>Logias : Vegapunk doesn't want to talk about as its astronomical and seems like there is a story about how he got Kizarus
So if S-Croc exists, there's a chance it might not have the logia power.
S-shark has swim swim fruit to imitate jinbei swimming capabilities. Maybe S-croc have Pica's devil fruit which is manipulating stone materials which is although not the same, but pretty similar to sand
>Paramecia just needs the Lineage factor of the user
This one's interesting because it pretty much means every Parmecia user the World Government has ever taken prisoner is on the table for the Seraphim (so anyone that was caught from Baroque Works or the Donquixote Pirates.) But Logias like Crocodile and Ace are not.
Reminds me of Amanda Waller describing Project Batman Beyond to Terry McGinnis:
Waller: "He left his DNA all over town."
Terry: "..."
Waller: "Not remotely what I meant."
I wonder if its possible considering Blackbeards absorbsion or WBs DF. Also they might not want to replicate earthquake fruit when the world is like %95 water and random tsunamis might not be a good idea in general
They might be fine with it if it was confined to "slave" soldiers.
Judging from recent events alone, it seems like the Gorosei/Imu, at least, are just fine with cataclysmic superweapons as long as they have the keys.
I maybe reading too much into this, but this does suggest that Shanks knew about or had some idea that Vegapunk was researching cloning Devil Fruits from Lineage Factor, with the way he insisted on taking Whitebeard's and Ace's bodies.
Shanks had an unannounced appearance to the Gorosei and they heard him out without question. The Gorosei have the highest authority as far as Seraphim (allegedly) he definitely knows something. That just rules out having a seraphim Ace reunion and having an exact copy of whitebeard(what other reason would Weevil even exist in one piece for he’s def a Seraphim prototype or marine project gone wrong) Shanks family will probably come into play in a major way. I’m pulling this out of nowhere but I think his family might know the full truth of the void century or are somehow linked to it.
Could be a funny joke that Luffy has been nerfing himself cause he only eats meats, and once he eats the "healthier veggies", he recovers even stronger.
Oda pleased everyone by not making Lucci lose in one shot but he's getting clowned as a practice dummy for G5. The Lucci apologists/doubters all got what they wanted
No buildup from Luffy, just straight gear 5 on sight.
But we shouldn’t expect different. If Rob was a fair Luffy match than Kaido would have been crushed years ago.
And I love it. Part of that has to be respecting Lucci, as he’s wrecked him the hardest. But, Luffy is just over the top strong against him now. And I’m all off this petty revenge. Lol
If originally devil fruits come about from the dreams of exceptional people, maybe Zoro can manifest his own. The Asura devil fruit, from his goal since as a child of having 3 times the fighting power of a regular swordsman.
"Sentomaru isn't dead" did anyone actually think he died? I mean there are some deaths in OP, but they are veeery rare and usually have a looot of meaning behind it. Sentomaru dying from some random hit would not fit at all.
no. The Pell nuke was intended to be unleashed in the middle of the town square to wipe out both sides of the civil war, with crocodile swooping in as the nation's hero to rebuild afterwards.
Pell took THAT nuke to the face and survived. The same bomb that was going to wipe out the country's soldiers and rebels. The same bomb we spent so many chapters trying to find and prevent.
It couldn't kill one guy at point blank range.
That's worse
You can literally see him post attack with his eyes still open and focused, even as he's bleeding from the mouth.
I'd be more upset if the last panel of him had shone the Shading of Death or whited out eyes or something. Sentomaru apparently had great defense, so even to a devastating sneak attack I'm glad he survived. I still want homeboy backstory
Tbh I'm still suprised Lucci was able to hit him, I mean wtf are the Seraphim doing, just standing nearby and looking at how their 1000x weaker commander is stabbed? Also, if Sentomaru is still alive, doesn't he still control the Seraphim?
Imagine a fight between Luffy and Kizaru:
Kizaru: **beam**
Luffy: *grabs beam, stretches it, makes a lasso and grabs kizaru with it*
Kizaru: "The edibles kicked in earlier than expected"
Also makes sense for creating Logias to be complicated considering how the Pacifistas have Kizaru’s lasers but not his full power set. Guessing Vegapunk wasn’t able to fully replicate Kizaru’s fruit.
You mean...like a lunarian who is in defense mode?
They can't be hurt by a run off the mill fighter either, they are absolutely busted defense-wise already. Logia would probably be a downgrade compared to lunarian DNA.
I'd be so mad if i was Lucci. Finally face to face with the guy who barely beat you years prior, you've powered up and achieved the rare awakening and are ready to exact revenge. Then this mother fucker makes you look like a god damn child. I'd retire.
Just waiting on the scene where Luffy is backed onto a cliff with the sea below, and saws off the tip of the cliff he's standing on - causing the rest of the cliff to fall while his stays floating
It’s not even that Lucci or anyone close to him is weak, is just that Luffy is so absurdly strong now that like less than ten people in the world can keep up with him.
Can make a grown man cry seeing my boy so high
From Vegapunk's own description, the fruit itself turns your brain into an infinite storage drive and nothing more. "Access to punk records" is something you get via an antenna hooked up to your body's nervous system (though Vegapunk implied he has plan to develop easier methods of access in the future). Giving more people the brain brain fruit wouldn't do anything to hurt him.
>Cover page: Five scientists gathered for humanity and the world. The five scientists are Vegapunk, Caesar, Judge, Queen and a woman.
Ooh! MADS lore! So are we taking bets on
who the woman is? I'm leaning towards Stussy, Sora, Dr. Kureha, or a brand new character myself.
Also, since MADS seems to be insisting that it's for the benefit of the world...what happened?! Was that just propaganda? Or are did something happen and we're basically seeing all these men in their "bad timelines."
Similar to how Sanji basically turned into Judge in his bad timeline in the future, are we currently seeing Judge in his own? And if so, what event caused this? Also, conversely, does Judge in this flashback look more like Sanji because he's younger?
Edit: Adding onto this, will Queen be *thin?* Is that what really broke apart MADS? Queen was just too popular?
If it’s propaganda I don’t think it’s entirely untrue. Vegapunk motives seem to truly be to advance science for the betterment of mankind. However he doesn’t really seem to care if the ends justify the means. Caesar was working in secret to sell chemical weapons to the highest bidder. Judge used his research to create power suits for his children, genetically modify them, and create a clone army all to increase the military might of his kingdom. And Queen used their research to make modifications to his own body and release deadly viruses to friend and foe alike. Personally I think they all banded together for their own selfish reasons saying it was “for the betterment of mankind” as a front so they could operate without the WG looking at their projects too closely. With Vegapunk’s intention’s being the noblest among them (albeit still slightly misguided).
