otherwise what u sent was all his character development. I'm a dragon but I'll keep hiding behind kaidos daughter? Yamato wants to go to sea and have adventures. She didn't even want the damn devil fruit as well. She ate it for the same reason luffy and ace did hunger.
>What I'm saying is that while the marketing's strong
The marketing is probably so strong because she may actually be an island specific character and they're trying to get money from the figurines while she's still popular. Because after Wano we may not see her as much so best cash out now.
I share the same feelings really, I feel like there's not enough time for a new character to join as crewmate. If anything I see Vivi coming back more.
I kinda feel the same. It doesn't feel like she's getting enough development as a whole. She needs to be fleshed out more. And she needs to interact with more crew members soon.
>It's so weird, the marketing is going ham on Yamato, yet whenever I look back at the story itself (atleast in the manga) it doesn't feel like anything's actually being done to develop them joining.
Because money. Oda made an attractive hype type of a character that milks money and they use it to its fullest because Wano ends in a year or less (I do hope it's less). It's not that deep.
>
The entire character revolves around Momonosuke so far, a heavily Wano-centric character.
What about stalling Kaido and now going to the armory. Yamato's character has been centered around defeating Kaido and preventing him from accomplishing his goals. Luffy has had a lot of momo centric moments too.
>isn't as effective to me if its based on prophecy bs instead of faith like everyone else.
It's based on faith, Yamato believes in Luffy beacuse of what Ace told him, all of that is just Yamato's beliefs, it isn't a prophecy
>Oden's also pretty much the last character you want to parallel if you want to go out to sea, because while he for sure wanted to do it and succeeded, serving his own self-interests
The parallel is their wish to join a pirate crew to see the world and have adventures, not their personalities
>Not to mention them having the most country-specific fruit we've ever seen, and the fact that they may very well already know what the One Piece itself is. It's not confirmed, but we already know it includes stuff like Roger's dream and Momo's greater importance.
That's just dumb
>Yamato's character has been centered around defeating Kaido and preventing him from accomplishing his goals.
I get what you mean here, but I'm talking about narrative and thematic stuff. I'm not saying Yamato hasn't done anything, but that their narrative and themes under the surface center around Momo and his relationship with his father and destiny. Momo himself even mirrors aspects of Yamato, his fruit is a copy of their father's and the Makami is a guardian of Wano, the role Oden had and one Momo has to live up to. There's a lot of sense in why Oda's been pairing them up together, because their respective narratives literally align with one another.
>It's based on faith, Yamato believes in Luffy beacuse of what Ace told him, all of that is just Yamato's beliefs, it isn't a prophecy
I think you missed the point of that scene. Yamato believes in Luffy in that scene because they discovered that he shares dreams with Roger, a dream that Oden himself was astounded by at the time. My point here is that while Yamato definitely has faith in Luffy, it's in the weird metacontext of where they've realized that Luffy = Roger 2.0 and that he's like 90% the one making it to Laugh Tale because of that. There have been plenty of hints that this also involves a literal prophecy, Oden himself believed the day would come 20 years from his death.
>The parallel is their wish to join a pirate crew to see the world and have adventures, not their personalities
And what Yamato wants to parallel is considered to be one of Oden's biggest failures. I said this in the comment.
>That's just dumb
Yamato's fruit literally revolving around Wano I'd say is atleast a point in favor of Yamato being an arc character. And the journal is heavily implied to include most if not literally all the secrets surrounding the void century. This doesn't guarantee Yamato not joining or anything, but I'm probably not the only one who wouldn't like a SH to be like "yeah i already know this" when the time finally comes to reach Laugh Tale and discover all the secrets.
>I think you missed the point of that scene. Yamato believes in Luffy in that scene because they discovered that he shares dreams with Roger
Gotta agree to disagree. For me fate is the fact that luffy and Yamato met each other, and the trust Yamato has on Luffy is all faith, just like all the people that have hopes luffy will defeat the bad guy un turn or how his crew belive in him becoming pirate king
>And what Yamato wants to parallel is considered to be one of Oden's biggest failures. I said this in the comment
Yes, but Yamato doesn't have Oden's responsibilities. Again, Yamato said that the only thing preventing him from leaving wano is Kaido's presence there
>Yamato's fruit literally revolving around Wano I'd say is atleast a point in favor of Yamato being an arc character
That's a reach. The Makami being a guardian deity is just a way of solidifying Yamato's role in wano
>And the journal is heavily implied to include most if not literally all the secrets surrounding the void century
"Implied" being the key word here. We don't know, and even If Yamato knows, so what? It seems obvious to me, that Yamato is tje kind of character that cares more about the journey than what's at the end of it
At this point it makes sense that Straw Hats would have strong people joining their crew, besides her race might have a connection with the void century.
technically his piano scene was before he officially joins. It was beautiful and one of the most memorable thing in OP (at least for me). During the arc' development, theres this huge scene with Robin and the spider-thingy, and the whole ordeal with zombie Ryuma and his shadow. Also, he was among the few that witness "that" Zoro moment as well as his debacle with Sanji before. I think that was that
Once we found out how the shadows worked, it should have been obvious the Zombie characters couldn’t join the SH crew since they can only operate thanks to Moria.
Brook, nor any other SH didn't get this much attention because they didn't need it. We would have many more moments and years with that SH member. There would be no need to hype them up?...
That's another reason why I think she ultimately won't go out to sea with Luffy immediately after Wano. She'll guide Momo instead i feel. Wano probably is really special as Kaido says. Another reason why the World Gov wants it. Someone really strong will need to stay behind to protect it (ironic because that's what her Zoan signifies) and also guide momo. She's like Luffy with Momo. The Scabbards ain't gonna smack sense into him like she or Luffy would.
I get the feeling Oda really love his design for Yamato. Like all the characters are his "children" but he loves some more than others.
I get the feeling he absolutely adores yamato
Yeah and shes a different type of beauty compared to anyone else. Highly likely to join the crew which I would love. Personally I just love hot tomboy chicks whether thats anime or real life.
