I disagree with this, I think the weight of Roger’s title is more than Sakazuki’s.
Also out of story, let’s step back for a bit and stop thinking about this logically in setting and examine it narratively instead.
Oda doesn’t decide bounties through a logical process, it’s just for comparison and hype at a point in the story (this is trivially provable since bounties at the start and current story have 0 consistency).
So why exactly did Oda introduce the reader to bounties for marines in the first place? It’s clearly for comparison/hype sake.
And given that’s the main point of bounties as a narrative tool, yes, it is insanely hype that Akainu has the highest bounty of anyone alive other than Dragon.
Oda doesn’t decide bounties through a logical process, it’s just for comparison and hype at a point in the story (this is trivially provable since bounties at the start and current story have 0 consistency).
So why exactly did Oda introduce the reader to bounties for marines in the first place? It’s clearly for comparison/hype sake.
And given that’s the main point of bounties as a narrative tool, yes, it is insanely hype that Akainu has the highest bounty of anyone alive other than Dragon.
But then it falls down for me when we are then being asked to delve a little deeper for how the Admirals bounties compare to others and look beyond the surface number. If I do that for them, I have to do it for everyone else.
So I need to know what people want. Do they want us to just look on the face of it, and say bounty wise, FA > everyone bar the big two, so Akainu > everyone bar the big two? Cause if you are just looking in the face of it, to make this argument you have to give up the Admirals. And if you want to then make an argument as to why the Admirals bounty does not represent their strength, that has to be opened up to Akainu’s (and every other character) as well.
Bounty scaling just does not work for me, you either take it at face value which leads to nonsense, or you accept that it can be critiqued and isn’t really worth more than a bit of hype.