Luffy's Next Power Up is HERE!

Mor said Luff is about to develop a regeneration. You know what? He's not the only one either because Luffy, he had a line in chapter 1,90 which sounds like it could be setting something like that up. Luffy said, "Heal, get better. Just a moment is all I need." Which is a desperate plea to himself. Almost as if he is willing, at least temporary, healing abilities into existence. And if this was any other series, you probably wouldn't take that idea seriously. It would just sound like the powerlessness of the defeated main character on the floor. But because Luffy can manifest his imagination and his desires, something like this is so far from impossible that we may even have to classify it as moderately possible. And it also wouldn't come completely out of nowhere either. To a very small degree, Luffy has always had the power to regenerate, although it's a mostly comical ability. Luffy and also Brooke actually have the power to literally regenerate their bones just by drinking milk. That's how Luffy restores all the teeth that he loses in tough fights and also how Brooke heals all of the cicks and cracks that he tanks apart from that one caused by Shuri stabbing him in the head. That is a plot relevant crack, so it cannot be healed so easily. And I know that it sounds a bit out there to try and predict serious healing abilities from this clear gag that Oda drew a handful of times. But as always, the great superpower of One Piece is that jokes are a very real power system. So you cannot readily dismiss any of them. It's also always been a bit of a question ever since Luffy first entered Gear Fifth. His body, it was broken by Kaido. Luffy said that he was dying and he was left in a state of pure defeat. And fans still argue to this day over whether or not Luffy may have actually, if only briefly, died in this moment before Gear Fifth was manifested. And suddenly Luffy's body. It's okay. That one's hard to explain because Luffy, he didn't have any food tweet. So there was no external recovery items there. So it must be that Gear Fifth has some temporary healing that comes as part of the cartoon power package. And whilst this is a lot clearer in the anime, Luffy did also restart his own heart against Kaido. Not that that's the first time we've seen that happen in One Piece either. As a god, NL did the same thing after he was hit with Wiper's rejectile. Still, the fact that Luffy had the willpower to restart his own heart, it is quite something. And it happened in response to Luffy telling it to happen. He said, "Hart, do this." And Hart said, "I I captain." Just like how he's telling his body to heal right now. Just for a moment. That's all I need, buddy. And look, I personally do not have Luffy's infinite imagination. So, what I see here is quite limited. However, right now, I have a hard time seeing Luffy recover in any way other than a gear fifth mechanism. There is no medicine advanced enough to treat these wounds. 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Because ever since we started to get to know the Holy Knights, I have repeatedly expressed a concern with them over the regeneration ability. I think that regeneration is an extremely dangerous thing to introduce into any story and in my opinion it makes characters like St. Summers and St. Killium artificially feel quite weak because in order to demonstrate their regeneration abilities they need to incur fatal or extreme damage whereas their opponents never take this kind of damage because they can't regenerate. So narratively they're not allowed to. But that has an effect on perception and it makes everyone look more powerful than killing them and summers by default. It's one of the many reasons why even in their souped-up omen forms, I don't think they feel like a true threat. But the classic example that I have stated before is when Usopp confronted Emu and both of them got blown up. This damage, it was strong enough that Emu had to regenerate. But apparently Usopp, who was also at the epicenter of the explosion, was just fine, which is ridiculous. It makes Usopp look more durable than Emu. And the reason why that is is because you can't just blow bits of Usopp up for fun. And it's one thing for that to happen to the antagonist for them to go, I'm regenerating. However, it has the potential to be a lot worse with our protagonist. If Luffy gains the power to regenerate and becomes a sort of margin boo kind of entity, then Oda, he's going to want to show it off because it's fun. And in that case, Luffy is going to start taking more and more damage and artificially looking weaker and weaker compared to his opponents who are not allowed to take that damage. But also, regeneration is quite dangerous because it does risk removing the tension in a dramatic fight. Because if we know that Luffy can regenerate then every hit he takes, it won't feel that hard. It'll be