Powers & Abilities Should Haki have been established more during Alabasta?
- Thread starter Dettles
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It should get some clear foreshadowing/indication for sure, but the whole concept was still far from done and that still makes people forget or ignore many olders scenes.
The very rough idea was possibly already going on back in Alabasta and the word Haki was mentioned the first time by Blackbeard in chapter 234 which is the arc right after Alabasta, also right where we meet Mantra users that later was revealed or retconed to CoO.
Just like Skypiea had CoO, W7/EL had the CP9 and Rokushiki getting associated with haki + the direct encounter between Shanks and Newgate with Marco specifficaly bringing up the word Haki.
TB had no major possible Haki moment, however, it was right after this arc that Luffy awakened CoC againt Duval and Motobaro then following to Sabaody and so on that started exploring a lot more of haki users.
The very rough idea was possibly already going on back in Alabasta and the word Haki was mentioned the first time by Blackbeard in chapter 234 which is the arc right after Alabasta, also right where we meet Mantra users that later was revealed or retconed to CoO.
Just like Skypiea had CoO, W7/EL had the CP9 and Rokushiki getting associated with haki + the direct encounter between Shanks and Newgate with Marco specifficaly bringing up the word Haki.
TB had no major possible Haki moment, however, it was right after this arc that Luffy awakened CoC againt Duval and Motobaro then following to Sabaody and so on that started exploring a lot more of haki users.
Haki is both too limited and too broad at the same time. It's essentially chakra but at least Naruto established early on chakra could be used in a number of different ways. The fact we cant ever really tell when someone is using haki and that Oda can essentially retcon anything to say when someone was or wasn't using it is the main issue.
If Oda had still kept the creative fights like with Usopp than it might be more tolerable but fights have essentially become who has the better devil fruit and/or haki.
If Oda had still kept the creative fights like with Usopp than it might be more tolerable but fights have essentially become who has the better devil fruit and/or haki.