Already confirmed the best MC in fiction so a little award like this doesn’t move me 😮💨
And I hear you on the eyes popping effect, it’s really more of an acquired taste/annoying quirk because Oda likes to troll the “Why isn’t this more serious like Berserk” readers.
It’s pizza-diffs your fave from now on lol
That’s a fair post, I think it’s just that Luffy LOVES the feeling of absolute freedom in G5. But I guess for lesser opponents he might use lower gears to avoid the G5 drawback.
I think Luffy is just realizing his true power. He isn't a rubber man. His imagination was limited at the very instant he ate the fruit. All the gears have been invention of his limited rubber powers. Gear 5 as he calls it is the awakening of the Nika fruit. He didn't invent it, the fruit awakened.
Now Luffy' df power unlimited but subconsciously he is still limited and that will be erased by Vegapank or some different character. Luffy feels free because his imagination has widened. He is a troll, he has a lot of gag, his own crewmates ridicule him for his gag intelligence and that is why he fights like this.
Gear 5 isn't a gear, its the real nature of the fruit. Once his rubber limits are done, holy hell. I can still imagine Bonny turning Luffy into a 40 year old version of himself, and I believe that will help him stall the gorosei until there is a way his crew mates safely leave the place. Just imagine a prime Godfy, looking like a mix of Garp and dragon, releasing CoC that can knock VAs and even making admirals shake. I am sensing a huge " I am him" moment from him.
The ancient giant wakes up, but 5 gorosei that take no damage is still a big threat. He might be a way to get to Elbaph or he sacrifices himself to stalling but I feel Luffy has to do something that will make this broadcast of VP successful. The incident involving Gorosei stopping the broadcast isn't world breaking. This info has to continue so the Gorosei have to be stalled until it is out. So there will be a battle, bonney's df hasn't been used on Luffy. That is a power that can be used in need. Shinobu did it to Momo so Bonney distorted future into Prime luffy would break the internet again.