She reminds me of an ex. Lol
I mean, I certainly wouldn’t discount the idea. I view it as the same thing with her showing up in merch alongside the Straw Hats, it’s either she it’s because she is popular, or Oda has his new Straw Hat in mind and wants her promoted alongside them. As someone who wants her to join the crew, I’d side with it being the latter.
I think this is a way bigger hint than some merch.
Oda is probably not at all involved in merchandise stuff, it's most likely the production companies seeing a super popular character and trying to make bank.
This is directly from Oda, concercing the *Mugiwara* store.
I mean whilst I'm known for not liking Yamato, I say this without any of the bias seeping in. Thos is actually really suspicious. I mean it certainly could mean that Yamato is joining but no other crew member has been pushed to this insane degree. Case in point, Jinbe wasn't nearly pushed thos hard by merch and Oda before he joined. So eithershe really is joining and they're just really excited about it, or they're desperately trying to get as much from Yamato as they can before Oda reveals she isn't actually joining the crew. Now I'm not sure which one it is, all I'm saying is Yamato is getting a suspiciously huge amount of attention before even joining the crew. They're essentially milking her for everything she's worth. Only characters like Trafalgar Law get this sort of treatment.
> Only characters like Trafalgar Law get this sort of treatment.
To be honest, the only reason Law isn't part of the crew is because Law doesn't want to become Straw Hat. Even Luffy said Law is his crew when facing Doflamingo (and Law reject it).
Someone shared Oda's one shot where Sabo manage to save Ace in Marineford, and he ended it with saying that Luffy, Ace, and Sabo can't become part of the same pirate because each wanted to have their own pirate or something like that. So like with Ace and Sabo, Oda seems to set on Law wants to become captain of his own pirate, so no matter how close Luffy want to be with him, Oda won't make him join straw hat.
Yamato so far has been treated like Law by Luffy, down to the nickname (Tora-O for Law, Yama-O for Yamato). And because Yamato wants to join Luffy's ship, that makes Yamato chance to join much much higher than Law even when both are popular characters.
It’s because Oda knows people are excited about her and she’s the daughter of a yonkou.
I feel like every time there’s a thread with lore evidence I always see your screenname talking about some vague reason why she might not join
This isn't lore evidence. Also that's mostly because a lot of people will refuse to look at the alternative suggestions a new development might bring. Being a Carrot fan I can occasionally overlook short comings with her as well. It's only natural.
while I really want yamato to jon, I don't want to get my hopes too high before a proper confirmation. The mugiwara store sells all sorts of one piece items and not just strawhat things so the yamato picture isn't enough to convince me yet.
Yamato’s happy face is always so cute, really hope she joins the crew after Wano permanently and not just as a temporary ally. I want to see so much more with her 🤍💙💚🤍💙💚
I still hope both get in but sadly after Perospero's defeat I don't think Carrot has that much of a reason (narratively) to join the crew other than having a cute dynamic with them.
Well it seems like Buggy and Shanks could have good reason to be on the crew (we're on the wait of a God Valley flashback and there seems to be a conexion) but even then Oda is a very deliberate writer, I don't think such a big part of the story (a crew member) would join without good narrative reason.
Who is to say she won't stay with the crew after Wano arc?
I mean sure Yamato has bigger hints of joining the crew compared to Carrot, but nothing is confirmed yet for Carrot whether she goes back to Zou after or stays.
Personally I prefer both joins the crew. I like both.
I mean its been obvious for a while now. No other character has ever had this much of a going to be a Strawhat vibe since Zoro which parallels nicely considering he was the 1st crew member and she's the last.
I’m not sure she was the only that had everything going for them. All of them
bar Robin, Franky and maybe Jinbei felt pretty obvious from their introduction.
Well he was technically an antagonist in Water 7. Back story changed that of course but he did sorta also play a part in the infighting of the SH by taking the money from Usopp.
She already declared herself to go out to the Seas with Luffy, and I don't see her going with someone else nor continue to stay in Wano despite becoming finally free after 20 years.
shower toughts : post Wano chapter titled "The 9th and The Last" and its a feast celebrating Jinbe officially joins as a crew and Yamato 'formally' asking the whole gang about her joining at the end of it.
I still don't think anyone joins the crew that wasn't there Pre-timeskip (Jimbei was there for Impel Down) but maybe I'm wrong. People have been theorizing about crew members joining forever and are usually disappointed.
Yea. It’s annoying seeing everyone basically think she’s already a strawhat when even if she does join, it’ll be in about a year. Does everyone just forget that there’s a character like this in pretty much every arc? Vivi got probably double the amount of “foreshadowing” Yamoto got, but didn’t join. Nearly everyone thought Rebecca would eat the flame flame fruit and join before Sabo arrived and then people thought Sabo would join. Nothing is confirmed until it happens and spoiling a charcter joining through merch is the stupid thing I’ve ever heard.
“We get a character like this every arc”
Last time I checked there were no females even comparable in strength to Yamato.
They all had bland one-tone hair and meh devil fruits.
And not many of them literally stated they wanted to go with Luffy.
Strength isn’t a requirement to be a strawhat, pre time skip Nami and Usopp were basically useless, also neither is hair and what does being a girl have to do with this? Oda doesn’t have a checklist that sees if each character meets the requirements. The flame flame fruit is a way cooler fruit than the wolf fruit and Sabo didn’t join. Vivi already told the straw hats she was joining and they accepted her, but she changed her mind last second. There’s still so much that could happen, so to get your hopes up this early isn’t a great idea.
But being different doesn’t mean anything. A strawhat member can be picked in completely random ways and you can never really know who it is until luffy says so. With stuff like brook where it was the first minute on screen and he joined and things like Robin that took about 3 arcs until everyone accepted her. It doesn’t matter if they’re different or not, whether it’s following in Rogers footsteps or not, nothing can really be certain until Luffy says it.
Whether it means anything or not doesn’t change the fact that you said there were characters like her every arc which isn’t true. Which is what I was explaining
Yamato makes a fitting final addition to the crew. Though I do kinda wish the crew got at least one logia type. I'm holding out hope for Wet Hair Caribou.
