Shonen Jump's New Manga Steals Luffy's First One Piece Devil Fruit Power
Warning: contains spoilers for the first chapter of Aliens Area
Yesterday, Shonen Jump released a new manga called Aliens Area, written and illustrated by Fusai Naba, and it already has some similarities to One Piece. The very first chapter covers many of the story beats typical of a shonen manga series, wasting no time in getting to the main story. Despite the rush, something stands out in the series' very first battle scene, in which the protagonist unleashes a power that is eerily similar to One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy's very first Devil Fruit power.
Aliens Area follows Tatsumi Tatsunami, a teenage orphan living and working multiple jobs in Tokyo to support his younger siblings, Taro and Sachi. Like many other series from Shonen Jump, the main character has a tragic backstory. Halfway through the chapter, readers learn that Tatsumi was trapped in a burning building and that he was saved by a light but doesn't remember anything after it. Soon after that flashback, Tatsumi is attacked by aliens, stating that they are after something implanted in his right arm, which begins to act up in the aliens' presence.
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Following that, one of the aliens attempts to kill Tatsumi's siblings, eliciting a violent response from Tatsumi. He reaches out with his hand, and it stretches out and punches the alien through the door and sends it flying into another building. This attack is what stands out about the battle. Tatsumi's punch is nearly identical to Luffy's original Devil Fruit attack in One Piece, the Gum-Gum Pistol. One Piece fans certainly know the pirate manga protagonist's signature attack, where he throws his stretchy arm back as far as he can before
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