- [Narrator] Hello, and welcome
to the Grand Line Review,
your source for everything One Piece.
And today, we are here to discuss
awakenings of the devil fruit variety,
which is interesting
because even though we've known about this concept
since the glory days of Impel Down,
awakenings still have yet to be truly explored
in the series and in fact, we can name
a number of confirmed awakenings of devil fruit users
on one hand,
provided that hand has six fingers,
that is otherwise, you know we'd need a second hand
and it just seems like such a waste to count one more.
Instead, that second hand could be used
to press the Subscribe button for the Grand Line Review,
which would result in regular "One Piece" content
being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed,
a much more better use in my not at all biased opinion.
But the idea of awakenings at the moment
very much takes a backseat to Haki
and furthering that exploration.
But considering the absurd power we've seen
from awakened fruit users,
it's only a matter of time
before this whole concept takes the stage
and in fact, I would pose it
that we may very well have seen
far more awakened devil fruit users than you may think.
Just as brief recap though,
the established kinda awakened users, we know of thus far,
are obviously, Doflamingo and Katakuri,
two Paramecia Wilders,
well one Paramecia and one special Paramecia,
both of whom are able to expand their abilities
to affect the environment around them.
turning it into string and mochi respectively,
although to be fair, they were both pretty subtle uses
of what is in theory, a pretty monumental power.
And of course, the other account in awakened users
would be the jailor beasts of Impel Down,
all of whom were awakened Zoan users,
which gives them access to these like super chunk forms
with increased everything,
power, speed, durability, recovery time, you name it,
an awakened Zoan has it
except for effecting their environment.
Zoan does not have that
but something I do feel is very, very important
to highlight is Minochihuahua,
which I know is not a sentence
any of you expected to hear today.
But post-timeskip, this little fella
was recruited as a jailer beast of Impel Down
and while it is not confirmed
if he is indeed an awakened Zoan,
he is absolutely going to be the first candidate
that I submit here today as a potential awakened fruit user.
I know he doesn't look like much
due to the whole Chihuahua devil fruit thing,
but his form is in keeping
with the rest of the jailer beasts
and I do think that it would be reasonable to suggest
that there is a certain standard that these beasts
have to achieve in order to become employed at Impel Down.
So in all seriousness,
I am feeling pretty damn good about Minochihuahua
being an awakened devil fruit user.
But moving on to someone who will probably be taken
as less of a joke,
the most obvious choice
to have already awakened their devil fruit to me,
is Tony Tony Chopper
and even this deep into the realm of 2020,
I am still flabbergasted that a lot of people
simply don't see this,
but monster point is 100% an awakening
even if it hasn't been referred to as such.
The monster point form looks incredibly strikingly,
perfectly stimulant to the jailer beasts
and it also comes equipped with most of the funky features
of an awakened Zoan.
But the main argument I see used against it
is that the jailer beasts were able
to keep up their forms pretty much permanently,
whilst Chopper is only able to engage
in monster point for brief bursts
but that also makes perfect sense
because Chopper did artificially access
this awakening through the rumble balls,
so he didn't get there by whatever means you're supposed to,
so feel free to call it like a partial awakening
or an incomplete awakening, whatever,
it is still an awakening.
So if anything, that's a pretty exciting thought
to see Chopper potentially push this further,
but I do quite like the idea that the very first Straw Hat
to awaken the devil fruit
was this cotton candy loving lad.
Well, let's move away from Zoans
because other devil fruits do indeed exist
and these next two are going to go as a pair
because Kuzan and Sakazuki present by far
the best evidence for the existence of awakened Logias
though we have seen in the series
primarily through the battle in Punk Hazard,
which permanently altered the climate,
which is my prime thought on what an awakened Logia
would actually do
because it goes so far
as to explain the entire "One Piece" world, really,
for example, why is it perpetually daytime on Enies Lobby?
Well, perhaps that's thanks to an awakened user
of the Pika Pika no Mi,
or why is Raijin Island consistently bathed
in lightening strikes?
