D: When I watched the One Piece anime, at the same part of Volume 7, Chapter 57, “Dreams Have a Reason” it says the reason Zeff lost his leg got torn off in the shipwreck… did they change that in consideration of the young children watching the show?

O: Yes. Hearing “eat your own leg” in that episode would be too much of a shock for young children. When you consider that a medium such as television has tens of millions of viewers, to neglect such a consideration would be a terrible mistake. It’s amazing that all those animators can continue to create such wonderful shows while still thinking about these things all the time!! If you can feel the love when you watch the show, everyone please send fan letters to Toei Animation. It’ll cheer everyone up there.

There are three Colours of Haki: Armament, Observation and Conqueror. But what is Haki? You can literally translate it as Ambition or Willpower. I think Haki has a strong relation to character’s ambitions and dreams. Depending on those two, you can ‘personalize’ your Haki. Personalization of Colours would be known as Shades.

Rayleigh said that some people specialize in one or two Colours of Haki, and I think that would mean not just using the Colour but also mastering the Shade.

The stronger your will and dreams are, the stronger your Haki and Shades will be.

I will list possible Shades that were shown in the entire series:

Armament Haki
– Enhancement – the invisible Haki that’s used, for example, by Kuja pirates. It can be imbued inside weapons or your body. It was shown when Luffy punched Pacifista, Boo tried to attack Funk Brothers with his haki imbued axe and Zoro cutting Monet’s cheek.
– Hardening – advanced form of Enhancement, it’s basically a black ‘armor’ surrounding your body or weapon. It’s stronger than Enhancement and can be seen by people who posses Observation Haki. It’s been used multiple times in New World. Anybody could achieve this and Enhancement, but you can personalize Hardening (for example, Luffy having Haki tribal tattoo on his body in Gear Fourth, or swirly Haki outside Zoro’s swords)
– Elemental – the most advanced Armament Shade known so far, it allows you to create an element (which can be personalized) and use it in combat. Examples: Luffy’s Red Hawk, Sanji’s Diable Jambe post timeskip, Kin’emon cutting fire, Zoro igniting Ryuma, Vista’s flowers, McGuy’s electric swords

Observation Haki
– Presence – being able to sense other’s presence or auras. Also known as Mantra.
– Clairvoyance – being able to tell what is going to happen. For example, Luffy unconsciously used it in Marineford when fighting Mihawk. Maybe that’s how Madame Shyarly can tell the future?
– Voice – only three known people that can access it, that is: Luffy, Roger and… Coby. Luffy and Roger could hear Sea Kings, Roger could hear Poneglyph’s voice, Coby can’t do that stuff, he can hear human’s voices very well.

Conquerors Haki
– Intimidation – knocking out unconscious opponents [much] weaker than you and paralyzing them with fear
– Charisma – ability to affect matter and energy, for example, Shanks destroying WB’s ship by passing by, Ace, Roger and Luffy vs Doffy CoC clash extinguishing fire, Dragon controlling winds in Lougetown (this could be a DF but it could be haki too)

People with strong will and high ambitions have unlocked stronger Shades (e.g. Luffy and Roger dreaming of finding One Piece and being very confident about it have unlocked Voice) and their Haki would be stronger as well. It’s possible that there might be more Shades as well.

*Theory by Athashet

This chapter was full of information about everything in the One Piece World.

We finally got to see the Sunny again, but with nobody aboard…But it was kinda obvious. And it seems we won’t have Barto into this It was a good opportunity for him to meet with the other half (and to gain the last four autographs…as that’s what counts the most :D)

We get to see Dragon again!! Luffy’s dad finally makes an appearance, long anticipated by everyone, I guess. So, Vertigo is where the revolutionary HQ is located, huh? It’s a place that’s worth to be remembered for now. The revolutionary affairs themselves revolve around the exposure of arms trading, and granted to the Dressrosa incident, they where able to go a step further. When Koala told Dragon about Luffy, the latter was kinda disinterested again…really, what’s with him? What’s his problem with Luffy? O_o He rather wants to know about Robin of course. Really, I don’t really care for Luffy meeting Dragon now, that scene today was rather anticlimactic, if you ask me. But well, Dragon is planning something and lets gather all higher-ups within that organization…let’s see.

The scene changes and voilá, Blackbeard’s pirates are there. Lafitte and Shiliew, who are trying to contact Burgess, finally succeed in doing so. Burgess is in a kinda bad condition, but he somehow managed to sneak into a ship of the revolutionaries and got where their HQ is located, Vertigo. That’s interesting here. So what is Blackbeard planning? We should keep an eye on it.

Besides it seems that Sabo is training his DF!

And wow!! Buggy is back, crazier than ever! 😀

And last, but not least: NINJAS! Zoro, Luffy, and Law’s reactions are priceless!

Hype is real waiting for the upcoming chapters!!

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