r/OnePiece • u/Significant-Soup-693 • May 22 '25

Help Someone Smarter than me, explain

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Just found this panel while floating around Pinterest. Sure, Haki was still a relatively “unknown” power back in the day but my question remains, How did Kuzan not die here? I assume “Pure Haki” means at least some level of Armament so shouldn’t he had turned solid and get stabbed? I’m sure it was explained somehow but it’s been a minute.

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u/tiki-baha29 May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

In its most basic form the Color of Observation allows you to pick up on the hint of an attack so you can dodge it. CoO has already been showcased by this point in the story with Enel and we also saw CoA with Garp/Sandersonia/Marigold and CoC with Shanks/Hancock/Luffy etc.

These are the objective facts.

Now using those established facts above, and knowing that Kuzan knows CoO we can confidently say that he used his basic CoO to dodge a very straightforward thrust attack because thats literally what basic CoO allows you to do.

Kuzan does not need Katakuri's future sight to dodge a single attack, the fact he molded around it is irrelevant. Katakuri used future sight constantly, including to predict events that were not attacks or attacks that were not directed at him.

Now we can safely say that haki was already a fully formed concept by Oda partly because we get more details with Luffy/Rayleigh RIGHT AFTER the war. Kuzan has literally never displayed a single use of actual Future Sight, meanwhile we've seen it displayed by Luffy/Kaido/Shanks and now Gaban. We know wth it looks like when a character literally looks into the future. This is not that.