u/TechnicianAlert562

Nothing new for those who already saw the SBS from years ago saying he loves old guys and that they don't lose much strength. If Gaban did what he did, imagine this man Whitebeard who is the pinnacle of everything in the past era? The worst part is that he was in a state of rage and EVEN SO Oda made a point of showing that he only did that because he caught Akainu from behind and off-guard, and still left without half his face and died right after. Oda took Akainu out of the scene for 2 seconds to give Whitebeard a dignified death and he comes back fighting ALL of Whitebeard's commanders, bizarre.

if you didn't have a worm's brain, or weren't just a baiter looking to stir up trouble, you would've known since the Workers' 4th Affiliate that Gitae is the guy future Daniel said is the big villain everyone needs to face. literally the 4th affiliate is the prologue to Gitae's arrival in the story and in Korea

"for this guy to be Jirang, Jirang needs to have innate strength, his strikes need to be pure brute force and zero technique. Could anyone send me any dialogue showing that Jirang has this fighting style? As far as I know, only Gitae is portrayed that way. So, no my little friend... SB never copied Jirang, in the beginning he copied Gun (or Shingen) and Taesu, after Warren's line EVERYTHING is Gitae, making it explicit that nobody there knew who SB Daniel was copying.

how the hell is SB Daniel superior to Gitae if he needed Gitae himself to beat OG Daniel in UI? Especially since OG wasn't even copying SB Daniel at that moment. The parallel PTJ left is evident: to beat UI without limits of endurance and pain, only Gitae can pull it off. Furthermore: The character being copied > his own copy, even if it's perfect

The similarity between Gapryong and Gitae in their fights is literally identical, both evolved their conviction through their body and destroyed the enemy. Unlike Gapryong who didn't even have a glimpse of his path yet, Gitae already had his path and PTJ has already given hints of what it might be, tied to the fact that his attack's AP is not about efficiency, even against Jinyoung's path, which we know is the most overpowered path we've ever seen. to me, that would fit Gitae's kit perfectly. We know the Kim bloodline has the legendary blood of infinite evolution, but for them to keep evolving during a fight with conviction/overcome, their body also needs to hold up, something Gapryong didn't have against Shingen, his body couldn't take it for him to keep evolving. Gitae's path, and possibly Gapryong's, maximizes the potential of overcome/conviction precisely because they don't go down. what do you guys think of this theory, does it make sense?

Final Villain of One Piece

I've been rewatching One Piece lately and couldn't help but notice the narrative importance of the fandom's most beloved character: Akainu.

Oda has always highlighted this.

I'm not an admiraltard, but it's certain that Akainu will be one of the final antagonists, facing Luffy directly.

Akainu represents the exact opposite of what Luffy wants to be in the future: Fleet Admiral.

1° — Ever since his introduction, he's placed center stage, as if he were the main star among the Admirals. He starred in one of the most important arcs in One Piece, Marineford, directly facing Edward Newgate multiple times, even hinting that the two had crossed paths before.

2° — Ace's death. Blackbeard may have captured Ace, but Sakazuki did something on a much larger scale.

No villain in the series had ever killed an important character beloved by the public. Akainu was the first and, until now, the only one to pull off such a feat. Not only did he kill Ace, but he murdered him in an extremely cruel way.

3° — Akainu vs. Whitebeard commanders. Here we have another display of strength. Even with Whitebeard's crew teaming up, they still couldn't stop the Admiral. Luffy only made it out alive thanks to Shanks and Law.

4° — Luffy's trauma. It's interesting that when Jinbe mentions Sakazuki's name, Luffy starts sweating cold and shaking while touching his scar, showing he was traumatized.

Right after, Jinbe mentions Blackbeard's name—or rather, the Emperors'—and he simply doesn't give a damn.

The worst part is this happens in the same arc. I don't know if Oda meant something by that, but it's funny that he set it up that way.

5° — The 5 billion bounty. And the nail in the coffin was his bounty, being the third highest in the series at 5 billion berries. Oda highlighting his power level, putting him side by side with legends of the past like Roger and Whitebeard.

That said, it's impossible for a character with all this build-up not to have relevance in the final saga of One Piece.

