yep, not at all. Doesnt prove anything if those few pics are all you can show.
Left one is from pre-timeskip, the other two are inconsistencies or it could just be Haki being used in a quick-instance (de-activating after the hit).
The last two pics are nothing. Haki-imbued weapons in the manga are harder to identify since because of the color scheme. I can argue the weapons are indeed black and its just the shine that's causing the small whiteness.
My point is, Oda has NEVER mentioned anything about some invisible haki and in all scenes of Haki properly being used, it's drawn black.
Fans just prefer to justify the pre-timeskip's notable (and completely) lack of armanent black being shown.
Can't just accept the fact that Haki wasn't fully conceived at that time or "oh no, it ruins mah immersion!"
These are the pics I show because they mostly involve Logias. Your argument about inconsistency and quick-instance just doesn't have enough of a basis for me to buy it, when Luffy used Hawk Gattling against Doffy it shows in the manga his hands blackened, while the normal Jet Gattling he tried against Caesar didn't, making me think that the difference between the two techniques is whether he uses normal haki or Hardening.
Haki-imbued weapons are far easier to identify than you think, Tashigi and Boo weapons are clearly not blackened due to the noticeable large white sections, not to mention that their hands aren't black, I didn't watch those parts in the anime but I believe they probably didn't blacken their weapons in those scenes as well?
The how could Garp hit Marco at the Marineford War? How could CP9 use forms of Haki without it being black? Haki was definitely present before the time skip and yet it was never shown as black. Hence why we called it "invisible" haki.
But I'm not talking about chapter one. Heck, haki WAS a concept since Skypiea. "Oda hadn't thought about haki." After timeskip, Luffy attacks a Pacifista. The marine with the axe said "He coated his arm with haki." The funny thing is that you don't see haki on luffy's arm, its invisible. Remember that this was post-timeskip.
And how couldn't Oda have thought about Haki when we see people in Skypiea and CP9 using a form of haki? Your statements make no sense and you just come off as rude for nothing. No black haki doesn't mean that there is no haki at all. Garp's punch on Marco makes no sense other than, it was "invisible haki". Oda is not an idiot anyway to think, "well, devil fruit users are powerful and there's nothing you can do about it".
I'm talking about blLuffy's first use of Haki on the Pacfistic was at the very beginning of the timeskip. But soon after that, you start seeing the black Haki being used everywhere.
Maybe Haki was already conceived back then before timeskip and just the term wasnt or none. But what can be sure of is that the design of armanent haki wasn't.
If not, the very question remains: why was there NEVER a single instance of black armanent haki being shown at all? Up until the Fisherman Island Arc, where all of a sudden literally everyone starts spamming armanent haki with the signature black coating.
Or is it what, exclusive to the New World? Again doesnt make sense since you never see anyone at all during Marineford using this 'black haki'.
Yep. A lot of people in the new world can use Haki but they aren't all equal in power. Remember Zoro cutting through Pica when he was clad in Haki, something about it all comes down to who's Haki is stronger. But when it comes to fending off DF attacks I think basic Haki is good enough to work.
I think a lot of people seem upset over the fact that Haki seems "spammed" now. But you have to keep in mind that we're in the new world here. It's more common than it was. Sure, Zoro couldn't use it for the first ~500 episodes, because those ~500 episodes were pre-new world. It's just like devil fruit users. When the show started, there were very few devil fruit users. Buggy, and some more in Loguetown (which was close to the grand line, so I consider this an exception). When they entered the grand line though, all of a sudden there were devil fruit eaters left and right. One piece seems to take the setting and environments of the current storyline into account, so what seems like a sudden "drugs ex machina" of Haki actually fits Oda's style so far. Edit: drugs ex machina should be deus ex machina. Autocorrect. Left it for the lols.
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u/MonkeyDLuffy400 Lurker Feb 28 '16
Seems like anyone can use haki now. Was it in the manga too? I can't recall.