I hope you guys enjoyed the throwback intro!

You won't understand the hype if you don't know the story.... Gear 5 is his awakening and the concept of JoyBoy goes back hundreds of chapters. This is the kind of payoff that Oda delivers with One Piece. You would LOVE it if you read the manga. Even watching some condensed anime would be great. One Piece is the best piece of fiction i have ever experienced.

14:09 the looney tunes sounds effects are very much intentional and its ridiculous. Gear 5 is all about Luffy's imagination and with Luffy, he's already a goofy and fun character and give him the ability to literally do ANYTHING, you get fun fight scenes that take very heavy inspo from old show cartoons (the eyes popping out, the bump in the head with the dizzy animation, the running still in the air.) Fun Fact: For Gear 5, animators all over the world joined in to animate this and the upcoming gear 5 episodes

The thing is about Gear 5 is that it isn’t really a power up, it’s more just Luffy’s imagination being set free, which works really well since pretty much every One Piece fan was either laughing or smiling while reading the chapter last year or watching the episode. It’s just so well built up throughout the series and it just fits Luffy’s character so well

To sum up the power of each gear [4:50] Base Luffy [5:38 ] Gear 2nd - Luffy speeds up the flow of his blood, which makes him faster and stronger by circulating more oxygen and nutrients through his body. The clip shown was it's first use, the steam you see in this transformation is his sweat that has been vaporized due to his increased metabolic rate. Before the time skip he had to use his legs like in the clip to activate this mode but after it he is able to to use any limb. [7:16] Gear 3rd - Luffy bites his thumb and blows air into his bones, which he can then move between body parts, making them the size of a giant. Once again the clip shown was it's first on screen use, after the time skip Luffy is able to better control where the air is located, he primarily only inflates his fist and wrist, this did have a negative side-effect of shrinking Luffy after the deactivation of the gear but this side effect was removed as Luffy has better control of the technique [8:07 ] Gear 4th - In this Gear Luffy has three known transformations, though all excoriate Armament ¹Haki and the general powers of the Gum Gum Fruit. To activate this Gear Luffy coats his arm in Armament Haki and and blows a massive quantity of air into it, by doing this he inflates all of his muscles and then the rest into his body. This Gear extremally increases Luff's strength and speed several fold, though as a downside he can only stay in this form for 20 mins and once deactivated he will be unable to use Haki for 10 minutes * [8:07] Boundman - This form makes use of Luffy's rubber body by allowing him to retract his arms and legs inside of his body to increase the power of his attacks, in this form Luffy can even fly by retracting and shooting his legs out in quick burts, while in Boundman form most attacks will simply bounce off of Luff's body since even though it is hardened by the Armament Haki it is still rubbery. The downside of this form are that Luffy can't stay still and when not moving simply bobs up and down in place and he can't control his landing due to his bodies warped proportions * Tankman - The base form of Tankman is unknown since we have only seen it's Stuffed Version, this form greatly increase Luffy's durability since he is able to tank and deflect piercing strikes from an enemy that was able to cut him while he was in Boundman form, while in tankman most of the air seems to go to his torso *Snakeman - In this form Luffy only slightly enlarges his forearms, legs, and upper torso with the rest of his body staying with his normal proportions, the spread of Haki is also limited to his arms and legs. This form boosts Luff's speed, and allows him to use "Phyton" which allows him to change the direction of his attacks and while Boundman can also use Phyton in Snakeman form the attacks continuously accelerate the longer they last while increasing the attack's power and speed until the attack hits, this form also uses another form of Haki known as Observation Haki to make his punches into semi-homing attacks [11:13] Gear 5th - The awakened form of Luffy's devil fruit, in this form Luffy's body receives a massive increase in strength, speed, and durability, Luffy's heartbeat also takes on a musical rhythm known as "The Drums of Liberation", this form also has a faster passive recovery rate that works even if Luffy is unconscious. Luffy is also able to use the limb inflation of gear 3 and the muscle inflation of Gear 4 while in this form with out the need to pump air into his body like he did previously, he can also effect his surroundings (as seen in the video) as well as other people around him. It has been stated that the power of this form is only limited by the users imagination ¹ Haki - A mysterious power all living things are capable of using, though many don't notice it or fail to awaken it, there are three types Armament, Observation, and Conqueror's Haki, most people will focus on training the Haki their best at, though you can improve with all types with more work. *Armament Haki is used as armor to defend against attacks and as a way to boost the power of attacks *Observation Haki is used as a sixth sense allowing people to sense the presence, strength, and emotions of other people, as well as limited precognition *Conqueror's Haki can only be awakened by a select few (1 in several million), it allows one to unleash their willpower to overpower the will of others, usually knocking out weaker willed opponents it can also effect the surrounding area by damaging objects

