The End

i'm so normal about gear 5 luffy (no)

You see, Luffy is lucky and special because death will always follow him everywhere, but it's in the form of his deceased fun big brother

Edit: Other version of this AMV

biblically accurate luffy joyboy nika

One Piece ep. 1076 || "I know exactly who Joyboy is. The one who will defeat me!"

MONKEY D. LUFFY in ONE PIECE / ワンピース (1999) EP 1071 • luffy's peak - attained! gear five

That’s his boyfriend, your honor.

He is so fun to draw.

nika boy… HES ALMOST HERE

The fact that only Luffy could use this fruit to it's true potential. If he didn't believe in his freedom, if he wasn't a silly little guy, he would not be able to awaken the fruit. It's the most ridiculous power, because it's so unserious and that's why it fits Luffy perfectly and no one else.

And of course, before him only Joyboy was able to awaken this power too.

joyboy fucking SPOTTED

Violent Sun

"these things cannot be stopped; an inherited will, one's dream and the ebb and flow of the ages. as long as people hunger for freedom these things will exist" - Pirate King, Gold Roger chapter 100

i love love LOVE the new one piece episode...

im saying my gear 5 things again just because i NEED to talk about it

like how sun god nika brings a new dawn, and luffy was born on dawn island (the sun rises east after all)

oda says the flower that represents luffy is a sunflower which symbolizes unwavering faith and always faces the sun rise, and zoro is wisteria which means devotion that transcends death representing luffys faith in zoro and zoros devotion to luffy

how you can hear the drums of liberation in skypeia

laughter is one of the main themes in one piece, its not even like hidden. there are so many ways you can show it too! for instance someone on twt i think??? said the final island is called Laugh Tale bc this is a tale about laughter

luffy associates laughter with freedom, and as the viewer, you're supposed to as well. luffy wants to be the king of pirates, not because he wants to rule the seas with an iron fist, but because he wants to be freer than anyone. he wants to be able to laugh with his friends with out a worry in the world, and thats why in wano he gets so upset when he finds out about smile. kaidou took something he associated with being free, and made it into a prison. when luffy awakened his fruit, used gear 5, and turned into sun god nika, he laughed. its out of place bc the whole fight luffy is more upset than he is during most of his fights. hes lost 3 times now, he failed to keep his promise to tama, he failed to save momonusuke and kin'emons country but he laughed. he has a whole silly battle where hes laughing the whole time and using funny gags as a fighting style. wano shifts the way we view laughter in one piece, by showing that the people of wano are stuck suffering and unable to show their emotions, and then shifts it back by showing luffys laughing, even when hes at his lowest.

luffy is laughter, he is the sun, warmth, love, and liberation. its not a coincidence the brothers of the sun god ate a fruit that let them control fire.

that montage during his gear 5 transformation where we seeframes of everytime hes used his gears, showing us his growth as a fighter, as a pirate, and as a captain, while the fate of an entire country is on his back, while he fights to protect his loved ones and while we see luffy do everything hes wanted to do (his words too!!).... yeah this was a great episode lmao

i said "remember this moment" in the back of my mind