Chapter Discussion Ace Novel - Manga Adaptation - Chapter 4

#23
And that is a feat almost any mid tier can do.

No it's not, because we have seen future sight from the admirals in Marineford and we saw it even more clearly when Mihawk tried to cut Luffy.
this is Boichi’s art, and Ace is a more confident Haki user than Luffy was back then
 
#24
I am choosing to believe that this is not cannon in any way, Marineford ace had no hints of FS or any attack like this demon inferno, probably just some hype to pull some $$$ from this spin-off.
Scenes like the one where Ace took Akainu punch and the one where Ace lowered Luffy's head to avoid 2 Navy soldiers' attacks could have been hints of Ace having FS.

I mean, in the first one, Ace was before Akainu, Akainu then rushed towards Luffy (so at that moment, Ace was logically supposed to be behind Akainu) and yet, Ace succeeded to place himself before Luffy to protect him. So either Ace is extremely fast or he was able to see this event before that happened to protect Luffy.

And we can say the same about Ace having CoA.
We never saw Ace using Haki but we can think he used CoA during his fight vs Blackbeard (Oda had not thought how to represent CoA at this time but in all logic, Ace being a commander and spent at least 2 years in the New World was enough to make us think Ace had CoA).

Regarding his huge Fire Dragon attack, well, it's not as if we saw everything from Ace. The dude appeared in what, 30-40 chapters !!?
 
#28
Holy Cow ! His art never failed to impress me..
OP in this art style is a different experience for me....
But still I like Oda's original art style..It's one of kind..
 

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#29
Ace was equal to Jinbe before undertaking a robust training in the WBP's ship, I guess peak Ace probably stood above Joz, but the manga seemed to implicate that his level was quite below yonko or admiral level for how he had lost to Yami Teach.
 
#32
Scenes like the one where Ace took Akainu punch and the one where Ace lowered Luffy's head to avoid 2 Navy soldiers' attacks could have been hints of Ace having FS.

I mean, in the first one, Ace was before Akainu, Akainu then rushed towards Luffy (so at that moment, Ace was logically supposed to be behind Akainu) and yet, Ace succeeded to place himself before Luffy to protect him. So either Ace is extremely fast or he was able to see this event before that happened to protect Luffy.

And we can say the same about Ace having CoA.
We never saw Ace using Haki but we can think he used CoA during his fight vs Blackbeard (Oda had not thought how to represent CoA at this time but in all logic, Ace being a commander and spent at least 2 years in the New World was enough to make us think Ace had CoA).

Regarding his huge Fire Dragon attack, well, it's not as if we saw everything from Ace. The dude appeared in what, 30-40 chapters !!?
Ace had CoA no one is saying he didn't, it would be pathetic if he didn't.
Regarding FS all the example you listed were examples of normal CoO and he was closer to Luffy during Akainu's attack that's why he reached.
Regarding the fire dragon attack if he doesn't pull that out against 2 admirals when his life is on the line, i don't know when he should pull it out.
 
#33
It was a great filler but unfortunately that's all it was. Even Jimbei look much stronger in the Ace novel than he did in the canon manga.
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One thing I really liked about the Ace novel was the potential DF logia possess. Hopefully, Oda take some ideals from this and have the admirals use their power in similar ways.
 
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#34
Ace had CoA no one is saying he didn't, it would be pathetic if he didn't.
Regarding FS all the example you listed were examples of normal CoO and he was closer to Luffy during Akainu's attack that's why he reached.
Regarding the fire dragon attack if he doesn't pull that out against 2 admirals when his life is on the line, i don't know when he should pull it out.
I assure you a lot of people doubted Ace had CoA.

Regarding my examples, I can concede it was CoO.
Either FS or basic CoO doesn't look bad for me when it's about Ace given I never doubt he had one form of Haki at least.
 
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