About the flying being Canon in One Piece, there's a technique where if you run hard and fast enough, you're literally able to step on the air, allowing you to basically fly.

Wish it had shown Gear 4th Tank Man and Snake Man as well, but yeah, without context, Gear 5th it's nearly incomprehensible to no one piece fans haha So good to see you reacting to it tho! Edit: Just a quick note tho, Oda (the One Piece's manga author) never intended to make "Godly level" transformations, with Gear 5th all he wanted was to draw his fight scenes with as much freedom as possible, just to do his own thing, which is very cartoony, since he loved watching it from his childhood.

*most* characters can't fly in One Piece, it's all fruit dependent, but there are ways to "walk" on air with a technique. Also, the ki blasts you saw when he went Gear 4 was his arm bouncing in different directions, but you may have noticed that before this was posted

"thats so silly!" Oda, the author of onepiece: "thats the point!"

I think the special thing about one piece in terms of revealing powers is that usually, the world around the main characters already hint on certain things being possible and canon, for a very long time. So most of the time it doesn't feel like they're pulling new powers out of nowhere, because it's been somewhat reasonable and explained before, it's just taken to another level.

I love you calling just base line Luffy a Looney Toon, given that yeah, Oda very much had that in mind for him, since it meant that even when things got dark and serious, he could still keep some light heated humor and fun in things just because of how silly Luffy's fighting style was. Then we get Gear 5, which is Luffy just straight up making the world around him operate on Toon Physics. Truly it is, the most ridiculous power ever, and it is glorious!

You understanding that Gear 5 being goofy because luffy is a goofy character is impressive cause even some One Piece fans don’t understand that

No way he left out Snakeman transformation and the fight. It was much better than Doflamingo fight too

Wait, They Missed Gear 4th: Snakeman and Gear 4th: Tankman

Gear 5 is the awakening of the gum gum fruit. Awakening your devil fruit allows you to use your abilities on the world around you, so with Luffy's rubber powers and imagination, gear 5 literally allows Luffy to turn the fight into a Looney Tunes cartoon ergo the most ridiculous power. Also just have to say I loved the old school intro brought me right back to watching your RWBY reactions.

Yooo it even reached here! Glad you enjoyed it! When the chapter with the reveal first debuted last year I couldn't stop laughing when I read it, and they managed to nail the same effect with the anime too. I am hyped for the upcoming episodes! Whether or not you do end up watching/reading the whole series I'm glad you were able to enjoy this moment with us!

For Gear 2, Luffy uses his legs as pistons and speeds up his blood flow, increasing his speed and strength in the process. This also heats up his blood, which is why he starts to steam and turns pink. For Gear 3, he bites into his finger, down to the bone, and then inflates it like a balloon while also increasing his attack power. Gear 4 is him combining the principles of 2 and 3, and focusing on certain aspects for Bounce Man or Snake Man. Gear 5 is the peak of his power, allowing him to turn the world around him into rubber, be it the environment or living things. I hope this explanation helps, Dee!

That intro brings back memories 😂

One piece context: There exist a technique every character can use called Haki. It a manifestation of a person's will giving them physical reinforcement, 360 perception, and can touch another person's Haki (meaning turning into fire or smoke doesn't stop them from punching you) and appears black for us to see Gear 4th. Mixed with Haki uses his Rubber Body to make Pistons out of his limbs Each devil fruit has an Awakening. DonFlamingo has the string fruit, allowing him to make strings (hence why he can fly) but once awakened he could turn objects into strings. Allowing him to twist buildings by just being near them Luffy's awakening is very similar. Making the world around him Rubber... To the point it becomes "Rubber Hose Animation"