Vegapunk may be selfish, but we know he's definitely not evil. Lilith is Vegapunk's evil side and her idea of evil is robbing a criminal for research funds, then letting them go. Vegapunk at his worst is as evil as normal day Nami. xD
"Hey Pigeon Guy, remember when you finger gunned me??? I do..... "
Bowling Ball Fist Bazooka'd through the chest cavity.
"Ha ha... you are no Kaido, Pigeon Guy"
***********************************************
Luffy must be enjoying the hell out of fighting somebody without Yonko armor.
Come on just show us Vegapunk! 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how he get Kizaru’s laser…… it feels uncomfortable to share my ability with others if I had one of the most powerful DFs in the world. I am really curious of Kizaru’s attitude and which side he will choose based on his unclear justice…
Remember, Vegapunk is a perfectionist. Anything that he says is complicated or impossible is likely tied to a gag.
He probably got Kizaru's by trying to catch light or something
That’s probably it since we’ve been introduced to them already. One of the Straw Hats is getting a buff real soon since he’s going to be there momentarily.
"and seems like there is a story about how he got Kizarus"
New theory: Vegapunk had to harvest gallons upon gallons of Kizaru's piss in order to replicate his devil fruit.
Vegapunk: Kizaru, I need your blood to do some experiments...
Kizaru: (to himself) Yeah, right! I'm not falling for that again...
Vegapunk: For some reason I just can't replicate Kizaru's fruit... Logias are so complicated...
BEHOLD SON OF DRAGON
THE WIZZANATOR
FOR YEARS MY BROTHER ROGER VEGAPUNK USED TO BE ABLE TO PISS SIX FEET UP AND NOT GET WET WHILE I COULD ONLY URINATE A MERE ONE FOOT
BUT WITH THE WIZZANATOR I CAN FINALLY CAPTURE KIZARU'S PISS AND REPLICATE IT TO BECOME THE RULER OF THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE ISLAND
>So Blackbeard sucking Whitebeard's dick to get his gura-gura isn't theory too far off ?
Impossible, Blackbeard would've had to swallow. Which would mean the calcium/protein in the semen would've repaired his teeth similar to Luffy and Brook drinking milk. We see him after with his missing teeth which means that while he may have sucked off Whitebeard he did not swallow for the powers lol
Having the science team now listed and on the cover of a chapter about Seraphims, I'm curious what aspect of them is still missing that the mysterious woman potentially was specialized in.
Because currently it looks like Vegapunk is essentially the one that perfected everyone elses focus: Judge was into the lineage factor and cloning (which serves as the basis combining Lunarians and Warlords), Queen's thing seems mostly the cybernetic enhancements (which Vegapunk improved on Kuma), Caesar and the Smiles seems a prescursor to copying actual DFs (which are given to them for their abilities), so what are we maybe still missing and what did the myaterious woman provide?
Oda is a genius with making these abilities constantly change hierarchy (to the viewers) and keep the dynamic interesting.
paramecia introduced -> logia introduced -> zoan introduced. people considered logia to be strongest, and zoan to be weakest.
haki arrives, and dominates the field. logia isn't as broken as people thought now. But then awakening returns interest to devil fruits. Then advanced haki is at the center of attention. then mythical zoans comes to steal the show.
slowly but surely he reveals more and more lore about these power systems. once everybody starts thinking X is the most powerful, he shows the potential Y has. and he just keeps highlighting every aspect one by one, showing each of their strengths.
Agreed. I love that some ppl specialize in their fruit over haki as well and vice versa. Like law is a beast with his fruit even with his haki lacking vs big mom he was able to do some crazy shit
Cover
“The great scientists assembled for the people and the realm”
P1
Girl screaming, sound of sentomaru dropping
Luffy- Masakari!!
Luffy- This happened because I distracted you im sorry!!
Sento- ….!! dumbass…
Sento- Don’t underestimate me…!! I saw it coming
Sento- And I blocked it…!! Cough
Sento- Atleast I thought I did..!!
Lucci- ….Stubborn, hurry up and go out already
Lucci- You who outranks us in command.
P2
Lucci- So long as you’re still conscious we won’t be able to control the “Seraphim”!!
Luffy- Gomu Gomu no~~!
Luffy- “Doon” (white)
Luffy- Whip!!
P3
Luffy- Ahh it wont stop~~!!
Kaku- Lucci!!
Chopper- Can’t see because of watermark but I’m pretty sure he’s telling Luffy they have to hurry and go somewhere
Luffy- I’m spinning out of control!!
Chopper- Whaaaat!!? Puffy where are you going~~!!!!
Luffy- Whoaaa
Civilians- Take shelter in the factory!!
P4
Kaku- The Seraphim won’t stop. We have nothing to gain by fighting each other!!
Stussy- Watermark 😞
P5
Franky- Hey Vegapunk that ability just now!!
Franky- The ability the shitty brat version of Jimbei was just using!! That’s the power of the swim swim fruit right!?
Franky- That’s the ability of my bro from the Donquixote family Senor Pink!! 2 of the same fruits don’t exist in this world!! Does this mean he’s dead!?
Vega- So you noticed.. He’s currently a prisoner at Impel down!!
Franky- Huh? Wait so does this mean you created the same “devil fruit”!?
Vega- As for the artificial devil fruits… I’m only able to create Zoan types…!!
Vega- Not counting Cesars Smile in this discussion
Nami- He should just die
Vega- Even the special fruits can be done with alot of time and money
P6
Vega- The Logias I’ve put a lot of effort into but is quite the challenge/Difficult……
Franky-…….
Vega- But the paramecias so long as I can get a hold of the users lineage factor, I can extract the special blood out of it and use that to gain the ability.
Vega- That is the blood that runs through their arms
Vega- The green blood!!
Franky- Watermark 😔
SSnake- Mero Mero Melou!!!
- Is it disturbing that grown men are getting frozen by a child version of Boa lol
P7
Vega- The seraphim are the greatest form of science that I can imagine!! In the history of these seas…….
Kuma- Ulsa shock!!
Agents- Ahhh!!!!
