The Truth About Aokiji

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:32 Aokiji's Character Arc
08:24 The Missing Pieces
11:02 Aokiji's True Goal

[somerandomguy]

Really like your analysis, Kuzan's clash between obedience and free thought, his experiment on letting Robin go in order to find who he truly aligns with

[yamikamisama]

I think one aspect people overlook is BB himself. To me, at least, he's never been someone who is almost pure evil like Doflamingo himself. He's someone who can be reasoned with unless there's an interest there that permits him from not doing so. As in, he's not someone to go around, causing havoc, killing people for the hell of it. People like Ace, WB, and Thatch were just unfortunate victims to his line of interests. But if he didn't need the Yami Yami he wouldn't have killed Thatch, if he didn't want the Gura Gura he wouldn't have killed WB, and if he didn't want to a bargaining tool with the Marines he wouldn't have captured Ace. For all 3 of them, BB never had any malice there. They just happened to have something he wanted, and Bb is someone who will go to any depths to get it as that his own freedom even if it's a corrupt one to many people. So when Aokiji joins his crew, it's essentially him signing up to BB's form of freedom, doing what he wants to do, no matter what he has to do, to achieve it, much like BB.

[grennbalze]

Not only is he an admirable character. He’s an admiral character

[captainmarvelous]

Aokiji and Kuma have been two of my favorite chars since thriller bark. Glad they are both getting screentime now

[MarianaBello-fqhx]

BB having a charisma good enough to a point where he can convice someone as Aokiji to "join" him is amazing. It just makes BB even more similar to Luffy, since the protagonist of this history is also good at gattering people around him.

[michaelmanzana]

Aokiji is not the only marine who started out as completely loyal. Saul was just as loyal and he thought the archaeologists were tryna bring back an ancient weapon

[junkyard]

Kuzan's dialogue excerpt from film Z gives some fascinating insights into his potential motivations

"Out on the sea, pirates are born and die in search of One Piece

and for each one that dies, another is born

Are pirates born because One Piece waits on the far side of this sea?

Or does One Piece really exist because pirates do?

What comes first? The dream or the dreamers?

As long as pirates pursue their dreams, there will also be people who have to grieve the loss of loved ones.

What can one even do? Is there even an answer

Former navy admiral Z gave his own answer "If One piece vanishes, the pirates will vanish with it" "

To which he smirkingly says (while addressing the SH's in that scene) "Don't you think he's jumping to conclusions" ?

[gabrielreed]

0:35 "Admirably fighting". I see what you did there lol

[username-qlox]

Whatever reason he may have, we have to remember that he chose to become a Blackbeard pirate. Not a marine, not just some ordinary pirate, and most important of all, he also chose NOT to become a revolutionary.

[yakiynisrael]

Outside of the original BB pirates the rest of them also have their own agenda so Aokiji isn’t much different from them in that regard. Remember they discussed amongst themselves if they were going to leave BB if he couldn’t take the second devil fruit. They all have their own agenda as BB said.

[maliklofton]

I'm hoping the battle between Kuzan and Garp will delve deeper into the concept of Justice in One Piece.

[AnimeDLuffy]

I personally think Aokiji is only with the Blackbeard pirates to protect Robin. I think Aokiji realises that he will want to go after her at some point for her knowledge so is with them until that happens.

[totallynotdio]

, ,Aokiji is the most morally ambigious character in one piece"

Meanwhile kizaru whos still a complete mystery...

[RaulMartinez-gdpw]

What’s so amazing is that here we have a tertiary character and Oda has given him such rich development in the background of the story.

[ethancoonce]

I think it’s at least a cool coincidence that Aokiji is such a big part of the Ennies Lobby arc, an arc where luffy and crew do something that portrays them as evil, and Aokiji’s arc is him doing something that makes us really question whether or not he’s evil. Great video! Aokiji is one of my favorite characters, and this made me like him even more.

[Pogitoed]

Additionally BB hasnt really done anything to be seen as exceptionally evil in Kuzan's eyes, Kuzan had no attachment to WB or Thatch or Ace, He was evil fighting to kill WB and Ace himself during Marineford. He probably recognizes BB as not being as noble of a pirate as Luffy per say, but to him he hasn't done anything that bad

[sweenigami]

I think Kuzan wants to reveal the true history to the world. It would make sense due to how traumatized he was in Ohara. He just thinks Blackbeard would be his best shot at doing it. If this is the case, I could see him turning on Teach and joining Luffy at some point.

[kingjaylen]

Kuzan has always been a very compelling character. Oda is putting in some of his best writing into him and I'm very excited to see where he goes from here

[spofet]

I think Kuzan wants to know the truth behind the void century and use BB to get that truth and also keep tabs on him just in case he gets out of control.

[Zyphn]

From your point of view, it seems to me that Kuzan is actually running another experiment, to see how far absolute chaos fairs against absolute justice. As the counterweight, Kuzan's role shall be to learn how heave the tips of the scales are to try to understand the right path. As he said, he's living life on his terms now, so it's not like he will simply do as he is told.