a lot harder to create the feeling of, oh, that Luffy, he's in trouble. Because we know that even fatal damage isn't a problem anymore. And to some degree, we already know that deep down because Luffy, he is the main character. He'll always end up just fine. But adding regeneration takes that meta knowledge and makes it inworld knowledge. And I do think that Oda would need to be very, very careful if he decided to take that path forward. What I would want to say is that the regeneration should be limited and have some pretty strict rules. That's what I want to say, but I also don't like that because it would go against the principles of the gear fifth. We're not supposed to have limitations. What does freedom even mean if we only have it under strict conditions? So, I don't know. It's a tricky thing to deal with, which is why I've got no idea where One Piece is going at the moment. However, I do think that is the best place to be because it means that next chapter I'm going to be surprised. When unlocking G5, Luffy said, "This is my peak." He then proceeded to become an emperor and acts like he's playing on easy mode because he beat Kaido. Up until that point, actually, he's been looking up at a goal. But when you beat the world's strongest creature, there isn't anywhere for you to go except to finish the pirate king quest and that other dream. Luffy is getting humbled here because he artificially placed a ceiling on himself and the world he lives in. that needs to be broken. Now, I love this and this is the sort of thing that I was getting at but didn't put anywhere near as eloquently. And I'm not sure if Oda meant it this way, but I do appreciate this comment. In the search for maximum freedom, Luffy may have put a limitation on himself by assuming that unlocking gear fifth is his peak and that gear fifth right out of the box is the most he can ever achieve. It's very counterintuitive, but I think it would be fair to say that Luffy hasn't really pushed gear fifth in the same way that he has the previous Gears yet. It's an extremely powerful ability that Luffy has mainly used to mess around in, which has worked up until now. However, due to feeling invincible, it's arguably left Luffy in a place of stagnation where he cannot ever become better than he already is because he believes he's already peaked. How high will his ceiling go? I don't know. As high as he decides to place it, which right now is about here. And here's a fun thing. It is no secret, no secret at all that Oda was heavily inspired by Dragon Ball. And I bring that up because there is an extremely relevant idea that Oda may be borrowing from because quite early on in the series, Goku's master, Master Roshi, he disguises himself and enters the World Martial Arts Tournament in order to ensure that Goku and Krillin do not win. And also Yamcha, I guess, but I'm going to read his explanation for this and just pay attention to the words because some of them may sound quite familiar. Goku with his what should I call it? Natural instinct, his potential is limitless. If one of those kids won the strongest under the heavens title, it would go straight to his head. He'd think he had nothing left to learn. But with a little humility and determination, I could turn both of them into the greatest fighters ever. And that is the space that Luffy occupies right now. It is not just gear fifth. It is the fact that he beat Kaido, who held the title of the world's strongest creature. Land, sea, or air, you always bet on Kaido. and Luffy beat him, which in the eyes of many would mean that Luffy has now taken the title of world's strongest creature. And it's not that Luffy's become arrogant in that sort of, you know, antagonistic sense because Luffy still is and has always been quite humble. But I do think that Luffy has become, let's say, a bit intoxicated with his own newfound freedom. and he needs this moment of being brought back down because that injection of humility and dedication is exactly what Luffy needs to evolve to go further and to become the best of the fight people, whatever he wants to be. Now, speaking of humility, I also need to address something from chapter 1,190, a mistake, something that was clarified by the official translation, actually. So, the TLDDR on this is that the fan translation of 1,190 came with the implication that Emu may have been a member of the crew of the original pirate king, if such a crew and king ever even existed, which is a problem that spawns from this series of panels. Emu says, "Oh, does thou art thou art still the pirate king's crew?" And then Scopa Gaban replies, "Is that what you think?" I could say the same to you. You know, however, this mistransation, I mean, it's not really a mistransation. It's more of a misattribution, I guess, because this bit of dialogue here, the is that what you think was assumed by fan translators to be Scopa Barn speaking. And to