Well, that could simply be thanks to an awakened user
of the Goro Goro no Mi and so on and so forth,
which isn't say that I think Enel or Kizaru
are awakened users themselves,
there's really nothing to go by in that regard,
however, Kuzan and Sakazuki are quite different
because we have seen the demonstrable effects
of their abilities in creating the natural phenomena
of Punk Hazard
because even though Logias
are pretty insane right out of the box,
this is just a whole new level.
Two years later,
Punk Hazard is still burning and freezing in equal measure.
This is not your regular Logia use at work
and as such,
I think it would be a fairly reasonable assumption
to label both Sakazuki and Kuzan
as potentially awakened devil fruit users.
Sticking with the Logia around though,
one name that's always bound to come up in this conversation
is Crocodile, mostly because of a statement he made
during the Alabasta Arc
when facing off against Luffy for the first time,
where allegedly, Crocodile states something
along the lines of having mastered
his devil fruit to perfection,
thus implying an awakening in retrospect,
however, this is one of the there's many, many situations
where a fan translation has been taken far too literally
for far too long.
And in fact, if you look at the official English
for either the anime or the manga,
crocodile doesn't even come close
to stating anything like this,
for example, in the manga, his dialogue is the following,
"I've worked hard to develop my devil fruit powers,
"I can use them to make any weapon I want.
"Unlike some fools who are satisfied
"with their powers as they are,
"I continually condition myself and improve my skills,"
which whilst an admirable thought,
Crocodile did still go on
to lose to a pre-timeskip, pre-year, pre Haki-Luffy,
so but if anything with this statement,
Crocodile is implying the exact opposite
of mastering his abilities to perfection,
actually blatantly admitting
that he still has progressed to make.
Meanwhile in the anime,
he doesn't even mention this at all.
He just vaguely says,
"I am not like you other fools
"who are preoccupied with your abilities,"
and then we move on.
Even without leaning on this internet open legend though,
Crocodile is still a reasonable thought
because he can do a wide range of things
that we don't generally see displayed from Logia fruits.
Crocodile has a lot of utility with one specific example,
being that he can drain the moisture from things
which is nice, but not necessarily an awakening,
plus he also hasn't demonstrated
the more permanent climate effect,
given that he needed to use the dance powder
to plunge Alabasta into a drought,
not that that is in any way, the confirmed effect
of a Logia awakening,
but Crocodile is a bit of a tough one.
To me, his ability seem more like a natural evolution
along the lines of Luffy's gears
rather than some sort of awakening.
But at the same time,
I would not be surprised to find out one day
in the far future that he is an awakened user
and in which case I will go on to shame him even more
for losing to Luffy on Alabasta.
But another name that comes up in the Logia world
would be Ace, who I would be even less inclined
to believe than Crocodile actually.
But the idea is that when Ace appeared on Drum Island,
it was said to be a very strange day,
in that it did not snow
in that specific town,
it is not the entirety of the island,
which is a fairly relatively strong piece of evidence.
However, we have quite recently
in the grand scheme of things received an explanation
for this through the Ace novels,
the Canon-acy of which is, that's debatable.
And I really don't wanna go into this too deeply,
but no, the story was not written by Oda,
it was supervised by him and it is different
to the Oda-supervised films in that the Ace novel
is intended to fill the gap in the story
rather than take place in a what-if scenario
that doesn't fit into the timeline.
In any case, during the story when Ace visit Shanks,
Ben Beckman states that Ace's Haki
is strong enough to melt away the snow while he was there,
which you know you can choose to ignore if you'd like
and in the end, it probably doesn't even matter
because Ace is, he's a little bit dead, isn't he?
And speaking of dead,
I wanna throw in a curve ball now
because going back to Paramecias,
I think it's entirely possible that Brook of all people,
may also be an awakened devil fruit user.
