Wow, I remember reading a very long, detailed theory on gear fourth like 6 years ago and its pretty scary how close this is to what I read. The guy had drawn out examples and everything, the theory was that Luffy was going to be able to control every single muscle of his rubber body allowing him to no longer even throw his arm physically to hit someone, he can just hold his arm out and it'll shoot out. Luffys arm turning in mid air almost seems to be that, King Kong Gun was his arm contracting inwards but Serpent shows the greater control I mentioned. At first I thought he was just mimicking Sengokus Buddha form but this is certainly something I need to see more of to understand, he's bouncing around like a ball all while in haki? If his muscles are full of air now, does that mean his bones are normal sized? Or is this just a condensed form of gear 3rd
@Demonicpoodle:

Also, I'm hoping that Gear 4th is not used nearly as commonly as 2 and 3. I feel like this will be the case… Just a gut feeling there. If it's used too frequently, it'll become associated with Luffy's identity, and to be quite frank I don't want that lol. I feel like this Gear should be used on special occasions. I want to see this version of Luffy, in fights, maybe 20% of the time. Not because I don't like it, it is just very jarring.

I agree, I was gonna compare this to monster chopper but since he can control that now than I don't know what else to compare to, this is not a powerup I want to see used everytime without truly being needed. Has Luffy used gear 2 combined with gear 3rd outside Moriah? I can't seem to remember.

@cloudrivera:

Ok! Does anyone else want to see a Water Logia user? That fruit has the potential to be one of the strongest in this series.

Didn't one of the movies have a water logia and they beat her by trapping her in a jar?

@RobZilla:

However, I still don't think her wearing a skimpy outfit does really clash with her characterization, since not a single person in story has even made mention of it.

Didn't Kinemon comment on her outfit just last chapter?

I've always been opposed to this, the two having a history means Crocodile ran into Ivankov/revolutionaries on his rise to power and evilness~ to becoming Mr. 0, to me at least.

The translation comes off kinda…bad for both MP and MS, idk they just seem weird.

Doesn't Law know about Big Mom right outside of the island with Sanji on there? Sure fighting 1 emperor is better then 2 but the way it's worded makes it seem like he wants to avoid fighting an emperor all together, must be a translation thing. The marines are really bothering me, isn't Ciphor Pol on there along with Fuji? I swear something tells me Aokiji would have just frozen the whole island by now, Kizaru would have blown up Doflamingos house(ooooooo~~ I think I over did it~) and Akainu would have slapped the shit out of doflamingo if he tried to kick him, for an Admiral he sure is passive in comparison to the other 3.

I'm just letting this all soak in. Feels great…real good. What a nice thread.

@desa:

To me they are just noticing the guy falling asleep in the middle of a fight. And the fodders takes their chances on him. Then he goes Berserk-mode they realize he is indeed hakuba and that he is now awaken.

Some notice just a guy falling asleep, while most of the others (to me) have a worried look on their face as if they know of what might happen. Then again everyone is fighting and is obviously going to have tense faces and just happened to look over at caven sleep then suddenly lose.

@Saturnchild:

I am still baffled by why everyone assumes that Burgess is this incredibly powerful beast? Seriously we have seen absolutely and utterly nothing to indicate this. The only real thing we have seem from him is that he couldn't use Haki two years ago making him essentially helpless vs Ace and that he threw a house which is not that impressive. Of course spending two years in the Gran Line would have made him stronger but I don't see him being much more impressive then say Sanji

Well he helps blackbeard hunt down people, I doubt him and the other 'weak no screen time' people are constantly defeated resulting in a constant 1v1 fight with blackbeard with him winning all the time.

@akakami:

no, I mean the black curved "extension of his right boxer glove"

Thats just an opponent in the air, Kelly most likely charged through him, they just drew it weird and the black from the opponents cape and the glove line up.

I want it to have the exploration and big boss battles and in-game cutscenes like before. I actually learned about the series and became interested in it in ninja storm 2 but generations stripped it all away.

So Law is Shiki and I just noticed Smokers scar.

And chopper made a funny face, yup, I'm satisfied for this week.