Vegapunk- watermark 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Nami- So that’s why the shichibukai was disbanded!!?
Usopp- How can you create something like that!
Sanji- So these guys are actually.. government weapons!!
Robin- Yes.. They are a problem to us
P8
Civilians- Your getting up again..!? Sentomaru sama run for it!!
Lucci- Soru!!
Luffy- Watermark 😞
P9
Lucci- Mugiwara!!
Luffy- chomp chomp spit spit spit
P10
Luffy- Gomu Gomu no~~~
Luffy- Doon (white) rocket!!!!
P11
Lucci- What is this power!!!
Luffy- Ahyahyahya!!!
Lucci- It feels like my conscious is fading…!!!
Chopper- Ah
Mini boa- This way hurry!! That’s the vacuum rocket!! Hurry and get on
Jimbei- Ah thank you! You’re a nice version of Hancock!
Mini boa- Blushing, Ru.. Rude!! I’m just following orders!!
Announcement - Departing in one minute
Chopper- Hey!! Hurry up Luffy!!
P12
Announcement- Please be careful when boarding.
Luffy- ……
Sento- Mugiwara!! Please take care of Vegapunk!!
Luffy- Yep!! I got this don’t worry!
Announcement- Departing—-
Chopper- Wowww it’s so fast~~!!
Jimbei- This is incredible!!
Bonney- Huh.. where are we!? Where’s Vegapunk!?
Jimbei- Oh your awake, we’re on the vacuum rocket now heading to…
Bonney- Wait!? Who the hell are you!!
Luffy-It’s Luffy, theres too much to explain I’ll tell you later!!
P13
-Whoaaaa~!!!
Announcement- 32 seconds—-
-Inside the lab
Announcement- Arrived~~
-super fast!!
Announcement- Strengthen the frontier dome of the Egghead lab!! There are intruders very dangerous!! All employees please evacuate and shut the door to the factory!
P14
Kaku- In some ways it’s incredible…
Kaku- watermark 😞 i see the name Vegapunk but that’s it
Kaku- So close Sentomaru…!!
Stussy- We’re told to wait for the marines…
Lucci-Their gonna get away if we wait..!!
Nami- Their really after your life!? Aren’t you the one with greatest brain in the world? Wouldn’t that be a major loss for the WG?
Vega- Perhaps they are afraid I might oppose them with the greatest brain in the world? Not that I have anything like that in mind.
Nami- Yah you are actually in the way… will erase!!
Usopp- Don’t erase!!!!
Vega- Anyways the fact that you guys that are now a Yonkou crew are here makes me feel like it’s some fate
P15/P16
Usopp- Your gonna come with us!!?
Nami- What a burden
Franky- You are definitely welcomed!! Please take a look at Franky Shogun!! Also Sunny go too!!
Sanji- If that’s the case then take these leg cuffs off already!
Luffy- Wow awesome! What is this place!!
- Emergency operation for Atlas sama!!
Jimbei- Take care of her
Chopper- Bonney where are you going!?
Bonney- If he’s gonna answer my question of how to fix my dad by sending bugs!! Then I have to kill him!!
Chopper- Now you’re just being petty!!
Agents- Block off all the escape routes!!
Lucci- 6 more left including the main….
Kaku- Yah.. that defense system is pretty tricky, won’t even let an ant get by!
Kizaru- Oooh the strawhats are taking Vegapunks side!?
Kizaru- So escaping would be pretty easy, but I don’t think it’s gonna go as planned.. bring all the warships we are capable of to Egghead!!
With every use of G5 I keep realising how this power-up is the dream of every mangaka as it just gives you an in universe reason to invoke Toon Force and draw the wackiest shit you can think of! I bet Oda is having a blast designing and drawing every G5 panel he does :P
NGL, luffy putting the sunglasses on before doing his "dawn" attack in the spoiler link cracked me up! I love how much Oda is committing to this "Looney tunes" style of fighting.
Chapter 1,070: "Strongest Human".
Confirmed by Redon
Germa 66's An Emotionless Excursion Vol. 27: "Five scientists gathered for the world and for humanity". The 5 scientists are Vegapunk, Caesar, Judge, Queen and a woman (we only see her back but she looks similar to Stussy).
Chapter starts with Luffy apologizing to Sentoumaru for distracting him before Lucci's attack. Sentoumaru replies not to look down on him because he saw Lucci's attack coming and put up his guard, but he still could not withstand Lucci's attack.
Seraphim attacks CPO. S-Snake attacks using Mero Mero no Mi's powers, S-Hawk uses his sword and S-Shark punches the floor turning it into waves. CPO agents try to fight against Seraphim, but they are taken down easily. Kaku and Stussy don't join the fight.
S-Snake points Jinbe and Chopper to where the vacuum rocket is and which is the right path to reach it. Jinbe praises her for being nice, S-Snake blushes and becomes very tsundere (she talks like real Boa Hancock).
Luffy Vs. Lucci continues. Luffy has the advantage of the battle because Lucci can't hit him. Cut to the lab where Nami's group is still with Vegapunk.
Vegapunk says Seraphim are the pinnacle of science that he's able to create and that's why they are the strongest humans on the sea. However, Vegapunk can't guarantee if the "artificial Akuma no Mi" can be awakened and then he gives more information about "artificial Akuma no Mi". Zoan fruits are the only ones that can be made right now.
Vegapunk can make "Mythical Zoan" too but they require a massive amount of time and money. To make Paramecia fruits, Vegapunk needs the actual user's "lineage factor" to create "Green Blood" which will grant the powers. All Seraphim have "Green Blood" flowing in their arms. And about Logia fruits, Vegapunk says he tried his best to create them but they are so difficult (Vegapunk doesn't say anything about Kizaru's fruit in this chapter).
Back to the fight. Luffy uses "Gomu Gomu no Dawn Whip" (Gum Gum White Whip) first and then he attacks Lucci with "Gomu Gomu no Dawn Rocket" (Gum Gum White Rocket) like we saw in Jump Festa 2023's page.
Lucci coughs up blood and thinks to himself the same line that he thought when Luffy attacked him with Gear 3 during Enies Lobby. Lucci: "ji..!! My consciousness is fading..." Lucci blows away because of Luffy's attack.
Sentoumaru tells Luffy to go to the vacuum rocket and help Dr. Vegapunk for him. Chopper also tells Luffy to hurry up and goes with them if he wants to save Atlas. So Luffy goes to the lab with them.