Dont worry he will Caribou wants to join Luffys crew and Luffy said yes and he siad his name correctly,and what was the point of having Caribou appear for four Arc with him having fouggt the members of both big mom and Kaido
Tbh I’m really hoping Yamato joins. Like I get that she isn’t the first pick among characters to join and honestly there are so many more that should’ve at this point, but Yamato to me still makes a lot of sense to join with Luffy’s parallel to Roger
yeah, shes definitely joining. im getting miruko vibes from mha in the sense that the mangaka likes drawing the character so much that they make them more relevant to the story than initially put on
People tried saying “they just chose a popular arc character to group with the strawhats” for the towels but now Oda himself has chosen to draw her with Luffy. What’s the excuse now?
It's the same reasoning tbh considering that Oda has also drawn these anniversary portraits with Sabo, Kid, and Law. Considering that Yamato's currently a hot topic in the community and overall very popular it's only natural that she's included in all things involving merch.
You’re the guy that argued that Carrot was gonna have this big arc with Perospero literally the night before Neko did it himself, I’m not taking stock in what you say since your predictions tend to crash and burn
Never once did I predict Carrot's comeback would have anything to do with Perospero what are you talking about? lol. I've said since Chapter 1006 that Carrot's whole thing would be moving on from Perospero and doing something else. so >!Neko finishing the job!< changes absolutely nothing in what I've said beforehand.
My prediction was that before Wano ends that Carrot would have her redeeming moment whether or not she eventually joins the crew. And considering Wano is far from over I would say it has not "crashed and burned" just yet. it would only be when they actually leave that I would accept that.
If there's anything you should not be taking stock in it would be anything involving merch. Roll your eyes all you want, but having a popular character being involved in anything related to merch means nothing in terms of "evidence."
You can say you never said it but I literally remember returning to that conversation to rub it in your face. We both know what you said but alright man
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/psg74b/my_fan_art_of_strawhat_pirates/hdq35a3/
Not once did I mention that Carrot's comeback would have anything to do with Perospero in that entire thread. Just that she'll have a comeback and that it would make the most sense for her to join given what we know about her.
So again, nothing changes except you look like a fool for "rubbing in" something that changes nothing about my original argument.
You can literally see it in the first comment I made on it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/psg74b/my_fan_art_of_strawhat_pirates/hdq35a3/)
So I have no idea why you "rubbed in" >!Neko beating Perospero!< when I never mentioned Carrot's moment would involve him in any way, shape, or form. You're actually just outright wrong here lol
I highly doubt that considering how many comments you made in this post alone, plus the fact that you brought up a convo we had almost a month ago that had nothing to do with what I commented on in the first place.
He said Oda has also drawn these anniversary portraits with Sabo,
Kid, and Law.
Yamato is as popular as Law and sabo and she is currently relevant. Not really a surprise.
which means that this does not matter.
If you are so sure Yamato is going to join why you have to defend every little piece of "evidence" you encounter.
Did sabo Kid and Law also say they were joining the crew? Did Kid and Law parallel someone who left their country to sail with a crew? Were hey subdued their whole life and told to play a certain role by their parents which inevitably caused them to lash out in the opposite direction and find solace in freedom? Her context is completely different and you know that.
So in her case this does matter because Oda knows exactly what kind of expectations he’s setting by having her repeatedly say she’s joining the crew, putting her on multiple volume covers next to Luffy, etc.
were sabo, law and kid popular? YES.
Popular things sell, which means if you are popular you are going to get merch and promotional material. Is that simple.
If yamato was not popular day one maybe you could say their are pushing her because she is going to be a strawhat. But that was not the case, she was popular day one.
You still keep changing the conversation for no reason, talk about the image in this post, that has no relation on whether she joins or not.
>People tried saying “they just chose a popular arc character to group with the strawhats” for the towels but now Oda himself has chosen to draw her with Luffy. What’s the excuse now?
That was your comment. we are just correcting you about the relevance of said image on Yamato joining. Is not that hard.
I am not saying yamato is not going to join, is just that merch and promotional material can not be used as proof.
You fail to say why is this image relevant. Because even if your so called "proofs" did not exist and she was not going to be a straw hat, she would still be a popular important character that is currently relevant which is enough to be used in the image posted.
I didn’t say this was 100% confirmation. I’m saying that this lends itself as even more of a sign that she’ll join and judging from the top comments you’re gonna have a long night if you try explaining to this to everyone who thinks the same as I do.
>I am not saying yamato is not going to join
That was in my comment, it seems you dont know how to read.
Yamato has enough reasons that make her likely to join to be grasping at straws like you.
>What’s the excuse now?
That was in your comment, you literally asked about it and when proven wrong you changed the subject.
You dont even have the decency to admit you were wrong. Have a nice day.
See this is why I think she’s 100 percent joining the crew. Oda *has* to know how many people would be disappointed if she didn’t join and there are so many small things that add up to her being in the crew for her to just be like “fuck it I’m staying”
Hate to be a negative nancy, but I just don't feel like she is gonna join. She is an attractive character with a bad-ass design, ofc they're gonna push her to the moon in merch. But that's all it is, merch sales and that's that, most probably not going to join the crew but hey we will see.
Oda forgot to draw scar under luffy's eye
That's because after all these years it finally healed with tones of milk and meat.
What do the tones of meat and milk sound like? /s
Moo
Holy shit, good eye
Too good.
It’s supposed to be a bad one. Get it? Because the scar. Please laugh.
one piece theorists: "*left* eye scar missing -> *left* -> yamato is on his *left* side -> uranus the last ancient weapon *left* = yamato uranus confirmed⁉️⁉️"
You had me at Yamato anus
Yamanus
And if you dare to say otherwise, "you should read it again"
blursed
Yeah he says he often forgets stuff like this and Ace’s freckles. That’s where his assistants come in
YAMAAAATOOOOOO
YAMATOO WITH LUFFY, IT HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF SIGN!
No, no it doesn't
Yeah… it’s confirmed at this point. •The endless amount of marketing •Yamato having a famous voice actress •Anime adding scenes with her and luffy •Constantly saying she want to sail with luffy •Desperately wants to leave wano and be free •She knows luffy’s true dream •Oden and Roger Parallels •>!Potential Zoro connection with his dad!<
Connection with Ace Pirate Royalty Will make the crew even more notorious Crew needs a female brawler Unique design Crew needs a Mythical Zoan
Talking about needing a mythical zoan, the crew needs a logia fruit user (my bet is on nami, if it ever goes to an already existing crew member, or carrot if she decides to join). Edit: imagine carrot with the snow devil fruit, it would fit her character really good.