The thing about gear 5, although to the person from an outside perspective might see most of these transitions as goofy or silly, it took a lot of pain, love and dedication from Luffy to reach all of these first 3 transformations. Especially gear 4 as he had lost something so close to him and so he trained for 2 years, having the crew to disband and come back after there training which we call The Post Time Skip and/or Pre-Time Skip. During Pre-Time Skip where he obtained gear 2 and 3 he was going to lose a member to the government and so he used all his strength so he could to get the said crew member back. Looking into gear 5 tho, compared to all the other transitions, his wasn’t gained through training. It was the fruit itself in which has awakened and given him the ability to be free, the only limit being the imagination of what he could do. Joyboy as we also call it, is the definition of freedom and happiness. Which is also a reference to West African slaves who has been said that they needed to dance, sing and celebrate to bring Joy for the slaves. So this transformation itself is the embodiment or happiness and liberty all the while he makes others smile with his goofy dances and laughs.

1:23 Damn, this layout brings back memories. I still remember all the great reactions to the Sonic fan animations as well as to so many other fan projects and anime. Good to see you're still the same hyperactive and full of joy individual as you were back then. Keep going strong 💪

One Piece and Final Fantasy XIV are easily the best & most emotional stories I have ever experienced. And I experienced hundreds of stories in various media. Shame you gave up on both. I hope you give them a chance again. Both have a really slow start, but MY GOD is the pay off INSANE and both have so many absolute PEAK moments!

8:01 "is it a transformation tho?" No, luffy's gears are techniques he developed to enhance his physical capabilities in battle by applying his rubber powers in various ways. And gear 5 is luffy's real zoan transformation Edit: also gear 5 is cartonish because gear 5's power is like that because luffy's gear 5 have the power to do anything he imagines

The gear 5 is a thing called awakening a thing that happens to devil fruit users when they master their devil fruit to the maximum levels, awakenings make the powers of the devil fruit reach higher levels of their powers, Luffy's powers have always made him look like a cartoon character even you said it yourself, so his awakening now he doesn't just become a cartoon character he straight up becomes one, that's why you see so many cartoony expressions and sound effects in the gear 5 battle, they are entirely intentional.

I will admit, Gear 5 will be better shown off in the upcoming episode this week since One Piece only adapts a single chapter for each episode which means the pacing just sucks. It’ll be even cooler this weekend.

It's great that you're interested in One Piece, Dee! Just give it a read (or a watch) yourself, and you'll see what all the hype is all about. Personally, I recommend the manga version, and then rewatch all the key scenes, especially the big fight scenes, in anime. One Piece is fortunate enough to get a lot of its fight scenes adapted beautifully. Even then, the overall animation just keep improving the more seasons it's going into. Also, if these clips can get you hyped and excited. Imagine how it would be like for the die hard fans that have been following the series for close to 30 years. Lastly, you should also check out some original crossover animation where Goku meets Luffy (and also Toriko).

Not what I expected to see but happy to see this. Brings me back to when I watched your anime reaction vids in like 2016 and 2017.

Awesome video. Loved your throwback clip and your collection sneak peak. The Overlord stuff was interesting. Didn't know you were into anime like that haha. With regard to One Piece and it's DBZ level moment right now, I think what separates OP from anything else as mainstream is the lore. The OP lore is incredible. You might have heard "800 years" mentioned and it goes to show how far reaching the world building goes. For that reason I think watching or reading the manga will allow you to enjoy it most. Honestly I would recommend reading the manga just to catch up because it's faster. And then you can continue with the anime if you want. They add a lot of padding to the anime that's frustrating for someone trying to catch up.

Was cool to see you react to this. I've been following the manga since the mid 2000s and it's currently my favorite on-going series.

Aaaah, a fellow DBZ FAN. DIDNT know that, PAPA BEE. And yeah, also a ONEPIECE FAN, and I love Luffy’s GEARS. Gear 5 was, A INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE.

Only thing is they didn't do Gear 3 or Gear 4 enough justice. Gear 3 had some good shots with the fight against "Oars. Gear 4 actually has 3 different variations to it in which Luffy uses and utilizes uniquely depending on his opponent. Other than that, great video!

