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I'm going to cover the One Piece Devil Fruits.
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So if there's three staples of One Piece that most laypeople know is one, the One Piece.
Right.
If you've never seen a single episode of One Piece, you know about the One Piece, basically.
Number two, Luffy and his straw hat.
If you ever see Luffy, you know he's always got that straw hat.
And number three is the Devil Fruits.
Every layperson, I didn't start watching One Piece until recently and I knew about all
this stuff.
Yeah.
I haven't even watched an episode of it and I know quite a bit.
TikTok will teach you everything, apparently.
So the Devil Fruits, one of the most original ideas within the series are these mysterious
fruits scattered throughout all of the world of One Piece that when ingested by a person,
they gain basically superpowers, something unique.
Now for every power, there's only one fruit.
So that's it.
This specific power has this specific fruit.
And once that person eats that fruit, that power transfers to them and that fruit disappears
from the world until that person dies.
And so that and it's permanent.
Once you can take a minuscule bite and the tiniest bite, the powers transfer over to
you.
And that's the Devil Fruit goes, by the way, they taste like shit, apparently.
Every character that has eaten a Devil Fruit has had the same reaction that they're eating
ass or something, just salty, sweaty ass.
Hopefully you didn't get monetized, that was a minute, wasn't it?
Well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
So yeah, once you eat it, the power is yours, permanent.
And there's no transmutation, there's no immense pain that you have to survive for it to finally
work.
It's just you.
It'd be like eating an apple.
They can punch through a wall or something.
That's just how quick it is.
It's like there's no repercussion automatically.
No, it's instantaneous.
The powers are now yours.
There's no real story as to whether these Devil Fruits came from.
They just appeared in the world back in the day.
There's one theory, but I'll get into that in a different video.
But that's it.
That's been one theory in like 25 years of One Piece as to where the Devil Fruits came
from.
At least one official theory from Oda himself.
Right.
He was actually recently this year he talked about it.
See, this is why I should have wrote everything down.
Because now I don't know where to go.
So okay, so one power, one Devil Fruit, that's it.
When that person dies, the Devil Fruit reappears somewhere throughout the world.
Like it just comes back eventually.
They don't know where.
It'll just randomly show up somewhere.
It could be anywhere on the planet and it'll just show back up once that person dies.
Except for one exception that I'll get into in a different video of a Devil Fruit that
did not go anywhere.
It just transferred one person to the other in that same spot.
He died, he got it.
Basically that's all you need to know.
Also you can't stack Devil Fruits.
You eat one, that's all you can have because there's a rumor, a legend, a story.
I don't know where it permeated throughout the world of One Piece, but you eat another
Devil Fruit after you've eaten the first one, your body explodes.
That's what everybody believes.
That's how we believe, don't walk under ladders.
Somehow people believe it, they just do.
And nobody wants to test that.
Nobody's going to test another Devil Fruit.
Except for one exception.
So the exception of the Devil Fruit going to different locations is also connected to
the exception of eating two Devil Fruits.
They're both connected, I'll get into that in a different video.
So yeah, so there's one exception of a Devil Fruit not appearing in the world, or reappearing
in the world, and someone eating two of them.
Same guy too, he's a true asshole.
And the weird thing is, all the powers are different, like drastically different sometimes.
Yet every single Devil Fruit user has the same exact weakness.
Once they hit salt water, it's game over.
They can't swim anymore.
Like if they were Michael Phelps, 15 gold medals, swimming champion, eat a Devil Fruit,
you sink like a rock.
Does that include freshwater as well?
That is what I don't know, because I've seen him take baths before, and I've seen Luffy
covered in freshwater, and he was fine, so I don't think so.
It only seemed to be salt water, connected to the sea.
One of the greatest ideas ever, have a character in a seafaring series, give them superpowers,
and then make their one weakness the fucking ocean, which is like 90% of the world.
Genius, that man is a genius.
So yeah, they hit the water right, and not only do they sink, they're not able to swim
anymore, but they lose the ability to use their powers once they hit the water.
So it's not like they can use their powers to escape, they're done.
They have to be rescued.
I would make a killing.
If I lived there, I would make a company that makes suits specifically designed as flotation
devices for Devil Fruit users.
I would be the richest man in one piece.
Where the water never touches them.
Yeah, you guys need a suit, I got you.
Perfectly tailored to that specific Devil Fruit user.
See, it's the exact opposite of Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.
He can't touch land.
Exactly.
Another thing is they have these things called sea prism stones that act, they have the same
qualities and properties of the sea, and these stones are, I guess, in the vicinity as well,
but if they touch them, you know, they get handcuffed with them, they lose their powers
too.
If you have a whole jail cell of just sea prism stones, and you got a guy that can just
turn into the smoke and disappear, he can't get through them.
So it's just, they're fucked.