Brook is a bit tough though,
because he's a very unique Paramecia
and he certainly isn't a generation style
like Doflamingo or Katakuri
and as such, you really cannot compare it
directly to their examples.
But following the time skip,
Brook's soul-related abilities present a huge layer
of escalation upon his devil fruit,
which originally just allowed him to plunk his old soul
back into his old bones.
But nowadays, not only does he have free control
over his own soul,
but he is also able to exert influence over
and even damage other soul-based existences,
which we have seen repeatedly
with Big Mom's homies and such.
It is complete and at a 100% speculation,
but Brook is a pretty wild user of the Yomi Yomi no Mi.
However, because it is unique to every other fruit,
even the general Paramecia brands,
it is impossible to come to a solid conclusion,
but I must say I am all on board with the idea
of an awakened Brook.
Now to quell some thoughts
that I know some of you might be having right now,
I should also touched
on two other confirmed awakened users
being Gild Tesoro and Douglas Bullet, the main antagonist
of "One Piece" film "Gold and Stampede" respectively.
This does go back to the Ace novel conversation,
but these two are definitely not Canon,
which is why I haven't been wildly eager to mention them,
but Tesoro is the user of the Goro Goro no Mi
which allows him to manipulate,
not generate gold, important distinction there.
And his awakening basically just extends the range of that,
which can cover the entirety, of his casino ship complex.
Meanwhile, Bullet's devil fruit is the Genshi Genshi no Mi,
a Paramecia that allows him to create new things
by combining inanimate objects,
as well as breaking them down
and his awakening is quite similar to Tesoro's
in that it seemingly just increases
the range of objects accessible to him,
which is quite literally anything non-living.
And I do think it's important to bring these two up
because they show the potential for awakenings
of a non-generator type Paramecia,
a fantastic Canon example
of which would be used to Skid actually,
whose ability allows him to attract
and repel objects with magnetism,
so a potential awakening for him
could follow the Tesoro-Bullet standard
by heavily increasing his range of magnetism.
But when it comes to more speculated awakenings,
that does also exist a whole area,
which I don't wanna get too far into,
but in many cases, it would be a natural assumption
to consider the peak figures of "One Piece"
to be potential awakened users
and a good example of something I'm referring to here
would be Dragon, who if indeed he does have a devil fruit,
which has not been confirmed,
however if he did,
his status and implied abilities in the world,
well, that would lead us to giving him
the benefit of the doubt of being an awakened user,
which would not be the craziest thing in the world.
And similar characters would also include
someone like Kaido, although to this point,
we've really only seen two distinct forms
although I personally think it would be quite fun
for the standard form we know of
as Kaido to be his awakened level
and maybe that would even go on to explain
the discrepancy with his legs
and such in those really weird flashbacks.
Although when he gets serious,
he does seem to favor using the full dragon form,
so who knows?
I would find it really weird
if he was not an awakened fruit user though,
weird and quite terrifying
to think that there is further potential
within someone like Kaida.
But also people like Whitebeard
whose Gura Gura no Mi is said to be a power
that can quite literally destroy the world,
that might be much less the Gura Gura is doing
and more Whitebeard being able to awaken it
and increase the range of effect,
Ala, Bullet and Tesoro.
And once again though,
the strongest man in the world,
look, I'd lean towards believing
that he was in awakened user.
Otherwise I feel like this whole practice
might just seem a bit arbitrary
if we have someone like Doflamingo
and others like Katakuri, who stumble upon the secret,
but not figures like Whitebeard.
Then again, the difficulty of awakening
may also very much scale depending on the fruit user,
for example, Chopper who used a very standard human fruit
may have been able to accidentally fall into an awakening,
whereas perhaps a mythical Zoan user
would have a harder time
pushing their already insane powers to that point.
But this video really does only scratch
the surface of potential.
Awakenings are still quite new to us
and heavily unknown in nature, whatever the case though,
I think it's very safe to say
that we have already encountered all sorts of awakened users
that have yet to be brought to light.
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