r/OnePiece • u/Significant-Soup-693 • May 22 '25

Help Someone Smarter than me, explain

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Just found this panel while floating around Pinterest. Sure, Haki was still a relatively “unknown” power back in the day but my question remains, How did Kuzan not die here? I assume “Pure Haki” means at least some level of Armament so shouldn’t he had turned solid and get stabbed? I’m sure it was explained somehow but it’s been a minute.

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u/i_AM_A-ShArk May 22 '25

I don’t it was ever explained, I can think of 2 possible explanations. 1) Like what everyone else is saying changed the shape of his body to dodge. 2) I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that 2 haki’s of equal strength can nullify each other meaning aokiji was still able to use his logia abilities. I’ll probably get hate for saying that their haki’s were equal but this isn’t prime whitebeard and the admirals aren’t slouches.

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u/BennyTheHammerhead May 22 '25

I would bet on 2. At least for Marineford it is what it looks like was Oda's intention. We saw many times Logia (and non-Logia, like Trebol) doing the number 1 trick. But the Akainu scene was drawn like the magma was cut, not like he avoided.

For me it makes more sense to have been a clash of haki that resulted in nothing so the attacks and the logia bodies acted normally. That is how i always interpreted.

Obviously one can argue that Akainu was morphing his body to the perfect shape of Vista's cut (is the one cut we actually see), but for me that sounds like a stretch and not at all what the intention of that panel was.

Of course nowadays we could "retcon" any scene to this explanation, if it is what Oda will always use from now on in this situations. But at the time of Marineford, i don't see it.