One Piece: Why Gear 5 Is The Perfect Power For Luffy
Monkey D. Luffy is the protagonist of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece. With the goal of becoming the Pirate King that was given to him by Shanks, Luffy sets out to sea at the age of 17 to acquire a strong crew and claim the One Piece. Over the years, he has become extremely powerful and is quite possibly the closest pirate to the One Piece itself right now. Expectedly, Luffy's journey to the spot has not been easy.
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To overcome the many obstacles in his path, he has had to gain tremendous power and, just like most fictional characters in anime and manga, Luffy has received a number of power-ups over the years. His latest power-up, Gear 5, was used by him to defeat one of the Yonko of the Sea, Kaido. In doing so, Luffy freed the people of Wano and ended up rising to the position of Yonko himself.
Characters in fiction are driven by different things, which end up becoming their source of power. For some, this is an unrelenting determination to be the best, such as Zoro in One Piece. Nearly every character in One Piece has their own driving force which makes them stronger. While some power up from rage, others do so through some other means. Luffy's case is quite curious. Ever since the very beginning of the series, Luffy has always powered up in unique ways to best counter the difficult situations that he has been in. This ties very well to his character as Luffy has never gotten stronger through the cliche power-ups such as rage or visceral anger.
Luffy is the personification of freedom and creativity, and as such, his power-ups have always been tied to these two aspects of his character, which is simply beautiful character writing. This was apparent from his very childhood, when Ace and
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