Another BB thread but this is not focused on the recent GB thing. I know most people would cry but this is the truth. Only two confirmed BBs in the story (GBs is not confirmed). BBs are forged and not painted. Per Onimaru (retard fox talking about shit like he knows it) Shusui was forged into a black blade through a history of battles of Ryuma, mind you Ryuma was said to be able to finish a fight in a single blow/strike. Mihawks VC also says that he kept on fighting until no worthy opponents remained. Based on this it would be good assumption that after fighting a lot of battles the blade can be turned black. However, their is a big flaw in this argument, there are many characters who also have a history of battles and yet they have not forged a black blade. The biggest example would be Nasujuro, the guy is old as fuck (normal age) and is probably hundred of years old like Saturn was (I think Nasujuro might actually be from Void Century era) and he has a SG blade Kitetsu 1. So how come a samurai (most likely from Wano) who has lived centuries and loves his blade (saw him tending to it like Zoro) was unable to forge his blade into a black blade.
We dont actually know when Mihawk turned Yoru into a BB but even if we take his pre TS age of 41-42 it is still many times less than Nasujuros life. We dont know when Ryuma forged Shusui into a BB but he died from sickness at 47 so again that is a young age compared to Nasujuro. And in OP the 40s seem to be the age of prime of a character. Even if we take Roger who was 53 at time of death and he loved his blade and also loved to fight (we saw how eager he was to test Oden and wanted to fight WB) and he was an active pirate for decades and fought against the strongest chars introduced so far in the series (WB, Rocks, Garp etc.) and yet he was unable to forge Ace into a BB. WB who lived even longer was also unable to forge Murakomgiri into a BB.
So just having strong haki (strongest haki users so far in the series) and history of battles is not enough. Then we also have to understand that Zoro will most likely forge his blades into BBs at his current age of 21-22. And he has spent less time with these swords (2 years for Sandai, few months for Enma) than all the guys I mentioned previously have spent with their blades.
So what is the secret ingredient, Road to LT magazine suggested that their might be more to BBs than just haki, yet the becoming one with blade/loving the blade or history of battles do not seem to be the secret factor. The last clue we have is of Odens dad saying that Zoro might turn Enma into a BB but it depends on Zoro and Oden was unable to do it even though he wielded the blade for like 3 decades and was a sword loving samurai who loved fighting.
I think that their is a level of haki above of what we have been shown so far. We saw JBs haki burst (storing haki in the knot) which forced haki monsters like Gorosei out of their awakened forms and how it might be stronger than Shanks (what was the official translation idk) and we also know that JB and Ryuma were paralleled. We also know that Luffy has not yet reached that level, he will when he surpasses Shanks.
We dont actually know when Mihawk turned Yoru into a BB but even if we take his pre TS age of 41-42 it is still many times less than Nasujuros life. We dont know when Ryuma forged Shusui into a BB but he died from sickness at 47 so again that is a young age compared to Nasujuro. And in OP the 40s seem to be the age of prime of a character. Even if we take Roger who was 53 at time of death and he loved his blade and also loved to fight (we saw how eager he was to test Oden and wanted to fight WB) and he was an active pirate for decades and fought against the strongest chars introduced so far in the series (WB, Rocks, Garp etc.) and yet he was unable to forge Ace into a BB. WB who lived even longer was also unable to forge Murakomgiri into a BB.
So just having strong haki (strongest haki users so far in the series) and history of battles is not enough. Then we also have to understand that Zoro will most likely forge his blades into BBs at his current age of 21-22. And he has spent less time with these swords (2 years for Sandai, few months for Enma) than all the guys I mentioned previously have spent with their blades.
So what is the secret ingredient, Road to LT magazine suggested that their might be more to BBs than just haki, yet the becoming one with blade/loving the blade or history of battles do not seem to be the secret factor. The last clue we have is of Odens dad saying that Zoro might turn Enma into a BB but it depends on Zoro and Oden was unable to do it even though he wielded the blade for like 3 decades and was a sword loving samurai who loved fighting.
I think that their is a level of haki above of what we have been shown so far. We saw JBs haki burst (storing haki in the knot) which forced haki monsters like Gorosei out of their awakened forms and how it might be stronger than Shanks (what was the official translation idk) and we also know that JB and Ryuma were paralleled. We also know that Luffy has not yet reached that level, he will when he surpasses Shanks.
