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| “ | When I hold an execution, I make damn sure to finish the job. | „ |
| ~ Akainu |
| “ | Gold Roger the King of the Pirates and Dragon the Revolutionary. To think that the two of you were adopted brothers all these years. What a victory it would be to end both bloodlines. Everyone can escape, the two of you are the only targets I'm after. Say goodbye! | „ |
| ~ Akainu swearing to kill Luffy and Ace. |
| “ | We Marines fight pirates and carry the justice of the world on our backs. Someone who runs away and lets an enemy see his back has no right calling himself a marine. Someone like that is mere garbage. If you truly cared for your family, you wouldn't have disgraced them like this! | „ |
| ~ Akainu before killing a scared Marine |
Akainu (real name: Sakazuki) is one of the central antagonists of the anime and manga, One Piece (alongside Marshall D. Teach) and is one of the main antagonists of the series' Marineford Arc (alongside Teach and Sengoku). He used to be one of the three Marine Admirals but he is now the current Fleet Admiral as Sengoku's successor. He ate the Magu Magu no Mi (Magma-Magma Fruit) making him become living magma. He is one of Monkey D. Luffy's archenemies after killing his brother Portgas D. Ace.
He is voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki (who also voiced Don Krieg from One Piece, Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kenpachi Zaraki from Bleach) in the Japanese version, and by Andrew Love in the English dubbed version.
Personality
| “ | We have to be thorough! If even one of those scholars made it onto that ship, all of the sacrifices we've made would be for nothing! We must eliminate the very possibility of this "evil" existing!! | „ |
| ~ Sakazuki's view on destroying the ship of survivors during the Buster Call at Ohara. |
Although he supposedly believes in justice and righteousness, Akainu is cruel, intransigent, heartless, and fanatical to the motto of "Absolute Justice", which is to punish criminals at any cost, no matter how much they beg for mercy or not, and regardless of the circumstances relating to how the crimes themselves were committed. However Akainu's extremism is far beyond the average extremist Marine very much like Hody Jones being a more extreme version of Arlong, and has caused even those that agree with his personal beliefs to question them, and his lack of tolerance for such has led the marines beneath him to fear and hate him and returns this by not hesitating to kill any who stand in his way, and his black-hearted behavior is reviled all across the New World and the mere sight of him caused veteran New World Pirate Squard to experience a noticeable cold sweat.
Akainu's personal take on the Marine's philosophy is "Thorough Justice" which is to eradicate anything and everything related to the "evil" with extreme prejudice; rationalizing the possibility of even a minuscule target of eradication escaping resulting in a failure which has led him to destroy a refugee ship full of innocent civilians and attempted to take the young Coby's life when the cadet pleaded to stop the war, extremely angry at the outburst which had wasted his time. His title/alias literal meaning of "Red Dog" seems to reflect on Akainu's tendency to hunt down his target liking a hunting dog does its prey once it has a scent and similarly Akainu let nothing spot him from actively hunting down a mentally damaged Luffy, knocking aside many who got in his way without actually doing damage beyond this because he was so focused on Luffy however allowed Marco and Vista to continually interfere with his attempts on Luffy's life. Even then, Akainu was more focused on Luffy for his bloodline as opposed to veteran pirates who were more skilled than Luffy was at the time, and at best told them to get out of his way.
This showcases a remarkable amount of shortsightedness for Akainu, as his philosophy of being thorough stopped him from seeing anything beyond his immediate scope as a massive threat, barely taking notice of Blackbeard's attempt at sinking Marineford (although both Sengoku and Garp were fending off the Blackbeard Pirates at the time) and in the end makes him barely anything but a dangerous single-minded murderer, much like the stereotypical view of the criminals of the world. In deed being so distracted by Luffy allowed Whitebeard to launch a sneak attack behind him and be temporarily defeated because of this.
Akainu's extremist beliefs have led him to also label someone a threat because of their own bloodlines, specifically targeting Monkey D. Luffy and Portgas D. Ace simply because of their respective fathers being criminals as opposed to their own actual actions, and went so far as to declare that even if every other pirate escaped from Marineford alive, he would personally not allow the brothers that chance at all, and actively hunted them down. He even attempted to point out to the Whitebeard Pirates that the person that they were protecting was the son of the Revolutionary Dragon, as if somewhat slightly confused that individuals would dare protect such a man because of his lineage.
Despite (or perhaps because of) Akainu's extremist beliefs Akainu is himself very deceitful and manipulative; traits that showcase Akainu can be crafty and exploitative when needed. Though he believed Ace a threat because he was the son of the Pirate King he knew that Ace did not like this association and used it to his advantage, showing that while he acknowledged that Ace felt shame for his father this was only a weakness to be exploited for Marine victory. He was even willing to feign sympathy towards Squard in an attempt to turn Whitebeard's allies against him.
