[Discussion] Luffy Was Never Gonna Get Ace's Fruit to Begin With!!!

[itachi1000]

As much as I wanted Luffy to actually get Ace's fruit, I just found these two SBS's and there were two particular questions that Oda had to answer.

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D: In the ONE PIECE of these days, all kinds of strong ability users whom even Luffy can't compete with have been appearing, one after the other. In general manga and anime, I feel that the protagonist is established to be the strongest of all, but why did you decide to turn Luffy into a pretty weak-looking rubber Devil Fruit user? P.N. Do your best Japan

O: Ahaha, that is true. It must seem like a mystery when you consider all the other strong and cool abilities. The answer is simple. I have picked the most ridiculous ability. If the protagonist were the typical strong guy, I doubt I could continue on with this for long. No matter how serious the story gets, Luffy is there to stretch and inflate. He always give me a chance to fool around. That's the kind of manga I wanted to write.

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D: Now that so many Devil Fruit have appeared in the series, do you ever wonder if it would have been better to make Luffy eat a different fruit other than the Gomu Gomu no Mi?

O: Nope. I absolutely agonized over this before the series began, but not at all since. I love the idea of a rubberman. Well actually, I've flirted with the idea of the Ero Ero no Mi (Love-Love Fruit) maybe 13 times since then.

This pretty much already confirmed that Luffy was always going to stick with just the Gomu Gomu no Mi, no matter how intense the story is going to get.

Here's a link to the two SBS's I'm talking about, so that you can check them out for yourselves and make sure that both of them are legit.

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What do you guys think?

 

[zerosama]

Thank you for confirming I knew Oda wouldn't go to the trouble of giving Luffy a second devil fruit. There's no need for it. REP +

 

[itachi1000]

Thank you for confirming I knew Oda wouldn't go to the trouble of giving Luffy a second devil fruit. There's no need for it. REP +

Glad I could help, and I watched your reveiw of chapter 700 last week, it was great but I don't think Coby is going to eat it.

 

[MacMiller]

Edit: Oh wait, you already did. :devil:

Edit 2: Cool.

 

[WhistleBlower]

Cool, finally some hard evidence and finally people will stop making a billion threads about Luffy getting Ace's logia devil fruit

 

[ziggyZ]

Thank you copying my thread and changing the words you sad, attention seeking plagiarist.

And no wonder you wanted to know which SBS Oda stated these comments in

Which SBS's did Oda answer those questions?

:sy:

 

[ANONYMOUS 182]

Luffy is Strong Enough to Defeat any Upcoming Antagonists in One-piece!!! He has the Conquerer king's haki for god sake!!!!! No Need for more Power-ups!!

 

[Simple Math]

Luffy is Strong Enough to Defeat any Upcoming Antagonists in One-piece!!! He has the Conquerer king's haki for god sake!!!!! No Need for more Power-ups!!

and you think Luffy is the only one with king's Haki?

OT: this thread has already been made. there was no point in making another.

 

[TheHokage]

Luffy is Strong Enough to Defeat any Upcoming Antagonists in One-piece!!! He has the Conquerer king's haki for god sake!!!!! No Need for more Power-ups!!

Na he's still not quite there yet...his Kings haki can only get him so far as it's useless against top level people, Admirals, Yonkous, warlords and many other characters, while I'm not that bothered whether Luffy gets the Mera Mera fruit I would like to see a power up as gear second and third gear are starting to get a little to repetitive since he's using it every fight even against weaklings.

I do like the idea of Luffy getting fire power in a way like red hawk.