[Question] Gear 4th

[Banisher]

How does he gets the tattoes

 

[Punk Hazard]

It's Haki bruh

 

[FoxesInWonderland]

The design looks weird lol

 

[Venomous Cobra]

Haki fam, even though the anime made it seem like it had to do with gomu gomu devil fruit shape

 

[pnbhatta]

Exactly what I was going to ask. If it is haki than what about it, why it is in a random pattern, & what does that mean??????? And how did a haki make a tattoo.........

 

[giostep]

Its Haki. As luffy stated he used that form to fight off the beasts, so that may have something to do with it, he had to look like a while animal, and some animals have patterns and we are not sure as to why. But to answer the question again, it is Haki.

 

[Love Cook]

Luffy's look is inspired by characters of Japanese folklore/mythology.

In old paintings and traditional Kabuki theatre gods and demons were depicted like this.

Let's compare !:

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Enel and the god of thunder

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If you're thinking, that looks familiar. you're right.

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Naruto did it too, the other god is Fuujin, the god of wind. With a bag of wind over his shoulders.

(Get it ? Wind vs Lightning)

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Back to the subject:

Here we have Kumadori

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And Jiraiya:

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And the facial paint used for these characters is called Kumadori as well:

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So if you compare the god pose with the tattoo's and the facial paint you get something like this:

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It's basically full of references to Japanese culture. Oda's trademark.