be very fair to them, I do see why. Because Oda doesn't have a clear part of the speech bubble pointing at Emu's face, which is universal visual manga language for this line of dialogue is being shouted by a voice offcreen when it's on screen. For example, in the panel preceding this one, we've got a bit of a huff huff and part of the bubble is very clearly being attributed, making it obvious that the noise is being made by Gaban. This is not the case with the other bit of dialogue. However, in the official translation, this line is being said by emu because it uses emu speech patterns. It says, "Thou art so determined to believe," which is definitely not how Scopa Gaban would be speaking. And I know this seems like a small mistake, so small. Why bother even pointing it out? Well, it's because this has a colossal impact on the implication of the entire conversation because now Scopa Gabban isn't replying to Emu, stating that he is still part of the pirate king's crew. Now, Gaban is replying to Emu's line about being determined to believe, which is referencing Luffy. Are you still so determined to believe that Luffy is the man that you've been waiting for? So, unfortunately, it looks like there's no implication here that Emu may have been part of any pirate crew. And it's a pretty bad mistake by the fan translation. Again, I do understand how and why it was made, but this is why we always, always, always read the official translation as well. Yes, some parts of it do sound a bit plunky, but it is the most accurate source of fictional pirate knowledge that we have in English. And speaking of and speaking in English, we have another thing to address. How is Gibban final attack translate in the English? I read the French translation and it's called la demilier, meaning horde of 8,000 warriors, which of course made me immediately think of Usopp and his army of 8,000 followers. I thought you'd be talking about it, but you don't. So, I guess the translation is different and maybe just a coincidence in French. So, I did actually mention this in the review video, not the comments video, but it is very interesting to see how different official translations have handled Gabban's attack name. And this is a situation where I very much agree with what the official English translation did, which was to do absolutely nothing and just keep the Japanese name. The viz translation is yachiaku which literally means 8,000 tribal warriors. And this is the sort of thing that I think should stay in Japanese because it just sounds clunky in English. There's no way to make it sound good. And it's the same sort of reasoning I have for very much not liking the Inorashi and Nekcomamushi are translated in English as dog storm and cat viper because it's fine. Sometimes it's just fine. You don't need to translate everything. And if you do want to go that layer deeper, then you can find out what the Japanese means. You can look it up yourself or you can watch videos of men on the internet explaining it to you. But actually, I do want to point this out. After looking it up, I should say that the official French translation also went with Yachi Takuru, which I believe is what the French would call labon decision, at least if they had an Australian accent. So, I think that this commenter must be referring to the French fan translation that made this decision, which always comes out before the English one. By the way, we are very, very slow compared to the French. And because I've gone down this rabbit hole now, I want to point out that the Spanish translation, I think they did a bit of a mistake because they also kept Yachiakuru. But unlike English and French, they do have a translation note at the bottom right hand side of the panel which translates Gaban's attack as leader deous which means leader of the 8,000 bone devourers. And what I think happened here is that the official Spanish mixed up the dialogue and thought that Gaban was also shouting hornami which in Japanese means bone devourer. And that is the attack that Emu is using against Gabban simultaneously. That's the thing that seems to have taken his arm off. And before I read what it said, I was going to use this to go on a bit of a rant about translators notes because there's this idea in the world that translation should not need or use these notes because if you got to use a note, then it means you translator have failed at translation. And there's also an argument that they break the immersion of the story, which I can I can kind of see. But sometimes there are things that you just cannot substantively translate and more context is required. But unfortunately, my argument for wanting to include these notes does fall a bit flat here because the one official translation that does include them got the note wrong and ends up being more confusing than having no note at all. Very immersionbreaking. Gracias Espanol. Dear man on the