User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 891: Pudding is Hella Underaged/@comment-24850639-20180112170308

I hope this chapter serves to silence all the people that think Luffy beating Katakuri will be "asspull". Haki is by pure definition, willpower, and Oda has demonstrated time and again that Luffy's willpower reaches new peaks when he is put in extreme situations. His will to win and protect his crew continue to get higher as the stakes do, and this fight is the epitome of those stakes. The fight against Rob Lucci is a perfect example of just how much of an ass kicking Luffy can take, basically to the brink of the death, and still perservere because of his will to win. But now he knows haki, and as Rayleigh said, it is a flower that truly blooms specifically in these kinds of situations. You can't say Oda is pulling this out of his ass, he's always extremely meticulous about his foreshadowing. Of course he "has" to win because he's the protagonist and we know he's going to be the Pirate King, but the fight itself, and the win, also have to make sense. Think about it: mochi powers that strongly mirror Luffy's, better haki than Luffy, taking Luffy's moves and using better versions of it against him.....how is this guy not the perfect opponent for Luffy to move up to the next tier? So excited to see how the next chapters of this fight go.

As for Flambe....that's disturbing. Even worse, if it's not changed I'm still gonna read the manga. The shame.