One piece with the lore ?? The lore of one piece is actually what puts it in the top history fictions. I am a one piece fan but for me, Gohan Ssj2 vs Cell with the tears flying up is by far the best transformation in anime ive even seen ( of course only in japanese voice )

DAAAMNNN MAN That intro brought me back to your anime reaction days 😂 Huge nostalgia

Maybe watch One Pace! It’s an edited version of One Piece with all the useless filler cut out! Also not asking you to react on the channel, just would like you to watch the story of one piece because it’s fantastic and I think you’d love it.

Gear 5th is basically toon force lol. It was both surprising and cool seeing your blind reaction to this stuff haha.

I've been waiting for a long time to get into One Piece. I read the first volume life 5 years ago when my friend let me borrow it and liked it a bit. This video finally convinced me to watch it! It was SO nostalgic seeing your old intro again, I remember watching your Dragon Ball and My hero academia videos!

"Luffy is literally a Loonytoons character" *Laughs in DRUMS OF LIBERATION*

I loved this so much! I'm glad you watched this even if you're not into OP. 🥰 The thing I liked about G5 is that it just made Luffy more Luffy ya know? Silly Time!

Wasn’t around for your anime days. But I’m here all for it. Grew up on dragon ball and now love One Piece. Thanks for the content! Also, was SnakeMan included in this full video? It’s another gear 4 form

"this fight is done!" oh you sweet summer child....you're 100 episodes too young to declare the end of the fight

It’s been so long since I’ve seen your videos Dee that intro was an insane throwback! 😂 Hope you’ve been doing fantastic miss your anime reactions bro

Of course one piece isn't for everyone but i do think its worth the watch

i think the coolest looking transformation is gear 4: snakeman but unfortunatly it wasn't in the video

omg the throwback!!! As one of the OG subs who originally joined for the anime content way back when it's so good to see that you still love it!! One Piece is my favorite anime and Gear Fifth has been hyped up for so long since it came out in the manga a year ago. When that episode dropped Crunchyroll broke down from all the ppl trying to watch it cuz of the hype! I heard the author Oda-sensei had Warner Bros help animate it with the cartoon like effects that he drew in the manga. It's a great time to be a One Piece fan rn 🙌 I would love to see you do more anime stuff every now and then as a throwback like this.

It's nice to see you reacting to anime again. I was brought to your channel way back because of your enjoyable anime reaction

Toei actually got people from Warner Bros. to help animate gear 5.

Best explanation of gear 5 I ever heard: "Gear 5 is a perfect example of how Tom and Jerry would kick superman's ass"

i can't believe you posted a video about anime, been watching for about 5 years now and this is such a treat to see, I don't think its possible for someone who hasn't watched much one piece to fully grasp how impactful this is for the show at all, i don't think it will surpass super Saiyan but it for sure will be runner up as the 2nd most iconic transformation in anime

Amazing video! Just sad you didn't see the other two forms of Gear 4th. There are actually two more distinct forms of it. One of them was kinda just used as a meme, after Luffy ate a bunch of Cookies and just got super fat - but the other one was legit, called "Snake Man" against Luffy's last "big fight" before the current one.

yeah watching this without context? gotta dislike it

I wasn't expecting this 😂 OP is one of my favourite titles of all time, appreciate that you did this! That... and the classic intro 🤣

Man I can't believe I found you so far back holy shit. That ui video threw me back in time

One Piece is one of the greatest manga/anime, because of its story and world building. Its a long story but its worth it. And I can understand its not easy to get in with 1000 episodes . So im just happy your reacting to Gear 5 with all the fans around the world !

I know you probably won't have the time, but if you ever want to experience One Piece, pleaaaase read the manga, it's so worth it, you can go through several chapters in just an hour, and it's the definitive way to experience it. It's hard to understand the sheer impact of Gear 5 without experiencing the story. edit: wtf is a gear 1st

Dee seeing gear 1: luffy is literally a Loony tunes character Me: you have know idea how right you are

Calling Do FLAMingo FLAMboyant was actually pretty on character XD

How to ruin amazing moments

where were snakeman and tankman ?

flying is kinda canon. In that scene with the flamingo dude and luffy gear 4, while luffy was doing some type of trickery which I did not understand involving bouncing off the air, the other guys was haging himself on the air by stepping on strings, because his fruit allows him to create them.

