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Does armament haki have a color based on the user?
I've noticed Luffys armament haki is red and sometimes yellow but I've seen other haki users using armament haki and its purple,blue, green and other colors. Idk it may just be effects
Please provide examples? the most prominent color art that features haki that I can think of doesn't have colored haki. (this was one of the volume covers)
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Zoro have the green Haki around his swords
Or people have shown me after I argued the same thing, that Oda doesn’t color Haki, and then people are like “nope, here is a cover page with Zoro with the green Haki around his sword”
That’s from his king of hell technique. It’s his haki probably combined alongside some other style he picked up in Wano. Outside if this I’m pretty sure his haki uses the traditional colors
Well i can't post pics for some reason but the volume cover where Luffy is in Snakeman depicts Luffy's haki with red highlights and Kat's as colourless. So yeah it's 99% colourless in the manga
When Doffy was talking tru phone with Law he said something like: Take a look at Vergo. And he was all Arm Haki full on. So i think the characters have a feeling about who is using haki and who isnt.
Yeah, they don't "see" it like we do so the patterns and colors are just Oda having fun. Karasu also sensed both Fuji and Green Bull showing up at the Holy Land because their Haki was "inmense".
I don't dislike it. You just have to have the perspective Luffy is imitating a buccaneers body,like Kuma. Plenty of people have weirder bodies in One Piece.
Almost. It wouldn't be oily. It's as abominable as "gomu gomu balloon" and others. I don't know what the point is. I hate what Dragon Ball has become in Super, about hair colors and auras.
Gear 2 is not about stretching. It is literally evaporating, hot, that is, humid. This is described in words by the characters even in the manga which is black and white. That's not the case with gear 3 and 4. You know.
I consider them equal. They are all exaggerated and fun. Calling it an "abomination" is an exaggeration.
If G4 looks "abominable" then everything Luffy does with his powers, in some way, is too.
In my opinion, the G4's appearance is intimidating. Like Hulk. He's as badass as the practical result: He beat Doflamingo, Katakuri avoided the future where he would face him, and would have beaten Kaido badly on 2 occasions (In the first, he wasn't good enough with Haki, in the second they interfered in the fight)
ps: I didn't say he would beat Kaido on Gear 4, just that he would deal damage.
I'm not exaggerating. It's just my opinion. I think it looks terrible with no haki.
If G4 looks "abominable" then everything Luffy does with his powers, in some way, is too.
Definitely disagree with this premise. Haki-less snakeman doesn't look nearly as bad. Balloon doesn't look anywhere near as unnerving as g4. Nothing else he does is really that weird. It's just stretching and inflating. Me thinking haki-less g4 is hilariously bad looking doesn't say anything at all about any of his other forms.
I can see the hulk comparison, and if they never had a haki coating from the beginning I'm sure I wouldn't even really have a problem with it, but the fact that there is a haki version makes this one look that much worse to me. But since there is, yes, I think it looks very bad.
Snakeman he just got taller. In fact, I wanted this to be the post timeskip look. Now the Tankman without colored haki? His power is about being able to take on these exaggerated and fun forms. Painting them or not doesn't make them bizarre. They already kind of are.
It was like that in Z too ever since the Frieza arc, it's just hair changing colour and adding bigger numbers to their numbers. All Super did was add red and blue to it.
I don't think it would look like that. I have always thought that gear 4's marks had more to do with his df than haki. I think it would look more or less the same to another in-universe person.
Do we know that hardening is invisible too? I think that everyone can see that tbh, didn't we see the people react to it? It's just the base application of armament haki that's invisible.
I might be wrong about this but I feel like I heard that it was a mistranslation and what she meant was that it isn’t actually water or lightning it’s just the appearance of the affect
When zoro is just making his swords black with haki it's invisible. But actual black blades like shisui and yoru are different. We don't know how they fully work yet, but it's not only because of haki.
Yeah I was talking about the permanent color like shusui because I remembered they note it as a black knife, I always thought that it's Haki color settling in but now it makes less sense
Turning a sword black levels it one grade, as Kozaburo mentioned Enma could be turned into a black blade and become a supreme grade. It would mean Shusui was not a great grade but a skillful grade
Shishui, is a Kabuto. According to Mihawk when asked he says any blade can be made a black blade. Ryuma made his sword a black blade somehow, same with Yoru that Mihawk uses.
Given the Wado's incredibly white color scheme at some point Zoro on his final power up will turn that blade into a Kabuto.
We have no idea the process required to make a sword permanently a black blade, it's something Roger/Whitebeard/Shanks could never do with their blades.