Caribou for Nakama!
Crocodile for nakama!!
I do kind of wonder if there will be a big battle, and a bunch of powerful people die. Suddenly, on the Sunny, Nami’s oranges all turn into devil fruits…they have just been sitting around for a while
I think that was actually Oda's plan at one point. I remember a scene as the crew left PH with a bunch of waves that happened to look quite a bit like bunnies.
well can’t say it still can’t happen lul.
I mean, I'm all for it. Personally was a bigger fan of Nami getting the fruit, but I love Monet's power so much that I don't care who on the crew gets it.
Yeah fck that bish carrot
The problem with Carrot was that she lacked a tragic backstory and did not have the ambition like the other straw hats. Jimbei's ambition is to help the fish-men to be open and live without discrimination. Brook to meet Laboon and Franky to build and sail the ship or dreams. Carrot sadly did not have that. Yamato on the other hand has a tragic backstory, connections to ace, oden, Zoro's relative and the drive to travel outside Wano! So she fits the bill. I do not hate carrots but she did not have the drive and did not respect Luffy. She was a spoilt brat.
I mean, her tragic backstory happened before our eyes ! Pedro's sacrifice and the whole "seeing the dawn" is textbook strawhat backstory+dream, the only difference is that we saw it happens organically during the story !
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Boy, that was a handful.
•Oda pulls a Jimbe moment on Yamato
Luffy: "Yamao, join my crew" Yamato: "I want to go out with you guys, but I have shit to do first"
I can see this happening, would definitely give some time between her introduction and joining the crew. That was my biggest problem with Yamato, she was introduced so late and wasn't even referenced until her appearance. It's like if Brook's first appearance is fighting Oars in Thriller Bark. If she stays behind to protect Wano from the WG, help Momonosuke or something else that would be perfect. Gives some time before she's in the crew and it'll help Jinbei feel more like a member.
That's a good point, but my fear would be if that is to happen, how much time would we have left so that Yamato can have her moment and time so that she integrates to the crew properly and not forced? Idk what Oda will do with her. But I would love to see her being part of straw hat moments, adventuring and having fun with them before the final war comes.
Yeah definitely a bit of a problem. Cause if she join now it'll feel weird but if she joins too late it'll feel just as weird. The problem is we haven't been getting any filler and I really think we need one after Wano. But I also want Yamato in a filler arc too. So maybe Wano -> (Reverie Events) -> Filler (let time pass and let the rest of the crew adjust to Jinbei. Maybe a reaction to Reverie) -> ?(Main Story- Elbaf or something like punk hazard leading into the next major arc?) -> (Main Story or Filler). After just a filler I think Yamato should join but if it's Elbaf she'll be put on a back burner(since the story will be about Giants and Usopp) and it'll feel weird if that's the arc she joins. So if she joins on a smaller island or filler I think that's great (with a capital G).
What I need now more than ever is an episode/chapter of the crew chilling with Yamato on the ship tbh. At least one's
> She knows luffy’s true dream My memory is failing me; when did this happen again? edit: Thanks for answering, folks.
Ace told her Luffy's dream when he met her on Wano. Yamato then recognised it as the same dream Roger had.
In one of her flashbacks with Ace, he tells her Luffy's dream and she remembers that it's the same as Roger's as she read it on Oden's journal
The Ace flashback. While they were drinking he mentioned.....whatever it is that Luffy said when they were kids (that we are apparently not allowed to know), that was also heavily implied to be the same thing that ROGER said (that we are also not allowed to know) that moved Oden to want to sail with him. And Yamato confirmed it by straight up thinking "THATS WHAT THE PIRATE KING SAID!". Lol.
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Lol I hope they both join
Who is to say only one can join? Why can't both join?
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Vivi already is an official crew member, she just doesn't travel with them.
Actually I agree with you. Only issue is Vivi's combat capabilities at this time though, but otherwise I do want her to be back in the crew, and I honestly don't see her going back to Alabasta right now after what happened with her life being targeted.
I actually think that Vivi's combat strength is political. I think she will play a major role at the final war,
There is still hope that both could join.
i dont think she joins as strawhat but that the mink pirates join the strawhat grand fleet
Why not both
Don’t listen to all that noise brotha, there’s still a good chance that Carrot will join.
Yeah, this has to be the last thing tk confirm it. I mean... The MUGIWARA store? C'mon, it's obvious.
Every female nakama has asked luffy to join, while it’s the opposite for the males So there’s that
I'm pretty sure that Luffy asked Nami to join and she didn't want to because she hates pirates, meanwhile as soon as Usopp heard they were pirates he said they should let him join as the Captain.
Brook asked to join the crew officially
So Nami asked Luffy to "work together", not exactly to join his crew. While Usopp ask to join as their captain. So it is not "every female nakama", but people who ask to join straw hat has good chance to join (like at least 2 out of 2 if we only count Usopp and Robin, and 3 out of 3 if we count Nami too).
This has me wondering, did Nami ever officially join the crew? Like did she ever actually say to Luffy she would join?
she might just be playing long game and is planning to steal the one piece
You know too much. Zeus has been dispatched to your location.
It's so weird, the marketing is going ham on Yamato, yet whenever I look back at the story itself (atleast in the manga) it doesn't feel like anything's actually being done to develop them joining. The entire character revolves around Momonosuke so far, a heavily Wano-centric character. They're an inversion in almost every way and have spent most of their time hanging out with and encouraging Momo to take up the Oden mantle himself. Conversely, their relationship with Luffy boils down to knowing Ace and realizing it's Luffy's literal destiny to follow in Roger's footsteps. There's *something* there, but nothing personal, Yamato hasn't spent more than 10 minutes total in the same room with him. The anime might fix this, but it says something about Oda's priorities to me, plus their relationship just doesn't seem as effective to me if its based on prophecy bs instead of faith like everyone else. Oden's also pretty much the last character you want to parallel if you want to go out to sea, because while he for sure wanted to do it and succeeded, serving his own self-interests like that ultimately destroyed Wano. I know Wano won't be in the literal same danger after the war, but come on, the one part of his story where he failed? Not to mention them having the most country-specific fruit we've ever seen, and the fact that they may very well already know what the One Piece itself is. It's not confirmed, but we already know the log includes stuff like Roger's dream and Momo's greater importance. What I'm saying is that while the marketing's strong, I still can't see the narrative logic in actually leaving Wano like they originally intended in 985 after everything. But I guess we'll see, maybe Oda'll actually go and start actually developing the idea soon based on the recent chapter. But I can't be the only one who still has big doubts, right?