Another factor that may be contrary or because of his extremist beliefs in heritage Akainu seems to place a degree of stock in the families of the Marines beneath him. Telling his men not to dishonor their families in cowardice by running away from their posts. Akainu believes that families are defined by blood, and is disgusted by the Whitebeard Pirates's familiar bond between themselves, and openly mocks and belittles this, while calling the Whitebeard Pirates following of their late captain's last order to escape as being hypocritical.
Contradicting his own beliefs on heritage and justice, however, Akainu takes a stance of apathy and non-intervention when it comes to the hedonism with the Celestial Dragons and their criminal actions and atrocities, instead he turns a blind eye to these actions not seeing it as his business despite the arguable worse crimes that they repeatedly commit and get away with being worse than anything that most pirates are able to do. Furthermore Akainu gives no regard for something if it does not reflect well upon the Marine's name. As far as he is concerned the Marines need look credible and if the truth inconveniences it then Sakazuki will, much like the World Government, resort to abridging, altering or ignoring the truth of things such as the Dressrosa Incident to keep such a credible image.
In spite of Akainu's tendency to hunt down his enemies however, he knows when the situation calls for less violent measures. He can even show impressive acts of restraint specifically when Shanks arrived to end the war. Despite fighting his way through many men, and with someone whom he had just seconds before tried to kill right in front of him, Sakazuki instead stood down opting not to fight a Yonko, and did little more than curse Shanks for his arrival and interference when Luffy was able to get away. However, he still did not escalate things to an altercation with the Red-Hair Pirates.
Though Akainu is known to mow down weaker Marines for getting in his way or being a dissenting voice in his views Akainu reserves a certain level of respect and even leniency towards the stronger Marines, if only reserved to the Admirals thus far shown. Issho for example was able to call Sakazuki "Saka-san" without it bothering him even gave him an alternate punishment of capturing the wanted pirates he was supposed to be after as opposed to his usual standard of death sentence (although he was not their in person to deliver such a sentence) and even sparred Kuzan despite their duel being to the death. Akainu is noticeably very cross that Kuzan did not serve under him and his whim of mercy went to waste on him, openly telling the Gorosei that Kuzan had nothing to do with the Navy now that he has resigned despite him now being affiliated with the highly dangerous Blackbeard Pirates.
In the past of under instruction of his former mentor, Zephyr, Akainu shown his great respect for Zephyr as if he was a father-figure to him. But currently, Akainu has no qualms of sending the entire Marines to kill his former mentor and the Neo-Marines in the movie, One Piece: Film Z.
Akainu is also fearless, obstinate, headstrong, merciless and reckless in battle challenging the mighty Whitebeard, and boldly insulting him to get Ace to face him before instead aiming to a than distracted Luffy to kill Ace. Even when hopelessly outmatched and overpowered by the Yonko and being practically helpless for a time, Akainu took advantage of a brief moment to initiate an attack that briefly devastated the pirate, and when he was defeated cursed him in anger. Still Akainu is not above showing surprise at unexpected turns of events such as when Shanks blocked his attack and expectantly arrived, or when he heard that Doflamingo had been defeated.
Akainu is in many ways the incarnation of the World Government's totalitarian system of extremism towards dissenting viewpoints while ignoring the World Government's depravity this caused many high ranking government officials to elect Akainu to be the successing fleet admiral over Sengoku's nomination of Kuzan and the government was willing to bestow unprecedented power towards the Marines with Akainu's leadership; however while Akainu is an adamant follower of much of the World Government's viewpoint he is not as tolerant to some of their actions as he is to the Celestial Dragons. Noticeably Akainu took the matter of Doflamingo's false resignation towards the Gorosei themselves and boldly insulted them for having to adhere to the demands of a single pirate, behavior which eventually descended into a heated argument with the five elders. While perfectly willing to deceive civilians about the nature of Doflamingo's defeat, he was completely intolerant when the World Government kept information that stopped the Marines from understanding the situation at large. This shows that to Akainu criminals being able to utilize the government above the marines as an asset is far beyond what he will tolerate from his superiors.
Relationships
- Marines: As a ruthless marine, Akainu shown little respect within the marines. Those who fled from important mission doesn't deserve to be marines and kill them for their cowardice. However, since the Shicbukai abolished, Akainu shown caution to leave Wano alone as they don't have enough military power against both Kaido and Big Mom.
- World Government: Akainu shown his loyalty to the World Government. He will do whatever means for triumph or cover-up incidents.
- Kuzan/Aokiji: As his rival, Akainu has hostility actions on his former colleague. After he killed the Ohara survivors, Aokiji called Akainu as a fool. After their duel for fleet admiral, Akainu literally spared Aokiji. When Aokiji left the Marines, Akainu has no concern for him.
