5 Rarely Known Facts about Luffy's Gear 5!

Since Gear 5 was first introduced by Eiichiro Oda through the manga One Piece Chapter 1044, now the otaku world seems to be even more curious about Monkey D. Luffy's newest and greatest power. Because the awakening of the Gomu Gomu no Mi allows Luffy to strengthen his rubber body and manipulate the environment around him. Considering that on August 6, the power of the Sun God Nika will also make his debut in the anime One Piece episode 1071, this time we will discuss various interesting facts about Gear 5 that are rarely known. Curious? So, check this out!

1. Was mentioned on SBS 98

Do you know geeks that the first fact regarding the existence of Gear 5 Luffy has actually been mentioned by Eiichiro Oda before we could see it. Precisely in SBS Volume 98, where Oda once received a question from a fan whether Luffy will have Gear 5 or not. At that time, maybe not many believed that Luffy would gain greater power than Gear 4. Even so, Oda actually answered the question by giving the code that "the world has started to transition from 4G to 5G technology." Five volumes later, Gear 5 was actually confirmed by Oda via SBS 103.

2. Inspired by Cartoon Effect

After Luffy was told to have reached Gear 5 in his final battle against Kaidou, since then Oda has begun to slowly reveal some new facts to fans regarding this greatest power in One Piece. In the transcript of his interview in Weekly Shonen Jump 2022 #34, Oda said that what inspired him to make Gear 5 was the 'rubber hose' animation style that is usually used in old school cartoons. More specifically, Oda admitted that he wanted Luffy and Kaidou's fight to be as funny as Tom and Jerry. Where Luffy depicts the humorous side of the cartoon, while Kaidou represents terrible seriousness.

3. Have a Familiar Kick

Many fans feel that the main function of Gear 5 itself is to allow Luffy to unleash a number of new techniques that have never existed before in the One Piece story. For example, turning the enemy's strength and the environment around him into rubber that he can use. This fact turns out to be not entirely true, because it turns out that before Luffy became a giant with the Gear 5′ Gomu Gomu no Gigant technique, it turns out that he was also shown growing up in the filler episode of the anime One Piece Arc Z's Ambition. So it would be more appropriate if the various new techniques of Gear 5 are actually variations of Luffy's old techniques, of course with a touch of humor in his head.

4. Early Debut in the Movie Red

The next Gear 5 fact that you should know is that Luffy's appearance with the power of the Sun God Nika made his anime debut earlier in the film One Piece Film: Red (2022). Even though the canon story will only be released on August 6, Luffy with his Gear 5 aura has already been briefly shown in the climactic battle in the movie Red. At that time a number of viewers who didn't follow the story of the manga admitted that they were confused by Luffy's different appearance for a few seconds. The reason the animators did this was purely because they wanted to celebrate Gear 5's debut in the manga.

5. Gear First in Luffy's Bounty

The last fact, Gear 5 turns out to be Luffy's first Gear that is displayed on his bounty poster. It all started when Morgans felt that Luffy's awakening was too confusing, so when Guernica gave him a photo of Gear 5, he immediately printed it without asking the World Government for permission. The five Elders who were disappointed with this decision said that revealing Luffy's awakening to the world was very dangerous. However, because the poster has been spread with Luffy's bounty reaching 3 billion berries, the World Government can only try to anticipate every impact.

Those are the facts about Luffy's Gear 5 that you can use as your provision to see it in the One Piece anime on August 6. Even though Gear 5 has been introduced in the manga and even One Piece Film: Red, the interesting thing is that it hasn't reduced the enthusiasm of fans at all. The reason is very simple, because the process of Luffy reaching Gear 5 when fighting Kaidou is a very important history in the world of One Piece maybe even in the history of anime as a whole.