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So from the beginning of the series, devil fruit powers was the power system that Oda had really established. I mean sure we had other combatants, main characters like Zoro and Sanji for example, who obviously didn't have devil fruits even early on in the series. But all the true power houses had devil fruits to maybe some exclusions such as garb and shanks and maybe mehawk. But really the fact that these individuals didn't have devil fruits just made them more impressive or more interesting. The fact that they were able to survive and do so well in a world where others had bizarre and crazy powers. Yes there was always a small sample size of individuals who were renowned in the world of One Piece despite not having a devil fruit. But whether it be by coincident or not, these characters, these strong non-devil fruit users, relatively speaking they all had very small combat screen time. I mean take the three most established non-devil fruit users in the series. Particularly in the earlier portion of One Piece, shanks, mehawk and garb. With shanks we never really got a chance to see him fight and Oda just relies on his hype and him having been the most influential figure in shaping our main character in Luffy, as well as the fact of shanks being one of the yonko and because all of the other empires have proven to be the pinnacle of One Piece fighters. This only further elevates shanks' hype without us actually having to witness shanks fighting at all. Even in the case of mehawk and garb. We really haven't seen an extended or high stakes fight for either of these characters and we really take their hype and status at face value given that mehawk is known as the world's strongest swordsman whereas garb the fist is the hero of the marines. I mean something quite bizarre is the fact that mehawk is hyped up by the fact that shanks and mehawk were each other's rivals at one point which is really interesting that we afford them such hype and so much excitement and expectations from this statement given the fact that we haven't really seen either of them fight. But then of course about halfway throughout the series we were introduced to haki as a new power system and this was a very necessary evolution of the combat in One Piece. I mean for example it provided a very nice logical in series explanation as to how you would fight a logger devil fruit user using armament haki and then for a while the series really focused on haki and developing your haki so that you could have advanced observation advanced armament or yo and now in Wano also advanced conqueror's haki or fusing your conqueror's haki into your attacks but then in the more recent chapters especially in this latter part of the Onigashima raid we seem to have returned to devil fruits not only through the devil fruit awakenings which we obviously first saw through doflamingo and katakuri but then even in the supernovas of lore and kid in this arc but perhaps most importantly through our reintroduction to Luffy's devil fruit as the most ridiculous devil fruit the hitohitonomi model nika and in my opinion this has essentially completely changed the series where combat is involved when you consider Luffy's usual role and status in his fights as the underdog and you compare that to the abilities that he now has at his disposal the fact that he has no limitations and complete freedom to do anything that he envisions despite the fact that the words used were most ridiculous his devil fruit is undoubtedly OP except then Oda seems to have gone back and switched this back in chapter 1047 because Kaito makes a very interesting comment that Luffy's abilities alone cannot conquer the world and that the world is convenient in that way because only Haki can transcend all and this really got me wondering what was the purpose behind that comment especially the idea of the world being convenient that way it's almost meta in the sense that that comment that dialogue is very convenient in establishing our expectations for the world of one piece and I have to say that I am really intrigued as to what that dialogue means and why it was included was it to place a limitation on Luffy I mean like I said before given that Luffy now has an OP devil fruit without limitation was this the way that Oda decided to place a limitation on Luffy to make sure that intrigue and most importantly tension still remains in his future fights I mean Luffy is obviously set up to defeat Kaito somehow in this arc so him beating a Yonko and the world's strongest creature no less on top of him also having a ridiculous devil fruit maybe this is the way and the element or the aspect to make Luffy still remain the underdog or at the least that it's an interesting fight where the stakes are high and there is some real tension between Luffy and his future antagonists in which case you would also then have to ask is it really successful in that case because if Haki is all that matters Luffy already has all three forms of Haki and has even managed to go beyond that and also achieve the advanced forms of each Haki but in any case another reason as to why Oda may have made that comment in chapter 1047 through Kaito could also be to establish or maintain the importance of Haki after all those years you know now that the importance and the abilities of devil fruits has returned to the four of the series