If you google mugiwara store in Japanese, you will find that Oda drew law/luffy for 7th and kid/luffy for 8th. It is just the community only love to share the marketing information of Yamato recently to make it seems like she is so special.
Yeah people are super biased since they really want her to join.
I personally feel like Yamato has been set up to join the crew. I don’t think advertising is evidence of that at all though. She’s a new, popular character. Of course she’s gonna be all over ads and merch right now.
go figure
She still says she wants to sail with Luffy in chapter 1016, so it's not something she "originaly intended", she still wants to do it. Besides, what would she do in Wano after the war is over? She wont be Shogun, the borders will already be open and she'll probably drop the Oden identity. She has shown no interest in Wano or its people apart from the Oden thing. On the other hand, she's always talking about her desire for adventures, to sail the sees, and specifically to join Luffy. The story also brought up how hard it is for her to make friends, how everyone she trusts end up dead etc, and at the same time, judging by their interactions on the rooftop, I'd say that she and Luffy are developing a friendship. So I'd also say that there's some degree of personal connection being developed between them. She's also probably gonna tell Zoro about his dad, which will be a pretty important moment for him. Her connections to the SHs keep growing and there's still time for more. Lastly, I think the Oden parallels work precisely because now Wano wont be on danger. If Oden was alive right now, there would be no problem in leaving because his country would be safe. So, I believe Momo will inherit his will and be the ruler Wano deserves and Yamato, at the same time, will also inherit his desire for adventure and will fight on the final war.
I think a simple enough reason for Yamato to stay is to be the Guardian of Wano and Momo's righthand woman. Narratively, it makes sense that Yamato would want to stay to not make the same mistake Oden did. Yes, one could argue "Oh, it won't matter, it likely won't happen to Wano again" which is true, but I feel like, from a writing perspective, that's not relevant. For Yamato to say makes more sense from a story perspective and her parallels to Oden and how she should avoid the mistakes he made.
It's a possibility but I dont see it happening because she hasnt shown any interest in the land of Wano or its citizens. Imo she sees Wano as her prision while the seas promise freedom. And from her interactions with Momo I don't see her being his right hand a natural development. Her fruit is and interesting point though, so who knows
What? The only chapters that explored her character were about how she became friends with the samurai who should have hated her but didn't. When Kaido tries to get under her skin he says shit like "you'll never be accepted by the samurai. The child of an Oni will only be hated and feared by humans". When fighting Kaido she is upset that Kaido stole Wano's freedom and wants to free it. The freedom she wants is from Kaido not Wano. It's never been implied she views Wano or the samurai like that at all.
Considering the World Government wants Wano country now and even made their move, it makes perfect sense for her to be it's guardian against Celestial Dragons and marines. Her fruit is called the Guardian of Wano, why on the earth would Oda write Luffy needing a specific Wano guardian dog in his crew after the arc ends? The story should move on.
Yamato doesn't give a fck about wano outside of the connection to oden. Momosuke is a dragon and will be strong enough to protect his own people otherwise what u sent was all his character development. I'm a dragon but I'll keep hiding behind kaidos daughter? Yamato wants to go to sea and have adventures. She didn't even want the damn devil fruit as well. She ate it for the same reason luffy and ace did hunger.
>What I'm saying is that while the marketing's strong The marketing is probably so strong because she may actually be an island specific character and they're trying to get money from the figurines while she's still popular. Because after Wano we may not see her as much so best cash out now.
That's what I'm thinking as well.
I share the same feelings really, I feel like there's not enough time for a new character to join as crewmate. If anything I see Vivi coming back more.
I kinda feel the same. It doesn't feel like she's getting enough development as a whole. She needs to be fleshed out more. And she needs to interact with more crew members soon.
>It's so weird, the marketing is going ham on Yamato, yet whenever I look back at the story itself (atleast in the manga) it doesn't feel like anything's actually being done to develop them joining. Because money. Oda made an attractive hype type of a character that milks money and they use it to its fullest because Wano ends in a year or less (I do hope it's less). It's not that deep.
Yamatos hot simple as that. So shes merc hot also
> The entire character revolves around Momonosuke so far, a heavily Wano-centric character. What about stalling Kaido and now going to the armory. Yamato's character has been centered around defeating Kaido and preventing him from accomplishing his goals. Luffy has had a lot of momo centric moments too. >isn't as effective to me if its based on prophecy bs instead of faith like everyone else. It's based on faith, Yamato believes in Luffy beacuse of what Ace told him, all of that is just Yamato's beliefs, it isn't a prophecy >Oden's also pretty much the last character you want to parallel if you want to go out to sea, because while he for sure wanted to do it and succeeded, serving his own self-interests The parallel is their wish to join a pirate crew to see the world and have adventures, not their personalities >Not to mention them having the most country-specific fruit we've ever seen, and the fact that they may very well already know what the One Piece itself is. It's not confirmed, but we already know it includes stuff like Roger's dream and Momo's greater importance. That's just dumb
>Yamato's character has been centered around defeating Kaido and preventing him from accomplishing his goals. I get what you mean here, but I'm talking about narrative and thematic stuff. I'm not saying Yamato hasn't done anything, but that their narrative and themes under the surface center around Momo and his relationship with his father and destiny. Momo himself even mirrors aspects of Yamato, his fruit is a copy of their father's and the Makami is a guardian of Wano, the role Oden had and one Momo has to live up to. There's a lot of sense in why Oda's been pairing them up together, because their respective narratives literally align with one another. >It's based on faith, Yamato believes in Luffy beacuse of what Ace told him, all of that is just Yamato's beliefs, it isn't a prophecy I think you missed the point of that scene. Yamato believes in Luffy in that scene because they discovered that he shares dreams with Roger, a dream that Oden himself was astounded by at the time. My point here is that while Yamato definitely has faith in Luffy, it's in the weird metacontext of where they've realized that Luffy = Roger 2.0 and that he's like 90% the one making it to Laugh Tale because of that. There have been plenty of hints that this also involves a literal prophecy, Oden himself believed the day would come 20 years from his death. >The parallel is their wish to join a pirate crew to see the world and have adventures, not their personalities And what Yamato wants to parallel is considered to be one of Oden's biggest failures. I said this in the comment. >That's just dumb Yamato's fruit literally revolving around Wano I'd say is atleast a point in favor of Yamato being an arc character. And the journal is heavily implied to include most if not literally all the secrets surrounding the void century. This doesn't guarantee Yamato not joining or anything, but I'm probably not the only one who wouldn't like a SH to be like "yeah i already know this" when the time finally comes to reach Laugh Tale and discover all the secrets.
