User blog comment:DancePowderer/Where Monarchs Dream, Part 1/@comment-9022101-20140511221525/@comment-3425840-20140514015443

If you recall the Sabo incident, Oda does sometime contradict his regular tendencies.

That being said - you are missing my point here - I am not trying to bash your logic; neither am I disagreeing with you about the lack of rear admirals in the story.

In fact, I do wholeheartedly agree that there is a big lack of rear admirals. I mean there had been quite a few captains - Smoker on debut, Hina - Tashigi, T-Bone, Coby, etc. Vice admirals are so common that we won't even have to bother to name a dozen of them.

Hell even the number of admirals is more than rear admirals (know). So of course that rank does deserve more attention.

I do, just like you think that there are way too many vice admirals and a spot light on some other rank would be more reasonable. That is not a point of dispute. I am however referring to the individual Kadar.

Correct me if I am wrong about the math, but if he is still a rear admiral then he is holding that position for more that fifteen years now. If I am not mistaken, the only known person to hold on to a same rank for longer is Garp - who did it by repeatedly refusing promotions.

Now as I explained in my earlier comment, the position of rear admiral does not seem as much like a bench mark like that of vice admiral (or admiral). For someone to get stuck in such a rank for a long while seems a bit unlikely. Considering how fast promotions takes place - look at Tashigi, Smoker or Coby for instance.

I mean Smoker was probably a new recruit 15 years ago and now he had become a vice admiral, and poor Kadar stayed stuck in the same damn rank for the whole time! For that long? Well you can say that he lacks quality, but if he was that worthless how did he become a rear admiral? Even if you don't improve, it is basic logic that you get some sort of promotion if you stay in the same rank for a long long time - especially when there is room for a promotion (surely in fifteen long years there had been lot of vacancies within the rank of vice admirals; one I can confirm - Borsalino become an admiral in the meantime, so one place at least became empty).

Considering all these along with the possibility of Kadar actually dying, I highly doubt he would make a reappearance as an active rear admiral. Chances of him getting promoted (or demoted :P), retiring or dying is way too high in my humble opinion.

In fact the only possible logic that I can think of in favor of him still staying a rear admiral is that he has haki block of some sort; i.e for some reason he can not access haki - which is presumably a prerequisite for becoming a vice admiral (although given the fact how common haki has become recently, it does not seem that probable).

Well in the end you do have the freedom of making any decision in your prediction - because all of what we are doing after all is PREDICTION - as long as it does not directly contradict cannon there should be no problem, right? (I mean you are the expert on technicality here). I just wanted to voice my reasoning on the topic.

Sorry for the long comment.