Quick answer
Five characters in ONE PIECE have been shown or stated to see the future: Charlotte Katakuri, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Shanks and Scopper Gaban.
They are not equally well evidenced, and this page does not pretend otherwise — each entry below carries its own evidence level. Two of them, Kaido and Shanks, rest on chapters we have verified directly. The other three rest on chapter-referenced logs we have not re-read from the page in this session, and we say so in place rather than rounding them up.
The single most useful thing the manga has established about the ability is not who has it. It is that a future someone sees can still be changed — which is why "he saw it coming" and "it happened" are different statements.
What Future Sight actually is
It is not a separate power. It is an advanced application of Observation Haki (Kenbunshoku Haki), the sense that reads presence, emotion and intent. Pushed far enough, it extends slightly forward in time, so the user perceives a moment before it arrives.
Three properties matter for reading any scene involving it:
- It is short-range in time. Nothing in the manga presents it as long-term prophecy. It is measured in moments, not chapters.
- Seeing is not surviving. A user can see an attack arriving and still be unable to avoid it. The ability supplies information, not capability.
- It is trainable. The manga shows it being acquired, which is why Luffy is on this list at all.
That last point is also the cleanest argument against treating it as a mystical gift. It behaves like a skill.
The five, with the evidence behind each
Charlotte Katakuri — first confirmed around chapter 860
- Exact evidence: Katakuri's Observation Haki is presented as seeing a short distance into the future, and the Whole Cake Island fight is built around that advantage.
- What the scene proves: possession, and that the ability confers a decisive combat edge against an opponent who lacks it.
- Evidence level:
CHAPTER-REFERENCED / NOT DIRECTLY REVERIFIED IN THIS SESSION. - Overclaim to avoid: Do not merge this with the separate Whole Cake sequence involving a shot aimed at Sanji. Those get blended constantly in explainer lists, and they are different scenes making different points.
Monkey D. Luffy — first confirmed around chapter 894
- Exact evidence: Luffy develops the same forward-reading ability over the course of the Katakuri fight, having started it without.
- What the scene proves: the most important structural fact on this page — that future sight is learnable. Every other entry is a character who has it; this is the one that shows it being acquired.
- Evidence level:
CHAPTER-REFERENCED / NOT DIRECTLY REVERIFIED IN THIS SESSION. - Overclaim to avoid: Do not describe Luffy as matching Katakuri's range or reliability on the strength of acquiring it.
Kaido — chapter 1042, volume 103
- Exact evidence: Kaido says in his own words that Luffy is not the only one who can see the future.
- What the scene proves: possession, stated by the character himself. A first-person statement by a combatant of Kaido's standing is strong evidence for having the ability.
- Evidence level:
PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED. - Overclaim to avoid: Do not treat the attack that immediately follows as a demonstrated product of future sight. The line establishes that he has it; it does not label the next blow as an application of it.
Shanks — chapter 1079, volume 107
- Exact evidence: Shanks sees a future in which Eustass Kid's Damned Punk inflicts severe damage. He acts before it fires — warning his fleet, crossing to Kid's ship, and ending the fight with Kamusari. That future does not occur.
- What the scene proves: more than possession. It is the clearest demonstration in the manga of the ability's actual function: information early enough to act on.
- Evidence level:
PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED. - Overclaim to avoid: Do not describe the Damned Punk damage as something that happened. It is a future he saw and then prevented. Also keep the techniques straight: 神避 Kamusari is Shanks; 覇国 Hakoku is Dorry and Brogy. Our breakdown of Shanks' strongest attack separates those layers in detail.
Scopper Gaban — chapter 1149, volume 113
- Exact evidence: Gaban asks for a second. A blade is closing on Colon. He is shown a future, and then drops his weapon and surrenders.
- What the scene proves: on the frozen investigation log, a decision changed by something seen. What the log does not yet settle is whether the vision is framed as Gaban's viewpoint, whether the future outcome is actually drawn, and how far the chapter goes toward naming the ability.
- Evidence level:
CHAPTER-REFERENCED / NOT DIRECTLY REVERIFIED IN THIS SESSION. - Overclaim to avoid: Do not present Gaban's entry at the same confidence as Kaido's or Shanks'. And a correction worth carrying: the scene around page 98 involving Brook, a young girl and「お父さま」is Gunko-side past memory, not Gaban future sight. It appears in Gaban discussions and does not belong there.