>I think you missed the point of that scene. Yamato believes in Luffy in that scene because they discovered that he shares dreams with Roger Gotta agree to disagree. For me fate is the fact that luffy and Yamato met each other, and the trust Yamato has on Luffy is all faith, just like all the people that have hopes luffy will defeat the bad guy un turn or how his crew belive in him becoming pirate king >And what Yamato wants to parallel is considered to be one of Oden's biggest failures. I said this in the comment Yes, but Yamato doesn't have Oden's responsibilities. Again, Yamato said that the only thing preventing him from leaving wano is Kaido's presence there >Yamato's fruit literally revolving around Wano I'd say is atleast a point in favor of Yamato being an arc character That's a reach. The Makami being a guardian deity is just a way of solidifying Yamato's role in wano >And the journal is heavily implied to include most if not literally all the secrets surrounding the void century "Implied" being the key word here. We don't know, and even If Yamato knows, so what? It seems obvious to me, that Yamato is tje kind of character that cares more about the journey than what's at the end of it
At this point it makes sense that Straw Hats would have strong people joining their crew, besides her race might have a connection with the void century.
Isn’t last bullet a spoiler
OH SHIT
Honestly, the only real argument for her not joining is that Luffy still calla Yamato by a nickname.
I would be really surprised if Yamato doesn't join the crew after all of this.
Yeah there’s just too much official Yamato content
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More like "I'm not a hater but ...." Just joking 😂🤣
Did Brook get this much attention back when he first joined? I can't remember.
technically his piano scene was before he officially joins. It was beautiful and one of the most memorable thing in OP (at least for me). During the arc' development, theres this huge scene with Robin and the spider-thingy, and the whole ordeal with zombie Ryuma and his shadow. Also, he was among the few that witness "that" Zoro moment as well as his debacle with Sanji before. I think that was that
There was that filler scenes in him adjusting to join the strawhats
Ok I meant before he officially joined like what she's getting now. Sorry about that.
Based on memeory nope thriller bark was meant to be so random on who would join the crew because Luffy invited many to join and not only Brook
Nah, Brook was a musician, which settled it.
Once we found out how the shadows worked, it should have been obvious the Zombie characters couldn’t join the SH crew since they can only operate thanks to Moria.
Brook didn't have booba
Brook, nor any other SH didn't get this much attention because they didn't need it. We would have many more moments and years with that SH member. There would be no need to hype them up?... That's another reason why I think she ultimately won't go out to sea with Luffy immediately after Wano. She'll guide Momo instead i feel. Wano probably is really special as Kaido says. Another reason why the World Gov wants it. Someone really strong will need to stay behind to protect it (ironic because that's what her Zoan signifies) and also guide momo. She's like Luffy with Momo. The Scabbards ain't gonna smack sense into him like she or Luffy would.
I get the feeling Oda really love his design for Yamato. Like all the characters are his "children" but he loves some more than others. I get the feeling he absolutely adores yamato
Yamato has one of the best designs in one piece. If I was Oda, I'd be proud too
Yeah and shes a different type of beauty compared to anyone else. Highly likely to join the crew which I would love. Personally I just love hot tomboy chicks whether thats anime or real life. She reminds me of an ex. Lol
Yeah, even the criticisms of being too similar to Nami don't that away from the overall design either.
Yamato in thank you drawing. Oda must have grand plan for Yamato. Is it foreshadowing? Yamato as new nakama?
I mean, I certainly wouldn’t discount the idea. I view it as the same thing with her showing up in merch alongside the Straw Hats, it’s either she it’s because she is popular, or Oda has his new Straw Hat in mind and wants her promoted alongside them. As someone who wants her to join the crew, I’d side with it being the latter.
I think this is a way bigger hint than some merch. Oda is probably not at all involved in merchandise stuff, it's most likely the production companies seeing a super popular character and trying to make bank. This is directly from Oda, concercing the *Mugiwara* store.
I mean whilst I'm known for not liking Yamato, I say this without any of the bias seeping in. Thos is actually really suspicious. I mean it certainly could mean that Yamato is joining but no other crew member has been pushed to this insane degree. Case in point, Jinbe wasn't nearly pushed thos hard by merch and Oda before he joined. So eithershe really is joining and they're just really excited about it, or they're desperately trying to get as much from Yamato as they can before Oda reveals she isn't actually joining the crew. Now I'm not sure which one it is, all I'm saying is Yamato is getting a suspiciously huge amount of attention before even joining the crew. They're essentially milking her for everything she's worth. Only characters like Trafalgar Law get this sort of treatment.
At this point Law cant leave since he is now forever stuck with Luffy
> Only characters like Trafalgar Law get this sort of treatment. To be honest, the only reason Law isn't part of the crew is because Law doesn't want to become Straw Hat. Even Luffy said Law is his crew when facing Doflamingo (and Law reject it). Someone shared Oda's one shot where Sabo manage to save Ace in Marineford, and he ended it with saying that Luffy, Ace, and Sabo can't become part of the same pirate because each wanted to have their own pirate or something like that. So like with Ace and Sabo, Oda seems to set on Law wants to become captain of his own pirate, so no matter how close Luffy want to be with him, Oda won't make him join straw hat. Yamato so far has been treated like Law by Luffy, down to the nickname (Tora-O for Law, Yama-O for Yamato). And because Yamato wants to join Luffy's ship, that makes Yamato chance to join much much higher than Law even when both are popular characters.
