ONE PIECE MANGA REVEALS WHY HAKI DIDN’T WORK ON ADMIRAL AKAINU AND AOKIJI

If you start surfing the net and you research what are the main events in One Piece which are nowadays inexplicable, for sure you will find that a lot of people don’t understand how can Aokiji and Akainu be intangibles; in particular, those people think of their intangibility when they remember the Marineford War. In fact, during that arc, we saw a lot of strong fighters and also a lot of violent fights; two of those fights which deserve a special attention are the one between Whitebeard and the Admiral Aokiji and the one between Marco, Vista and the Admiral Akainu.

To begin with, I’m going to consider the first one: during that fight, at a certain moment we saw Aokiji jumping towards Whitebeard in order to attack him and Whitebeard, who had foreseen Aokiji’s attack, hit the Admiral at the centre of his chest with his weapon; everyone thought that Aokiji was dead because Whitebeard is a Haki user and, as we know, the use of haki nullifies Logia-type Devil Fruits powers, but suddenly Aokiji moved, so he demonstrated us that he was still alive.

Secondly, as far as the second one is concerned, during this other fight, we saw Marco and Vista, who probably are in the top three of the strongest members of the Whitebeard Pirates, dashing towards Akainu, who had just killed Ace, and hitting him; despite the fact that Marco’s kick and Vista’s cut had sliced Akainu’s body, the Admiral healed his wounds as if Vista and Marco were two normal people, although we know that they are able to use haki in the same way of Whitebeard.

So how could have happened something like this?

Well, the explanation to this incredible (and strange) fact has been given us by Oda in today’s One Piece manga: in fact, in the fight that is going on between Luffy and Katakuri, we came to know that Master of observations Haki are able to apply a sort of advanced observation to certain situations, making them able to predict enemies’ attacks; this can be considered like a quick look in the nearest future. Katakuri is one of the character who happen to have strongest observation Haki as mentioned by Bege.

Since now we know that this kind of haki exists, we could assume that also Admirals Aokiji and Akainu, who are with no doubt two incredibly powerful characters, can use Observation Haki; in fact, if you go on YT and you look at the two fights mentioned before, you will notice that Aokiji employed his Logia-power to open an ice-hole in his chest and let Whitebeard’s weapon pass through it, while Akainu allowed Marco and Vista hit his body and actually let them think that they hit him, but he transformed it into lava to open up the space and later he closed it.

I think this development will be a discussion among one piece fandom. This is just a theory based on the recent manga. Feel free to accept and comment on it. Until then, Kaizoku Ou Ni Ore wa Naru!