maybe Oda doesn't want us to just dismiss Haki completely and of course this also provides some hope and some avenues for non-devil fruit users to remain important and relevant and when you think of that alongside the first reasoning of Oda placing some sort of limitation on Luffy this last chapter did feel like it was fulfilling these two objectives because for one Kaito's dialogue makes it seem like that after Wano we will now be entering a new territory of combat again showcasing and highlighting non-devil fruit users after what has been a very heavy devil fruit and devil fruit centric arc in Wano especially because of the beast pirates so giving Haki this much hype at this stage of the arc is the perfect setup to take us into that realm because not only is the importance of Haki expressly articulated in this chapter but Kaito also makes another interesting comment that Luffy is still vulnerable to slashes which is then quite suggestive of the type of danger that Luffy can still face I mean even Luffy's give fifth could be possibly taken down by a non-devil fruit user in that case given Kaito's comment a swordsman at the highest level could have a chance at taking Luffy down or at least giving him a difficult fight you know by way of posing as Luffy's natural enemy or his weakness which then in particular gives respect and importance to characters like Zorro who obviously holds no devil fruit but possesses plenty and ability to inflict some damage through slashes which is then again interesting that this comment would be made here and now because Luffy learning of this fact in this arc gives him perfect opportunity to also rise above this level of vulnerability and weakness by finding a way to completely focus and master his Haki ability to narrow the window for vulnerability but nonetheless slashing aside the fact that Haki's importance is being emphasized this does definitely shine some significance to our non-devil fruit combatants especially our other main characters Zorro, Sanjin, Jinbei for example are all non-devil fruit users but as the crew's main combatant group there needs to be an in-series logical reason as to why and how they won't be so irrelevant or useless in future fights especially as the enemies are only going to get more formidable and in that sense there is actually a lot of potential for these characters especially for Zorro and Sanjin because now we know that Kongro's Haki is obviously something that is innate within an individual and something that someone is born with but even when it comes to armament and observation Haki we know that these two sources of Haki are extremely difficult to learn I mean Ray Lee says that it usually takes over two years to learn but then we saw following the timeskip that both Zorro and Sanjin had both managed to learn both armament and observation Haki within those two years so from this we know that these two are naturally adept at fostering and improving their Haki and then also Zorro in particular at Wano awakened his Kongro's Haki and even managed to coat his attacks with it and so similar to his captain Zorro's use of his Kongro's Haki is improving extremely quickly although perhaps it could be because of the really dire situation he was in because he does seem to be more unaware of it than Luffy but still given that Luffy has had an insane amount of power-ups in this arc maintaining the importance of Haki seems to be a nice way in balancing out this power relationship between Luffy to the rest of his crew's combatants so long as they also continue to improve their use of Haki but then another reason as to why I think this comment could have been made here and the most interesting reason for me is the potential further development that this could lead to in terms of both plot and characterization because firstly I have to wonder if Kaido knows that Haki overcomes and is superior to devil fruits why has he surrounded himself with devil fruit users you know why has he gone out of his way to manufacture devil fruits and why did he go to so much trouble to acquire Yamato's mythical zoan fruit and so I have to wonder whether this fact this detail also fits in with Kaido's backstory and this is something that's going to be fleshed out further there and another question I have is is Kaido actually mistaken you know perhaps the truth is that it isn't actually just Haki that's most important and maybe what Luffy will actually find out is his need to sustain a combination of both his devil fruit and Haki and maybe this is actually how he will beat Kaido and maybe this was already hinted at at the end of chapter 1047 because we see his giant fist coated with Haki I mean it's really a direct example of Luffy combining both devil fruit and Haki and making use of both these power systems which leads me to consider as to whether Oda was actually hinting through this attack the true nature and the true way in which an individual can truly conquer the seas and part of the reason why I wonder whether Kaido's line was a misdirect is because a part of Kaido's comment was that Roger didn't have a devil fruit which is something that many of us had already suspected but again Oda taking the time to confirm this and confirm this now in this specific moment I again find it quite intriguing apart from the fact that it again raises hype for the other crew members of the Roger Pirates I am most of all