Now your turn

Obviously it's fake, it's a Korean leak and even the Koreans themselves aren't talking about it. The only thing the leaker said is that James is linked to Elite or something more, period. James having two paths and two personalities is a theory, not a leak. Learn how to tell the difference between the two

Our friend Gitae fan Ambitious_Tie_7915 made a great post making it clear that Gitae's black aura is not his path, I just came to complement a few things. It has already been said that KIM blood is blood that has infinite potential for evolution and we know it is linked to his conviction/overcome, so why on earth wouldn't Gitae have this? In fact, it has already been proven from the archive that he has conviction. Despair does not exist as a power equal to conviction, literally despair is something literal to the word, so much so that Shingen also causes this feeling of despair and this is directly linked to the Yamazakis, since the beginning of the arc it has been said that the Yamazakis were inflicting despair on everyone in Korea. Some people still haven't understood that conviction in oneself and conviction power (which Gapryong uses) are different. Conviction in oneself makes you reach the path and also makes Gapryong use conviction (power), understood? It's no wonder that the ONLY ones who use this power without having consequences are those who have KIM blood, because of the surpassing of their lineage. You can be sure that when Gapryong reveals his path we will have clear indications of how Gitae links his conviction to his path, just like Gapryong. People still haven't understood the bizarre parallel of Gapryong's fighting style with Gitae, both have the same fighting style, made CLEAR and during their fights they evolved by pouring their conviction all over their body in the middle of a difficulty. 'Conviction is purple, Gitae's is black' literally because he is a hybrid? It's so simple... there was a genetic mutation in his conviction for having Yamazaki blood, which in turn cause despair and are bloody. That is exactly what hybrids are. Expect an exclusive Black bones and UI for Gitae when he awakens his Yamazaki side.

This should be my final Kitae Kim post, so we're gonna hit it head on.

The goal of this post, is to convince you as a reader to see why

The Yongho Child is a different entity entirely to that of the Tora Oni.

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First we're gonna set a list of criteria necessary to prove

"Kitae Kim is vastly superior to Shingen Yamazaki"

1. Symbolism - Narrative

2. Scaling - Narrative

3. Feats - Narrative

4. Argumentation - Narrative

5. Why all of the above correlate to one another.

We'll start with a simple aspect of the post.

"Symbolism"

Gapyrong is the Dragon

Shingen is the Tiger

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The Dragon and The Tiger, are Yin and Yang in symbolism.

I Could go into like how the "Dragon and Tiger" Represent specific qualities, but I Think it'd best to just say, the whole point of the story of the Tiger vs Dragon

is that they are inseparable and eternal rivals. a clash of two very different origin of might, clashing forever, to what creates balance in the sense of "Power"

basically they set the power vacuum cosmically.

so the political party, that James Lee is leading called

"Yongho" which literally translates to

"Tiger-Dragon" / "Tiger and Dragon"

and their badge,

has a Tiger / Dragon

hybrid creature.

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But what is Kitae's relevance to The Yongho?

well, Kitae's goal is to achieve what Gapyrong didn't, and what Shingen couldn't.

he first must bring The 2nd Generation to the literal past of the Yamazaki

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He then must achieve the level, where he continues what Gapyrong didn't.

meaning he must walk both paths to achieve his goal, first must throw Korea into the chaos of the Pre Generation brought by the Yamazaki, then he must conquer the Generation, and rule as King Of The Underworld.

so symbolically, Kitae Kim is meant to walk the path of Tiger and Dragon

which would be the path of Yongho

- Conclusion of Symbolism

James Lee puts Kitae Kim in the role of "King Of The Underworld" due to his ability to enforce his brute power, and we know it's in context to the future. Kitae has to be able to deal with the threats that will arise, that will try to take his kingdom down, even amongst a realm akin to the Zero Generation.

we know that the reason, people were strong in Gen Zero was because of their constant fighting, and their hardships they faced under Yamazaki rule. So if Kitae Kim throws the 2nd Generation, a far more talented generation into ruin, it'll bring apart, a Zero Generation, with numerous legends walking around.

so James Lee, is saying that he believes Kitae Kim is capable of dealing with anything that comes up, with the only possible outlier of Daniel Park, as he wants Daniel to be his wings,

but says that it'd be debatable between Kitae Kim and a perfect Daniel Park.

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This naturally, means that James Lee believes Kitae Kim would be his enforcer,

even during the end game of his goal.

Jinyoung says that prior to Kitae using his path fully, that he's comparable to Shingen and Gapyrong. Then after Kitae uses his path, he's shocked by how strong Kitae Kim is, and is unable to overcome him, despite having access to conviction of path, and conviction of overcoming.