So I don't know what, I don't know.
I mean, that is a good weakness though.
Yeah, especially for the world that they inhabit.
Yeah.
I mean, otherwise people that do have these extremely weird powers and stuff, they can
either escape, destroy everything.
Yeah.
So with people like Luffy, if he's on a ship and he uses his powers to reach into the ocean,
does he automatically lose his powers?
That I don't, well, probably.
Well, no, if it is, I guess if his hand shoots back immediately.
Right.
But I've never noticed, I've never seen it, him like actually interact with the water
to get it.
Like say somebody fell overboard and he went to go grab them.
He could probably just grab them and yank them back.
Okay.
So it's not if he just touches the water itself.
That's a good question.
I've never seen him like dunked like over and over getting water.
I've only seen him pretty much drowning in it.
Like falling into it.
Yeah.
And it's their game over.
Cause I get that.
Like, once you're in the water, there's nothing you can do to escape.
Yeah.
You're pretty much done.
Like if your feet are touching something else.
Well, no, cause your body pre-miss you get to like incredibly weak.
Like like, so like sort of like some sort of lethargy that just like, well, you just
do not have the strength to do anything.
That's what I'm wondering.
Like if you like say for instance, he has to walk by the ocean and just touch it, does
he lose his powers?
I don't think that's second.
Probably not.
That's what I'm, that's what I was wondering.
Are these like, well, it's not like Krypton, but the sea prism stones, the minute they
like more concentrated though.
Probably yeah.
I would assume so.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more bullets with sea prism casing on them.
Just fucking up the devil for users.
Cause I would those sea prism stones.
I there's, isn't there a character that can use like a Island, like where he controls
an Island or something like that?
Recently.
Yeah.
There was a guy that's an Island.
Yeah.
He's just, he's got the fucking, it's called the Island Island fruit.
The chapter 10 80, one of Blackbeard's lieutenants or one of his big pirate members.
Yeah.
One of his higher, higher ranking ones, their Island that they inhabit is the guy.
Yeah.
So how would he like,
That's a good question.
How the fuck does he end up on, on the ocean?
If he's a, what the fuck yo?
That blew my mind.
How the fuck is he on the water?
Yeah.
They can't see not losing his abilities.
Is it just because the ground itself is its own thing technically, but still kind of him?
And then well, if it's an Island, isn't it just like floating in the no.
Cause he moves around.
It's weird.
They must explain like a weird thing too.
It'd be okay.
If they took his normal body, like what is perceived as his normal body, cause he's supposed
to be an Island.
So if they put his human side body into a prison with these stones, does he lose power
over the entire Island at the same time?
Well, I don't know if he has control.
I don't know if he is the Island or if he has control of an Island.
Now that I think I've only started reading the actual manga.
Yeah.
I'm starting from chapter one, but I'm also cutting it at the head.
So I'm reading, I only read 10 80 and 10 81.
So I don't know.
It's probably in the chapter somewhere like earlier back.
So I'm just acting like a fool, but,
There are a lot of questions that,
Well I will answer all of them eventually.
I'll be reading every chapter one piece, watching every episode.
I'm like at 500 episodes already.
Five 42.
But I'd like to study Oda's actual word for words in that he writes.
Cause you know, they change a lot of stuff in the manga and the anime.
They always do that though.
Just cause it's a different medium.
So they have to like change the dialogue.
And that's one thing that I didn't like when they left out certain things within Overlord
within the series itself.
Like the light novels had obviously the most information in them.
Then the manga had a good amount of information.
And then they just left out the entire light novel parts completely for the show.
So it is, I guess.
Well, when they're adapting, I think it's a, I think it's like four, maybe, maybe five
light novels per season.
So you're taking four light novel books.
Dancing.
Yeah.
So they leave out a lot of information.
There's another YouTube channel that they go over everything that was missed in the
season that was in the books itself.
It's a lot of information that they leave out.
I guess I have to pick and choose.
So I'm assuming they do the same thing with one piece.
Honestly, for what I've read and what I've seen, they only really take stuff that like
one of these characters named Zeke, him and Sanji, Luffy's, one of his top pirate friends,
one of his crewmates.
His origin was they were stuck on an island, but it was like a rock.
And they had no, they had just had small bundles of food for each other.
And then they had to survive when a ship came because they got shipwrecked or stranded.
In the manga, no, in the anime, Zeke saves Sanji because he was drowning.
He's still a kid, so he's drowning.
And it's a flashback.
And Zeke gets stuck in between like the fucking wreckage of the ship.
So he ties a fucking chain around.
He cuts his leg off to escape to save Sanji.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
In the manga, he fucking cuts his leg off and eats it on the island because he didn't
have any food.
Yeah.
He lied to Sanji saying that this food is yours.
This food is mine.
He had this big cover over something, but it was his treasure.
