I Was NOT Ready For This! (1069)

sun god vs Cat God question mark unexpected but this entire situation can only be described as plus we have new devil fruit law old characters doing new things and one hell of a big bright problematic Marine Admiral incoming it feels like we've skipped the whole middle section of Astoria like we've gone from the fun light introduction straight into the chaotic wild Climax and I loved everything about this chapter right from the get-go especially with Luffy's hole hey pigeon guy what are you doing here and then Lucci just correcting him actually Straw Hat what are you doing here this is a government Island you see I I belong here you don't and Luffy's just like Fair Point and then fight battling ensues well after a bit of administration a very small thing I loved about the chapter was the discussion surrounding Luffy's Emperor status and how that has essentially given him a form of diplomatic immunity like he can just rock up to Egghead island or assumingly any government Island and the world government can't really do much until they receive permission from the five geriatrics it's a pretty groundbreaking moment for One Piece because up until this Point Luffy has been the Undisputed Underdog the sort of pirate-shaped scum that the world government is desperately trying to clean off their boots but now we're at the point where it's like oh look if I punch that rubber man then that's like the fictional pirate equivalent of shooting Archduke Ferdinand and even Kaku into Jackson is all like wait Lucci according to page one paragraph one line one of the don't f with an emperor without permission act we're not supposed to F with the emperor without permission it's a very concise piece of legislation one which Rob Lucci has chosen to ignore and may have accidentally started a war on purpose to be completely fair to Lucci look I do seem to recall that Luffy had already declared war on the world government during any sloppy which Luchi was there to witness although in this case if news of this event spread then it could activate the grand Fleet and maybe some of the straw hat spotting Nations like wano and the other ones that aren't wanna so interestingly we now live in a world where Luffy is Freer than ever before and his opponents are significantly more restricted thus giving Luffy even more Freedom by direct comparison and just thinking about all this takes me back to marineford Amanda Mission the bureaucracy and the paperwork required simply to declare war and Whitebeard must have been a massive headache just like Risk assessments for days also this video is sponsored by raid Shadow Legends which is what happens when a Blockbuster movie and AAA game have a baby all condensed into a mobile phone and raid has got something extra special happening right now A recently released legendary champion based on MMA and pro wrestling Legend Ronda Rousey who now has in-canon game law having punch fought her way up to becoming known as the queen of the arena and 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as did Tom so essentially if you feed Luffy then you have a whole Emperor at your disposal but now we need to talk about awakened roblucci because holy crap he is amazing I definitely wasn't expecting such a sleek and slender form given the Zone Awakenings that we've seen in the past but it looks like Luchi is following the model of Luffy zohanowic which is actually touched on by Shaka mentioning that awakens Owens generally lose themselves in all of the animal-ness and so I suppose result in the type that we're more familiar with such as the impel down Jayla beasts so maybe the Jailer Beast was sort of like an incomplete Awakening and the true form of an awakened zoen is what Luffy and Luchi have managed to achieve to give you like the funky God Cloud draping effect I should say that Yamato also has that effect but it's hard to tell if that's because of Awakening well because that fruit is already a mythical Guardian deity whatever the case I love what is happening with Luchi here because he has very successfully stood up to the hurdle of you are a pre-time skip antagonist and now Luffy is a literal God they say stood up he hasn't quite overcome the hurdle yet mostly because it's hard to tell just how seriously Luffy is taking this fight I feel like no matter who the opponent is Luffy would have more or less the same attitude in gear fifth regardless always smiling and messing around you could be kaido or you could be Don Krieg you're probably still going to get the same gear fifth Luffy treatment but Luchi is doing undeniably well right now and I I know exactly what he's thinking during this fight get this he's thinking mate that kaido guy probably wasn't so tough after all perhaps I Rob Luchi am indeed now the strongest creature in the world and I have to congratulate Lucian being the only antagonist so far to take a very serious L from our rubber d but still have the resolve to go away get stronger and come back for a rematch with no Spirit broken whatsoever in a way this might make Luchi Luffy's toughest opponent because he's the only one who hasn't had his will broken but it makes a lot of sense that Luchi is still the same old murder cat because of the hole a leopard can never change its spots thing however what we have learned is that a leopard can change the outfits of its pet pigeon so I suppose that's something for the scientific Community to Mullen my favorite panel of the chapter was definitely like the punch clash between Luffy and Lucci because that hit me right in the nut sack of nostalgia this panel was a direct callback to their fight in chapter 409 during any slobby and it's one of those images that has been seared into my mind for the past well far far too many years it makes me feel just like that iCarly me that's me I am Miranda Cosgrove but every gear fifth power was a complete treat for the eyes just getting to see pure Luffy fight in any way that he wants I don't think it'll ever get old for me and he by by which I guess I mean Oda but he Oda keeps coming up with all sorts of really fun wacky techniques like the whole mole punch where Luffy plunged his fist into the ground used his Awakening abilities to rubberize it and then hit Luchi with the rubber ground fist that was so damn cool I want more of that this is also a really fun juxtaposition of personalities Rob Lucci who is quite seriously the most like known nonsense antagonist we've ever faced versus a character whose entire power system is now based on nothing but nonsense like Lucci has a really funny reaction to the Gear fifth eye pop he's just like although something this does very casually confirm is that Luffy can enter gear fifth at any time which is very in keeping with the concept of gear fifth given the whole maximum Freedom angle but I do wonder if this means that we are completely done with the days of ever seeing gears second through fourth because why use them gear fifth is the most powerful one but much more importantly for Luffy it is by far the most fun one and it doesn't seem to have any drawbacks so far so I don't know why we would ever need to use any of the others this