@Tom:
Fujitora has his selfish reasons for not stopping Mingo. It's fair game to say he's doing a pretty awful thing letting Mingo rampage while he himself has the power to stop him. Fujitora, knowing all this, decided that he's going to try and bring the system down instead of stopping Mingo.
I wouldn't mind if that was it, but it doesn't seem like his plan is actually beneficial to him in any way.
@Tom:
Ned's post was linked a couple of pages ago, and it had good thoughts on this matter. It's possible to argue that what Doflamingo is doing right now isn't against WG, considering that WG themselves will destroy a whole island of innocent people for their own selfish reasons. Mingo going rampant might be within his rights as a member of the shichibukai. If not, there's the underlying tenryuubito thing which Fujitora might or might not be aware of. Even if Fujitora doesn't know of all this, he does know that Mingo has a lot of power over the WG, which he would then contribute to him being a member of the shichibukai.
Ned's post, while very well written sylogism, has a flaw: It is dependant on Mingo actually being within his rights, and immune to the judgement. And we actually have evidence against it: Bastille's and Maynard's reaction to Fujitora's orders of innaction.
So we have one theory, that is pure speculation, and against which we have explicit evidence in form of character actions shown on panel, and somehow, it is still prevalent.
It is clear that from within universe, we are supposed to question Fujitora's conduct, not blindly agree to it and rationalize it as the best course of action. Oda knows this is questionable. That's why we have Maynard questioning it, and Fujitora being cryptic.
@Tom:
When making his point for bringing the shichibukai down, Fujitora can point out that while Mingo was doing all these horrible things right under his eyes, he didn't have the authority to stop it because he's following the law blindly. WG famously doesn't appreciate pirates becoming heroes, so that's why it matters that pirates took Mingo down instead of Fujitora. This too would have to be covered but Fujitora has the ace in his sleeve that he knows what actually happened, and that might give him the leverage to bring down the shichibukai.
Again, it only works if he didn't, against which we have evidence.
And I need to ask: How is Mingo being defeated by pirates argument for abolishion? Higher echelons know that it wasn't Smoker who did Crocodile in. If it was so easy, Admirality (None of which are shown to have anything but disdain for Shichibukai), would have desolved them already.
@Tom:
In the end that's all speculation, but I'm feeling there will be salvation for Fujitora. You're underestimating Oda if you think he would've let such an obvious plot hole slip in.
I am not underestimating anybody. It is entirely possible that he will come up with something absolutly brilliant that will make me go "Huh, so that was the plan all along. Kudos.".
At the same time however, the implications people are making are that his actions are logical now. And they aren't. It's the in universe point that they aren't.
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@MadieV:
Time to see the One Piece versions of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Masamune maybe, Mitsuhide, Ranmaru and Yukimura.
I'm expecting at least one character design to be inspired on one of these.
Hmm… dunno, it seems like Wano is more of a late Shogunate, rather that Sengoku period.
Though I wouldn't mind seeing those people.
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@RamistaR:
That is actively commanding the troops for me.
It isn't to me. He operating on strategical level, when he should be operating on tactical level.
@RamistaR:
I recommend you to read the last translation from powermanga of chapter 757 and 760.
You will not find Fuji ordering around. But those are the chapters where Fuji explains his intentions.
It's much better than the translastions we got when the chapters came out.
Oh, they are that far already?
Nonetheless, after checking it, I didn't find it any less cryptic.
… Sigh. No point in discussing it, really. We are lacking essential elements.