Speculations Imu's design

#21
I guess a hair-based yokai would be pretty unexpected. I'm not sure if it feels "powerful" enough for one of the candidates for the main villain of the story, though.

What really strikes me is how TINY Imu usually looks. Maybe it's just the tall crown messing up the proportions for me. But, with the robes dragging behind, Imu just feels so short.

Maybe Oda's setting up Imu having a Napoleon complex, I guess?
 
#22


It looks like Crown but what if it's not crown but hair


Hair style of celestial dragons -








Imu could be Yokai "Hari onago"



Information about Hari onago -


"The fearsome yōkai known as hari onago appears at night on the roads of the island of Shikoku. In the dark, they are indistinguishable from ordinary young women, unusual only for their loose, disheveled hair. Upon closer inspection, the tip of each hair is fitted with a needle-like, barbed hook—although if you are close enough to notice these hooks, it is probably already too late.

Hari onago wander the streets searching for victims—usually young, single men walking alone. When a hari onago comes across a suitable man, she smiles coyly at him. If the smile is returned, she attacks: she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh. A hari onago’s strength is so great that even the strongest man can be overpowered by her hooks. Once her victim is ensnared and rendered helpless, she rips him into pieces with her hooks and devours the remains.

It is technically possible for a very fast runner to escape a hari onago, providing his home is close enough and has a sturdy door or gate. If he can get himself safely indoors before her hooks catch him, he may be able to survive until sunrise—when yōkai vanish. The scars and gouges she leaves in the wooden door frame remain as a testament to her viciousness, and as a cautionary tale to young men not to pick up strange girls "



Maybe it was not Imu's tail that attacked Sabo and Cobra but it was Imu's hair.



" needle-like hair "



" she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh "




Bye




Imu is a male stop the cope
 
#23


It looks like Crown but what if it's not crown but hair


Hair style of celestial dragons -








Imu could be Yokai "Hari onago"



Information about Hari onago -


"The fearsome yōkai known as hari onago appears at night on the roads of the island of Shikoku. In the dark, they are indistinguishable from ordinary young women, unusual only for their loose, disheveled hair. Upon closer inspection, the tip of each hair is fitted with a needle-like, barbed hook—although if you are close enough to notice these hooks, it is probably already too late.

Hari onago wander the streets searching for victims—usually young, single men walking alone. When a hari onago comes across a suitable man, she smiles coyly at him. If the smile is returned, she attacks: she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh. A hari onago’s strength is so great that even the strongest man can be overpowered by her hooks. Once her victim is ensnared and rendered helpless, she rips him into pieces with her hooks and devours the remains.

It is technically possible for a very fast runner to escape a hari onago, providing his home is close enough and has a sturdy door or gate. If he can get himself safely indoors before her hooks catch him, he may be able to survive until sunrise—when yōkai vanish. The scars and gouges she leaves in the wooden door frame remain as a testament to her viciousness, and as a cautionary tale to young men not to pick up strange girls "



Maybe it was not Imu's tail that attacked Sabo and Cobra but it was Imu's hair.



" needle-like hair "



" she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh "




Bye




Really cool stuff, your theories never dissapoint me
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it ain't mine, but hey you're also another ''Zoro doesn't have advcoc'' believer like rootbeer so maybe you shouldnt talk about others theories
Sorry I quote yours post by mistake.

@AverageNamiEnjoyer I was talking about yours theory
 
#27


It looks like Crown but what if it's not crown but hair


Hair style of celestial dragons -








Imu could be Yokai "Hari onago"



Information about Hari onago -


"The fearsome yōkai known as hari onago appears at night on the roads of the island of Shikoku. In the dark, they are indistinguishable from ordinary young women, unusual only for their loose, disheveled hair. Upon closer inspection, the tip of each hair is fitted with a needle-like, barbed hook—although if you are close enough to notice these hooks, it is probably already too late.

Hari onago wander the streets searching for victims—usually young, single men walking alone. When a hari onago comes across a suitable man, she smiles coyly at him. If the smile is returned, she attacks: she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh. A hari onago’s strength is so great that even the strongest man can be overpowered by her hooks. Once her victim is ensnared and rendered helpless, she rips him into pieces with her hooks and devours the remains.

It is technically possible for a very fast runner to escape a hari onago, providing his home is close enough and has a sturdy door or gate. If he can get himself safely indoors before her hooks catch him, he may be able to survive until sunrise—when yōkai vanish. The scars and gouges she leaves in the wooden door frame remain as a testament to her viciousness, and as a cautionary tale to young men not to pick up strange girls "



Maybe it was not Imu's tail that attacked Sabo and Cobra but it was Imu's hair.



" needle-like hair "



" she releases her hair, and the barbed ends lash out with blinding speed and a will of their own, sinking deep into her victim’s flesh "




Bye




The author of the manga is Oda, not Ito.
 
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