1.Chapter 473 Mentioned hardness as one of the special characteristics of the black blade and toughness as not even a dinosaur can make it bend i agree with you that temporary zoro is doing this coating his swords in arnament haki as they do not break and that toughness last forever.
2.chap 474 shusui made the power of the technique stronger absorbing the other two slashes (another characteristic of the black blade which zoro has not done with any coated blade in manga )
3.i agree with the haki preservation but i think ur downplay is real when it comes to actually making a permanent black blade and using it and i am in no way downplaying mihawks words... a permanent black blade is the goal not temporary imbuement but hey oda will show u the way
Where the heck has shodai been mentioned in wano ?
2.chap 474 shusui made the power of the technique stronger absorbing the other two slashes (another characteristic of the black blade which zoro has not done with any coated blade in manga )
its not that it made the technique stronger, the blade itself was stronger and it made the attack imbalanced... you can check the chapter itself, Zoro himself mentions how he needs to get used to it so he can balance his attack... the blade itself was stronger than his other 2 blades, yes of course but the attack was wrong and not intended like that as mentioned by Zoro, Shusui absorbing other attacks was not a trait of shusui but a blunder from zoro at that time
3.i agree with the haki preservation but i think ur downplay is real when it comes to actually making a permanent black blade and using it and i am in no way downplaying mihawks words... a permanent black blade is the goal not temporary imbuement but hey oda will show u the way
again Mihawk is the one talking about blacking the blade, temporarily... and its not me who is downplaying, its you guys who are hyping shusui so that you can indirectly hype Zoro.... if Black blades were all so special they would never fall off supreme grade and would all be ranked the best of supreme grades... being ranked so low while being black blade means its not shusui's sharpness that is so great but the toughness that Blackening grants... ranks are granted by quality of sharpness and categories are just numbers, they are all meito and you could say over all shusui is a meito deserving position 13-33 among all meito
Where the heck has shodai been mentioned in wano ?
its not just Shodai, its Shodai
Kitetsu... Kitetsu is the swordsmith of Wano who crafted kitetsu swords, this was already mentioned when talking about Nidai Kitetsu (or is it that you guys don't want Kitetsu to be Kitetsu so you can call Shusui as strongest of Wano ?)
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In my understanding, the elite are the best representatives of anything
yes, they are the best, but you should also understand that it is stupid to say 21 O wazomono are better than 12 Saijo O wazomono (which are mostly non black blades),
which means the black blades have one particular trait that they are better at than the rest, not in overall... and that trait was already mentioned by Zoro, that they are toughest and unbreakable