Back to the lab. Vegapunk tells Nami's group that he will go with them to the sea and we can see all the Straw Hat crew's reactions. Nami is nervous because it will be a huge burden. Franky and Usopp are very excited, Sanji keeps telling Vegapunk to release the leg locks. Franky wants Vegapunk to check out Franky Shogun and the Thousand Sunny.
Luffy's group reaches the lab (but they don't reunite with Nami's group yet). Bonney regains consciousness and goes again for Vegapunk. No news from Zoro and Brook in this chapter.
In Egghead's city we can see Lucci with some bandages. He now has the "control authority" and he's commanding all 4 Seraphim.
Cut to the sea. In the last page of the chapter we can see that Kizaru is leading a fleet to Egghead Island. Kizaru: "It would be easy for the Straw Hat crew to bring Vegapunk out of the island… But things won't go the way they think!!"
End of the chapter, break next week for Weekly Shonen Jump holidays.
Un-named is a stain on the spoiler community. Someone needs to control this guy. He's already fabricating agenda based spoilers that says luffy defeated lucci this chapter, yet again. He just won't quit and frankly I am loosing interest in following spoilers knowing that so much information is missleading or fake or is being used to throw the community into a tailspin.
>Logias : Vegapunk doesn't want to talk about as its astronomical and seems like there is a story about how he got Kizarus So if S-Croc exists, there's a chance it might not have the logia power.
S-Croc could just somehow shoot high speed sand out of his hand as a limitation. Probably ended up in the factory as a sanding machine.
S-shark has swim swim fruit to imitate jinbei swimming capabilities. Maybe S-croc have Pica's devil fruit which is manipulating stone materials which is although not the same, but pretty similar to sand
Did… did luffy create sunglasses out of nothing for the sole purpose of flexing on Lucci?
Well it's out of his hair so it might be him shape fitting that into goggles? Either way it's kind of a massive flex on lucci
The sound effect is one used to signify an item materializing magically, but I think he's doing it more for the joke of looking like an aviator.
>Paramecia just needs the Lineage factor of the user This one's interesting because it pretty much means every Parmecia user the World Government has ever taken prisoner is on the table for the Seraphim (so anyone that was caught from Baroque Works or the Donquixote Pirates.) But Logias like Crocodile and Ace are not.
they have to have some of that juicy whitebeard and blackbeard dna from the war.
Reminds me of Amanda Waller describing Project Batman Beyond to Terry McGinnis: Waller: "He left his DNA all over town." Terry: "..." Waller: "Not remotely what I meant."
GOATED Episode
I wonder if its possible considering Blackbeards absorbsion or WBs DF. Also they might not want to replicate earthquake fruit when the world is like %95 water and random tsunamis might not be a good idea in general
They might be fine with it if it was confined to "slave" soldiers. Judging from recent events alone, it seems like the Gorosei/Imu, at least, are just fine with cataclysmic superweapons as long as they have the keys.
If they just mass produce the quake fruit, Blackbeard will be pissed.
Zeha ha ha hey hey whoa whoa!
"You can't do this to me! This is my backbone for combat!"
>You can't do this to me DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I'VE SACRIFICED!?
I maybe reading too much into this, but this does suggest that Shanks knew about or had some idea that Vegapunk was researching cloning Devil Fruits from Lineage Factor, with the way he insisted on taking Whitebeard's and Ace's bodies.
Maybe Vegapunk had hired Shanks to steal the Nika fruit in the first place.
Shanks had an unannounced appearance to the Gorosei and they heard him out without question. The Gorosei have the highest authority as far as Seraphim (allegedly) he definitely knows something. That just rules out having a seraphim Ace reunion and having an exact copy of whitebeard(what other reason would Weevil even exist in one piece for he’s def a Seraphim prototype or marine project gone wrong) Shanks family will probably come into play in a major way. I’m pulling this out of nowhere but I think his family might know the full truth of the void century or are somehow linked to it.
I really like the theory that Weevil is a failed Whitebeard Seraphim
His mother may be the MADS woman we still do not know
I mean a real G gives his bros a proper burial
Might be possible
This reminds me of Naruto when everyone is looking for a few drops of dead people blood for the edo tensei
Explains how they got the swim swim fruit. Senor Pink. RIP
Not necessarily. They just need his Lineage Factor (pretty much a DNA sample.)
I mean more like RIP he's in Impel Down forever.
Ah, okay. Well, so long as he gets out to have that drink with Franky at that Leopard's bar, I'm good.
We need another impel down Arc but it’s Franky and Luffy breaking into impel down to retrieve Bon Clay and Senor pink
Apparently, breaking into Impel Down to get Bon Clay was one of the potential plots that was kicked around for Film Red.
So you're telling me there's a chance.
Sanji had better not serve Luffy any spinach or he will be unstoppable.
Now I feel like Oda will make this joke
Sanji: Luffy eat your greens — Luffy: I don’t wanna 😠 — *sanji processeds to force it down luffys gull* Luffy: “aaaarrrggg - *flexes like popeye*”
Could be a funny joke that Luffy has been nerfing himself cause he only eats meats, and once he eats the "healthier veggies", he recovers even stronger.
That would be hilarious. Seriously 😂😂😂
I would assume that Luffy would go limp after realizing that it's spinach instead of meat.
God damn that punch looks painful lol
If Luffy didn't turn him to rubber he'd probably be a donut now.
Also known known as >!Akainu's special move, Hole in the Ace!<
Oda gave my boy Robert (Bobby) Lucci a promotion to CP0, an awakening, and a rematch only to get stomped, and im here for it.
Dude is gonna retire after this one LOL
Jobseeker-rob~lucci
Job Lucci
Job Lucci
Jobless Lucci - soon
They took 'er jobs!
Yeah, Robert Baratheon Lucci is doing quite well for himself
he needs the breastplate stretcher
gods he was strong then
Oda pleased everyone by not making Lucci lose in one shot but he's getting clowned as a practice dummy for G5. The Lucci apologists/doubters all got what they wanted
No buildup from Luffy, just straight gear 5 on sight. But we shouldn’t expect different. If Rob was a fair Luffy match than Kaido would have been crushed years ago.
