One Piece is the greatest story ever written. It is a manga (Japanese comic book) written by Echiiro Oda and it was serialized in Julyy 19, 1997. For those of you who don’t know what One Piece is about it’s story that follows this seventeen year old boy named Luffy on an adventure to become the pirate king. The person who finds the treasure “One Piece,” which was hidden by the previous Pirate King, Gol D Roger, will be the one who inherits the title Pirate King or “The Freest Man on the Sea”.
The story is still being written but it is at a point where power levels are easily accounted for. In the story there are people people called the Yonkos who are considered to be the four most powerful pirates according to the World Government. The World Government consists of 170 nations united all across the globe and on their side are the Three Admirals. They are the three strongest marines in the story who are powerful enough to squash any pirate they please. The Yonkos and the Three Admirals and any pirate who has a shot at being the pirate king have what we call “haki.” Without learning the power of haki it is impossible to become the king of the pirates. Haki is basically a power up to anyone who can bring it within themselves to develop it. I say this because “haki” translated into English means “will power or ambition.” Will power is what it takes to conquer the world. If you have a weak ambition or a weak will then your dreams will not come true. The stronger your will is the stronger you become. In One Piece the idea of “will” is translated into a tangible thing. One of the forms that your “will” can take is that of “armament haki.” Armament haki is the power to cover any part of your body with a hard dark casing so that when you punch, it’s destructive power is increased base on how strong your will power is. So the stronger your will/haki is the stronger you are.
I wanted to talk to you guys about haki because it reminded me of an important topic in The Iliad: human agency. Human agency is the capacity to act in free will. When the gods interfere with the war they aren’t really forcing the humans to do their will. For example when Athena “breathed fury in Diomedes” she didn’t do anything to take away his free will. Since he was bent on hacking his enemies to the ground he accepted Athena’s gift and used it to his advantage. No one is The Iliad is deprived of free will, it’s just that the stronger you are the more things you are able to do.
This is picture is an example of “armament haki.” If two people are fighting and both have armament haki the one with a stronger “will” will win the fight.
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