I saw some tried to argue against it being black with showing Raisin's blade which was still black right after he was kicked
What do you think about that ?
That they are trying to cope with everything they can, but the situation is clearly different:
- Ryo wasn't even using the sword and in fact he had a Den Den mushi in his hand. He wasn't fighting with the sword 0, 1 second before and just lost the grip as Raisin;
- there is not even a single sword cut on one, and I mean one, of the BP; not King, not Queen, not even the fodders. We just saw Ryo using the fruit, and that's it.
So trying to use Raising as a comparable situation, when Ryo wasn't using the sword and no one of the BP (or Udon) had sword cuts, but were clearly just restrained and drained, is quite desperate of them.