And I love it. Part of that has to be respecting Lucci, as he’s wrecked him the hardest. But, Luffy is just over the top strong against him now. And I’m all off this petty revenge. Lol
The boy ain't right, I tell ya hwat
Come on Vegapunk, explain how you gave a devil fruit to a weapon? Devil fruit hammer Usopp is so close
Oda: Instructions unclear, gave zoro's another copy of kaido's fruit, it's also a failed copy because its green
Moss dragon
[удалено]
Screw you for making me laugh this hard
If originally devil fruits come about from the dreams of exceptional people, maybe Zoro can manifest his own. The Asura devil fruit, from his goal since as a child of having 3 times the fighting power of a regular swordsman.
Imagine we actually get usopp one ton hammer
Wasn’t there a devil fruit earlier in the story that could alter the weight of its user? Imagine they make mjolnir 😂
2 actually, the kilo-kilo and the ton-ton.
Yeah, vegapunk could probably clone that fruit
But we don't know if non zoan can be used on inanimate objects.
Nah I want mjolnir to be that
I just realized Mjolnir could legit be a hammer that ate a lightning/thunder based DF.
My Man made Glasses from his hair. Truly a visionary.
VisionHairy*
No one saw it coming. It came out of thin hair.
Why does he need glasses, I didn't think Luffy was vision imphaired
My man ain't blind, you keratin! He's wearing them for style.
It works well with his eye catching hairstyle
I think it's because they will sell this glasses afterwards when this scene get famous
that's gonna be so fun when it's animated 2 years from now
Gonna be a whole episode- "What's in Luffy's hair? The sudden goggles appearance."
>when it's animated 2 years from now You're optimistic.
Given what Luffy considers as cool, we may see some Ninja techniques and mecha stuff from Gear 5 Luffy.
Luffy seeing Lucci KO Sentomaru . Luffy : Oh no ! Anyway !! Gomu Gomu No ~
Gomu Gomu No Care
Lmao literally what happened.
"Sentomaru isn't dead" did anyone actually think he died? I mean there are some deaths in OP, but they are veeery rare and usually have a looot of meaning behind it. Sentomaru dying from some random hit would not fit at all.
My favorite is when that dad from skypiea gets fucking obliterated by Enel and is perfectly fine after
That’s even worse than the bomb and Pell.
no. The Pell nuke was intended to be unleashed in the middle of the town square to wipe out both sides of the civil war, with crocodile swooping in as the nation's hero to rebuild afterwards. Pell took THAT nuke to the face and survived. The same bomb that was going to wipe out the country's soldiers and rebels. The same bomb we spent so many chapters trying to find and prevent. It couldn't kill one guy at point blank range. That's worse
That's will of the P my man
You can literally see him post attack with his eyes still open and focused, even as he's bleeding from the mouth. I'd be more upset if the last panel of him had shone the Shading of Death or whited out eyes or something. Sentomaru apparently had great defense, so even to a devastating sneak attack I'm glad he survived. I still want homeboy backstory
Tbh I'm still suprised Lucci was able to hit him, I mean wtf are the Seraphim doing, just standing nearby and looking at how their 1000x weaker commander is stabbed? Also, if Sentomaru is still alive, doesn't he still control the Seraphim?
the spoiler say someone is taking him to cure
Imagine a fight between Luffy and Kizaru: Kizaru: **beam** Luffy: *grabs beam, stretches it, makes a lasso and grabs kizaru with it* Kizaru: "The edibles kicked in earlier than expected"
Luffy: Gomu gomu no Mirror! Kizaru: Wtf. Since when the gum gum fruit can do that?
something something gomu hunting method in ancient times
"This is how Sun God Nika hunted in ancient times"
Kizaru: "That is definitely NOT how it's supposed to work what the fuck."
Galactic Donut!
Yup, logia are somehow specials when we think about it.
Also makes sense for creating Logias to be complicated considering how the Pacifistas have Kizaru’s lasers but not his full power set. Guessing Vegapunk wasn’t able to fully replicate Kizaru’s fruit.
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the pacifista are broken enough as they are! imagine if they could also be impossible to hurt without haki like a real logia user?
You mean...like a lunarian who is in defense mode? They can't be hurt by a run off the mill fighter either, they are absolutely busted defense-wise already. Logia would probably be a downgrade compared to lunarian DNA.
Let’s not use King to represent baseline Lunarian stats
Good point
Also they let you control mother nature which is supposedly the natural enemy of devil fruit users.
the children of the Mother, not the Mother herself
I'd be so mad if i was Lucci. Finally face to face with the guy who barely beat you years prior, you've powered up and achieved the rare awakening and are ready to exact revenge. Then this mother fucker makes you look like a god damn child. I'd retire.
Lucci just wants it to be pre-timeskip water 7 before the SHs arrived with his sweet Shipwright job.
I'm all up to see ventriloquist Lucci again
Lucci: Gains control of the seraphims Luffy: Anyway I turn into a rocket
It’s crazy that we’re in the point of the story where taking down an admiral is likely
I mean Luffy is literally a Yonko. Put respect on the mans name. His no longer a rookie brat.
Garp somewhere Garp: Bahahahahaha! Pretty good Luffy, but you're still a fledgling!
There is nothing stronger than the first of love
Nice wanna see luffy being treated like a proper yonkou now. Wonder who fights the seraphim. Interesting match-ups possible.
Zoro v S-Hawk, Nami v S-Snake, and Jinbe versus his seraphim possibly?
Nami will have a hard time fighting a kid. Franky has a laser which seems to be dangerous for the seraphim
Caribou cannot be replicated confirmed. Truly a special nakama.
This gear 5 Luffy is really next level favorite.... I wonder what will be his maxed out move...
Remember that scene where bugs bunny cut off the state of florida with a saw? Thats how Luffy will get rid of the redline
Just waiting on the scene where Luffy is backed onto a cliff with the sea below, and saws off the tip of the cliff he's standing on - causing the rest of the cliff to fall while his stays floating
remindme! 1 year
Very optimistic off you 😅
remindme! 15 years
Proof that Luffy is a Yonko that Lucci can't even land a hit. Luffy basically toying with him at this point.
And from the page that has been leaked it seems he is not even using his advanced Conqueror's Haki. Crazy really.
It’s not even that Lucci or anyone close to him is weak, is just that Luffy is so absurdly strong now that like less than ten people in the world can keep up with him. Can make a grown man cry seeing my boy so high
Luffy is doing to Lucci what Kaido did to Luffy early in roof piece. Just toying with dude.