- Borsalino/Kizaru: Akainu appears to have good terms with Kizaru. When Kizaru volunteered to handle the situation on Kaido and Big Mom, Akainu told him to wait as they don't know the strength of Wano's samurais.
- Issho/Fujitora: When Luffy and Law formed alliance and head to Wano, Akainu send Fujitora to deal with him. However, when Fujitora revealed the true incidents in Dressrosa and prevent the government to cover-up, Akainu shown furious to Fujitora and asked why didn't he reported the incident to headquarter before taking actions in response Fujitora asked if he reported, Akainu would cover-up the incident as he told him cover-ups are important to save the dignity for the Marines. Akainu banned Fujitora to set his foot the Marine Bases unless he captured Luffy and Law. When Fujitora is in Mary Gloise, Akainu contacted Ryokugyu to kick him out. After the Shichibukai Abolished, Akainu realized of Fujitora's goal and told by the admiral to have faith for the SSG (Special Science Group).
- Sengoku: Akainu has loyalty for the predecessor. In Timeskip, Sengoku teased Akainu which caused his anger. While interrupt Sengoku's meeting, Akainu heard from his predecessor of Kozuki Oden as one of the former division commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates.
- Gorosei: During Doflamingo's false resignation, Akainu has a meeting with the Gorosei asked if the order was from someone higher than the Gorosei themselves and told them to never do it again. The Gorosei were depressed of Akainu's attitude when they leave the situation for Cipher Pol and blamed Akainu when Kuzan join Blackbeard which caused the great shame for the Marines.
Enemies
- Monkey D. Luffy: Akainu is Luffy's Marine archenemy after he murdered his brother, Ace and failed to try to kill him after escaped. When Luffy formed an alliance with Law, Akainu sent Fujitora to deal with him. When Akainu read the incident of Totto Land, Akainu got furious of Luffy's trouble and regarded his mistakes after he was unable to kill him in the war at Marineford.
- Monkey D. Dragon: Akainu hold a great hatred toward Dragon. It is unknown how they met. Akainu has the knowledge of Dragon's relatives and attempted to take his son's life which utterly failed.
- Shichibukai: Like few marines, Akainu despised the Shichibukai for not obeying the direct orders from the Government. When the Shichibukai were dissolved, Akainu considered them as an necessarily military even a little.
- Trafalgar D. Water Law: When hearing Law's alignment with Luffy, Akainu sent Fujitora to Dressrosa. After Doflamingo's downfall, Law was revoked as a Shichibukai and increased his bounty 500,000,000 Berries.
- Jinbe: Akainu considered Jinbe as a traitor for his resignation for the Shichibukai. He attempted to give him mercy by handing over Luffy which Jinbe refused and protecting him with his life. He failed to kill him and Luffy due to Crocodile's interference.
- Crocodile: When Akainu attempted to kill both Jinbe and Luffy, Crocodile intercepted him.
- Edward Newgate: Akainu was Whitebeard's enemy. They insulted each other when Whitebeard told Akainu to light up the birthday cake in turn Akainu would rather light up for Whitebeard's funeral. When Akainu murdered Ace, Whitebeard fought him and nearly killed him although Akainu dealt a blow his face (in anime in stomach).
- Shanks: After Luffy successfully escaped, Akainu cursed Shanks for his actions.
- Marshall D. Teach: Blackbeard is one of those Akainu deemed to be bigger threats. When Blackbeard claimed of his era after killed Whitebeard, Akainu shown in shocked but ignored him and focus on Luffy. After the war, Akainu was send to deal with Blackbeard until he and his crew got away.
- Yonko: Akainu deemed the Yonko to be the greatest threats. When heard Kaido and Big Mom's alliance, Akainu shown his cautious as he leave them alone since he doesn't have enough military power against the Yonko alliance.
- Zephyr: In his under Zephyr's instructions, Akainu had a great respects for his former mentor as he viewed him as a father figure. However, now Akainu ordered his entire marines to stop Zephyr and the Neo-Marines even if it means to kill Zephyr which Akainu didn't want to kill him.
Abilities and Powers
As the current fleet admiral of the Marines, Akainu has full commands over both the under ranking troops and the government's agents. He possessed the golden den-den mushi to summon the Buster Call to assault islands deemed to be threats. He had the ability to revoke a Shichibukai's title at any time before their disbandment.
Akainu is manipulative and deceiver when he provoked and mocked his enemies such as both Squard and Ace about Whitebeard.
Physical Strength
Akainu has superhuman strength to overpower Ace, Marco and Jinbei. He has immense durability after took attacks from both Marco and Vista with imbued Busoshoku Haki and nearly got killed by Whitebeard as well got severely injured in his duel for fleet admiral against Aokiji. With his magma, he has speed to chase his enemies.
