Spoiler One Piece Chapter 1044 Spoilers Discussion

[uyuu]

you literally dont need a retcon lol. look at the story. they try to kill him constantly, the entire time, hardcore starting at water 7 when they send rob lucci after him, and then its vice admiral + pacifista + sentomaru + 1000 marines at minimum every single other time he shows his face in public, including admirals several times. luffy just always gets away or makes friends with the admiral or whatever. he goes in yonko territory and mont d'or is reporting to cp0 agents that he promises to kill luffy.

But Rob Lucci focused on Franky-Pluton-Nico Robin didnt he? He just treated Luffy as a mission obstacle instead of direct killing target. Sento in sabaody also just recognized him as Supernova instead of "its the only owner of the most dangerous secret fruit alongside trafalgar Law!" They didnt emphasize on that reason even tho they hunting Luffy was somewhat similar in danger level. I mean imo Oda do need a retcon regarding reasoning, so he can retcon it with various occurences behind the scenes.

 

[ArturCantSpeakJapanese]

they didn't send Lucci after Luffy, it was to capture robin

even now in onigashima, the first order given to cp0 was to capture robin which later changed to killing Luffy which simply implies even they were not aware of everything and only now did they get some information which led them to making the decision to eliminate him

the first order was actually to kill whos who because of the gomu gomu leak

 

[uyuu]

"The Mask" teaching Luffy how to be a god.

Luffy taming a literal god and controlling its will

 

[Monkey D Theories]

the whole point of freedom stuff is being free, just like Yami2 nullifies things. Heck Luffy may find a way to do faster than light attacks now since no one restrict Oda to give him enlightment and figure out how to "break free of law of phyics". Looney Toons applied in powerscaling? Reality-warping being wacky? The concept itself is so unbelievably rich imo.

But, i just want this power to come from Luffy's own creativity and out-of-the-box approach instead of a free gift from the best fruit ever he ate since the beginning. Thats the ass part imo.

...but you said ass writing while wanting Joy Boy to possess Luffy and beat Kaidou instead of Luffy himself beating Kaidou so...

I want it to have downsides like the other gears and awakenings so it isn't a free bullshit power up

 

[Strawhats Bible]

Oda is just calling it Gear 5 for fan service. It’s mentioned Gear 4 can be used in it.

Otherwise every awakened person is Gear something.

Gear is how Luffy chose to name his forms lol
What other users have to do with that?

 

[BangOO🍅]

Toki bring Nika Nika no Mi Devil Fruit to 800 years in the future

 

[Mastermind]

the first order was actually to kill whos who because of the gomu gomu leak

Actually speaking of whos who, why didn’t the WG try to eliminate him before

 

[JerAx]

Toki bring Nika Nika no Mi Devil Fruit to 800 years in the future

This I like very much. Either toki herself brought it or toki is the only one who know the real story behind the nika fruit or where it was

 

[sanjikun]

Gear is how Luffy chose to name his forms lol
What other users have to do with that?

Yeah but it doesn’t make sense if another Gear is used within another. Unless the “can use Gear 4” comment is nonsense.

 

[Twin Milf]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the CP0 in Onigashima also think Who's Who had outdated info with him so it wasn't really that big of a deal if he started to spill some beans

 

[BillSlipton]

Next chapter sanji kicks onigashima in half thus ending the battle after luffys consecutive knockout of kaido

The island being split causes the pieces to scatter and not destroy onigashima. 3 pieces fall on queen who just woke up next to big mom

Trust me bro my sources are legit

 

[BangOO🍅]

This I like very much. Either toki herself brought it or toki is the only one who know the real story behind the nika fruit or where it was

Thats the only way she will be more "impactful" to the story rather than being Oden's wife

 

[Strawhats Bible]

Yeah but it doesn’t make sense if another Gear is used within another. Unless the “can use Gear 4” comment is nonsense.

Yeah but that's what Luffy calls this form by the end of the chapter. I agree it makes literally every other gear obsolete so we shall see. The drawbacks must be insane

 

[Monkey D Theories]

Yeah but it doesn’t make sense if another Gear is used within another. Unless the “can use Gear 4” comment is nonsense.

Luffy has combined gears before

 

[ArturCantSpeakJapanese]

But Rob Lucci focused on Franky-Pluton-Nico Robin didnt he? He just treated Luffy as a mission obstacle instead of direct killing target. Sento in sabaody also just recognized him as Supernova instead of "its the only owner of the most dangerous secret fruit alongside trafalgar Law!" They didnt emphasize on that reason even tho they hunting Luffy was somewhat similar in danger level. I mean imo Oda do need a retcon regarding reasoning, so he can retcon it with various occurences behind the scenes.

theyve already captured robin and franky, and later in 404 rob lucci has a scene where he says he doesn't kill anyone unless he's ordered to. rob lucci was specifically told to kill luffy.

if rob lucci is trying to kill someone it means he has gotten specific orders to kill that person.

 

[Seth]

ODA YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING SLUT, I WAS JOKING ABOUT THIS SHIT!!!

We will be good cellmates.

 

[Ashlee]

Yeah but it doesn’t make sense if another Gear is used within another. Unless the “can use Gear 4” comment is nonsense.

He used gear 3 while using gear 2 years ago.

 

[Raughtale]

as long as Oda explains how and when the WG got to understand about Luffy's df properly, this whole thing is fine imo

Technically the how and when has to be pretty recent for things to be fine, if they have known about the rubber properties for too long then things are not daijoubu at all.

 

[BangOO🍅]

Oda introducing Adv CoC and then make Gear 5 ragdolling Kaido without adv CoC.

 

[Monkey D Theories]

Funny how Luffy went from barely YC1 tier to possibly top 3 strongest characters in the span of an arc