again left wondering what was the point of this confirmation because on one hand it's very fair to use Roger as an example of an individual who didn't have a devil fruit but obviously managed to conquer the seas I mean after all it was Roger who found the one piece and became the pirate king you know it wasn't Whitebeard who was known as the strongest man in the world and it wasn't Kaido who is the strongest creature and both Whitebeard and Kaido not only having these epithets but obviously also having extremely strong devil fruits but then on the other hand we as readers have the benefit of knowing that Roger wasn't quite able to achieve everything I mean for one the ultimate dream that Roger shared to Whitebeard and Oden the same dream that Luffy is suggested to share I mean it hasn't been confirmed but it is quite likely that Roger hasn't been able to achieve this yet and this is part of the will that has been imparted down to Luffy but even that aside at the very least we know for sure that he wasn't able to uproot the world completely we know that he was too early for that and now given Kaido's comment in chapter 1047 I can't help but think was Roger being too early and being unable to fulfill his dream somehow related to Roger not having a devil fruit or more specifically because Roger didn't have the Nika devil fruit and the reason why I asked this is because there is an obvious connection between the Nika devil fruit and Joy Boy I mean we don't know the full inner workings as to why and how Luffy is now being recognized as Joy Boy but from what we have so far it almost seems like Luffy having acquired the Nika devil fruit and having awakened the Nika devil fruit this allowed him to become Joy Boy especially when you consider what Nika means in Japanese the fact that it can mean grin and then the fact that the Nika Sun God was a deity who brought salvation through happiness and laughter and smiles these are all words and terms that can be synonymous with Joy as in Joy Boy so in that sense it's quite a natural conclusion that Roger having not had the Nika devil fruit could not become Joy Boy so then when Roger said that he was too early was that because the Nika devil fruit had not yet re-fruited in the world I mean did they know when the fruit would appear and did they know that they didn't have the time to wait for the fruit to remake its presence in the world now whether this is the case or not and whether it relates to Roger and his adventures and his dreams I still believe that surely both Haki and devil fruit are going to be important going forward in the series I still believe that both these power systems are going to need to be used in conjunction with one another in which case it is again interesting that Oda would stress this importance of Haki and I say this especially because of the fights that we are going to witness and encounter post-Wano and post-Kaito because one fight that we can expect for sure is the fight between Luffy and Blackbeard and going back to my first reasoning as to why Oda would include this commentary about Haki's importance in this chapter I said that it could be to place a limitation on Luffy but then when you consider Luffy's fight against Blackbeard Luffy's Haki use and ability could actually serve as a boost for Luffy in this fight I mean we know that Blackbeard can use both armament and observation Haki but whether he possesses Conkres Haki hasn't been confirmed which isn't to say that he doesn't have it because we know that he must have been extremely strong even before he acquired his yami yami no mi given the fact that he was able to scar shanks so you could assume that Blackbeard surely does have Conkres Haki but at the very least and as of now it seems to be the case that the way that Blackbeard has been portrayed is that his powers and his strength and his threat stems from his devil fruit abilities and more accurately his multiple devil fruits I mean in the series we don't even see Blackbeard use armament Haki we only see him use observation and we were only told that he can use armament Haki provided through external information and material by way of a visual dictionary card so in that sense I can't help but feel that this intriguing interplay between Haki and devil fruit is going to be again relevant in this fight between Luffy and Blackbeard especially if Blackbeard acquires a third devil fruit which he is widely suspected to do so and so then this raises an interesting question as to whether the only way that Luffy is actually going to be able to beat him is through mastering Conkres Haki or put in other words is it going to become a Haki versus devil fruit fight or if Blackbeard also even has Conkres Haki now maybe it's a matter of whose combination of devil fruit plus Haki will win out which will again then be very interesting given the fact that Blackbeard could use a combination of his Haki with multiple devil fruits versus Luffy with his Haki and his most ridiculous devil fruit but in any case this piece of dialogue from Kaido does certainly raise very intriguing and interesting questions as to what sort of changes will arise in terms of power systems and their respective importance for the rest of the series and those questions and points were my thoughts on the matter but I would really like to hear your thoughts so please let 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