That was a throwback and a half, i always loved that intro

It's ridiculous to compare the transformations of Shonnen's characters. The most important thing in these different transformations is not the power but the stories behind each transformation. Whenever Naruto, Goku or Luffy transformed there was a personal reason. Their stories are different, their universes are different so the codes of these universes are different. I enjoyed each of them because they made me feel different emotions. We are lucky to have so many different characters and stories so we might as well make the most of them. We can have preferences, of course, but to make the "war" to know who is the most powerful, it is ridiculous and childish.

So, to give some... clarification/information. Gear 1 is indeed "base luffy" - Technically speaking, this should've actually been the scene he ate his devil fruit as a kid and he started stretching. Gear 2 is essentially Luffy's version of SSJ - His speed and power increase drastically. Initially he can't maintain it for super long and it kind of exhausts him to use it, eventually it basically just becomes his normal combat state. How it works is that he's using the fact his body is made out of rubber to forcibly speed up his blood flow in order to become stronger/faster. That's the animation of his arm/leg (he's used both) sort of having that "fluid lump" moving through it. Gear 3 is essentially Luffy just... ballooning part of his body to be bigger. I can definitely say it's Luffy's least logical one, but it's neat. Gear 4 is Luffy's essentially "Haki form" - Haki is a power that's introduced properly around episode 400, but was technically introduced in Skypiea as Mantra. There are 3 types of Haki, being Armamement, which is basically "spiritual strength" (a concept that should be familiar to a DB fan), allowing you to basically empower part of your body with your spirit to make it significantly stronger. Observation, which is the ability to detect and react to others' presence - This is VERY similar to Ultra Instinct in all honesty. But done WAY earlier on, as again, Skypiea definitely had notable users of observation Haki. Both Armament and Observation are usable by anyone, provided they learn how to use it. You then have the 3rd, Conqueror's Haki. Which only "1 in a million" people have, or "the will to be a king" - Conqueror's Haki has several known uses, #1 being the ability to knock out those that can't withstand it, and #2 being the ability to essentially enhance other forms of Haki. Luffy's Gear 4 is basically him infusing parts of his body with Armament AND Conqueror's Haki in order to essentially control them via pressure/force application to compress and decompress parts of his body rapidly to far greater extents than he could without it. Essentially, picture how a muscle works, and then apply that to the entire red part of Luffy's body in gear 4, but thousands of times per second. Gear 5... Gear 5 is something that non-one piece fans straight up won't truly understand. It has a LOT to do with lore, character development, etc. So to summarize. Luffy ate a devil fruit when he was a kid. He lived his entire life believing this was the standard Gum Gum fruit, which turned him into a Rubber Man. In Wano, it is revealed that it wasn't the Gum Gum Fruit, but rather, the Nika Nika fruit. At this same time, Luffy manages to Awaken his devil fruit, which is a process only revealed near the end of the Dressrosa arc... over 700 episodes into the anime. An Awakened devil fruit is basically able to affect not only the user, but the world around them. The first truly awakened devil fruit shown is Doflamingo's string string fruit. Where he becomes able to turn anything into living, controllable string, attacking Luffy with the very ground around him. Gear 5 is Luffy's Nika Nika fruit's awakening. It is... freedom incarnate. You see, Luffy essentially has one of, if not THE, strongest devil fruits in the world. And it's true abilities are literally able to alter reality itself to an extent. Luffy as a character embodies the concept of true freedom. His goal is to become "king of the pirates", which for him, is "the free-est man in the world." Every action he has ever taken, has been representative of this. He doesn't bow to anyone because he's free to do what he wants. He is... free. And Gear 5... is him finally, truly, becoming "free", even from the very constraints of the world. As Luffy himself says... "I can finally fight how I want to fight." Luffy's Gear 5 is simply the embodiment of his character. The embodiment of true freedom. Is it overpowered? Yes. Is it meant to be overpowered? No. It is simply meant to be the ultimate representation of Luffy's character. The free-est man in the world, so free that even the constraints of reality and the expectations of the world no longer apply to him. So he's just going to become tom and jerry and bounce around laughing his head off.

I'm glad this compilation showed the goofiness of the show. The silliness in this show is one of the strongest points to me.

Yes, canonically Luffy WAS dead in that moment. Then his heart restarted to the beat of the drums of liberation.

