A New Way To Use Haki - Joyboy's Conquerors!!

I realized a hour or so ago that for a series all about pirates, rope and knots have gotten practically 0 focus.

Joyboy learned it from the Flying Dutchman. The loop not otherwise known as the “boop loop”

Untying a knot can signify cutting his ties with Joy Boy and letting the past go. This has some more weight to it because he acknowledged Luffy as an individual and accepted that Joy Boy was long gone.

Logia powers can change terrain forever and now haki can be stored for use when it gets released. Reminds me of how some nen can stay around or be seen through hard work in hxh

Can we talk about that Galaxy impact thought? LIKE HOLY-

I can't wait for the next newspaper headline after Egghead. Breaking news: A Haki blast from the past sent old men packing and the shadow king of the world tweaking.

It’s crazy that people underestimate the importance of Black Blades and what Swordsman can do with them… Somehow only Mihawk and Ryuma have canonically done this.

It's something we have seen before in many ways. Just to the extreme. Kuja pirates with arrows the haki runs out. The weather magicians Nami met had knots do the same thing. Black blades. Odens blade. Oda using all his ideas into one for a storage system

Mars: i have tea ready, what took yall so long? Warcury: i would like 10 sugars please Peter: we need the energy to run from imu, he going to whoop our aszes

I would assume a key technique to create this knot or a Black blade isn't using Haki on it, but instead is probably the ultimate technique a tier above anything we have seen so far. When we see Zoro or anyone else use Haki on a blade (or anyone on anything), it gets a black coating. Key word there is Coating. They are simply applying an outer layer of Haki to the sword/arm/whatever. The object isn't permanently turned black because its just an outer shell that sheds away. But that isn't the only way to use Armament Haki. So I think, the Black blade creation technique is actually the same technique used here by JoyBoy, which doesn't require Conquerors, but is instead the other form of Armament, Emission and Destruction. You can emit Armament haki to attack from a short distance, and then step that up and you can inject that emitted Haki and use that to utterly destroy the object from the inside. But I notice the key there, this is the only time we ever see or hear about Haki going INSIDE objects in any way, until now with this Knot. I think its the next step of haki, you learn to inject the Haki into an object, which is itself already the highest tier of Armament we know of, and go even further, instead of just letting the Haki Rampage in the object, you do so in a specific way to reinforce the object. If you do it with Conquerors Haki, the object is now a box that upon being destroyed releases the contained Conquerors attack. Do this with Armament on a sword, and you get a black blade. This is actual Imbuing of Haki INTO the object instead of coating it.

I saw a theory that the Ponegliffs were imbued with armament haki which explains their durability. That would also explain why the red ponegliffs are red cause they are imbued with color of conquerors haki and why they are more special.

First off I love the idea that the Straw Hats will foreshadow the members of Joboy’s crew like with Emet he seems to have an X (= 10) on his back & arms maybe as a reference to the X on a pirate flag & the X the Straw Hats used during Alabasta, but as for the imbuing Haki into an object this reminds me of how Kaido sensing Oden’s Haki in Enma when Zoro was fighting him

My working theory on why Joyboy's Haki only affected who it did is that it is a bit of both the scenarios you posited. I believe stored Haki acts on the Will the person it came from gave it while storing it, but that the Will Joyboy infused it with was something like "Protect this person from his enemies" rather than Willing it to target certain people, thus the releaser's perception of friend and foe guided who it targeted/excluded.

Knott tying in Japanese culture is actually VERY symbolic especially with giving gifts. In this case JB being the gift giver and E being the recipient. The knot shows a bond between the two and JB’s haki within is the gift he give to E. Look up for better detail ofc. Also I like to think of knot being undone more like a kink in a hose being removed causing a rush of water going through the tube.

🎶You do a loopty loop then pull and now your Haki’s looking cool 🎶

Knots in Japan hold a lot of meaning, such as creation, bonding and prayer. For example, there's the art of Mizuhiki "water pulling", that states that knots can imbue feelings of celebration, condolence, or to ward off evil spirits.

Franky once managed to just pick up Wet-Hair Caribou, a logia user, shortly after leaving Sabaody. It's been right in front of us the whole time.

I dont think you mentioned it, but I believe we've already seen an object imbued with observation haki as well, Sharlys crystal ball, which I think is just using a form of Future Sight haki

I think that the Strawhats that doesn't use haki doesn't really need to learn it. They're useful in their own plot-wise way lol. The only people I can see Oda probably making stronger in Elbaf is Usopp and Brook. Franky would literally just build a giant robot to fight Sanjuan Wolf lol.

Usopp used his observation haki when the strawhats entered the shore of Onigashima. You see that he is spotting some enemies without his binoculars