Top panel: Aokiji's midsection is in that section between the pole and blade.
Mid second panel: Aokiji leans on the pole making his upper body (his head) barely reach the pole.
First panel: Aokiji's still leaning on the pole.
Second panel: A force (which the blue arrow points to) goes for Aokiji's head.
Jozu's elbow is far beyond where Aokiji's midsection was.
To further prove he got hit in the face, his lip is the only part where he sustains injury.
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If you want, I could break down the panels some more with more circles and arrows, but I don't feel like doing that at the moment.
I don't know if you noticed, but he was also broken into 20 pieces. Sorry but unless your argument is that if you got stabbed, and someone kicking you literally breaks you into pieces, you don't have an argument. Jozu attacked BOTH the head and the body.
Jozu being further than aokiji's body was with his elbow pointed out the furthest proves me right, not you.
The point is that he either dropped an elbow down aokiji's head and into his body, or he slammed him in the head with his shoulder, and then followed through by throwing his arm out.
The best you can do is argue that the shoulder had buso on it but not the elbow, but at that point, why the fuck would jozu do that, it'd be stupid asf if he did that, when he could literally cover his entire arm with buso.
But yeah, no one is claiming jozu wasn't hit in the head, but he also was hit in his body, and you can see that clearly because jozu broke exactly where the elbow was, and you can even see the impact lines directly originate from his elbow.
Also I'd argue the aokiji looking over is kind of worthless too, because jozu is like twice as big as aokiji, it's not like jozu is some small dwarf from dressrosa or something that was flying, clearly his whole body was there, that was literally just to show aokiji reacting to a mass coming at him. Jozu's torso (he was ramming with his whole side) is larger than that small surface area.
If the lines are to be taken seriously, he either came from a higher angle (maybe a jump and he came from the air), or he started his attack high and then followed through down to his torso with the follow through. One attack, but he didn't do the fluid motion until contact with done, and it pressed down into his torso after hitting his head, with his elbow.
When you attack someone, you go THROUGH the opponent, you don't stop at the target.