I think we've reached the point in Kaido's characterisation where we can piece together some of his prominent traits, both good and bad.
Kaido says he admires the Way of the samurai and sees death as the completion of a man. It's assumed his admiration for the way of the samurai, Bushido, includes the death practices in it. Such as Seppuku or 1v1 honorable duels or death in Grand battles immortalising a Samurai's legacy. Kaido is introduced trying to commit suicide so you could say it's Seppuku. He's applauded as the undisputed king of "1v1 battles". And he's obsessed with going out in a blaze of glory in a a great world war.
So Kaido is Japanophile weeb right? No. He's wrong. Because of course he is. He's the villain. He's supposed to be wrong. Oden and the Vassals follow Bushido so their enemy can't also be following Bushido or else we would have a way more complicated conflict.
Kaido romanticises the Final part of Bushido, the dying, without caring about everything else. He doesn't care about honor, or justice or self mastery (I means he's an alcoholic for god sake) self discipline, meditation, and everything else that makes Bushido an entire life philosophy and NOT just a death code.
Kaido's the equivalent of the guy who reads about Musashi Miyamoto and his legendary duels and his fame thousands of years after his death and doesn't recognise that Miyamoto had a whole life outside of just the legends and his immortality after death. And that whole life is also encompassed by Bushido. It's an entire life philosophy and kaido only sees the death part because it supposedly cements everlasting legacy.
I first saw an idea that Kaido is focusing on death instead of life from Mr Morj's video about Kaido wanting a Roger like legacy without actually putting in the leg work to be like Roger. This latest chapter makes it even more clear, Kaido probably literally CANNOT do it.
Kaido was denied a big honorable 1v1 duel against Oden when Higarashi interfered and kaido 20 years ago was too scared to try fighting Oden again so he executed him. Now though he's entirely full of regret because he believes there cannot be a more worthy enemy to have died to than Oden (including the Emperors).
Kaido is an alcoholic so already he cannot pull off self discipline at all (Note that Zoro is a heavy drinker but Not an alcoholic, he's never even been shown actually drunk before).
Kaido is also a pirate and he can't stop being one so already honor and justice are out of the window since his form of piracy is clearly incompatible with such things.
Kaido cannot become a samurai even though he admires them so he just cheats and jumps to great Legacies in death that Samurai achieve even though it's impossible to get the legacy without the actual Way of Samurai itself.
It's even interesting that Ryuma, a samurai, exists as one of the oldest characters known by name in the verse because his legacy was so great yet Rocks, Kaidos's former captain, from just 40 years ago is practically an unknown in the verse. Interestingly, Ryuma is not only remembered for his strength but his sense of justice in protecting Wano while Rocks could've easily been the strongest in the verse but his supposed heinous crimes were so severe they were wiped from history. And this isn't even just a World government thing, Joyboy still has a legacy despite the government trying to silence him too so if Rocks was really worthy, he would've had a real legacy as well. But he wasn't (Even Teach who supposedly carries this legacy WILL FAIL because it's a bad legacy from a bad man). He was an unjust man so when the government silenced him, he was truly silenced. Unlike just men like Ryuma, Joyboy or Roger.
This is a very interesting idea Oda is doing with New world villains. Giving them seemingly great ambitions but giving them severe character flaws that make their ambitions impossible. Big mom wants Racial equality but ONLY through her eyes. Hody wants to stop fishman oppression but by race wars. Doffy wants to destroy the celestial dragons but by killing everyone so the celestials have no one to rule. Kaido wants Great Legacies in the deaths of Good men but he's a bad man and doesn't realise bad men don't get great Legacies in this verse. (Even the supposed final villain Imu, DOES NOT have a legacy at all, he/she is completely unknown because that's the only way Injustice can thrive, being hidden)
Kaido says he admires the Way of the samurai and sees death as the completion of a man. It's assumed his admiration for the way of the samurai, Bushido, includes the death practices in it. Such as Seppuku or 1v1 honorable duels or death in Grand battles immortalising a Samurai's legacy. Kaido is introduced trying to commit suicide so you could say it's Seppuku. He's applauded as the undisputed king of "1v1 battles". And he's obsessed with going out in a blaze of glory in a a great world war.
So Kaido is Japanophile weeb right? No. He's wrong. Because of course he is. He's the villain. He's supposed to be wrong. Oden and the Vassals follow Bushido so their enemy can't also be following Bushido or else we would have a way more complicated conflict.
Kaido romanticises the Final part of Bushido, the dying, without caring about everything else. He doesn't care about honor, or justice or self mastery (I means he's an alcoholic for god sake) self discipline, meditation, and everything else that makes Bushido an entire life philosophy and NOT just a death code.
Kaido's the equivalent of the guy who reads about Musashi Miyamoto and his legendary duels and his fame thousands of years after his death and doesn't recognise that Miyamoto had a whole life outside of just the legends and his immortality after death. And that whole life is also encompassed by Bushido. It's an entire life philosophy and kaido only sees the death part because it supposedly cements everlasting legacy.
I first saw an idea that Kaido is focusing on death instead of life from Mr Morj's video about Kaido wanting a Roger like legacy without actually putting in the leg work to be like Roger. This latest chapter makes it even more clear, Kaido probably literally CANNOT do it.
Kaido was denied a big honorable 1v1 duel against Oden when Higarashi interfered and kaido 20 years ago was too scared to try fighting Oden again so he executed him. Now though he's entirely full of regret because he believes there cannot be a more worthy enemy to have died to than Oden (including the Emperors).
Kaido is an alcoholic so already he cannot pull off self discipline at all (Note that Zoro is a heavy drinker but Not an alcoholic, he's never even been shown actually drunk before).
Kaido is also a pirate and he can't stop being one so already honor and justice are out of the window since his form of piracy is clearly incompatible with such things.
Kaido cannot become a samurai even though he admires them so he just cheats and jumps to great Legacies in death that Samurai achieve even though it's impossible to get the legacy without the actual Way of Samurai itself.
It's even interesting that Ryuma, a samurai, exists as one of the oldest characters known by name in the verse because his legacy was so great yet Rocks, Kaidos's former captain, from just 40 years ago is practically an unknown in the verse. Interestingly, Ryuma is not only remembered for his strength but his sense of justice in protecting Wano while Rocks could've easily been the strongest in the verse but his supposed heinous crimes were so severe they were wiped from history. And this isn't even just a World government thing, Joyboy still has a legacy despite the government trying to silence him too so if Rocks was really worthy, he would've had a real legacy as well. But he wasn't (Even Teach who supposedly carries this legacy WILL FAIL because it's a bad legacy from a bad man). He was an unjust man so when the government silenced him, he was truly silenced. Unlike just men like Ryuma, Joyboy or Roger.
This is a very interesting idea Oda is doing with New world villains. Giving them seemingly great ambitions but giving them severe character flaws that make their ambitions impossible. Big mom wants Racial equality but ONLY through her eyes. Hody wants to stop fishman oppression but by race wars. Doffy wants to destroy the celestial dragons but by killing everyone so the celestials have no one to rule. Kaido wants Great Legacies in the deaths of Good men but he's a bad man and doesn't realise bad men don't get great Legacies in this verse. (Even the supposed final villain Imu, DOES NOT have a legacy at all, he/she is completely unknown because that's the only way Injustice can thrive, being hidden)