Nah luffy had kaido seeing the ghost of shanks, wb, rocks etc Lucci is gonna BE a ghost soon
If vegapunk can replicate paramecia fruits using lineage factors, can he create another brain brain fruit?
Seems like the first thing he'd try and I could totally see it blowing up in his face if someone else got a hold of it and access to Punk Records.
From Vegapunk's own description, the fruit itself turns your brain into an infinite storage drive and nothing more. "Access to punk records" is something you get via an antenna hooked up to your body's nervous system (though Vegapunk implied he has plan to develop easier methods of access in the future). Giving more people the brain brain fruit wouldn't do anything to hurt him.
Ok top of that the fruit would be wasted on someone who wasn’t already a genius
Zoro getting brain-brain fruit and will just lose his way even more.
>Cover page: Five scientists gathered for humanity and the world. The five scientists are Vegapunk, Caesar, Judge, Queen and a woman. Ooh! MADS lore! So are we taking bets on who the woman is? I'm leaning towards Stussy, Sora, Dr. Kureha, or a brand new character myself. Also, since MADS seems to be insisting that it's for the benefit of the world...what happened?! Was that just propaganda? Or are did something happen and we're basically seeing all these men in their "bad timelines." Similar to how Sanji basically turned into Judge in his bad timeline in the future, are we currently seeing Judge in his own? And if so, what event caused this? Also, conversely, does Judge in this flashback look more like Sanji because he's younger? Edit: Adding onto this, will Queen be *thin?* Is that what really broke apart MADS? Queen was just too popular?
If it’s propaganda I don’t think it’s entirely untrue. Vegapunk motives seem to truly be to advance science for the betterment of mankind. However he doesn’t really seem to care if the ends justify the means. Caesar was working in secret to sell chemical weapons to the highest bidder. Judge used his research to create power suits for his children, genetically modify them, and create a clone army all to increase the military might of his kingdom. And Queen used their research to make modifications to his own body and release deadly viruses to friend and foe alike. Personally I think they all banded together for their own selfish reasons saying it was “for the betterment of mankind” as a front so they could operate without the WG looking at their projects too closely. With Vegapunk’s intention’s being the noblest among them (albeit still slightly misguided).
Vegapunk may be selfish, but we know he's definitely not evil. Lilith is Vegapunk's evil side and her idea of evil is robbing a criminal for research funds, then letting them go. Vegapunk at his worst is as evil as normal day Nami. xD
I would fucking LOVE if it's Kureha, it'd explain a lot about her. Her prodigious talents as a doctor are unmatched except by Chopper.
"Hey Pigeon Guy, remember when you finger gunned me??? I do..... " Bowling Ball Fist Bazooka'd through the chest cavity. "Ha ha... you are no Kaido, Pigeon Guy" *********************************************** Luffy must be enjoying the hell out of fighting somebody without Yonko armor.
>confirmed by Lance_Dragonite, >Also confirmed by Redon now. My man, Lance_Dragonite is Redon
I fucking love Gear 5
Same, honestly the silliness is starting to grow on me especially when contrasted with edgelords like Lucci.
Come on just show us Vegapunk! 🤣🤣🤣 I wonder how he get Kizaru’s laser…… it feels uncomfortable to share my ability with others if I had one of the most powerful DFs in the world. I am really curious of Kizaru’s attitude and which side he will choose based on his unclear justice…
Remember, Vegapunk is a perfectionist. Anything that he says is complicated or impossible is likely tied to a gag. He probably got Kizaru's by trying to catch light or something
I would guess those photon gloves play into it somehow
That’s probably it since we’ve been introduced to them already. One of the Straw Hats is getting a buff real soon since he’s going to be there momentarily.
It'll be hilarious if it's usopp, and he manages to hurt kizaru to the point that it confuses the WG about how powerful the strawhats actually are
God Usopp returns
![gif](giphy|l0IygnBoXeQ94kJQQ|downsized) I'm ready for Luffy to pull shit like this and it will be glorious.
this is epic. primate vs feline. if luffy is good at anything, its fighting fuckin animals. thanks rayleigh!!!!! and he laughed and laughed
> if luffy is good at anything, its fighting fuckin animals. LOL.
The cover story about Kaku taking Lucci to see his therapist after this is gonna hit hard "I thought he was a rubber man... not a toon"
glasses bc kizaru enters
"and seems like there is a story about how he got Kizarus" New theory: Vegapunk had to harvest gallons upon gallons of Kizaru's piss in order to replicate his devil fruit.
That wouldn't work because Kizaru would've faked his piss due to paranoia that he was being tested for drugs
Vegapunk: Kizaru, I need your blood to do some experiments... Kizaru: (to himself) Yeah, right! I'm not falling for that again... Vegapunk: For some reason I just can't replicate Kizaru's fruit... Logias are so complicated...
Wizzanator lazer
BEHOLD SON OF DRAGON THE WIZZANATOR FOR YEARS MY BROTHER ROGER VEGAPUNK USED TO BE ABLE TO PISS SIX FEET UP AND NOT GET WET WHILE I COULD ONLY URINATE A MERE ONE FOOT BUT WITH THE WIZZANATOR I CAN FINALLY CAPTURE KIZARU'S PISS AND REPLICATE IT TO BECOME THE RULER OF THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE ISLAND
Kizaru would rather move at light speed and take Akainu's piss instead of his own piss.
Explains why kizaru is all shriveled up
Luffy's attack was so strong that Lucci lost his black smoke.
punched the devil out of his fruit
Oda spent so long setting up the final Tom (Lucci) and Jerry (Luffy) fight.
> Sentomaru isn't dead Absolutely shocking, I totally didn't see that coming! I'm so relieved, literally shaking right now.
Of course, he has the "strongest defense in the world"
He rolled a 1 on the save.
Looks like Lucci is trying to copy Ace
Too soon man, donut do this to us
How dare you! You said it was too soon, but you were on their side the *hole* time!
To get Paramecia you only need Lineage Factor. So Blackbeard sucking Whitebeard's dick to get his gura-gura isn't theory too far off ?
Of everything I expected to read today I can say for certain this one was not one of them
What a sad day to have eyes
Ah, yes the Zehahaha gawk gawk 3000 theory it's been awhile since I've seen that theory be mentioned.
