User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 935: Disaster at Udon/@comment-7614831-20190308070627

This was quite a nice chapter for highlighting some of the background characters who might be key to future conflicts: namely Hyogoro and Kawamatsu. In the case of the latter, it will be interesting to see if he remains the 'man worth 100 fighting men' (or something like that) after two decades in prison, being fed poisoned fish...but if the stark comparison between Hyogoro's younger and current selves are any indicator, the chances of that shouldn't be good. However, Oda likes to play the 'survive in epic conditions'  card with these things, so I'm going to gamble and say that Kawamatsu is still a beast.

The whole discussion in the bathouse regarding Hyogoro's reputation for uniting the Yakuza as well as his legendary kindness and strength feels like it's setting up this escape from prison with its talk of 'ohhhhh, if only Hyogoro were still alive, we'd have quite a few more allies (wink wink)'. So, watch that space.

The part where Luffy states that, by fighting with seastone cuffs on, he'll surely be stronger with them off felt reminiscent of Goku's gravity training during the Namek saga in Dragon Ball Z. However, more importantly, he also seems to suggest that he can't use Haki whilst wearing the seastone cuffs which (if someone could please confirm this) is new information? Or am I forgetting another instance of this being stated? If this is new info, then this surely deepens the mysteries of what exactly Haki is and how it is used, no?