General & Others Unpopular Opinions?
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Oda isn't the god of foreshadowing but of literary sharpshooting, that is to say, he loves to leave potential targets throughout his manga that he may develop or not, so when he actually does create a plotline out of one it seems like he shot a Chekhov's gun he had prepared in advance and hit the target. This also helps him to keep his manga alive by feeding the fans with tons of irrelevant elements that feed all kind of theories, such as Trébol's shackles that pointed to him being a slave when Doflamingo lived in Mary Geoise but that ended up meaning nothing.
Kaido's title shouldn't be taken as a literal statement but as a way to stress his inhuman nature. Oda has never meant him to be the strongest individual but a thing that is closer to Big Mom than to Roger and Whitebeard in their prime.
Kind of following the previous statement, people take titles in One Piece as if this was a static videogame instead of a "living world" and Oda may easily see many characters who use a sword as stronger than Mihawk no matter his title because they're ultimately irrelevant to Zoro's journey, never met Dracule, came into action recently, and so on. Just like Whitebeard kept the title of World's Strongest Man in current time only to assist Marineford's narrative of a new gate being opened, the legends stepping aside and Whitebeard himself admitting he can't be the strongest forever.
Oda isn't a fighting guy and deep down he's disappointed at his own fans as they spend more time discussing power levels following absurd premises such as "mountain level attack" instead of researching all the references in his work: Hercule Poirot, Sancho Panza, Howard Pyle's pirate, Yatsukamizu and so on.
Foxy's arc is a good way to establish the themes of the upcoming arcs, as he represents a relatively harmless enemy that breaks the crew in a joking way, only for the Straw Hats to face an unstoppable force that actually threatens their lives (Aokiji) and lose crewmates in a serious manner (Usopp and Robin).
Kaido's title shouldn't be taken as a literal statement but as a way to stress his inhuman nature. Oda has never meant him to be the strongest individual but a thing that is closer to Big Mom than to Roger and Whitebeard in their prime.
Kind of following the previous statement, people take titles in One Piece as if this was a static videogame instead of a "living world" and Oda may easily see many characters who use a sword as stronger than Mihawk no matter his title because they're ultimately irrelevant to Zoro's journey, never met Dracule, came into action recently, and so on. Just like Whitebeard kept the title of World's Strongest Man in current time only to assist Marineford's narrative of a new gate being opened, the legends stepping aside and Whitebeard himself admitting he can't be the strongest forever.
Oda isn't a fighting guy and deep down he's disappointed at his own fans as they spend more time discussing power levels following absurd premises such as "mountain level attack" instead of researching all the references in his work: Hercule Poirot, Sancho Panza, Howard Pyle's pirate, Yatsukamizu and so on.
Foxy's arc is a good way to establish the themes of the upcoming arcs, as he represents a relatively harmless enemy that breaks the crew in a joking way, only for the Straw Hats to face an unstoppable force that actually threatens their lives (Aokiji) and lose crewmates in a serious manner (Usopp and Robin).
The fact his "title" is accompanied by "they say." The fact volumes put Kaido's "WS" title in quotations unlike Mihawk's and Whitebeard's. The fact it stems from his nigh invincibility. The fact neither Doffy nor Big Mom don't regard him anymore special than Shanks and Big Mom herself. The fact he's not even the final villain. The fact he's less significant than other top tiers like Shanks and Akainu.
The point isn't its ambiguity but how it's just a device to convey the message of Kaido being abnormally strong and, what is more important, non-human —hence Nami stressing that he isn't even human instead of his strength as she hears his title, Big Mom referring to him as a thing (commonly used to describe a weird creature) instead of a monster (used to describe strong individuals) or Ace's novel describing his existence to be horrific in itself.
If we add how the title keeps being used in contexts such as "people say" or "he's called", then I believe that Oda is just creating a narrative to reinforce Kaido's character as a very powerful creature tired of the world rather than an undeniable statement of his superior strength among the top tiers.
If we add how the title keeps being used in contexts such as "people say" or "he's called", then I believe that Oda is just creating a narrative to reinforce Kaido's character as a very powerful creature tired of the world rather than an undeniable statement of his superior strength among the top tiers.
Fujitora is stronger than shanks.
absolutely nothing suggests or even hints that shanks is one of the strongest top tiers. He is a yonko, cool. That means he can destroy almost every character in the series. But just because he has CoC and is Luffy's mentor doesn't mean that he is stronger than other people who also have top tier portrayal.
when yonko bounties were released it was basically implied that big mom and kaido were stronger than shanks, but that shanks had a stronger crew.
absolutely nothing suggests or even hints that shanks is one of the strongest top tiers. He is a yonko, cool. That means he can destroy almost every character in the series. But just because he has CoC and is Luffy's mentor doesn't mean that he is stronger than other people who also have top tier portrayal.
when yonko bounties were released it was basically implied that big mom and kaido were stronger than shanks, but that shanks had a stronger crew.
Big Mom's devil fruit is a plot element which will be used to save Luffy from dying.
His life span is already shortened due to treatment to overcome Magellan's poison, due to Ivankov's hormone injection overuse in Marineford and due to reckless usage of Gear 2 when his body couldnt handle it.
If Big Mom can take the life span away it is likely that she can give it back, restore it or even increase it and that is what she might do to Luffy, possibly sooner than we expect. If Kaido doesnt kill him he might do it himself by fighting recklessly again...
His life span is already shortened due to treatment to overcome Magellan's poison, due to Ivankov's hormone injection overuse in Marineford and due to reckless usage of Gear 2 when his body couldnt handle it.
If Big Mom can take the life span away it is likely that she can give it back, restore it or even increase it and that is what she might do to Luffy, possibly sooner than we expect. If Kaido doesnt kill him he might do it himself by fighting recklessly again...
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The blasting? Internal one?
How do we know he didn't have that before?
As seen with Rayleigh, a swordsman has no use for that type of Haki application so I think we will never see a swordsman apply it like that unless they end up without swords at some point. On the other hand, you could mean the blast like Shanks did vs Akainu but in that case, we already have that barrier on Zoro back in Fishman Island against that frog.
How do we know he didn't have that before?
As seen with Rayleigh, a swordsman has no use for that type of Haki application so I think we will never see a swordsman apply it like that unless they end up without swords at some point. On the other hand, you could mean the blast like Shanks did vs Akainu but in that case, we already have that barrier on Zoro back in Fishman Island against that frog.