Borsalino

Admiral Kizaru (黄ザル大将, Kizaru Taishō) is one of the three Admirals in the Marines. His name means Yellow Monkey in Japanese while his original name was Borsalino (ボルサリーノ, Borusarīno). He was first mentioned by Robin during the initial encounter with Aokiji.

Appearance
Kizaru is middle aged man with a moderate amount of wrinkles on his face. He has appeared in a striped suit with the standard Marines' coat over it. He wears shades and a portable Den Den Mushi on his wrist. He is very tall, about the same height as Aokiji. The way Kizaru's character design is drawn resembles the famous Japanese actor, Kunie Tanaka.

Personality
Like Aokiji, Kizaru seems to be very laid-back and easygoing, even in surprising and unexpected ones, but he's apparently never shocked. Even when a pirate fired a gunshot at him, he seemed to focused only on calling his subordinate, and didn't even mind. He even asked the offenders where his subordinate is. After uprooting a mangrove tree, he laughed to himself that the force he used was a tad excessive. He's also very cheery, even in tense situations, such as when Basil Hawkins redirected his attack. Unfortunately, he can be quite absent-minded and irresponsible, judged by the fact he used a lot of power in a kick directed at escaping pirates, uprooting an entire mangrove tree, and seems to have misplaced his subordinate.

Abilities and Powers
As an Admiral, Kizaru is able to command vast number of Marine troops that are under his rank. Most of all, he has the ability to order a Buster Call attack on any island.

Kizaru apparently has some sort of ability Devil Fruit associated with light energy. This ability allows him to let objects pass through him, as well as launching some sort of energy blast by kicking and firing beams from his body. He can apparently move at the speed of light or rather he attacks using this speed to increase damage. This could be the ability of a Logia Devil Fruit. Kizaru's strength is further proven by the fact that he "killed" Basil Hawkins twice without any effort at all, and kicking a bulked-up Urouge through several buildings. Kizaru's Devil Fruit has been stated as further researched by Doctor Vegapunk, allowing him to create similar laser attacks within models of Pacifista created in the likeness of Bartholomew Kuma.

History
After the Tenryuubito incident at the Sabaody Archipelago, Kizaru spoke with Sengoku about handling the situation, and volunteered to deal with the rookies himself. The Marines outside the Human Auctioning House commented that Kizaru was bringing some type of "troops", which seemed to shock them, but they did not elaborate on what exactly that meant. Later, the Admiral has arrived on Sabaody Archipelago, riding on top of a fired canon ball, as it lands.

When he did so, he tried to call someone on his Den Den Mushi, but seemingly got no reply. One of on-looking pirates wanted to try his luck and shot at Kizaru, but though the shot passed directly through the Admiral, it didn't affect him in the slightest. Kizaru then tried to ask the group pirates a question, looking for someone named Sentomarou, whom he called his "subordinate". When the pirates ran away from him in fear, he kicked something with his foot, uprooting an entire Yarukiman Grove. Sabaody soldiers commented on his carelessness upon this, and even Kizaru noted that he overdid it.

He later confronts Basil Hawkins, saying he wants to ask him a question. After the pirate looking over his odds, Kizaru attacks him, but does not harm Hawkins after he redirects the attack elsewhere, drawing a shocked impression from the admiral. Before long, Urouge and X. Drake unintentionally join Hawkins side, while Kizaru is joined by one of several Bartholomew Kuma-like warriors running amuck on the island. He used his powers to kick Urouge through several buildings, and Blinded Basil Hawkins, then almost killed him. Scratchman Apoo joined the fight, and seemingly cut of Kizaru's arm and made it explode with some sort of devil fruit. It remains to seen if Kizaru is still alive. However given his rank and Devil Fruit power, it's unlikely he was killed.

Trivia

 * The model of Kizaru's face is the Japanese actor, Kunie Tanaka. Along with that, Kizaru's clothes and real name, Borsalino, are apparently based on a movie character that Kunie Tanaka played in his youth. The character, Borsalino, from the old Japanese film "Truck yarou", wore a suit and shades similar to Kizaru's design.
 * According to Hawkins:
 * In a battle against Kizaru the chances of defeat were 100%
 * In flight (retreating) the chances of success were 12%
 * On the defensive side circumvention chances were 76%
 * Survival; probability of death was 0%
 * Hawkins came to the conclusion that facing an admiral with just ten men was unwise.