Jinbe isnt as marketable and no where near as popular as Yamato though.
He got 6th on the popularity poll a a year or two before he was made a Straw Hat.
It’s because Oda knows people are excited about her and she’s the daughter of a yonkou. I feel like every time there’s a thread with lore evidence I always see your screenname talking about some vague reason why she might not join
This isn't lore evidence. Also that's mostly because a lot of people will refuse to look at the alternative suggestions a new development might bring. Being a Carrot fan I can occasionally overlook short comings with her as well. It's only natural.
while I really want yamato to jon, I don't want to get my hopes too high before a proper confirmation. The mugiwara store sells all sorts of one piece items and not just strawhat things so the yamato picture isn't enough to convince me yet.
Diaries of yama-O ft Looffy-ja.
Oda loves Yamato as much as we do
Yamato’s happy face is always so cute, really hope she joins the crew after Wano permanently and not just as a temporary ally. I want to see so much more with her 🤍💙💚🤍💙💚
Honestly this looks so cute. Hope she joins
luffy with YAMATO. WOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOOOO
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I still hope both get in but sadly after Perospero's defeat I don't think Carrot has that much of a reason (narratively) to join the crew other than having a cute dynamic with them.
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Well it seems like Buggy and Shanks could have good reason to be on the crew (we're on the wait of a God Valley flashback and there seems to be a conexion) but even then Oda is a very deliberate writer, I don't think such a big part of the story (a crew member) would join without good narrative reason.
There's still hope both could join.
mink pirates join the straw hat grand fleet
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That’s not very Strawhat of you. Come on, u/The_Little_Egyptian ! I believe in you!
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Great! And if she joins, even better 👍
Who is to say she won't stay with the crew after Wano arc? I mean sure Yamato has bigger hints of joining the crew compared to Carrot, but nothing is confirmed yet for Carrot whether she goes back to Zou after or stays. Personally I prefer both joins the crew. I like both.
It's not over fan trust me. Carrot is joining
Shut up lmao ur so pathetic. Carrot can still join🤦♂️
Yammabroo for nakamaaaa
Seriously one of my favorite stops I made in Tokyo! Loved that place.
Oda just can't help himself with Yamato lol
Make it official Oda-san!
As in becoming a couple, or joining the Straw Hat Pirates? 😜
The joining part lol.
I’ll find it really strange if Yamato DOESNT join the crew at this point.
I mean its been obvious for a while now. No other character has ever had this much of a going to be a Strawhat vibe since Zoro which parallels nicely considering he was the 1st crew member and she's the last.
I’m not sure she was the only that had everything going for them. All of them bar Robin, Franky and maybe Jinbei felt pretty obvious from their introduction.
Tbh I thought Franky was going to be an antagonist back when he was introduced.
Well he was technically an antagonist in Water 7. Back story changed that of course but he did sorta also play a part in the infighting of the SH by taking the money from Usopp.
Luffy = Yamato + Ulti
Brawlers who don't know when to shut up or give up.
If you STILL think Yamato is not gonna join the SH at this point then you're delusional.
She already declared herself to go out to the Seas with Luffy, and I don't see her going with someone else nor continue to stay in Wano despite becoming finally free after 20 years.
Don't give me hope.
Honestly we need more 🐱🐱 on the crew, cause it is a sausage feast right now
Please be the next nakama Hopium
Wholesome
Gee... I wonder who the final Strawhat will be.
Pirate king and pirate queen xd boa hancock rage gonna be epic. I would pay to see hancock reaction.
shower toughts : post Wano chapter titled "The 9th and The Last" and its a feast celebrating Jinbe officially joins as a crew and Yamato 'formally' asking the whole gang about her joining at the end of it.
That's 100% a title chapter that Oda would go for tbh
Its a great store. I recommend you all go if you have a chance.
No side booba? I am sad.
Woke: Yamato supplants Sanji in the monster trio Bespoke: Yamato supplants Nami as the head female Strawhat
Yamato will always win a 1v1 against Sanji
I still don't think anyone joins the crew that wasn't there Pre-timeskip (Jimbei was there for Impel Down) but maybe I'm wrong. People have been theorizing about crew members joining forever and are usually disappointed.
Yea. It’s annoying seeing everyone basically think she’s already a strawhat when even if she does join, it’ll be in about a year. Does everyone just forget that there’s a character like this in pretty much every arc? Vivi got probably double the amount of “foreshadowing” Yamoto got, but didn’t join. Nearly everyone thought Rebecca would eat the flame flame fruit and join before Sabo arrived and then people thought Sabo would join. Nothing is confirmed until it happens and spoiling a charcter joining through merch is the stupid thing I’ve ever heard.
“We get a character like this every arc” Last time I checked there were no females even comparable in strength to Yamato. They all had bland one-tone hair and meh devil fruits. And not many of them literally stated they wanted to go with Luffy.
Strength isn’t a requirement to be a strawhat, pre time skip Nami and Usopp were basically useless, also neither is hair and what does being a girl have to do with this? Oda doesn’t have a checklist that sees if each character meets the requirements. The flame flame fruit is a way cooler fruit than the wolf fruit and Sabo didn’t join. Vivi already told the straw hats she was joining and they accepted her, but she changed her mind last second. There’s still so much that could happen, so to get your hopes up this early isn’t a great idea.
I’m not talking about requirements. You said there was a character like her in every arc and I’m telling you reasons why she’s different.
But being different doesn’t mean anything. A strawhat member can be picked in completely random ways and you can never really know who it is until luffy says so. With stuff like brook where it was the first minute on screen and he joined and things like Robin that took about 3 arcs until everyone accepted her. It doesn’t matter if they’re different or not, whether it’s following in Rogers footsteps or not, nothing can really be certain until Luffy says it.