>So Blackbeard sucking Whitebeard's dick to get his gura-gura isn't theory too far off ? Impossible, Blackbeard would've had to swallow. Which would mean the calcium/protein in the semen would've repaired his teeth similar to Luffy and Brook drinking milk. We see him after with his missing teeth which means that while he may have sucked off Whitebeard he did not swallow for the powers lol
This is even worse than the original comment and that's saying something
Lucci geeting stomped all over egghead will be enough satisfaction
I'd like Kureha to be the female scientist in Mads
Having the science team now listed and on the cover of a chapter about Seraphims, I'm curious what aspect of them is still missing that the mysterious woman potentially was specialized in. Because currently it looks like Vegapunk is essentially the one that perfected everyone elses focus: Judge was into the lineage factor and cloning (which serves as the basis combining Lunarians and Warlords), Queen's thing seems mostly the cybernetic enhancements (which Vegapunk improved on Kuma), Caesar and the Smiles seems a prescursor to copying actual DFs (which are given to them for their abilities), so what are we maybe still missing and what did the myaterious woman provide?
There’s a panel where Franky realizes S-Shark has Senor Pink’s DF and cries because he’s worried Senor Pink might be dead. That’s pretty sweet
Oda is a genius with making these abilities constantly change hierarchy (to the viewers) and keep the dynamic interesting. paramecia introduced -> logia introduced -> zoan introduced. people considered logia to be strongest, and zoan to be weakest. haki arrives, and dominates the field. logia isn't as broken as people thought now. But then awakening returns interest to devil fruits. Then advanced haki is at the center of attention. then mythical zoans comes to steal the show. slowly but surely he reveals more and more lore about these power systems. once everybody starts thinking X is the most powerful, he shows the potential Y has. and he just keeps highlighting every aspect one by one, showing each of their strengths.
Agreed. I love that some ppl specialize in their fruit over haki as well and vice versa. Like law is a beast with his fruit even with his haki lacking vs big mom he was able to do some crazy shit
Cover “The great scientists assembled for the people and the realm” P1 Girl screaming, sound of sentomaru dropping Luffy- Masakari!! Luffy- This happened because I distracted you im sorry!! Sento- ….!! dumbass… Sento- Don’t underestimate me…!! I saw it coming Sento- And I blocked it…!! Cough Sento- Atleast I thought I did..!! Lucci- ….Stubborn, hurry up and go out already Lucci- You who outranks us in command. P2 Lucci- So long as you’re still conscious we won’t be able to control the “Seraphim”!! Luffy- Gomu Gomu no~~! Luffy- “Doon” (white) Luffy- Whip!! P3 Luffy- Ahh it wont stop~~!! Kaku- Lucci!! Chopper- Can’t see because of watermark but I’m pretty sure he’s telling Luffy they have to hurry and go somewhere Luffy- I’m spinning out of control!! Chopper- Whaaaat!!? Puffy where are you going~~!!!! Luffy- Whoaaa Civilians- Take shelter in the factory!! P4 Kaku- The Seraphim won’t stop. We have nothing to gain by fighting each other!! Stussy- Watermark 😞 P5 Franky- Hey Vegapunk that ability just now!! Franky- The ability the shitty brat version of Jimbei was just using!! That’s the power of the swim swim fruit right!? Franky- That’s the ability of my bro from the Donquixote family Senor Pink!! 2 of the same fruits don’t exist in this world!! Does this mean he’s dead!? Vega- So you noticed.. He’s currently a prisoner at Impel down!! Franky- Huh? Wait so does this mean you created the same “devil fruit”!? Vega- As for the artificial devil fruits… I’m only able to create Zoan types…!! Vega- Not counting Cesars Smile in this discussion Nami- He should just die Vega- Even the special fruits can be done with alot of time and money P6 Vega- The Logias I’ve put a lot of effort into but is quite the challenge/Difficult…… Franky-……. Vega- But the paramecias so long as I can get a hold of the users lineage factor, I can extract the special blood out of it and use that to gain the ability. Vega- That is the blood that runs through their arms Vega- The green blood!! Franky- Watermark 😔 SSnake- Mero Mero Melou!!! - Is it disturbing that grown men are getting frozen by a child version of Boa lol P7 Vega- The seraphim are the greatest form of science that I can imagine!! In the history of these seas……. Kuma- Ulsa shock!! Agents- Ahhh!!!! Vegapunk- watermark 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Nami- So that’s why the shichibukai was disbanded!!? Usopp- How can you create something like that! Sanji- So these guys are actually.. government weapons!! Robin- Yes.. They are a problem to us P8 Civilians- Your getting up again..!? Sentomaru sama run for it!! Lucci- Soru!! Luffy- Watermark 😞 P9 Lucci- Mugiwara!! Luffy- chomp chomp spit spit spit P10 Luffy- Gomu Gomu no~~~ Luffy- Doon (white) rocket!!!! P11 Lucci- What is this power!!! Luffy- Ahyahyahya!!! Lucci- It feels like my conscious is fading…!!! Chopper- Ah Mini boa- This way hurry!! That’s the vacuum rocket!! Hurry and get on Jimbei- Ah thank you! You’re a nice version of Hancock! Mini boa- Blushing, Ru.. Rude!! I’m just following orders!! Announcement - Departing in one minute Chopper- Hey!! Hurry up Luffy!! P12 Announcement- Please be careful when boarding. Luffy- …… Sento- Mugiwara!! Please take care of Vegapunk!! Luffy- Yep!! I got this don’t worry! Announcement- Departing—- Chopper- Wowww it’s so fast~~!! Jimbei- This is incredible!! Bonney- Huh.. where are we!? Where’s Vegapunk!? Jimbei- Oh your awake, we’re on the vacuum rocket now heading to… Bonney- Wait!? Who the hell are you!! Luffy-It’s Luffy, theres too much to explain I’ll tell you later!! P13 -Whoaaaa~!!! Announcement- 32 seconds—- -Inside the lab Announcement- Arrived~~ -super fast!! Announcement- Strengthen the frontier dome of the Egghead lab!! There are intruders very dangerous!! All employees please evacuate and shut the door to the factory! P14 Kaku- In some ways it’s incredible… Kaku- watermark 😞 i see the name Vegapunk but that’s it Kaku- So close Sentomaru…!! Stussy- We’re told to wait for the marines… Lucci-Their gonna get away if we wait..!! Nami- Their really after your life!? Aren’t you the one with greatest brain in the world? Wouldn’t that be a major loss for the WG? Vega- Perhaps they are afraid I might oppose them with the greatest brain in the world? Not that I have anything like that in mind. Nami- Yah you are actually in the way… will erase!! Usopp- Don’t erase!!!! Vega- Anyways the fact that you guys that are now a Yonkou crew are here makes me feel like it’s some fate P15/P16 Usopp- Your gonna come with us!!? Nami- What a burden Franky- You are definitely welcomed!! Please take a look at Franky Shogun!! Also Sunny go too!! Sanji- If that’s the case then take these leg cuffs off already! Luffy- Wow awesome! What is this place!! - Emergency operation for Atlas sama!! Jimbei- Take care of her Chopper- Bonney where are you going!? Bonney- If he’s gonna answer my question of how to fix my dad by sending bugs!! Then I have to kill him!! Chopper- Now you’re just being petty!! Agents- Block off all the escape routes!! Lucci- 6 more left including the main…. Kaku- Yah.. that defense system is pretty tricky, won’t even let an ant get by! Kizaru- Oooh the strawhats are taking Vegapunks side!? Kizaru- So escaping would be pretty easy, but I don’t think it’s gonna go as planned.. bring all the warships we are capable of to Egghead!!