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Changsu Oh, describing that he's shocked by how absurd Kitae Kim is, someone who despite having path to pinnacle, despite walking on the same path, despite seeing him fight UI OG Daniel, Path Daniel and thinking he's true despair, that he didn't know if he could beat Jinyoung while fatigued from those prior fights, yet he does.

this shows that in James Lee's, Jinyoung's, and Changsu Oh's eyes, Kitae Kim is someone bare minimum on that level of Shingen Yamazaki, although in the context of how they imply he surpasses what they thought of him, they actually imply him above Shingen Yamazaki.

so scale wise, if we use power scaling statements, such as "he's as strong as" or "I Thought I could take him down, even though he was this" etc. Kitae Kim would be above Shingen Yamazaki narratively.

- Conclusion of Scaling Narrative

Feats are something, I myself don't value, you can have a lore legend, with zero on screen feats, who's still a monster amongst those with feats,

but I'm not going to look down on Kitae Kim's rap sheet.

Beat Path Daniel

Beat HFW Jinyoung

Beat OG UI Daniel

Beat Path Jinyoung

then ran hands with James, and forced him to use path,

and even equalized against him.

now, I again don't value feats as much as the other person, since you know. someone can have Kitae's feats but be weaker than others who don't have these feats, however in this context ,it proves that Kitae Kim feat wise has to be a monster,

I mean beating those many top tiers in one day?

It's absurdism not Lookism

I could also show like his feats in Busan, but I think those will suffice, he overpowers

numerous top tiers, in pure brute force, never straying from trading blows.

not once did he result to anything but trading blows.

despite being someone, who if his limits are reached, would do anything to win a fight. meaning he's not limited to just trading blows, he could be doing far more vicious combative style.

but instead sticks to trading blows, when he's excited to learn his limits.

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So Kitae Kim beats these Legendary Combatants, with pure brute force, he doesn't use his axe until the fights over, he instead goes blow for blow, like Hulk vs Sentry, he doesn't once back down. He is pure unadulterated brute strength- no he's Pure, unadulterated DESPAIR.

which is where we tie into my prior posts...

Kitae Kim is the embodiment of Despair due to his pure physical power, in a way that even Copycats would pale in comparison, despite them being the seeming origin of despair.

Kitae Kim is the perfected combination of Yamazaki Genes, and Kim Genes.

(The "Rei isn't Shingen / He's missing overcoming arguments are invalid)

Kenjo and Shinji come from the same father

Overcoming is the source of Gapyrong's strength,

but Kitae is perfected despite inheriting Gapyrong's strength in James Lee's eyes.

In this post

Gapyrong is Dragon, Shingen is Tiger - Kitae is Yongho

Kitae's path is Gapyrong's and Shingen's

He is the enforcer of Yongho - the literal brute strength of Yongho, meant to fulfill the role of both Dragon and Tiger.

so he has

Genes of Dragon and Tiger

Enforcer of Yongho (Dragon and Tiger)

He is perfected of Dragon and Tiger

Everything points towards Kitae Kim being The Yongho.

a combination of the duality of power

Shingen and Gapyrong

every aspect of this character's narrative, points towards him being above

Shingen Yamazaki, and being the role of "Yongho"

The Tiger and The Dragon in one, a one man power vacuum.

Walking Duality...

The Yongho Child.

funny how PTJ has already emphasized three times with Gitae talking about this so-called limit, and guess who still hasn't fully unlocked his Yamazaki genes? That's right, Gitae. And don't even come saying Gitae won't have UI, the chance of that happening is ZERO PTJ gave the spotlight to this statement in the most awaited and anticipated arc of the work, no way he won't have a UI. However, don't think it'll be standard UI, it'll be an exclusive UI, just like his black conviction which turned into something dark and with different characteristics because he has the bloody Yamazaki blood mixed in his DNA. Gitae is the hybrid of the most powerful bloodlines, everything that happens to him is something UNIQUE to him and not something anyone else could have, besides Gitae himself.

