
Luffy being shown to have a red tint and Charlotte Katakuri having a light blue one. The user clads their desired body part with a coating which is mostly black but can also have shadings of a different color (particularly in the manga) the color varies among users, with Monkey D. Hardening ( 硬化, Kōka ?) is the most basic application of Busoshoku Haki. In general, despite looking different and occasionally having a new degree of activation, the basic techniques of Busoshoku Haki work very much the same way after the timeskip as they did before. Even characters who used invisible Busoshoku before the timeskip have been shown using visible Hardening in the two years following.Īs of now, it is still unknown whether there are any functional differences between Busoshoku usages before and after the timeskip beyond the difference in appearance. Since the timeskip, however, nearly every usage of Busoshoku has explicitly involved visible Hardening, with most of the ambiguous cases being with characters who wear dark clothing or use darkened weapons which make it difficult to tell in the black-and-white manga. Hardening was not shown until after the timeskip, and so prior to that, the coating of users' body parts and weapons was completely invisible. There is a degree of ambiguity around the nature of basic Busoshoku Haki usage. Rayleigh uses Busoshoku Haki to attack a Logia user. This Haki is often referred to as an "invisible armor". Because of this, this form of Haki is the most used in combat. This type of Haki allows its user to augment their body via their own spiritual energy, greatly increasing their power and resilience. Hovering the symbol gives further details. Hovering the symbol may give further details. ‡: the character is no longer part of this group.It is later explained by Rayleigh once he began training Luffy.īusoshoku Haki Users See also the associated category: Busoshoku Haki Users. It was shown that Busoshoku Haki is very common in the New World, unlike in Paradise where Haki users are fairly rare and almost nobody knows about it. During the Summit War of Marineford, Busoshoku Haki was also used many times by Marines and pirates alike. The concept of using Haki to harden weapons was first shown by the Kuja, who were wielding Haki-imbued arrows. Afterwards, Rayleigh used Haki to stop Kizaru and even touched his Logia body. Later, on the Sabaody Archipelago, Sentomaru used Busoshoku Haki to attack Luffy, which made the Straw Hat Pirates think he was a Devil Fruit user due to their lack of knowledge about the ability. It was used by Garp for the first time against Luffy to bypass his Devil Fruit powers and hurt him in Water 7.
