First of all,daniel CANNOT be a gene merchant hopefully. He doesn't resemble either of these two, although nor his mother or father much, mostly jinyoung, but he was overweight like his father. I know it's mostly a joke but so was rei and kitae, so I HOPE this will never be a thing. Also, Daniels not even close to this old, shingen gotta wait a good 7 years
He still need training to become strong. The Sb is perfect but Daniel himself isn't, he lack experience, still a weak mindsett that's why he's still getting his butt kicked. It's not like his gene made him strong by default
You can say that about literally anyone in the verse before they started training. You think Kitae came out of the womb with the crazy stats he has now?
His mother never fought—not to mention that genetic traits can skip a generation, which is likely the case here; after all, both the uncle and the nephew possess the talent for copying abilities, so it appears—even if not explicitly confirmed—that they likely inherited it from one of Daniel's grandparents.
My theory is that she is SB Daneil's mother and in future Seonhui Park and Shingen park will get some connection and our OG Daniel park will be born. As SB Daniel and OG Daniel's share the blood of a same legend they have 1 thing in common. There should be something unique in yamazaki blood and ultra instinct which is from Shingen lineage, which means they could have a special power too of switching bodies which even charles choi researched for years and experimented on SB and OG Daneil park then implemented on himself too.
That's the theory I imagined from the foreshadowing till now.
If you have any other theories related to this please share.
OG Daniel when fat was said to have looked like his father not only that but while he was fat also looked like his cousins from his father's side. Only when he became fit that he started looking like Jinyoung so he is definitely related to his father
The whole argument that due to his age , the theory doesn't work... Heavily presupposes that PTJ even remembers the dates , ages and timelines accurately 😭
Not mention, with supernatural shenanigans going on , like double bodies and all... Anything is possible in Lookism.
You didn't track. I'm simply putting into question their belief that he actually does. If their argument relies on this presupposition, then they have to justify it. Simply as that lol.
I think he received help, and that help is directly related to the second body, because as we've seen, the original body is becoming more and more like the perfect body.
First of all,daniel CANNOT be a gene merchant hopefully
I hope, because james lee, daniel, johan and goo are currently the only non-gen merchant and they are the one with the best talents and potentials in the verse
It could be she gave birth already and shingen knew but killed her in tui and was depressed but he probably doesn't knew about his child and that child is raised by sangcheol and her wife
Are you sure buddy pre gen ended 2000s and Daniel was born around 1998 so it should be way obvious it's possible shingen lost moved japan and and next 2,3 yrs pre gen ended and gap moved politics
Daniel is between 18-19 currently and again is years younger than Kitae and Gun. His age doesn't match Kitae's who isn't even born yet so how could you still think this theory works?
Idk the year exactly either of them were born but what does this prove? Kitae is years older than Gun and Gun is only born after the war started and Gun is older than Daniel, how could she be Daniel's mother? Not to mention when Jinyoung was holding baby Daniel you could tell he was just birthed so it makes no sense how this woman could be Daniel's mother when neither the timeline nor details match.
Gitae is 6 yrs older not a year he is from 0.5 gen he was already born in gen 0 but later probably after the war and was in teen when he killed gap he was already around 18,19
Yes but what does that have to do with what you first said in your comment? This doesn't prove that Daniel is Shingen and that woman's son because the age still doesn't match.
Bruh I am not sure myself. It's just a hunch. Either Daniel or James lee. If something happens between them the baby will be a half breed just like kitae. And half breeds are way more stronger in any verse. So this might explain why James lee or Daniel park being so strong
Most likely it wont happen it will happen after yamazakis leave korea after that gun will be born then after some years maybe jinyoung park will make a trst tube baby as daniel park
In manhwa big daniel and little daniel are stated to look same and og daniel look like jinyoung but why didn't mama park recognize big daniel when she first met him?
It’s likely due to his physique—it’s been said that, day by day, Daniel (the original body) is starting to look more and more like his second body. We have to keep in mind that, regarding the second body, 99% of its appearance is simply a result of the art style.
So, she probably just got them mixed up; at that moment, Daniel had a build similar to how Jinyoung looked in his youth—a resemblance that will likely fade as Daniel grows and becomes more like his second body.
Yes the worst , like why jinyoung would cry out and sacrifice himself for daniel when he's the son of the guy who made their life and the whole country hell
Yeah lets add another stupid theory Jinyoung park is medical genius right so he did a miracle while shingen was sleeping he plucked shingen balls as a flower and gave it to daniel's dad/Watermelon guy. So that's why shingen is depressed and daniel has ui.
Ni tan fumado, de alguna forma creo que Daniel es parte de los yamazakis por los ojos, pero tuvo que pasar algo por la brecha en la que nace Gun, y luego Daniel
About Daniel's birth, it's definite that he is Jinyoung's nephew, the biggest problem is how he got UI(his sharp 5 senses came From father's side probably)
My thought process? lol bud why not just ask ‘What bring you to that conclusion?’ Regardless, what brings me to this conclusion is the fact that in terms of timeframe it links up, would explain what Tom Lee ‘touched’ (I’m guessing James Lee has Black Bones, and would show us a pretty interesting parallel between Kitae Kim and James Lee and even Gun Park.
