Everything We Know About Luffy’s Gear 5 Devil Fruit Awakening

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[GoatAmv]

Rest in peace to those who couldn’t make it this far to experience gear 5

[TheVenom-ym]

The feeling of seeing Gear 5 being animated can not be described in words. Just enjoy the moments and smile like Luffy.

[Giffandaman]

I did some research and I found out when people laugh it pumps more oxygen in to the heart, about 20%. Laughing is medicine for the heart. Now with Luffy case, I imagine since he’s rubber they oxygen intake stretches the blood in his body to activate Gear 5. It’s like gear 2 but starting in the heart.

[BadRudolph]

Looking back, Raleigh probably knew about Luffy's devil fruit the moment he met him, which adds a lot of context to why he really trained Luffy.

[Eranell]

The repercussions of the gears are always the opposite of what they allow Luffy to do.
In Gear 2 Luffy accelerates his blood flow thanks to his rubbery arteries and heart that can withstand more blood pressure and probably a faster heartbeat, turning him fatigued with presumably a slower heart rate and below average blood pressure if used for too long back in the days.
In Gear 3 he "inflates" his bones (he actually seems to increase their weight significantly as well) before shrinking into a form much smaller than his usual size.
In Gear 4 he does the same but with his muscles, rendering him unable to move because he cant move a single muscle anymore.
So Luffy turning into an old man temporarily after using Gear 5 could be because he unleashes his inner child quite literally, turning fights actually into the fantastical fights we had as children with our friends, only that Luffy makes the rules while his opponent doesn't even know the rules.

[GoatAmv]

I can't wait
1071&1072 these two episodes will be crazy in terms of animation and for the story itself ❤❤

[bobbydrillboids]

One bit of super subtle foreshadowing about Luffy’s fruit is that throughout the whole series, Nami has consistently been able to hurt him through simple punches and slaps even though she doesn’t use haki. The reason she can do that is because Luffy sees Nami as a monster and imagines that her punches and slaps hurt him despite his rubber body.

[luizmiguel]

One thing I really like about Gear 5 besides the design is that Oda was inspired by something he likes a lot and has always had within One Piece, which are the cartoons, despite having explanations of how Luffy does this and that, you can see the basis of these cartoon elements behind (not to mention the exaggerated expressions and characters with different body proportions or the women who usually have a body like Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit) Oda himself said that the inspiration to create Gear 5 was one of his favorite cartoons, which is Tom & Jerry and even then the idea of ​​the fruit having rubber powers is not lost because all that elasticity and creative flexibility of both Luffy and Oda kind of comes from the Rubber Hose animation style that allowed you to do all kinds of things, this is even funny when we stop to think that cartoons are like action cartoons but they don't have a deep story or explanation behind the powers since the intention is to have fun and make people laugh they just... they do all that, they are crushed, stretched, cut and etc and if we take each aspect of these we can identify some kind of power that we see in fiction as regeneration, body manipulation and even manipulation of reality, it's curious to think that Oda managed to bring both sides of this context together

[justacrazygamer]

I don’t think Luffy’s personality has or will be permanently altered by his devil fruit’s awakening as in chapter 1046 after Kaido asks Luffy “Who the hell… are you?Zunesha states “Hey, Joyboy… it’s as if you’re right there… how exhilarating. This all feels like fate… I can’t help but think… that we should put our faith in this boy…” followed by Luffy going “Who, me? I’m Monkey D. Luffy!!”

[edsflowrider]

I think the first hint to his awakening was when he drank milk and his teeth grew back. It even affected those around him

[dyno_improved]

Ohara Deserves 10 Million His Editing Is Insane And He Gets Straight To What The Video Is.

[christianolson]

Gear 5 is a really well written final form because it has infinite potential for fine-tuning. It’s only limited by creativity, so Luffy can just keep improving it with his imagination. I’m not even D-riding Oda when I say that’s genius. It won’t fall victim to the same fate as DBZ forms where you’re just recycling the same things over and over. It will have upgrades, but they’ll always be clever and relevant to the current battle and Luffy’s opponent. So cool.

[DerAvanor]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this in another comment, but I think a subtle yet big hint at Luffy's real powers is also dropped when he fights Bruno on Enies Lobby.
Before going into Gear 2 for the first time, he says (I only know the German words so I can only use the English subtitles of the Japanese original): "I came up with a way to fight with all my might".
Looking back at this makes it so obvious, in my opinion. He came up with it. He thought of this new way of fighting, he imagined it would be a good way to become stronger - and it worked.
Only limited by his imagination.

[PetarBladeStrok]

All Mythical Zoans have Paramecia-like abilities. Not only Luffy's. Marco's healing, Kaido's manipulation of elements/weather, Sengoku's shockwaves, Yamato's ice...

[tsoy]

My theory is the reason why the current color of gear 5 is white is because in the future, luffy's gear 5 will have different colors depending on the element he is using.

[apindakut]

His heartbeat only changes in gear 5 as it is linked to the drums of liberation. After he goes back in his base after the kaido fight, the heartbeat goes back to normal as even luffy himself initiates gear 5 transformation by beating his heart in the drums of liberation. Also, when Kaido asks luffy who is he, he literally says “i’m luffy who will be king of the pirates” showing he never actually died and is still Luffy.

[billbillinger]

I was so happy with the cartoon-ey vibes and animations. So glad Oda followed his heart with gear 5 and represented that style of animation that has been so devoid in recent memory.

On a side note, in my opinion the first transformation when Luffy "died" was the spirit of Joyboy saving his life, then when he reverts back and looks old and haggard then transforms again he's more like regular Luffy as he was in control of that transformation.

[tristanjoseph_tv]

“JOYBOY” literally a self explanatory, a little boy enjoy playing w a smile on his face. Thats how luffys gear 5 is.

[randomdude]

also the fun fact is that blackbeard is the exact opposite to luffy's fruit that being canceling fruit abilities, meaning that in the end when luffy will eventually fight against blackbeard he wont be able to use his df abilities making it true that the strongest pirates in one piece are those that have the strongest haki since it will all come down to who has the stronger haki when u don't have a df ability.

[satviksrivastava]

I believe that the sulong form of minks has something to do with the sun god Nika. As both the sulong transformations and luffy's gear 5 looks the same. Same white hair, clothes turning white, increased speed, power, etc.
Maybe, the minks tribe can use the energy of the sun reflected by the full moon.