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Apr 18 12 tweets 6 min read
"Gear 5 luffy has a design problem" thread

No, this isn't edgy vs goofy argument, i'm talking about contrast.

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As yamato said, luffy's hair & clothes turned white in gear 5. Hence, removing his signature black hair and red shirt.

Now, forget about that, he could be just any color but what most important is what he looks like in black & white manga. Image
Oda designed most of his character with some black value in them. Including some color-coded white characters like garp.

He did this so he can put his character in any kind of situation, setting, angle, without obscuring them. His characters will always stand out. Image
It may sounds obvious since a lot manga did the same. But for one piece, it his everything. Especially for the MC.

Luffy is small, so does Oda's paneling, yet the world & his enemies are huge. But thanks to this black value, in every panel luffy will always grab our attention. Image
This gear 5 doesn't have that. Just look at some of this panels and compared to his normal design. It's the opposite of what Oda always did.

However, I think Oda did this purposely. Image
The setting

In contrast to Oda's characters, his background/setting will be mostly white. No matter how detailed it was, it will always compliment the characters.

This time however, the fight takes place in an open night sky (screentone), it's a great contrast to gear 5 design. Image
This is why Oda changes Luffy design. From now on his final battles will takes place at night or darker setting.

Imagine this luffy fights blackbeard with darkness in the background. The darker the setting, the brighter luffy is. Fitting for someone who will brings the dawn. Image
Adaptability

Another angle to look at gear 5 design is it's basically a blank canvas. Oda can fills it with ink anywhere he wanted.

At first I thought it would be completed with haki. However, in the last 3 chapters we didn't see any coating (black lightning only). Image
Then, the last panel dropped.

Luffy holding a lightning, sparking intense shading on his body. It reminds me with Oda's old shading pre time skip.

If luffy still had his usual design, it will looked like this with Oda's current shading. Image
I wouldn't be surprised if luffy also can hold fire like King and creating the same shading (black ink). Maybe even a lunarian skin (screentone). Oda literally can do whatever he wanted.

So, it isn't a stretch to say, this gear 5 really is Luffy's freest form ever. Image
Thank you bro 🙏

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Jul 29, 2021
“High quality One Piece chapter” thread

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Ok, first.

It should be a common sense that scan is not the best representation for artwork quality.

The magazine was purposely made with low production cost. Of course it would be darker, thicker, and messier. Especially when you compared them to the cleaned volume releases. ImageImageImageImage
Fortunately, we are in the era of digital manga publishing. Popular manga like berserk, vinland saga, aot, opm, etc. were released digitally in Japanese or English.

That include WSJ series, where we can read the latest chapter for free.
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