The colored manga coloring his blade black was a W for them, but it’s important remember that the colored manga isn’t any more canon than the anime. The colored manga also gets designs wrong sometimes, such as them giving Jupiter having blonde hair in the colored manga even though the latest volume cover proved he had white hair. Many GB fans are popping the champagne too early imo. We need to wait until a volume cover or official drawing from Oda himself depicts it as black, or until Oda makes a statement about it being a Kokuto or not. It could still just be a brown, wooden blade imo
Controversial Are Admiral fans getting too cocky about GB’s black blade?
- Thread starter Shiroyru
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Realistically? It doesn't matter to most "admiral fans", they aren't getting happy because it'll make no change Aramaki's ranking for them among the admirals. (It won't for me either, unless the black blade is a supreme blade). This will just be used to prop up Akainu more by claiming how the guy who accomplished the samething as Mihawk + Ryuuma and is a logia, thus superior to them, is Akainu's inferior. Thus showing how strong Akainu truly is!!!
It also really wouldn't matter to the "Sword fans" can use it for their own good and claim an Admiral has a black blade, and even then Mihawk is the one recognized as the Strongest Swordsman. Thus meaning worst for the admirals. And if you want to get more disgusting, you can twist it as GreenBull becomes certified as the Top 1 admiral because he did something only 2 other characters in known history have done, thus even the strongest admiral is below Mihawk!!!
In the end it's just another cog in the Akainu circle jerk vs Mihawk circle jerk. Both will use it in what benefits them.
Unless you're part of these two circle jerks, this isn't a topic to stress about.
It also really wouldn't matter to the "Sword fans" can use it for their own good and claim an Admiral has a black blade, and even then Mihawk is the one recognized as the Strongest Swordsman. Thus meaning worst for the admirals. And if you want to get more disgusting, you can twist it as GreenBull becomes certified as the Top 1 admiral because he did something only 2 other characters in known history have done, thus even the strongest admiral is below Mihawk!!!
In the end it's just another cog in the Akainu circle jerk vs Mihawk circle jerk. Both will use it in what benefits them.
Unless you're part of these two circle jerks, this isn't a topic to stress about.
Kuma canonically has brown hair, but it's drawn as black in the manga... The point is that Oda is wildly inconsistent with this stuff and that if the sword was any color than black or white, Oda would arbitrarily pick to shade it as either black or white based on what looks cooler with the rest of the black-and-white design of the character
The reason I think it's not as big a W as they're making it out to be, is because despite all their efforts to prove otherwise, it's still a W for Mihawk. It just means that he has a blade that's even stronger than ANOTHER black blade, and that he himself is stronger than Aramaki as well.
It's not really a win for them against the sword fandom, when you consider that.
But it is very impressive outside of that.
It's not really a win for them against the sword fandom, when you consider that.
But it is very impressive outside of that.