Dragon ball is mid

Just got up to the episodes last weekend

I literally died when he made the unintentional jokes about the characters. Especially when he said second gear was him turning into a steam box.😂

It’s cool seeing you outside of video games sometimes. I’m a huge DBZ and One Piece Fan.

This moment was amazing as a fan and it’s so cool to see people experience it even without having seen it all

Hey I loved watching you back then and loved watching you reacting to one piece and getting the hype

Damn, Mark just forever getting Dee to watch my favorite shows and play my favorite games

YOOOOO havent seen you do that intro in a while 😭😭

This man just blew me back all the way to 2017 with that intro

had to click right away for this one geek and the nostalgia from the intro 😂 i miss dbza that’s was my favorite series to watch you watch lol

Luffy's transformation are very realistic if you are a rubber person: Gear 2 - Pumping blood, kinda like doping. Makes him faster. Gear 3 - Pumping air into his bones. Makes him stronger but slower. Gear 4 - Pumping air into his muscle + coating his body with Haki. Able to control his body more unlike Gear 3 and without losing Gear 2's speed. Gear 5 - Drums of liberation plays in Luffy's heart bringing joy to himself and everything around him and is the Devil Fruit's awakening. Can turn anything to rubber and can control his rubber body without effort.

I can’t wait till I catch up to this part

I didn't know how much I wanted to see this

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DRAGON BALL AND ONE PIECE TRANSFORMATIONS. Dragon ball transformations are no matter how badass, is just the same except new hair, aura color, same thing,Goku gets stronger,but what else,even him getting stronger is often in ways we can't really visualize either, but it is really hype, but UI is pretty cool and somewhat unique that's a really good one. One piece transformation is really nice with science, imagination, extra powers like haki implemented, it's powers unique to Luffy, Gear 5 is magical the sheer flair it brings is brilliant and unique, it expresses Luffy's character so well.

Great video my dude and you got yourself a sub. Just found this randomly on my feed and to answer your question my favorite gear is 5 for many theme reasons in One Piece but I will always have a all time spot for gear 2. My favorite anime is technically Gintama with One Piece being a very close second.

The looney tunes sound effects have been in the show since Episode 1 of One Piece. Toei just brought it all together with Gear 5th how Oda intended.

This just made me so happy seeing you react to One Piece ❤ I've been watching the anime since 2005!! I think you'd love watching the anime bro! Im 38 and I'm still emotionally attached to the crew like a giddy kid! 😂

I dunno if people have recommended this but there's a fan cut where they remove extra frames that makes it feel dragged out and removed the explanations for the long arcs for weekly viewers. It's called One Pace. Dressrosa arc, where Gear 4 appears, is originally 118 episodes long. One Pace cuts it down to 48.

I think I've just been transported back in time. Is this an alternate dimension ? You know, I discovered your channel when you uploaded the naruto openings reaction video... time flies

I just discovered your DBZA reaction vids the other day lol

Regular Luffy is Gear 1. In Gear 2, he pumps his blood to make it flow faster, this makes him move faster and hit stronger, before he had problems keeping the form and used to take a lot of energy, but with training during a time skip, he solved the energy problem. He can combine his Gear 2 with haki (The blackness that suddenly appears, most characters can do it.) to make his hits even stronger. All his attacks in Second Gear gain the word "jet", indicating how fast he can move, when he adds the haki, he changes jet for hawk. Gear 3 is Luffy literally inflating his bones to make his hits the size of a giant. Before he had problems with the recoil of the transformation, after releasing the air in his bones, he shrinks down the same time he kept the air in his bones. With the time skip training he solved that problem and with haki he can make his hits harder as well. Gear 4 is almost the same as Gear 3, just that instead of bones, he inflates his muscles, that's makes him bounce endlessly, but because he needs an insane ammount of haki, he can only keep the form for some time, then he gets so tired that he is almost inmovile. With some training before the Gear 5, he could somehow solve that problem. Gear 4 has 3 forms in total. The bounce man, the original form, is pure strength and defense. Tank man, improvised because Luffy ate until his stretching limit and used the Gear 4, is purely defensive. Snake man, this form is focused more on speed, even after he launches a hit, it keeps accelerating endlessly, even getting to the point of overcoming future sighting (Yes, that's a thing, and only a certain few trained enough to do that just some second into the future.). Gear 5 is Luffy's awakening of his fruit. Here is revealed that his fruit was named the gomu-gomu to hide its real power from the world, Luffy's fruit real name is the human-human fruit, of zoan type, a mitological one as well, of model Sun God Nika. To explain this I reccomend you investigate because there's an absurd ammount of lore that I don't know if I get right yet. As part of his new powers, he can make rubbery other things besides his body.

