Oh yeah thats true, plus hes associated with laughing and being jolly like the Buddha! A Dark/Evil Buddha would be such an interesting and unique twist, very bold of Oda!
Ties in with the Journey to the West influences as you said too ofc, Wukong Luffy vs Evil Buddha Blackbeard lol. I know Kidd is meant to represent the Demon Ox King or w/e but maybe Kaido could too?
Thats quite an idea too, shockwaves with earthquakes and darkness, damn...Plus with the Buddhas golden statue form or w/e, that would help BB with his increased pain sensitvity or w/e he has? Takes more damage than usual? Durability might be his biggest issue before a fruit like this too?
Buddha has all kinds of crazy powers too potentially, especially if it awakens into the actual Buddha? Rather than just being more like the Buddha Statue although its a Zoan though?
- Daibutsu (大仏?) is the Japanese term, often used informally, for large statues of Buddha, in particular Japanese Buddha statuary.
- In the Viz Manga it is called the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Buddha
- It is unknown if the transformation used during the Summit War of Marineford is his hybrid form or his full transformation
- In One Piece: Burning Blood, it is claimed in the Hito Hito no Mi Keyword Log entry (which covers both the standard model and Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Daibutsu) that this fruit bestows the abilities of a superhuman, such as a massive body and superlative brain.
- This was the last Zoan-type Devil Fruit, as well as the last Devil Fruit overall, to be revealed in the series before the timeskip.
Since it was the last DF revealed before the timeskip, maybe it will return in the endgame of post TS and thus OP overall in a similar way with Blackbeard? Hence why we're hardly seen what the fruit is capable of/being used so far too?