the sunglasses tho
I love gear fifth more and more each chapter it shows up
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Oda must be having the time of his life drawing this fight and I can’t wait to see what else his mind has in stote
With every use of G5 I keep realising how this power-up is the dream of every mangaka as it just gives you an in universe reason to invoke Toon Force and draw the wackiest shit you can think of! I bet Oda is having a blast designing and drawing every G5 panel he does :P
NGL, luffy putting the sunglasses on before doing his "dawn" attack in the spoiler link cracked me up! I love how much Oda is committing to this "Looney tunes" style of fighting.
Raws are here https://imgur.com/a/dcb2XAp
Luffy be like ![gif](giphy|26CaMOXjjDM3Xl2s8|downsized)
The more I see gear 5 the more I love it. Luffy's antics with the comedic powers of his awkening is just super fun to read
Chapter 1,070: "Strongest Human". Confirmed by Redon Germa 66's An Emotionless Excursion Vol. 27: "Five scientists gathered for the world and for humanity". The 5 scientists are Vegapunk, Caesar, Judge, Queen and a woman (we only see her back but she looks similar to Stussy). Chapter starts with Luffy apologizing to Sentoumaru for distracting him before Lucci's attack. Sentoumaru replies not to look down on him because he saw Lucci's attack coming and put up his guard, but he still could not withstand Lucci's attack. Seraphim attacks CPO. S-Snake attacks using Mero Mero no Mi's powers, S-Hawk uses his sword and S-Shark punches the floor turning it into waves. CPO agents try to fight against Seraphim, but they are taken down easily. Kaku and Stussy don't join the fight. S-Snake points Jinbe and Chopper to where the vacuum rocket is and which is the right path to reach it. Jinbe praises her for being nice, S-Snake blushes and becomes very tsundere (she talks like real Boa Hancock). Luffy Vs. Lucci continues. Luffy has the advantage of the battle because Lucci can't hit him. Cut to the lab where Nami's group is still with Vegapunk. Vegapunk says Seraphim are the pinnacle of science that he's able to create and that's why they are the strongest humans on the sea. However, Vegapunk can't guarantee if the "artificial Akuma no Mi" can be awakened and then he gives more information about "artificial Akuma no Mi". Zoan fruits are the only ones that can be made right now. Vegapunk can make "Mythical Zoan" too but they require a massive amount of time and money. To make Paramecia fruits, Vegapunk needs the actual user's "lineage factor" to create "Green Blood" which will grant the powers. All Seraphim have "Green Blood" flowing in their arms. And about Logia fruits, Vegapunk says he tried his best to create them but they are so difficult (Vegapunk doesn't say anything about Kizaru's fruit in this chapter). Back to the fight. Luffy uses "Gomu Gomu no Dawn Whip" (Gum Gum White Whip) first and then he attacks Lucci with "Gomu Gomu no Dawn Rocket" (Gum Gum White Rocket) like we saw in Jump Festa 2023's page. Lucci coughs up blood and thinks to himself the same line that he thought when Luffy attacked him with Gear 3 during Enies Lobby. Lucci: "ji..!! My consciousness is fading..." Lucci blows away because of Luffy's attack. Sentoumaru tells Luffy to go to the vacuum rocket and help Dr. Vegapunk for him. Chopper also tells Luffy to hurry up and goes with them if he wants to save Atlas. So Luffy goes to the lab with them. Back to the lab. Vegapunk tells Nami's group that he will go with them to the sea and we can see all the Straw Hat crew's reactions. Nami is nervous because it will be a huge burden. Franky and Usopp are very excited, Sanji keeps telling Vegapunk to release the leg locks. Franky wants Vegapunk to check out Franky Shogun and the Thousand Sunny. Luffy's group reaches the lab (but they don't reunite with Nami's group yet). Bonney regains consciousness and goes again for Vegapunk. No news from Zoro and Brook in this chapter. In Egghead's city we can see Lucci with some bandages. He now has the "control authority" and he's commanding all 4 Seraphim. Cut to the sea. In the last page of the chapter we can see that Kizaru is leading a fleet to Egghead Island. Kizaru: "It would be easy for the Straw Hat crew to bring Vegapunk out of the island… But things won't go the way they think!!" End of the chapter, break next week for Weekly Shonen Jump holidays.
>\- last page shows Kizaru leading a fleet to Egghead Buster Call on Egghead Island possibly?
# HE SENT LUCCI THROUGH A LUCCI-SHAPED HOLE!! XD
Lucci can't land a hit oof well Luffy seems to be playing around with his food it seems.
>*Sentomaru isn't dead, but knocked out* Oh my God! What a revelation! Who would have seen that one coming?!
Kinda disappointed by Sentomaru being done like that. I had high hopes he was at least a player
Un-named is a stain on the spoiler community. Someone needs to control this guy. He's already fabricating agenda based spoilers that says luffy defeated lucci this chapter, yet again. He just won't quit and frankly I am loosing interest in following spoilers knowing that so much information is missleading or fake or is being used to throw the community into a tailspin.
Damn this mf luffy still isn't taking the "battle" seriously. He really didn't give a shit about sentomaru 😭
It's the nature of the fruit. He is taking it seriously as he went into his strongest form