I'm in the same boat as you man. This was fun :)

Your dragon ball collection is sick ngl 💪💪💪

To explain gear 5th, luffy can essentially do anything he puts his mind to and essentially had toon force power that doesn’t just effect him but everything around him, that’s why the enemy he was fighting had his eyes popping out and the sound effects

A lot of the time between each new gear was what really built up the hype behind them, theres also multiple variations of gear 4

This was so hype because of the build up we knew at some point this would happen since it was hinted at after Gear 4 was introduced multiple arcs ago so seeing not only this but how it's presented was awesome. Though too bad they didn't show all the transformations just the gears when first introduced, no Snakeman which was pretty hype when it came out.

damn they skipped Tankman and Snakeman...though i guess technically they're still Gear 4

The thing that makes Gear 5 so powerful is that it doesn't just affect Luffy, everything Luffy touches while using that power will behave like rubber and like a cartoon

Is no one gonna talk about the fact that they forgot the other 2 forms of gear 4!?

Doesn't know any story, watches humongous spoilers, tries to prey on OP fans around the world. What is really the point? When One Piece will get revealed you will watch that too and be like: "Wow! That's so cool!"? If you don't know the background behind all that, you are just missing the most essential part: emotional part. That's just stupid. And wasting a chance to get involved in something that would hit you 1000x stronger if you actually knew what is happening on the screen.

Gear five is basically when his rubber power affects everything around him making the ground and enemies rubber. This allows him to do cartoon like things. He is also able to stretch far beyond what he could do before.

My favorite anime, in essence. I'm very surprised to see this from ya !!

in an interview after Gear 5 debuted in the manga, Eiichiro Oda stated that he noticed a trend in battle manga, where the progression of fights and strength required more and more deathly seriousness, that fans expect it and he was feeling the pull to meet those expectations, and it's fine to want that out of a story, but to paraphrase his response, it was bumming him out, because he just wants to draw a happy little guy, strong enough to save the world with a smile on his face. With Gear 5, he says that both he AND Luffy are finally able to do everything they want to do. To have FUN, and be FREE

The best part of Gear 4th's first showing in the anime is that, right after Luffy kicked his sandals off, the animators drew him with his sandals on in the very next full-body shot of him, hahaa.

"...even if it gonna take 100 years for me to watch" Everyone thinked that Have started in end of august, and now almost caught up to manga

5:32 You're absolutely right, Luffy's powers are all about being a Loony Tunes character. Even more so as the series progresses. One Piece is a wacky world, but where serious things still happen. Luffy as a character is wacky even by the standards of the world he lives in. Whereas Dragon Ball is an action series with lots of comedy moments, One Piece is more of a comedy series with lots of action moments. As for flight, very few characters can fly normally. There are some powers or techniquest that let other people approximate flight. For example, Doflamingo has string powers, which among other things let him be like Spider-Man on steroids. Not only can he swing from buildings, he can also swing from clouds. What looked like a ki blast was a bunch of superheated strings. (That's one of the things about One Piece, characters can have powers that seem like they'd be a joke but are actually really strong. The superheated strings are also based on a bilingual pun. The attack is called "Overheat", which is pronounced "obahito" in Japanese. And "ito" is Japanese for "string".) And there are also techniques for walking on air by kicking the air at super speed. Not actual flight, but it's close. As for Gear 5, the stuff about Joyboy has been hinted at for literally years, long before anybody had even an inkling of Gear 5. And its exact limits have yet to be fully explained. It's not necessarily the strongest power in the world (though it's got to be high up there among the strongest), but it's the most *ridiculous* power because it doesn't seem to be based on any kind of logic. The fight against Kaido (the guy who transforms into a Shenron-looking dragon) in particular was always about the super-serious villain fighting the super-silly hero, because One Piece is all about being silly and serious at the same time.