One Piece: Luffy's Mythical Zoan Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika, Explained
One Piece's Wano Country arc is quite possibly the biggest and the most important arc in the New World so far, with a war against one of the Four Emperors, Kaido, finally taking place. At the same time, the arc also holds some major reveals related to the lore of the One Piece world, such as Joy Boy, among others. According to Eiichiro Oda, the author of the story, Wano Country is extremely important and deeply tied to the ending of the story, meaning some of the biggest mysteries that One Piece has to offer could be revealed here.
With One Piece chapter 1044, Eiichiro Oda shocked the fans by revealing one such mystery pertaining to Luffy's Devil Fruit. To everyone's surprise, Luffy, who was always believed to be a user of the Paramecia type Gomu Gomu no Mi, is actually a user of a Zoan type Devil Fruit. Furthermore, this isn't just any Devil Fruit, but a power described to be «the most ridiculous» to exist in the entire story.
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Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Mi is the very first Devil Fruit that fans saw in the story. Stolen by Shanks, the fruit was, at the time, just an average power with no significance attached to it. However, with time, fans got to know more about Shanks' peculiar nature. For him to steal Devil Fruit wasn't normal unless there were some motivations behind it. In the Wano Country arc, Who's Who revealed that Shanks stole the Devil Fruit from his ship when he was guarding it as a member of the CP9. Quite clearly, the importance of the Devil Fruit was established since the World Government wanted to grab ahold of it.
In the fight against Kaido, Luffy finally managed to awaken his Devil Fruit, and immediately afterwards, fans were told by the Gorosei that
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