Questions & Mysteries Why Shusui is not supreme grade blade

#2
I think Oda wanted to give Zoro a special blade but it was too early to give him a supreme grade blade cus he wanted only top tiers to have those so he just made Shusui a lower grade but also special by making it a black blade.

I wouldn't be surprised if later on we get more Ryuma lore and he ends up having another blade that was supreme grade or something.
 
#14
I also would've preferred Shusui to be a supreme grade. Best sword in the verse tbh.

Well this undeniably shows how rare having a supreme graded blade is and how special you need to be to wield one.

The list of characters who have or had one as proof.
 
#15
Sword blackening arguably increases the sword’s rank

Oda can possibly retcon that in reality Shusui was originally one of the 21 O Wazamono and not that also currently is one of the 21 O Wazamono
 
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