I’ve always thought the point of Devil Fruits was that its power was subject to how much the user wanted to train themselves with it and test what can be done with it alongside things like Haki. Like how In Wano Robin became a spider demon because she’d be willing to do that to protect her friends. Also, How many other fruits have things like the gear stages?
Luffy’s Fruit does make him bullet proof we’ve seen this. Awakening did bring him back from the dead. And we saw him in Wano, dude could not use his powers but the cuffs hardly bothered him.
They kind of do if they are lazy, want to live comfortably and don’t want to nuke the world every 20 years. And they are honestly only having to get involved now because they keep being too leniant with people because they don’t want to go all out.
Luffy still believes he's a rubber man. If it was so trash tier, then why does he bounce back as hard as he does every single time he gets his shit pushed in?
Elders even say that Nika makes you rubber because that allows them to be free.
Luffy IS still a Rubberman* because Nika was also made of Rubber, Kuma reiterates that in his flashback, that is why Bonney can mimic Luffy's powers because she was told Nika was a Rubberman. Hell I imagine that when Luffy is told about the real name of the fruit he will be like "What that is stupid, I ate the Gum Gum Fruit..Shanks told me the name. *Insert Silly nickname for Imu here* You are dumb thinking my fruit is a Zoan from some guy named Nika."
And the only reason it is failing now is because Roger used their showboating against them.
It's a pun on elasticity.
Honestly, my thing about it is that I have my head when folks go like ODA NEVER FORGETS or say that he's a master of foreshadowing because of things like Luffy dancing at a campfire in Skypiea is a foreshadowing of Nika, or saying that Sanji's backstory was hinted at in Alabasta because he chose to call himself "Mr. Prince".
It'd be in character for Luffy, but I fear that the dream may have been hyped up too much for that to be seen as anything other than a letdown
I'm now wanting it to be that the One Piece is one of those all you can eat Chinese buffets. It's funny and you can pig out all you want.
I disagree..I think everyone would laugh, because it is Luffy. People would be mad at first..but then start laughing as Luffy dunks on Shanks..as Chopper and Usopp join in, Robin giggles..and the rest of the crew look on in embarrassment.
I mean both of those were probably planned honestly but then there are like a billion arcs invetween that so how on earth is anyone even supposed to remember that? And I’m betting the only reason Oda remembered is he’s got his outline wrote down. Which is why when it comes back up everyone is like ‘wtf did this come from?’
"Kaido won't go down to some ordinary punch."
I thought he should have won by permanently turning Kaido into rubber plush so literally even the weaklings of Wano could beat him up just for the disrespect.
Not denying outlines, but I think some think Oda has some kind of superpowers when it comes to his writing to have it all connect and make sense. Something that puts him massively above others in his field.
in the world of weekly manga standard story planning is a superpower. lol
I don't think he has super powers..I think he does something that I am fairly certain that 99% of people who produce Shows/Manga/Books don't do.
Never really thought that was a rarity in the industry.
And Akira Toriyama became a legend without doing that.
I am kind of convinced it is a Rarity in general, I've seen a bunch of really dumb shit that could be avoided if the writer was paying attention to what they wrote before.
Jesus, where we're at currently in the manga might take until episode 1170.
And the manga would probably still be in Egghead after its third month break in a year.
