[Question] 7 Warlords of the Sea

[WhistleBlower]

Hey guys, its me AGAIN. Just wanna leave a question with youse that i've been pondering about ever since coming back to One Piece in 2011.

You know back in the day, when one piece aired on Television. Whenever they made reference to the "Seven Warlords of the Sea" aka "Shichibukai" they would've shown this image:

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[ 7 Silhouetted Swordsmen which presumptuously were very strong ]

Now then, later on the story we find out that the shichibukai are not what we were shown but in fact they are pirates:

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And later on this:

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Now my question to all youse is that when you reckon Oda decided to change the concept of who and what the Shichibukai would be?

Would you have preferred the 7 silhouetted swordsmen [ with their own cool stories ] over the 7 pirate outlaws that exist today?

Pirates or Swordsmen [ samurai ]?

My personal opinion, i like the fact that Oda-sensei changed his mind on how the shichibukai will be. Because having 7 samurai would've leaned towards other anime like Naruto's 7 mist swordsmen and Bleach [ sword fetishs happen] U_U

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[ToshiZO]

What? I don't remember that silhouette, can you link a manga panel of that?

 

[GDnaruto]

It probably would've made sense during gold rogers time, but now devil fruits rule the seas so i find the current Shichibukai appropriate.

 

[Kayhos]

What? I don't remember that silhouette, can you link a manga panel of that?

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There ya go.​

 

[Naruto D Luffy]

Great point usman.
I hope Zorro beat 7 swordsman

 

[Mephew D Kensei]

They wld still have been awesome coz its ODA!!!
Though that cld have been what Jonny or is it Yosaku oictured them to b like in his mind, u know Warlords and Swords and also wasnt this after Baratie so the only one we had seen was actualy a SwordsmanI im not so sure I cld b wrong but whatever, whatever Oda serves up I eat no qualms what so ever.

 

[BYAKUGANxHYUUGA]

I think it is better the way it turned out....all of the sword fighting would get boring ^_^

 

[Dr Strangelove]

I'm glad he chose to go with the current idea of what the Shichibukai are. One of my favourite things about OP is the Shichibukai system

 

[Rap12k]

Current shichibukai are more appropriate as GD said. For it to be 7 swordsmen in current OP would be weird.

 

[ultraChalk]

I believe that he came up with the idea of 7 Pirate Gods sometime during his introduction to the new world, so that Luffy could pick up a hitch hiker to tag along, a storytelling device to have his crew brag on his strength, and to guide them through the intro to the new world.

 

[KingHashirama]

I never liked the shichubukai system. It does more harm than good to be honest.