Hello everyone,
Quick thread today. I often see people treating Akainu like he is some standout Marine, the strongest Marine of all time and clearly above the other Admirals. This is completely untrue. While Akainu may be marginally to slightly superior to his fellow Admirals in extremely long drawn out conflicts, the other Admirals stand at the pinnacle just like Akainu does.
In particular Aokiji who is Akainu’s true foil and opposite, just as directly relevant to the plot of this series as Akainu is.
Both Akainu and Aokiji surrendered their Admiral ranks and epithets in opposite directions. Sakazuki becomes the Fleet Admiral:
Kuzan becomes a wandering hobo initially before becoming a Yonko Commander:
Sakazuki gets promoted only to find the Fleet Admiral rank frustrating and limiting, where as Kuzan gives up his entire life as a Marine only to truly find that he can now live the way he has always wanted to.
Both Akainu and Aokiji are apparently considered contenders for One Piece:
And now we find out that Kuzan may even have aspirations of targeting Imu himself?
Akainu and Aokiji have always existed as two opposite, but equal presences in the manga, as illustrated by their Devil Fruits, personalities, and their philosophies on Justice all being opposites.
Oda even made them fight the most insane 1v1 battle in the history of the One Piece world to illustrate them as opposites even further:
In Oda’s mind, these are two opposite yet equal characters with opposite yet equal rolls in the plot. I can’t sympathize with anyone who acts like Akainu is just this whole other level of character to the other Admirals in terms of strength or relevance, but especially Aokiji who is written to be his actual equal.
“Oh but Aokiji lost the fight,” yeah after 10 days of fucking equal combat lmfao. That’s not a strength gap, that is a roll of the dice in terms of who is actually stronger.
If we want to look at feats, Aokiji literally has some of the absolute best feats in the entire manga. He looked strong as all hell against Whitebeard:
Aokiji has literally negged more strong Yonko Commanders than any other character in this manga has, defeating:
-Jozu
-Cracker
-San Juan Wolf
-Vasco Shot (twice)
-Doc Q
He had an equal fist fight with Garp, tanked multiple huge Haki attacks from Garp and ultimately captured him:
Like, Aokiji is that dude in terms of feats. Literally some of the most undeniably top tier feats in the whole series.
To be clear I think all Admirals are equal/near equal to Akainu but Aokiji especially is just specifically written to be Akainu’s equal and opposite foil in terms of narrative and power.
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Quick thread today. I often see people treating Akainu like he is some standout Marine, the strongest Marine of all time and clearly above the other Admirals. This is completely untrue. While Akainu may be marginally to slightly superior to his fellow Admirals in extremely long drawn out conflicts, the other Admirals stand at the pinnacle just like Akainu does.
In particular Aokiji who is Akainu’s true foil and opposite, just as directly relevant to the plot of this series as Akainu is.
Both Akainu and Aokiji surrendered their Admiral ranks and epithets in opposite directions. Sakazuki becomes the Fleet Admiral:
Kuzan becomes a wandering hobo initially before becoming a Yonko Commander:
Sakazuki gets promoted only to find the Fleet Admiral rank frustrating and limiting, where as Kuzan gives up his entire life as a Marine only to truly find that he can now live the way he has always wanted to.
Both Akainu and Aokiji are apparently considered contenders for One Piece:
And now we find out that Kuzan may even have aspirations of targeting Imu himself?
Akainu and Aokiji have always existed as two opposite, but equal presences in the manga, as illustrated by their Devil Fruits, personalities, and their philosophies on Justice all being opposites.
Oda even made them fight the most insane 1v1 battle in the history of the One Piece world to illustrate them as opposites even further:
In Oda’s mind, these are two opposite yet equal characters with opposite yet equal rolls in the plot. I can’t sympathize with anyone who acts like Akainu is just this whole other level of character to the other Admirals in terms of strength or relevance, but especially Aokiji who is written to be his actual equal.
“Oh but Aokiji lost the fight,” yeah after 10 days of fucking equal combat lmfao. That’s not a strength gap, that is a roll of the dice in terms of who is actually stronger.
If we want to look at feats, Aokiji literally has some of the absolute best feats in the entire manga. He looked strong as all hell against Whitebeard:
Aokiji has literally negged more strong Yonko Commanders than any other character in this manga has, defeating:
-Jozu
-Cracker
-San Juan Wolf
-Vasco Shot (twice)
-Doc Q
He had an equal fist fight with Garp, tanked multiple huge Haki attacks from Garp and ultimately captured him:
Like, Aokiji is that dude in terms of feats. Literally some of the most undeniably top tier feats in the whole series.
To be clear I think all Admirals are equal/near equal to Akainu but Aokiji especially is just specifically written to be Akainu’s equal and opposite foil in terms of narrative and power.
@SakazOuki @Kurozumi Wiwi @The White Crane @Wuuuke @silverfire @scoobie3 @AkainuTheGrimReaper @Apollo @Admiral Mou Bu @ZenZu @Extravlad @kurwa @haxxor @EmperorKinyagi @Blackbeard @Owl Ki @TheKnightOfTheSea @God Buggy @Sentinel @Tyki_Mikk @Veku @Mr. Tuna Sandwich @GoldDiamond @Dragon777 @Wee-man @Cadis Etrama Di Urek @Djordje @BaboonMihawk @Negan @Djordje @RyoQ @DarkestKnightofSpoilers @[No Name] @King7 @Darkrai1381 @DarkWitch @Mr. Anderson
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