fellas, i'll be honest; i didn't really like this chapter's reveal. i know the chapter isn't officially out yet, and i assume all we have are small snippets of what it is (excluding the dialogue, which i think always gets 100% leaked), but still, right now i'm not too fond of it. this thing feels stupid.
like, why even retcon luffy's fruit like that?! a zoan fruit, really? one of the coolest things about luffy, in my opinion, was that he was able to fight on par with most of his opponents - of course, because he's strong as hell- but also because even though he was a paramecia user (and with the gomu gomu fruit, at that), he was able to wipe the floor because he
mastered the damn thing, while at the same time always being able to create new forms to attack on the fly. monkey d. luffy is probably the prime example of the fact that you can become nearly unstoppable if you learn how to use your fruit properly. but now he just so happened to have eaten the mythical hito hito no mi: model nika.
of course, the spoilers say that nika's fucking body had properties of rubber, and that somehow passed on to the fruit, who of course passed these properties to their users and etc., so there's a very high chance i'm just complaining like a 'tard. still, i have to give it to oda: instead of this changing all of luffy's fighting dynamic, it's just "gear fifith". i wonder if it'll have a stamina limit like gear fourth, and how it will perform during other fights in the future, and other things.
at least it wasn't some reincarnation bullshit.