Questions & Mysteries Why does Oda only draw CoA Hardening for a few characters post-WCI?

[Heart pirate]

Oda didn't even feel that it was right that Kidd & Law alone defeated BM so he conveniently made some new "plot" nukes out of thin air to make the events more believable lol.

Considering a large portion of the battle Meme conveniently aided by Hawkins. It would be a bit much, for 2 injured/fatigued novas to off a nearly fresh Yonko. Hell the last 2 Yonko needed about a dozen contributions. For Akainu/Luffy To finally put them down.

That and she forgot to use ACoC, kept turning her back on them. A lot of weird shit was happening during that fight.

She didn’t exactly forget lmao. She using CoC 24/7, for Kaido like defensive ability. If she facing 2 top tier offenses. Anot exactly the fastest character. It not exactly smart to help the opposition weaken ur defensive abilities. Every ACoC attack landed or missed chips away at her primary ability(defense). Hence the much more logical Aoe homie spam. No negative to Defense, an superior at 2-1 then ACoC.

If anything, Law withholding R-Room the entire fight. The biggest Plot convenience we saw. He legitimately had the ability to stop homie fusion/healing/ an overall control of The ability. Literally waits until the final seconds of the fight to make use of it. An the kickers, he only use it to shut meme up.

 

[Peroroncino]

Kaido showed it on his hands while holding his club

 

[Cinera]

None of the F6 except WsW and Ulti showed black Hardening even though all are confirmed to have it.

COA != hardening, invisible COA is, a thing.

Jack never showed Hardening. King and Queen only showed it once.

Jack may not have it.
King used it throughout his fight with Zoro (his sword was black).

Kaido never showed Hardening.

Kaido was using it on his club.

So far, everyone using Haoshoku coating does it alongside hardening.

Back in PH and Dressrosa, characters like Vergo, Doffy, Sai, Chinjao, and even fodders like Boo were consistently drawn using CoA. Why does Oda draw CoA Hardening for characters like Boo, but not the Calamities?

Even in Dressrosa, Law never used hardening on his swords, so he may simply not have it.

Sanji has also never used hardening till today.

Cause the black coloring is very ugly and it’s all stylistic

False. Oda has been very consistent wrt hardening for Luffy, Zoro, Scabbards, King, etc.

The characters that don't use hardening either can't (e.g. Sanji, Law on his swords), or don't use haki all that much in their fights (e.g. Queen, Linlin).

 

[Sir Yasheen]

COA != hardening, invisible COA is, a thing.



Jack may not have it.
King used it throughout his fight with Zoro (his sword was black).



Kaido was using it on his club.

So far, everyone using Haoshoku coating does it alongside hardening.



Even in Dressrosa, Law never used hardening on his swords, so he may simply not have it.

Sanji has also never used hardening till today.




False. Oda has been very consistent wrt hardening for Luffy, Zoro, Scabbards, King, etc.

The characters that don't use hardening either can't (e.g. Sanji, Law on his swords), or don't use haki all that much in their fights (e.g. Queen, Linlin).

The black hardening has been overpowered by invisible hardening in the manga multiple times. It’s not a thing, it’s always just been a Stylistic choice.

 

[Sasaki Kojirō]

After WCI, Oda stopped drawing CoA Hardening for a lot of characters that clearly have it.

None of the F6 except WsW and Ulti showed black Hardening even though all are confirmed to have it. Jack never showed Hardening. King and Queen only showed it once. Kaido never showed Hardening. BM only showed it twice. Law and Kid never used it despite having CoA. Luffy is the only character that Oda consistently draws Hardening for nowadays. Back in PH and Dressrosa, characters like Vergo, Doffy, Sai, Chinjao, and even fodders like Boo were consistently drawn using CoA. Why does Oda draw CoA Hardening for characters like Boo, but not the Calamities?

Kaido never showed Hardening.

Shanks is visually shown not coating his sword with COA, in fact we have 0 panels of Shanks coating himself with COA.

 

[Vanlax]

It's already bad enough that it is being debated whether COC or COA was used on some panels.

Then you remember there are inconsistencies on COA itself.

 

[Haoshoku]

The reality is that having haki in the New World is the baseline requirement for keeping your head above the water, without it you’re absolute fodder. Even having hardening isn’t out of the norm with weak characters since the time skip. With that pretty much being established since Punk Hazard, the reason why other characters like the Flying Six haven’t shown it can be attributed to Oda’s own admittance at the fact that he has not been able to give it his all in fight scenes recently. That’s why we have seen the drop in quality and consistency. If a character is relevant enough to warrant an introduction box in the New World and they can throw hands, then they probably have CoO and CoA with hardening.

Even in Dressrosa, Law never used hardening on his swords, so he may simply not have it.

Nah he does use hardening in Dressrosa:

Spoiler

He doesn’t use it on his sword though.
We can’t assume that characters that are at atleast high tiers or near it don’t have hardening because even relative fodder have been shown using it. For certain characters like Law, it just doesn’t add much to what he already has in terms of offense. His fruit is already good enough to not warrant hardening.

 

[IsaziSempi]

Three days grace. It never really mattered

 

[M944]

Either he doesn't draw it and it's done by assistant or he don't feel it's needed more than a stylistic choice drawing black hardening is also longer to do as panels are white

 

[Durableguy]

Oda is so anal about acoc drawings that I can't believe this at all.

Sometimes. Characters who have haki just don't use it.

PiS

 

[Roo]

The fact that Kinemon and the scabbards were able to cut Kaido with non hardening should be enough to show fans that Oda doesn’t give af

 

[Salah WG]

Page One, Sasaki & Black Maria don't have Hardening
And so many Characters don't

 

[Durableguy]

The fact that Kinemon and the scabbards were able to cut Kaido with non hardening should be enough to show fans that Oda doesn’t give af

Dude what? They can use acoa lol

 

[ShadowStyle369]

Lol the black coloring is for us as the reader to see, in the one piece verse haki is invisible… think about it it all makes sense as to why a permanent black blade is so rare otherwise what’s the freaking point of one if everyone could just walk around temporarily making them

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Dude what? They can use acoa lol

Kiku stabbed through Kaido with invisible haki.

 

[Celestial D. Dragon]

Because there is two types of CoA. Hardening and Invisible/emissions. Not everyone has hardening, and not everyone has emissions.

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The black hardening has been overpowered by invisible hardening in the manga multiple times. It’s not a thing, it’s always just been a Stylistic choice.

Wrong. Invisible haki forms a protective barrier, that doubles as an attack amplifier where you can penetrate and destroy, when taken to the next level. It is not hardening. At the same time, hardening can't do what emission haki can. All hardening does is make your attacks hit harder, and protects your skin from damage via physical contact. It can't penetrate and explode like emission haki can.

Hardening and Invisible is not the same. There is layers to haki.

 

[MonsterKaido]

One of the things I dislike. Queen shows it one time and never uses it again.

 

[SakazOuki]

Oda just doesn't bother drawing it everytime. This guys axe was not drawn coated, yet he explicitly states it was coated
This has been a thing since Dressrosa

 

[Roo]

Dude what? They can use acoa lol

And? ACoA is often visualized with the hardening effect

 

[God of Finance]

Cause Oda has been terrible at drawing haki lately.

But be thankful it is better than the anime which is a never ending lightshow.