Nice list
Inspiration can come from more than one character I feel, especially since the Admirals have two sides, their normal self and the attitude they take under their zodiac code name. So you can say douchebag Akainu was inspired by the guy in the reddit post, whereas Sakazuki who values honor family etc was inspired by bunta in battles

The truck movie I read about, skimmed through the movie in a couple minutes and nothing interesting came my way so no idea what connection it might have lol
Thanks! I did some research trying to find their backstories. Fuji was straightforward but Kuzan was really hard....you may be right on Kuzan's potential tragic end.

That's the second time you've mentioned the dual personality thing, how does that work exactly? Like an alter ego?

Like what's the difference between each Admiral and his true self? Is it a big gap?

Imo if I understand it right, Fuji is the Admiral who is truest to himself. Ryokugyu and Aramaki might end up having the biggest gap if my hunches are true.
 
Forgot about that
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What's Kuzan's deal actually? He seems like a really indecisive one. Outside of hating Akainu and liking Garp I can't really get a grasp on his idealogy.

Like Kizaru is more straightforward, he's a salaryman who likes his little bro and hates pirates, Kuzan is like...respects Garp, thinks Akainu is bad for killing scholars but tried to take out Saul himself?
He was originally a pretty standard marine who believed in Absolute Justice(which is why he stopped Saul), but he was horrified by Sakazuki sinking the refugee ship of non scholars out of fear of a scholar escaping, which leads him to changing his own values to an extent.
 

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I think I'm going to make a post that's well structured with just a few reasons why I think Nika is the in-story name for Jesus Christ



The reasons are:

- Jesus has a transformation that looks like Nika

- The cross and church is associated with the Nika sun symbol

- Jesus has a sword similar in description to Nika's sword

- Throughout history, the word Nika has been used in association with Jesus
Hmmm.....




https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1xt3yo






We also have "Jesus" Burgess lol

 

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Thanks! I did some research trying to find their backstories. Fuji was straightforward but Kuzan was really hard....you may be right on Kuzan's potential tragic end.

That's the second time you've mentioned the dual personality thing, how does that work exactly? Like an alter ego?

Like what's the difference between each Admiral and his true self? Is it a big gap?

Imo if I understand it right, Fuji is the Admiral who is truest to himself. Ryokugyu and Aramaki might end up having the biggest gap if my hunches are true.



 
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TBH, the problem with Fujitora is I can´t currently picture him even fighting for the Marines in a war against pirates. Like what Kuzan did in taking down Jozu, fighting WB, really trying to kill Luffy etc. It´s a pretty bad choice to give him the slave freeing scene when he has such limited screentime in general
 
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TBH, the problem with Fujitora is I can´t currently picture him even fighting for the Marines in a war against pirates. Like what Kuzan did in taking down Jozu, fighting WB, really trying to kill Luffy etc. It´s a pretty bad choice to give him the slave freeing scene when he has such limited screentime in general
Tbh, there’s a lot of casuals and manchildren out there who actually do want Fujitora to become generic Luffy cheerleader #256, so Oda could just be dumbing down Fuji’s character to pander to them. Why people want Fuji to be as bland as possible is beyond me
 

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Alas no, not fully. I haven't sat down and watched a full movie in years lol.

But I do hear it's the best OP movie. So I'm interested in it.
DUDE, WATCH IT ASAP! You will see a lot of nuance to Kizaru and Kuzan to it, its the ULTIMATE Marine fanservice in the series imo. It was made with so much heart, passion, love etc. It's such a tragic watch and they got Avril Lavigne to cover a certain song by Nickleback for the very ballsy ending and that shit makes me CRY especially with how much of a fucking tragic GOAT Zephyr is. Fucking Toei cooked IMMENSELY with THAT FILM!

Zephyr is such an amazing character but without spoiling it, Kuzan and Kizaru have fucking amazing scenes in it too. I cannot emphasise that enough, it adds a lot of depth to them. It's why I became especially such huge fanboys of both of them too, its like another Fujitora in Dressrosa type thing but this was before that arc.

Fun fact, Kuzan sings a song called Kaido in it ironically and even more ironically on top of that, in Pirate Warriors 4, he comes to Wano to help take down Kaido and he does help too lmao! But as part of the BBP ofc.

I'm working on a Kuzan character analysis atm, should help make him more understandable as a character? Also Film Z is a secretly a HUGE Akainu upscale if you think laterally/outside of the box, wink wink.
 
Thanks! I did some research trying to find their backstories. Fuji was straightforward but Kuzan was really hard....you may be right on Kuzan's potential tragic end.

That's the second time you've mentioned the dual personality thing, how does that work exactly? Like an alter ego?

Like what's the difference between each Admiral and his true self? Is it a big gap?

Imo if I understand it right, Fuji is the Admiral who is truest to himself. Ryokugyu and Aramaki might end up having the biggest gap if my hunches are true.
Similar to the real world home vs work personalities

This is Kizaru the natural calamity government human weapon (actual scary panel)


While this is good old uncle Borsalino


We see him switching masks a couple times in Egghead
Like when Saturn got hit by Kuma he lost all hesitation and actually went for the kill on Kuma Bonney and VP, when minutes earlier he fed Luffy in order to stop Saturn and himself
Akainu for once as a marine carries himself honorably, has brotherly bonds with Kizaru and Fujitora, cares about family as seen when he executed the deserter, spared Aokiji, slandered the Whitebeard pirates for cowardice, raised the morale of marines after Ace escaped etc
So we can clearly see traits of a great leader who can do good
But the reality is different, on the field he’s a menace who’s ready to look past these values to uphold the law which he’s brainwashed to think is supreme in order to maintain peace and exterminate evil piracy. There’s a lot more to unfold for his character, he’s definitely a changed man after taking office lol
 
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