There wasn't any reason to engage Beckman in the first place, unless they were looking for a needless battle. Since the premiere of the anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga in 1999, Toei Animation has produced fourteen feature films based on the franchise, traditionally released during the Japanese school spring break since 2000. The last and final reason I can think of is that the Marines had already achieved their goal of executing Ace and also managed to get rid of Whitebeard. The cover of the first film's DVD release. As Blackbeard leaves the scene, the absence of a designated rival and presence of a powerful Yonko convinces Sengoku to concede to the necessity of a ceasefire, ordering the Marines to tend to the wounded. With the Gura Gura no Mi under his possession, Teach no longer sees the point in resuming the battle and has his crew depart from the battlefield. Shanks threatens both the Marines and Blackbeard pirates alike to have his entire crew involved in the fighting, if they chose to continue the war. They also happen to be the same five volumes: 25, 45, 59, 95, and 96.
Needless to say, had they engaged in a war with Shanks, there would have been many more casualties.Īs per the Wikia article on Battle of Marineford: One Piece Manga Covers suggest the importance of the connection between Shanks and Blackbeard Shanks and Teach have, as of volume 96, appeared on five volume covers each. We already saw the kind of power the Yonko have when it took the whole of Marine Power to subdue Whitebeard. Since Kizaru as well backed off, it makes it evident that Beckmann can imbue his bullets in Haki as well, although that hasn't been directly shown yet.Īnother reason would obviously be to avoid engaging in a war with the Red Hair Pirates/one of the Yonko. We see Marguerite attacking Luffy with an Haki infused arrow here:īenn Beckman being the first mate of the Red Hair Pirates obviously has incredible power and Haki.
During the Battle of Marineford, Admiral Kizaru chose not to fight him, even though he had just fought the First Commander of Whitebeard's crew and Whitebeard himself. Since he is a first mate to a Yonko, he presumably possesses a great deal of strength. According to Oda, Beckman has the highest IQ of all the characters introduced in the East Blue saga.