Devil Fruit
Akainu eaten Magu-Magu no Mi a logia class devil fruit to burn everything to ashes with magma and became a Magma Human. His magma can burning things including fire such as Ace's fiery devil fruit. Akainu can boil water after unleashed his attacks. He can burn a giant ice into a magma coal.
Akainu's weaknesses are drowning and caught off guard by Seastone.
Haki
Akainu has two Haki (Busoshoku and Kenbunshoku)
Akainu use Busoshoku Haki to imbued himself and defend himself such as blocking Whitebeard's attack (along with Kizaru and Aokiji).
Akainu possession Kenbunshoku Haki to sense individual's presences and dodge with his own speed.
Biography
In his childhood, he wore tattered up clothes and held a dagger in his possession. When he was a young adult, he joined the marines alongside Kizaru.
His debut in the series features him immediately crossing the Moral Event Horizon by destroying a ship filled with innocent refugees of Ohara on the minuscule possibility that a criminal might have been on board, an action that horrified even his comrades. Since then, he rose through the ranks of the Marines and eventually became one of the Admirals, alongside Aokiji (who detested him for his cruelty and fanaticism), and Kizaru.
He is the one who killed Monkey D. Luffy's brother, Portgas D. Ace. His magma overpowered Ace's fire power, and punched him straight through the chest as Ace was trying to protect Luffy. He even tried to kill Coby when he said further fighting would be pointless, but luckily, Shanks saved him just in time. Through this horrible action, Akainu accomplished what no other villain ever could: completely breaking Luffy's spirit.
Within the two year time-skip, Akainu officially became the new Fleet Admiral officially placing him as the commander of all the World Government's forces, which was later revealed to the Straw Hats by Jinbe at Fishman Island. According to Jinbe, since Akainu's commandeering of the Marines, the marines have become noticeably cruel under his ideologies of Absolute Justice.
Fleet Admiral Sakazuki became furious at Admiral Fujitora for revealing the true news of Dressrosa incident without even telling him. He asked why he did not report to him before taking action. Fujitora replied if he report to him, he would have cover-up the incident. He suggests that cover-ups were needed to save the face of the World Government. Fujitora doesn't want to become a hero for something that he did not do. He argued to the Fleet Admiral about the credibility and dignity of the Marine Headquarter. Sakazuki banned Fujitora from every single Marine bases unless if he can capture both Luffy and Law.
After reading the news of Totto Land and Princess Koname was kidnapped by pirates, Sakazuki shows his fury of allowing this to happen.
After the Marines intercept the conversion between Kaido and Big Mom, Kizaru asked Sakazuki permission to handle the situation. However, the Fleet Admiral himself told Kizaru to wait since they don't know about the strength of the samurais of Wano.
After the Shichibukai abolished, Akainu talking with Fujitora of his goal and thought the Shichibukai were a necessary military and decided to place hope for Vegapunk's SSG. Akainu interrupt Sengoku's meeting of the Yonkos and the story of Rocks D. Xebec and leave Wano alone since they have no military power.
Quotes
| “ | So that's him. Not only is he the grandson of Garp the Hero, he's also the son of the Revolutionary Dragon. We'll have to eliminate him as well. | „ |
| ~ Akainu about Luffy. |
| “ | He got himself stabbed because one of those foolish sons of his believed every word I said, and now he'll die to protect that same fool. Truly an empty existence. | „ |
| ~ Akainu to Ace about Whitebeard forgiving Squard. |
| “ | If man does not live righteously, he does not deserve to live at all! | „ |
| ~ Akainu to Ace. |
| “ | I'm not gonna let Law and Straw Hat do whatever they want! | „ |
| ~ Akainu |
| “ | You've wasted several seconds of my time. The Navy has no use for soldiers who aren't righteous! | „ |
| ~ Akainu to Coby. |
| “ | Our powers are in a relationship of superiority! | „ |
| ~ Akainu states the reason of how he defeated Ace. |
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Trivia
- According to Caesar Clown, Akainu would probably purchase weapons of mass destruction to enforce justice.
- Akainu is the first villain to kill an important character outside of a flashback. Due to this and becoming the new leader of the marines, he is one of the primary antagonists alongside Blackbeard and like him he is one of Luffy's archenemies.
- Despite being a marine, Akainu is one of the few villains in One Piece that is considered Pure Evil, alongside Hody Jones, Donquixote Doflamingo, Caesar Clown, and Captain Kuro.
- He is also notably a rare example of a Pure Evil villain being a necessary evil.
- According to an interview with Eiichiro Oda, he stated that if Sakazuki were to become the protagonist, he is so strong that he could end the One Piece series within a year.
- Akainu despises Luffy's father, Monkey D. Dragon and sees him as a major threat to the World Government. For this reason, Akainu spent a significant amount of time trying to chase after and murder Luffy in the Marineford War despite the bigger threat that Blackbeard posed.
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