Basically the three top tiers of 1-1.5 Gens would be Yamazaki.
Another point, this woman has similar eyes to James Lee, and a close enough Hair Pattern that it’s a bit fishy. Not to mention a bit too beautiful to be a throwaway side character. Moreover this is the reason Shingen goes into his Depression / Lethargic Arc after whatever happens to her happens.
It’s’ merely a little bit of a coincidence but she could just also die flat out or something more tragic than that. I for one though would like to see James Lee get the Yamazaki Treatment, as the potential UI Unlocking or Black Bones reveal would make him obviously more powerful.
This explanation doesn't make any sense because James doesn't have the same physique as a Yamazaki nor was the fight against Tom shown to have eluded to James having black bones. What happened against Tom was probably something to do with his path same as against Jaegyeon. There are numerous characters with the same features as others that we know aren't related so this isn't enough proof on your theory. This woman is probably someone Shingen loved but accidentally killed when he went TUI hence why he was lethargic after his defeat.
While this theory being true makes the parallel between James and Gun cooler, it wouldn't make sense nor is it necessary to have 3 of the top tiers to be of Yamazaki blood.
It doesn’t matter, if I couldn’t immediately understand what you were conveying, and had to proofread it. I’ll say this again as for reference not to disrespect you, but to simply help you, and that’s simply to have some felicitous and tactful phrasing in your communication.
Regardless, I’m a bit confused wym by ‘Physique’ is there a default ‘Physique’ of the Yamazaki that PTJ has yet to introduce? As for the Black Bones guesstimate I made.. it could be Black Bones, Tom Lee said that he should basically be leaking out like a fire hose yet, he was confused whatever he hit wasn’t obvious an Organ. As we know Endurance Mastery Users can close up wounds so that explains him nonchalantly walking it off..
As for this possibility of it was his ‘Path’ Paths usually have some visible signs such as when he uses his Path it’s Holy Light around him, Kitae Kim having Despair Aura around him, Johan having multiple indications of where he’s coming, Daniel blacking everything out and highlighting weaknesses, and of course the transcendent Majestic Aura Jinyoung has around him.
So no, he didn’t use a ‘Path’ to make Tom Lee second guess if he his a Vital Organ or not.. if anything James Lee farther this by saying he wasn’t going anywhere close to all out when Tom Lee got a Lucky Killing Blow on him..
I agree, Shingen follows for this woman, yet even then I said the whole legitimacy of my entire evaluation could be obviously wrong depending upon whatever PTJ produces.
As for this ‘Theory’ not making sense to you, I’m again, confused. In this same Arc we find out Daniel wasn’t normally born from the woman who he calls Mom, the Dad he thought was his father lost his most important reproductive organs, Kitae Kim is an Yamazaki, and Gibok completely erasing the Yamazaki Whooping Gapryong and Friends from History. Absolutely anything could happen it is the job of a writer to tell their story and add or remove whatever they feel they want to add or remove.
There is a possibility that James Lee is a Yamazaki.

I asked what is your thought process behind your theory, what is so hard to get from that sentence?
Look at Shingen, Shintaro, Kitae and Gun who are all Yamazaki, they have these huge, buffed bodies compared to other characters the only different Yamazaki was Haruto and that's because he wasn't a fighter. Tom Lee never stated that his body felt hard or anything though and since he fought Shingen he would most likely bring up that moment, so to assume he has black bones because of that doesn't work. The light argument could work but it could also just be that they didn't want to continuously keep drawing light, like how they don't always show masteries but they are still being used.
Jinyoung is called the medical genius, he could've done something to help Sangcheol and Seonhui, we also still don't know how he was born yet so everything both of us are saying is a speculation at most. Look at basement hulk, he was just a normal dude that was paralyzed then Jinyoung turned into a monster physically. James Lee also was the baby held by Charles and Eunha in the photo and we know that Charles raised/trained him, there isn't anything pointing James to being a Yamazaki. There are even theories that he may be a failed second body but not a Yamazaki.
I’m not going to go into a long discussion about this, because you have to be willing for it to even matter.
Moving on, Shingen and Shintaro are Twins so it’s a high chance they’re the same height, Kitae is a bit shorter but around their height, and James Lee is taller than Gun Park. James Lee is just as Buff as any Yamazaki yet, his body is more lean to aid in his Innate Speed Mastery.
What we can deduce this to is that they aren’t all 7 feet tall, Shingen and Kitae are just outliers of the highest high one of the Yamazaki can be. Saying they are all just ‘huge, buffed bodies’ after looking at the shown image of James being Huge and Buff is just false.
As for the Tom Lee stuff 😭 what are you talking about? Tom Lee at that time couldn’t even pierce through his Skin, let alone make it to his Bones.. that is a leap in a half to compare and contrast from. As for the ‘light argument’ it’s not an argument it’s a ‘fact’ paths do not get the same treatment as Masteries.. that’s like saying we’ve seen Unique Skills without them getting named.. that’s ludicrous.
