One Piece: Red is set to hit theaters in Japan this August, featuring the long-awaited return of Red Haired Shanks alongside the introduction of his daughter, the ultimate diva, Uta. While the questions of when this story takes place are still up in the air, a new poster is making fans of the Grand Line begin to wonder if Luffy’s latest transformation, Gear Fifth, might have a role to play in the fifteenth film of the franchise from Eiichiro Oda.
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If you aren’t familiar with the power of Gear Fifth, Luffy was able to access this new transformation while fighting against the captain of the Beast Pirates, helping him to win the War For Wano. Revealing that Luffy’s original devil fruit was actually a Mythical Zoan fruit that grants him the abilities of the Sun God Nika, the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates was given a radical makeover that allows him to basically become a living cartoon, turn the environment around him into rubber, and even pluck lightning bolts from the sky to hurl at his enemies. While Luffy and Kaido both knocked one another out in the final moments of their battle, it was enough for the Wano resistance fighters to declare victory.
Twitter Outlet New World Artur shared a new poster that features both One Piece: Red as well as the recent events of the Shonen’s manga, though the user believes that the inclusion of Gear Fifth is simply to highlight the events of the War For Wano Arc rather than hint at the idea of Luffy’s newest transformation being a part of the movie:
It will be interesting to see where Gear Fifth appears first in terms of animation, as the television series could document Luffy’s new transformation before the movie lands in Japan on August 6th of this summer. Regardless, fans are waiting to see Luffy’s most powerful form hit the anime proper considering how out there the transformation is and the wild implications of Monkey’s powers while accessing it.
Do you think we’ll see Gear Fifth arrive in the fifteenth film of the series? Feel free to let us know in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comics, anime, and the world of the Grand Line.