As you know, long before it was confirmed that Gitae was a hybrid of the strongest bloodlines, I already had a feat confirming all the evidence for it, but let's go. For those who still don't know, Gitae has conviction and that's already been confirmed. We know that 'overcome' is exclusive to the Kim bloodline, which is why only they can use conviction without self-destructing, as we saw with Jirang, even though he's Gapryong's disciple, he wouldn't be able to use conviction without self-destructing. Don't confuse self-conviction and conviction (power) as they are completely different things. My theory is that despair is Gitae's overcome, whereas while Gapryong uses conviction/overcome to protect, Gitae uses his conviction/overcome to cause despair. 'Why is Gitae different?' Simple, he's the hybrid with the most powerful bloodlines in the universe, everything about him is unique, his DNA mixed with the bloodthirsty blood and there was genetic mutation with new forms and power characteristics. You can expect something exclusive for his UI and black bones too. So what do you guys think? Is despair his path or his overcome?

Does he have more narrative than Gitae? No. More feats than Gitae? No. More hype/statements than Gitae? No. More potential than Gitae outside of the protagonist? No. Is it just the delusions of some random looking for attention? Yes, absolutely.

Besides having immeasurable narrative weight as the villain everyone needs to team up to defeat, as the very embodiment of despair, he is destined to return to Korea in an era when everything was chaos and everyone fought for their survival.

Para aqueles que realmente leram HFW [Lookism], sabem que o caminho é o ápice de tudo, é a habilidade mais quebrada do universo, não é surpresa que SOMENTE duas pessoas da geração zero encontraram seu caminho, não sou eu que estou dizendo isso, Jinyoung ao encontrar seu caminho só se lembra de Shingen e Gapryong. Ainda mais com caminhos extremos, refinados e completos como o Gitae, mas essa não é a discussão do post. Sim, SB e OG Daniel, isso não se aplica a eles 'por quê?' porque eles SE AJUSTAM ao seu nível, então, não importa quão superior ou inferior você seja, sempre se ajustará ao seu nível e a todos os atributos, além de ainda ter a imensa melhora de não ter limites de durabilidade e ser totalmente tolerante à dor. Além disso, OG Daniel na luta contra Gitae estava copiando o corpo perfeito, que é um mestre de TODAS as técnicas e artes marciais do mundo. it's no wonder that in 600 chapters only Gitae managed to beat UI without exploiting its weakness, and Gitae is 'just' the legendary hybrid of the most powerful bloodlines in the universe

I see a lot of people trying to brush this confirmation of him being the legendary hybrid under the rug, acting like it's normal just so they can keep debating if anyone's on his level or above him. Truth is, this confirmation is ABNORMAL he's the legendary hybrid of the Kim Genes (which are already stated to have infinite potential on their own), plus he gets the massive upgrade of the Yamazaki adaptability, savage killer instinct, and the ability to break his limiter via his own UI when he hits his ceiling, which Gitae himself talks about so much. His evolution ceiling is completely unmatched. If he was already top 1 based on feats, statements, and narrative, just imagine now. Hybrids are genetic aberrations look at Gun, he's just a hybrid of a Yamazaki and a normal Japanese person (Somi Park) and he's still stated to have potential superior to Shingen. Now imagine Gitae? Gitae is the legendary hybrid, his genetic mutation is incomparable. The guy has absolute personal conviction, so expect a custom UI and his own Black Bones too

Shingen doesn’t have a single blade scar, which is already a dead giveaway. Don't try to argue that 'it depends on the user' because that's a flat-out lie. That sword is made specifically to cut through black bones. It's obvious PTJ is going to treat black bones just like thresholds instead of a fixed difficulty to overcome based on a person's ceiling, the durability is going to conveniently fluctuate depending on the user. This could upscale Gun in the future, even if his black bones were cracked by Yuseong, but let's not kid ourselves, that was purely to glaze Gitae. Being a hybrid, Gitae is probably going to get a custom, superior variant of black bones, something like 'Adamantium' or whatever. Adamantium is hyped to be indestructible, which actually makes total sense because Daniel was literally breaking his own body attacking Gitae and still couldn't shatter Gitae's arm even with a simultaneous knee and elbow strike

huShingen doesn’t have a single blade scar, which is already a dead giveaway. Don't try to argue that 'it depends on the user' because that's a flat-out lie. That sword is made specifically to cut through black bones. It's obvious PTJ is going to treat black bones just like thresholds instead of a fixed difficulty to overcome based on a person's ceiling, the durability is going to conveniently fluctuate depending on the user. This could upscale Gun in the future, even if his black bones were cracked by Yuseong, but let's not kid ourselves, that was purely to glaze Gitae. Being a hybrid, Gitae is probably going to get a custom, superior variant of black bones, something like 'Adamantium' or whatever