Smoke maan is preparing his epic surprise for his fans. Since there was a lot of gap to be made up in catching up to strawhat, he's been hard at work in making sure the embarrassment he had to face at the hands of the pirates never happens again. So expect a lot of pirate booty whoopin when you see him next time.
He also isn't too happy about his friend Kuzan doing what he did.
I think there's a strong possibility she will, either during the Final War or in the epilogue. Truly depends on whether Oda wants to end on women empowerment or go with the "women can't compete with men".
Seeing that he has daughters, I'd reckon he would want to end on a positive note for the women-swordsmanship theme, where Tashigi becomes the 1st top tier female swordsman.
Sakazuki would be the next one, if Kizaru were to be defeated now.
Blue underwear is the protocal of the organization.
Very interesting questions, might be the 1st time I've ever talked about this.
1st. My rating of it, with all the PIS taken into account, is... it could've been better executed when it comes to Ace. There should've been more long range bombardment going on against the WB pirates, and he himself should've stepped in to finish some of the commanders fast. The flaw is really just the sheer fact he held back, when there was no need to. Whitebeard could've been done away with right after that 1st heart attack, if Sengoku decides to join Sakazuki. However, at the sametime, I also have to take into account Oda's narrative wants. But yea it's by far the most PIS arc in One Piece, where Sengoku's plan is sadly the only thing resembling "tactics/strategy" despite it being a "war". If he had made Kuzan-Borsalino-Saka stand on the walls and spam long range bombardment attacks, things would've ended even sooner. But yea just not a very efficient plan as it was written.
2nd. I think he did a great job in having his soldiers be cautious the entire time. However, I certainly did not like his lack of composure when it came to the Luffy situation on the platform, transforming into the Buddha over a fodder was just terrible. Outside of that he gave clear cut orders to Saka, who executed them on point. He kept Garp in check. He also made sure to take responsbility at the end. About as good of a leader could be.
3rd. Nope. I think Oda would've just had Sakazuki be a hot head instead of being cool. Or whatever needed to be done to achieve that result. Now without PIS, I think Sengoku is just the best strategist and thus better for a war of that scale. I would give Akainu more so the edge in being more aggressive from an organization development point of view (recruiting talent/pushing initiatives/taking aggressive approaches), rather than warfare.
4th. I don't think so. I think by that time Fujitora would've had something in the works for anti-CD/anti-WG based on what happened in Alabasta. Lord knows the actions Fujitora would've taken at that time, seeing that the reverie wouldn't be for a few more years. Maybe Blackbeard isn't even made into a warlord. Entirely depends on the events that lead up to the war... but even then with how much he likes Luffy, which he would also more than likely will see in the MF war about how he is based on Alabasta... yea he's def. letting him go.
1. Just not the time. He's the commander-in-chief, the series hasn't gotten to a point where you would need the leader of all WG forces to make his move. Heck, the series is barely reaching the Fleet Admiral, if even that. The likelihood of us getting anything pre-Final War from him, is very low imo.
2. Because we're trying to make sure he doesn't get as much attention as he deserves. We don't want the world to know that he's our true enemy, so we give him a low bounty even if his bounty should be 6 billion.
3. Vice Admirals can be divided from Ben Beckman level to Strawhat Fleet level. It's a very giant range of powerlevels that we're looking at. The top Vice Admiral (not Garp) would easily 1-shot the weakest Vice Admiral. So, rather than two groups they can be divided into many groups.
4. Kizaru -> Fujitora -> Sakazuki -> GreenBull -> Kuzan (when he was an admiral) Though Admiral Sengoku would be No.1 in terms of coolness!
There's a possiblity yes, and I don't think he'll be the only one. The thing is just about whether it happens in the story or in the epilogue or some other story about strawhats in their 40s.
Even though the recent events might lead one to believe in Coby being the one. I believe the likelihood of it being Smoker is higher. Before the timeskip ends Oda made sure to show us that Smoker & Kuzan have a close friendship, despite their giant gap in rank.
Their relationship is then brought up again in post-TS after events of Punk Hazard, which is also Smoker's 1st and only arc post-TS. Where Smoker is shown not being too happy about Kuzan having possible relations with the underworld.
Oda's usage of the "...." along with the facial highlightings of Smoker & Kuzan's faces when one has to answer and the other replies to the answer. Not as bright and happy-go as the rest of their conversation.
But yea I would bet on it being Smoker, friend vs friend, Smoker cements himself as admiral level and we get some moments of development between the two.
