#one piece chapter 1069 spoilers

[dbphantom]

do you think when a zoan fruit user enters their awakened form it's a constant test of will, not just a one time thing? we saw in impel down if they're not prepared to awaken their fruits that they'll lose control to the animal's inherent nature

im asking because i'd like to make an animatic where a specific user starts losing control while in their awakened form because the fruit and the user de-synchronize due to a sudden emotional gut punch :)

mini essay + lots of manga spoilers below [wano act 3 + egghead]

im kind of obsessed with this exchange kaido has with luffy in 1046

it's interrupted by zunesha talking about joyboy and while that's PROBABLY what we're meant to assume Kaido's asking (who are you. are you joyboy? or even: who are you, what type of zoan fruit do you have, what is this transformation??)

when we cut back to luffy yelling

kaido says this

and the line immediately after

and im just saying... being a zoan fruit user himself with a crew full of zoan fruit users and a son who accidentally ate a zoan fruit, kaido PROBABLY knows about the dangers of awakening your fruit before you're ready to handle it

so him saying "glad to see you've still got that big mouth, straw hat" is more like... "I'm glad to see you're still you. here's what's happening to u rn, btw" since he already put 2 and 2 together that luffy's a zoan last chapter

to immediately jump into "we call this an awakening" means that's probably what kaido had on his mind, right?! like he was wondering if luffy had lost himself to nika's will instead of aligning with it and that's why kaido kinda randomly asks who he is, THEN starts explaining what awakenings are once luffy confirms it's still him

after all, luffy's been acting a bit differently since he changed forms and kaido's definitely picked up on that (he's more carefree, he's just a goofy guy now)

im also kinda backing this up with non-canon stuff given the road/lode to laughtale chapters where, along with all the g5/nika doodles, are a bunch of notes where oda questions what the fallout will be from awakening

[also interesting to note that oda seems to have 'scrapped' the idea that luffy's ability to bring people together was actually one of nika's powers all along. im happy to see that tbh i think he's just a charismatic guy]

and we've also seen that luffy struggles at least a little bit to control his new abilities in egghead

like, yeah, luffy is kinda clowning on lucci during this fight, but he also barely has control to the point he can't be serious when atlas's life is on the line

because he was taking things much more seriously before he transforms

vs after chopper already told him to hurry up or atlas isn't going to make it

[to be fair, you can argue he does get a lot more serious once the fighting's over and chopper urges him to hurry for the 2nd time

but this is also right before he detransforms...]

so im just saying

i'm gonna have fun with this :')

[rosybanquets]

HUGE ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1069 SPOILERS PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

I tried to gather all the new gear 5 Luffys in the new chapter. Also holy fuck this new chapter was amazing

[fly-chicken]

I love that

1. Luffy is technically untouchable now

2. He’s fighting the one fucker in the Navy that is not going to give a single FUCK

[curlybrow-kun]

he is everything to me ☀️

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Taking the unstoppable killer robots to kill one of the handful of people who can override the commands you give those robots seems a bit... not well-thought-out to me.

[aka-ichigo]

ONE PIECE 1069

did vegapunk just see a picture of the young warlords and go yep i know what im gonna make next

[magician-enthusiast]

*foaming at the mouth* YES I'M COMPLETELY NORMAL ABT THIS WHY DO YOU ASK

[theladyofsorrows]

And it was in that moment that Lucci learned an important lesson; don't fuck with those who give Luffy his food

[zoroslibrary]

LOOK AT MY BABY BOY

I never thought we would be seeing gear 5 so soon lol but i guess it makes sense if Lucci is the one he is fighting.

Look how cheeky he looks ;-;

And of course, luffy being luffy!

this is sending me lmao

[misslydian]

he's just a silly little guy

[joysstar]

I loved this chapter! Oda strikes again with his sense of poetry, world-building and magic.

Devil Fruits seem to be born out of nowhere. It seems they are born from people's strong wishes.

I like it. It feels we need many people to wish for the same thing to make it appear.

It's not like Haki in which you only need one people to accomplish great things.

But somehow it seems it's connected to Haki. Haki is a kind of power. And what's happening when you gather many Haki users together?

Actually, we have never seen people combining their Haki. For example what would happen if Zoro and Luffy combines their powers? What would happen if Sabo and Luffy fuses their powers together?

It would bring something completely new and unexpected. So what if Devil Fruits are born out Haki combining, creating a soul on its own?

Or perhaps the soul is Haki and Haki is soul. What if someone strong enough wishes something very strongly?

What if the soul itself embodies so much the desire it creates something new?

Perhaps there is something small which will come out. Perhaps after the death the soul splits itself?

What if Devil Fruits are part of the soul? So perhaps if someone eats them they also bring part of their own souls into the Fruit?

So it becomes stronger and stronger with time?

I believe everyone can use the Devil Fruit's powers then once it appears.

But you also need to understand completely the soul of the Fruit to understand it really which provokes its awakening.

It feels like Shikai and Bankai from Bleach to me. You have a name but you have the full name until it's fully mastered.

So to me you have to be a perfect match to the Devil Fruit's soul you ate to bring it to its full potential.

So if Luffy didn't undersand completely the person's which created or ate the Nika no Mi or didn't have similar goals and dreams he couldn't awake it.

[chromatic-lamina]

i know there's a (very) few of you out there. not super impressed/surprised by the reveal of what devil fruits are meant to be. seems a little lazy to me, in the storytelling stakes, or, you know, pedestrian like a footpath lining the side of a road. but people's dreams are a dime a dozen too, so i guess it's a nice idea, but it's not a super big reveal, right?

like fits in with everything, makes people feel good, means that anything can exist anywhere, and that someone dreamt that they'd like to swim through earth. fair enough. but why didn't cora get baby 5's fruit then? or is it that someone else dreams them and some poor chump gets burdened with them. anyhoo. guess doffy thought he'd like to pull strings, and wallah! (trebol dreamed of inflammable snot). ramblings.

[redfagdiver]

Jinbei oof.mp3

[harudnae]

ODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Egghead spoilers under the cut (chapter title only but still)

Okay so I'm just going to drop

the title of Chapter 1069 : "All Things Are Brought Into This World With Hope"

and this unforgettable image from Chapter 218 :

More than twenty years passed between those two chapters (2002.02.18 -> 2022.12.12).

I'm fucking speechless.

(And I have a dozen more questions to ask Oda.)

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Okay, this is basically just Oda saying “I’m just making these things do whatever I want and to hell with any concrete rules”

[mugiwara-lucy]

Despite my (INTENSE) hatred for Gear 5 and its cartoon nonsense I am happy that Lucci is retaining his dignity unlike Laido 🙄

Ugh Fifth Gear has to be one of the worst transformations I’ve ever seen….