Ryuma's zombie gave it to Zoro and it gonna it's way home to Zoro but Shishui was never Zoro's black blade. He was borrowing it temporarily. It'll be up to him to somehow unlock what Mihawk told him about, his final challenge to make a Kabuto of his own.
The second Mihawk sees that Zoro on a wanted poster has made Kuina's blade a black blade he'll be like my pupil is ready to deserve a full duel, no holding back any longer
Haki isn't visible at all period. No character whatsoever at any point in the series have ever mentioned Haki looking like anything. In fact it wasn't even colored black until after the time skip. Which I'm pretty sure Oda started coloring black so he didn't have to constantly say when it was being used.
Think of it like the Breathing styles from Demon Slayer. They're pretty much just there for visual effects. You can potentially say the same thing about the Black Lightning from Supreme King Haki.
Then why are you saying Oda said that it's invisible? The only direct reference we have to it in the manga is Rayleigh saying it, well before it actually started to be coloured.
I'm not saying either way whether it's visible or not. It's just that people Oda himself stated it's invisible and then refuse to post a quote on that.
I get what you're saying. To answer your question, I don't know if there is any interview style quote existing. I doubt it.
But everything in the manga is the source material directly from Oda himself. The maga is always going to be the 100% true indisputable canon. So in a way it's like Oda saying it.
The put this simply. There is no direct quote from Oda, but Haki is canonically invisible to everyone in the One Pieces universe.
Well Oda had to explain it because it was the first time we where introduced to Haki. Luffy and us the reader didn't know what it was or how it worked. It be redundant and weird if people keeping shouting how they're using an invisible attack. It be like them saying they're using hot fire or cold ice. It's pointless.
I can also confidently say things that Oda didn't say and say that Oda said them: "The sky isn't really blue, only haki users can see that": see the SBS where he definitely didn't say that
800 fucking karma for made up shit that is CONSTANTLY passed around as canon
Actually, basic armament is invisible, but Hardening is visible. Luffy uses armament without hardening against Caesar Clown and Trebol. Though I guess this isn't a 100% thing, but I just assumed that because of how Rayleigh explains it.
Yeah... so the coloring I'm pretty sure is just flashy animation. Which is fun to watch in my opinion but if you're looking for story accurate, not so much. Aside from black blades being infused with haki, which I believe are explicitly mentioned in the manga.
In universe Haki is not even supposed to be visible, the manga doesn't have different colored haki, and this is really just something the animators do as they please.
(also part of the reason why having a black blade is so prestigious. It's had so much haki infused into it that it has permanently changed color despite the fact haki is usually invisible. Having a black blade wouldn't really matter much if you can just manually cover it in haki and make it black that way like Zoro did in Dressrosa for example.)
I think Haki users can see when other people use Haki but not regular people. Haki is just your will power manifested so it's somewhat like an invinsible aura although Im pretty sure the hardening part of haki is visible considering the fact that Black blades are black because of the haki
This only happens in the anime. These glows with different colors never happen in the manga. In fact I don't think these colored glows happens before or after Wano.
its honestly always annoyed me with how repetitive and wrong the sound effects just are. its one of the reasons i dropped the anime and started the manga
Im pretty sure the first time we saw it was on Jaya when Blackbeard said Luffys haki got stronger, he was using observation haki so I don't know why it would be coated
Yes armament haki is invisible or normal haki (which is armament) is like invisible armour like Rayleigh said , i guess it's for viewers to understand and give a better animation
Normally you wouldn't see haki as it is invisible, but certain conditions makes them visible imo. Coating your sword black or Luffy going G4 is possibly seen, or at least if you have CoO you can "see it"
From what I know, they put these colors on the anime so it’s easier to see who is using the haki and because it’s cool… but I don’t remember Oda coloring the haki like this, in fact, I think that armament haki doesn’t make the body parts black, it’s only colored so you know they’re using it, but I could be wrong…
As readers/veiwers observing from a work where haki does not exist, we lack the ability to perceive it in the same way the characters in-world do, and so for our benefit haki is presented visually.
In-universe, haki is not visible. It can be sensed by other haki users, they're aware when something is coating themselves in armament, but they don't literally see it.
Now, you could say the colours represent different 'feelings' of haki. Maybe Luffys Haki feels slightly different that Hyougoro's haki. Or maybe it's just visually done that way so we can more easily recognise when a haki is coming from one person rather than the other in a clash, or maybe the animators just think its neat. We don't know.
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u/bullfrogger2 Sep 07 '24
Colors for haki are anime only, it's just to differentiate the characters a bit more.