chapter also delivers on something that I thought was a bit initially lacking on onkishima which are the straw hat reactions to gear fifth because a lot of them did see it but we never really got to examine their thoughts on and it turns out that their thoughts are look when it comes to Luffy we just don't question things anymore which was even funnier when vega Punk asked how this transformation happened and Nami just says no which is the exact answer that we as readers currently have as well because basically The Story Goes Luffy got smacked in the face by a fish then became a cartoon the end at this point I think the only straw hat that hasn't seen gear fifth would be Zoro who was unconscious the first time around and now having a delightsome tea party with the skeleton this time around which is a shame because as a confessed and recovering Zora Stan I really want to see how he reacts to the even more insane than usual Luffy abilities vegapunk then drops the big old bombshell equating Luffy to the sun god Nika before giving his own personal theory on devil fruit creation and this is where we need to clear some things up being real here I know that roughly 90 of people watching these videos read the scans no shame in that I'm not judging you but the scans this week were particularly well particularly not great when it came to vagueapon talking about the double fruit origins in fact everyone I know who speaks Japanese was quite confused by the English translations that were used which gives the impression that vegapunk believes that devil fruits more or less magically sprouted into a existence as a direct result of human desire as if the fruits are subject to a similar phenomenon that all of Luffy's devil fruit Powers off you can think it then you can will it into existence which according to Japanese speakers isn't really accurate for example after speaking directly with Arthur from the library of O'Hara he clarified that it sounds more like vegapunk is stating that the wishes of humans resulted in them pushing the limits of science to make those wishes come true AKA create the devil fruits however the exact creation process of said fruits is left unexplored a bit like the Walt Disney quote all of your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them but basically don't take vegapunk's words to mean that all devil fruits just like popped into existence fire raw desire alone that desire that wish or that dream is what pushed someone to make that dream a reality but we'll also probably go into this a bit deeper in the next video once I have the official wording but as for now said tamaru is also here finally apparently he was late because it's his day off his initial appearance gives me some very strong retail Vibes like I can't believe it called in for a shift today and I also loved how Vega Punk guilt tripped him into helping with the whole look santamaru you can do whatever your own personal Justice says don't worry about me I'm just a defenseless old man who gave you food when you were starving a job when you were not jobbing a guarantor on your mortgage I officiated your wedding and I basically consider you to be my adopted son and I love you but again you you just do what you think is right placentamari's whole interaction with Luffy was delightful not at all how I was expecting us to go down actually Luffy was just so happy to see him like when you see a familiar face when he really Tipsy like ah it's you the guy I've met before isn't isn't life wonderful and I think it's really important remembering that santamaru was partially responsible for one of the most devastating moments of Luffy's life when the crew was split up on somebody was also very much not expecting was just how easily Saint Mar was injured and seemingly completely taken out of the fight by Luchi because Santa maru's whole thing was that I have the strongest of the defenses in the world so what the crap is this where was your defense because if you don't have that then you're nothing you're just a pile of man meat waiting to be fed to a cat it is a bit too early to say that he's out for good and I would actually be surprised if he is however Oda did draw centimara with a knocked out wide eye effect so at the very least Lucci did some serious damage here which has now swung the whole seraphim situation into the favor of cp0 because we did learn about their hierarchy of control at the top it goes the five Elder stars then the vegapunks plural then the centimara singular and then whoever has the funky control Cube and with this in mind I guess I can see what cp0 we're going for here they obviously never intended to face a direct conflict against the seraphim the idea was more to just kill everyone above them in the control hierarchy and take default command it adds a very interesting tactical element to this fight because everyone who has priority over cp0 is also significantly weaker than them and they need to be there in person to assume command thus putting themselves in danger but as of right now I still think we have the key win condition because we need just one big take a punk with an escort of say I don't know 10 straw hats to turn the tide or even just destroying the command device at cb0 have the only thing that could really be a solid shot in the crotch would be if one of the five Elders showed up on the island alongside the Marines which we'll talk about in a bit but knowing that the five Elders are on top of the hierarchy says to me that that's going to be narratively relevant at some point the seraphima almost certainly going to be antagonists moving forward but we have yet to talk about by far the most exciting part of the chapter which is the Continuing Story of sakuzuki's desk Adventures it's always good to see our Fleet Admiral taking on such an active role stuck behind his desk of absolute Chastity first time skip sakazuki really is just a meme every time we see him he just becomes more and more like Magellan just constipated with Administration and never allowed to leave his seat and always going no don't do that or that in fact look can we all just stop doing things please I do sympathize with his situation here given that Rob Lucci has potentially started an entire War without permission and centers cost the Marines their greatest weapon in Dr vegapunk Who is now aligning himself with an emperor of the sea and then there's kizaru this this is pretty big as interesting as the seraphim struggle with cp0 is the impending arrival of kizarro on Egghead island is the big oh damn factor that we really needed and he is the perfect Admiral as well he has a relationship with Santa Maru he's the owner of the original powers that the seraphim lasers are based on and the vegapunks just so happen to have developed certain devices that allow people to completely counter him by making light tangible so yeah kizaru is on his way but I don't know if we're going to be packing up and running away immediately this may be our very first proper stand against an admiral and we're going to be getting into all of that and more in the next video

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Published: Sun Dec 11 2022