internet, what's your bench PR? The most recent one rep max I did is 95 kilos, which I've been told makes me an intermediate at the moment, but ask me again in 6 months or so. Does it bother anyone else that Frankie never hooks their friends up with prosthetic/replacement limbs? Kuros, Inorashi, Nekamushi, Kiku. Not saying give them weaponsgrade cyborg limbs, but something, man. Well, actually, I think it's quite funny that you say that because I think that Frankie may have helped out in at least one of those cases, which is with Necamushi. He lost his left arm against Jack, but when he showed up to Wano again with Marco and EO, that arm had a prosthetic gun attached to it. quite an advanced piece of technology as well, which isn't something that I can see the Minkx developing on their own or through Nekamushi's quest to find Marco and EO because none of them have that kind of weaponry tech experience. So, my personal theory has always been that Frankie was the one who created that prosthetic for Nekamushi whilst the Straw Hats were helping the rest of Zo recover. Especially because after the Sanji retrieval team go after Hawake Island, we have no idea what Frankie was doing. And it could be the same with Inuarashi's leg. although that was turned into a more basic sword. So my head cannon is that Frankie, he wants to help out in the best way he knows how. He sees missing limbs and so he asks both of them what they like most. Nekamomushi wants a gun, she wants another sword and Frankie quickly whips those up for them. However, it should be noted that these aren't permanent pieces of equipment because we do see that when not engaged in battle, Nekamomushi does choose to remove his gunarm. So, I think that Frankie has helped out a fair bit there. And sure, he could have done something for, say, Curus, but I don't know. Curus is the kind of guy who probably would have long since accepted and embraced his state. And having a prosthetic leg at his point may even put him off for whatever reason, make him weird and not able to fight cuz all he knows how to do is fight as a one-legged man. Now, however, as for Kiku, yeah, Frankie probably could have helped out there. But who knows? Kiku could show up to the final war with a cyborg arm that we were never told about, just like Nekcomamushi did to the raid. So, let's not underestimate the generosity of Mr. Frankie. Not a fan of Chopper, the forest god theory, but maybe being able to talk to all animals is more a forest god thing and less a reindeer thing. So, just as a brief recap of the forest god idea, the Harley text in the second world stated that the forest god tamed demons and that's sort of what Chopper has been doing on Elbaf. All he needs to do is aggressively caress a dummy reversed being and the demonic presence. It is expelled as if Chopper is some sort of super exorcist. There's a lot more to the idea than that that I'm not going to go into, but Chopper's devil fruit, it has always been a little bit strange. It doesn't function in the traditional way that a zoen fruit is supposed to. And then there's the fact that Chopper can talk to seemingly any animal that lives on land, which has now extended to Ragnar and probably Biblo in future chapters. And the logic for this has always been that Chopper is an animal himself. And so he has access to the animal languages, sort of like how Jinbe can communicate with sea life. He can't talk to everything, but he does seem to be able to understand most creatures that live in the ocean. And both of these are actually a storytelling trope known as speaks fluent animal. But there are questions here such as when Chopper ate the hitoonomi, he was suddenly able to speak human languages. However, whenever humans eat zoan fruit, they don't seem to be able to speak animal or even the very specific kinds of animals that they've become. And you would think that surely if Chopper eats a human fruit and can now speak human, then someone like Rob Luchcci can eat a leopard fruit and speak to leopards or maybe even the full suite of big cats. Actually, something that really annoyed me recently is that I learned that there is a scientific distinction between big cats and cats that are big. And despite both of those classifications, using the word big, it has very little to do with size. Anyway, I'm just here to say that Chopper's abilities, despite being similarly reflected by Jinbe and the rest of the fishermen and mermaids are quite inconsistent, and they always have been. So, sure, it could be because Chopper is another special Zoen user and maybe a forest god is among us, but it could also be because Zoda just wants to use Chopper the way he wants to and isn't keen on explaining any specifics in order to retain that narrative freedom. But I want you to let me know what you think about all of this in the comments below. And thank you so much again to Fume for sponsoring this video.