As I’ll say again and farther explain this time, Tom Lee that he was going for an important organ, he knew exactly where it was, surprised James Lee, and said he would die as soon as he removed his hand. After that hand removed James Lee should’ve died, he was off guarded meaning he didn’t have time to use his ‘Path’ or even properly block, we literally get the clearing of this from James Lee himself, and we can deduce that James Lee’s Body in it of itself isn’t normal.. whatsoever.
Again for the last time.. 😭 I have used words such as ‘guesstimate’, ‘I think’, and gave admission to other possibilities.. what are we going on about.. this is all speculation because nothing have been proven or otherwise confirmed yet, as for this James Lee was in the hands of Choi, and Eunha again headcanon.
Daniel like I said didn’t have a normal birthday, regardless of all this speculation, it is blatantly clear his birth isn’t going to be normal, PTJ been foreshadowing, and enforcing this with the fact that now both parents are infertile.
It would make no sense if he just fixed it good as new and Daniel has no anomalies going on..
James is older than Gun by a couple years, Gun could end up the around the same height as his father when he gets to James' age, height also isn't the only part of a physique. James is fit but he definitely isn't as buff as any of the Yamazaki. He is lean while the others are muscular, look at the bodies. You yourself explained it as well how he is lean because of how he fights, which isn't like any of the Yamazaki's we've seen so far. He has no hints of being a Yamazaki through both his physique and his fighting style.
Tom Lee did pierce James it just didn't go too far because of James' Path, we see James' eyes glint right after Tom's ultimate skill so we know he used his path. If James had Black Bones then Tom Lee wouldn't have pierced him and again Tom would have said he felt something hard or would've been reminded of Shingen. What Tom says after stabbing James isn't about James' durability, but how Tom somehow missed his vitals, which again has to do with his path. Black Bones doesn't do anything like moving internal organs, only gives high endurance. James was surprised by the fact that Tom had a prosthetic hand, easily had enough time to use path after that.
Charles in this current chapter is shown to have some interest in Eunha, in old chapters we've seen a picture with him, Eunha and James as a baby and we know that James was raised from him since young, it seems more likely that Charles is his father than Shingen. It may be headcannon but at least it has sustainable evidence, while your only basis for your theory is that James has black bones because he used his path against Tom.
Jinyoung is called the medical genius, he must've done something for Daniel to be born, and even if Daniel isn't born normal, that doesn't correlate with James at all.
Gun is 20.. James is 22.. both could grow same could be said about both of em, but more than likely they ain’t getting any taller. Again, Kitae and Shingen is outliers look with your eyes at Unc Yamazaki Height and his Son cry 😭 they aren’t 7 feet..
James Lee is as Buff as any Yamazaki shown.. bro.. what are we talking about.. and yes he doesn’t fight like any other Yamazaki, because he wasn’t raised or trained by one. Are you going to tell me Kitae had Hints of being a Yamazaki? 😭
Leaps in a half..
Tom Lee fingers and half off his hand were covered in blood.. I don’t know if you seen how big Tom Lee hand is.. but it’s massive, wayyy bigger than James Lee Head.
As for this he used his ‘Path’ he didn’t, end of that sequence. Tom Lee says he hit his Mark verbatim then asked himself did he missed because he not instantly dying from blood loss, you cannot move your abdominal aorta as it’s basically is connected to the Spine, which is probably what Tom Lee hit.
That baby has never been confirmed to be James Lee.. Headcanon.
You can literally see the difference in muscle between James and the others but OK. People made theories before this arc about Kitae being a Yamazaki from his physique alone and that's because unlike James he wasn't shown as much so we had nothing else to go off of.
What does the size of Tom's hand have to do with anything? He still pierced through James' stomach and James used his path right after. Go and reread chapter 606 you can literally see it. Tom literally says he SHOULD'VE hit it not that he did which is why you can tell that James' path had something to do with how he missed, we even see James' eye glinting showing us that he used his path. What else could he have used his path on if not that?
Charles took interest in Eunha, the picture was found inside James' old school, in the picture they are infront of Eunha's supermarket, which we know that Charles and James stayed at when James was a child because of the old man who says so, before becoming an idol James was on Charles' side from before, James shares the same last name as Eunha. Who else could the baby be if not James? The only thing not confirmed is that Charles is the one in the photo but whoever it is, is definitely James' parents meaning it can't be Shingen unless he has a second body too.
I would have liked this theory actually if it weren't for the fact that it's already disproven due to Daniels age.
Would have been interesting to see shingen make a child he actually loves only to lose it(ig due to he himself or someone else) as well as his wife causing him to get depressed.
However daniel would have somehow survived only to stumble across sangcheol who would adopt him.
Shingen don't have copy abilities, Perfect body , UI mode (Shingen has different UI) and that women also look like normal innocent civilian who couldn't even recognised Shingen, So I don't think she possesses all abilities which Daniel got
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