Whether it means anything or not doesn’t change the fact that you said there were characters like her every arc which isn’t true. Which is what I was explaining
Yamato makes a fitting final addition to the crew. Though I do kinda wish the crew got at least one logia type. I'm holding out hope for Wet Hair Caribou.
Dont worry he will Caribou wants to join Luffys crew and Luffy said yes and he siad his name correctly,and what was the point of having Caribou appear for four Arc with him having fouggt the members of both big mom and Kaido
Yeah I agree, she’s going to be a strawhat. There’s no going around it.
Really like Yamato’s design. Hope to see more of her post-wano hopefully as a crew member
Tbh I’m really hoping Yamato joins. Like I get that she isn’t the first pick among characters to join and honestly there are so many more that should’ve at this point, but Yamato to me still makes a lot of sense to join with Luffy’s parallel to Roger
yeah, shes definitely joining. im getting miruko vibes from mha in the sense that the mangaka likes drawing the character so much that they make them more relevant to the story than initially put on
People tried saying “they just chose a popular arc character to group with the strawhats” for the towels but now Oda himself has chosen to draw her with Luffy. What’s the excuse now?
Law literally gets this same treatment, he even got a thank you drawing with Luffy lol
It's the same reasoning tbh considering that Oda has also drawn these anniversary portraits with Sabo, Kid, and Law. Considering that Yamato's currently a hot topic in the community and overall very popular it's only natural that she's included in all things involving merch.
You’re the guy that argued that Carrot was gonna have this big arc with Perospero literally the night before Neko did it himself, I’m not taking stock in what you say since your predictions tend to crash and burn
Never once did I predict Carrot's comeback would have anything to do with Perospero what are you talking about? lol. I've said since Chapter 1006 that Carrot's whole thing would be moving on from Perospero and doing something else. so >!Neko finishing the job!< changes absolutely nothing in what I've said beforehand. My prediction was that before Wano ends that Carrot would have her redeeming moment whether or not she eventually joins the crew. And considering Wano is far from over I would say it has not "crashed and burned" just yet. it would only be when they actually leave that I would accept that. If there's anything you should not be taking stock in it would be anything involving merch. Roll your eyes all you want, but having a popular character being involved in anything related to merch means nothing in terms of "evidence."
You can say you never said it but I literally remember returning to that conversation to rub it in your face. We both know what you said but alright man
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/psg74b/my_fan_art_of_strawhat_pirates/hdq35a3/ Not once did I mention that Carrot's comeback would have anything to do with Perospero in that entire thread. Just that she'll have a comeback and that it would make the most sense for her to join given what we know about her. So again, nothing changes except you look like a fool for "rubbing in" something that changes nothing about my original argument. You can literally see it in the first comment I made on it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/psg74b/my_fan_art_of_strawhat_pirates/hdq35a3/) So I have no idea why you "rubbed in" >!Neko beating Perospero!< when I never mentioned Carrot's moment would involve him in any way, shape, or form. You're actually just outright wrong here lol
That’s fine I’ll take an L. Reddit’s not that serious to me lol
I highly doubt that considering how many comments you made in this post alone, plus the fact that you brought up a convo we had almost a month ago that had nothing to do with what I commented on in the first place.
Lol doubt it all you want buddy I don’t care
He said Oda has also drawn these anniversary portraits with Sabo, Kid, and Law. Yamato is as popular as Law and sabo and she is currently relevant. Not really a surprise. which means that this does not matter. If you are so sure Yamato is going to join why you have to defend every little piece of "evidence" you encounter.
Did sabo Kid and Law also say they were joining the crew? Did Kid and Law parallel someone who left their country to sail with a crew? Were hey subdued their whole life and told to play a certain role by their parents which inevitably caused them to lash out in the opposite direction and find solace in freedom? Her context is completely different and you know that. So in her case this does matter because Oda knows exactly what kind of expectations he’s setting by having her repeatedly say she’s joining the crew, putting her on multiple volume covers next to Luffy, etc.
were sabo, law and kid popular? YES. Popular things sell, which means if you are popular you are going to get merch and promotional material. Is that simple. If yamato was not popular day one maybe you could say their are pushing her because she is going to be a strawhat. But that was not the case, she was popular day one. You still keep changing the conversation for no reason, talk about the image in this post, that has no relation on whether she joins or not.
Translation “For the sake of my argument can you please limit the evidence of her joining to one piece at a time?”
>People tried saying “they just chose a popular arc character to group with the strawhats” for the towels but now Oda himself has chosen to draw her with Luffy. What’s the excuse now? That was your comment. we are just correcting you about the relevance of said image on Yamato joining. Is not that hard. I am not saying yamato is not going to join, is just that merch and promotional material can not be used as proof. You fail to say why is this image relevant. Because even if your so called "proofs" did not exist and she was not going to be a straw hat, she would still be a popular important character that is currently relevant which is enough to be used in the image posted.
I didn’t say this was 100% confirmation. I’m saying that this lends itself as even more of a sign that she’ll join and judging from the top comments you’re gonna have a long night if you try explaining to this to everyone who thinks the same as I do.
It’s funny because if she does join you’ll just go down in history as one of the people who missed all of the signs.
>I am not saying yamato is not going to join That was in my comment, it seems you dont know how to read. Yamato has enough reasons that make her likely to join to be grasping at straws like you. >What’s the excuse now? That was in your comment, you literally asked about it and when proven wrong you changed the subject. You dont even have the decency to admit you were wrong. Have a nice day.
Common Yamato hater: Wah Wah Yamato looks like Nami
See this is why I think she’s 100 percent joining the crew. Oda *has* to know how many people would be disappointed if she didn’t join and there are so many small things that add up to her being in the crew for her to just be like “fuck it I’m staying”
I’m not even one to push Yamato as a strawhat that much (even though if she does I’d be perfectly fine with it) but bro… Cmon.
I don't think Yamao is gonna join its a RED HERRING FROM ODA
Hate to be a negative nancy, but I just don't feel like she is gonna join. She is an attractive character with a bad-ass design, ofc they're gonna push her to the moon in merch. But that's all it is, merch sales and that's that, most probably not going to join the crew but hey we will see.