Yeah.
He had no food.
He gave Sanji all the food.
He just had all the gold.
He fucking ate one of his legs.
He was probably going to eat both of them.
Like, you might as well eat both of them.
You ate the first one.
Yeah.
Yeah, they've cut out a lot of things like that there.
But other than that, they've never really, not that I've seen so far.
Like actually seeing the panel and then seeing the animated version of that panel is pretty
cool.
That's cool.
They go like actual to actual.
Yeah.
Like where they actually captured it.
Yeah.
They just make it more, you know, they have to stretch it out.
Yeah.
Buy white Dragon Balls either.
Fight with Frieza was like 92 episodes.
Oh my God.
Like 15 pages at 99 episodes.
Jesus Christ.
I just watched a video I think earlier.
It was either earlier or last night.
I can't remember which, but where it shows all the ass whippings that Vegeta has taken
and he always holds that arm.
Yeah.
Like ever since he got kicked in that fucking arm by Android 18, he's been fucked ever since.
Well, even before that, like whenever he was fighting against Frieza and all of them, that
you can go back that far, he's still holding the same arm.
He's got a bad limp arm apparently.
What was that group that fought Vegeta during the Frieza saga?
You know, you know, there was the red alien.
There was the, the big dude that had the weird fucking hair and stuff.
Yeah.
The guy that was just like, it looked like he was from Mississippi.
Yeah.
Red hair.
Yeah.
But he's the one that he, like, I think he kicked him in the arm again.
So like, and he still, he gets up just holding that left arm.
He got fucked up.
And then they were showing how Gohan got his ass whipped in that.
If I get anything from Dragon Ball Z that I see everywhere, it's fucking the Yamcha
death crater.
They replay that shit.
You know, they have a, they have an actual, it's not, it's not life size.
It's expanded.
Yeah.
Of him just laying in a crater display.
It's not life size.
It's twice.
It's like three or four times as big.
Oh my God.
Just him just laying there.
Just fucked up.
Oh, there's so many memes that you can get for Dragon Ball Z.
Yeah.
A bunch.
I mean, look, that's where one of the first pervy old men came from.
Yeah.
Master Roshi.
If I get Dragon Ball Z has a lot of, the one that I see a lot about memes of all time,
I think to me anyway, is SpongeBob SquarePants.
I don't think I've, I've seen, you get memes from one episode that lasts a lifetime.
Yeah.
The sad thing is I don't, it wasn't marketed as a kid show originally.
It is a kid show still.
I mean, I know it's a kid show, but like, man, when it's that good, when it's that fucking
masterpiece, it doesn't matter.
It's one of those few.
It's a cult classic.
Well, it's almost like the, the Batman, the animated series.
Yeah.
A lot of adult.
What have a lot of adult jokes in there that kids are not going to get.
Like it was bright and colorful for the kids, but I mean, opposite of what Batman animated
series was dark and brooding for kids.
It was one of the few kids shows where it's like, yeah, the same for kids.
Not even close until they kind of, then they really took it to kids.
When it, when it went into like that with different artwork to match the Superman series,
then I got really like a kid show.
And it's still like, there was still points that it wasn't too bad.
It was really bad though.
Whenever they came out with that, uh, the Batman animated series, the Batman doesn't
want with the guns, the like fucking toys.
Yeah.
And the Joker looked like a monkey.
Didn't have dreadlocks and like loved kickboxing for some reason.
It like, but they always had him crouching like a chimpanzee.
Yeah.
And then the penguin was like a expert fighter.
Yeah.
Like he can't fight for shit.
That's the whole point.
I was on Cobble Pod is real fat.
He's supposed to be like a Danny DeVito character.
Yeah.
They always, they always assume that when you're a kid, that all you want to see is
people fist fight each other.
No, not always.
I mean, sometimes you want to see a good story.
Well, that's what I liked about the animated series.
I've talked about it before, but the, the, um, the stories that they had within them.
So like you actually felt bad for Mr. Freeze.
Not me.
Fuck that man.
Fuck him and his wife.
What was her name?
Nora?
Yeah.
Nora freeze.
Yeah.
Nora.
I got to say Nora.
I got real bad though.
Whenever they went to that secondary art work style that you were talking about, they changed
his whole suit.
It didn't look right.
It was immediately Tim Drake.
Yeah.
I don't know what the hell happened.
Uh, uh, Dick Grayson and they completely skipped over Jason Todd until he got to the,
uh, the WB animated, uh, universe.
And then you got the rest of them.
But yeah, they just get right over Jason.
So fuck him.
He died in the comics.
We don't need him here.
Basically.
Man, we should went on the tangent.
We were talking about one.
Sorry.
Not really because that's all there was not much information for just that one video.
Yeah.
If I did the whole thing, I want to do for depth.
The devil friends be like two hours long.
So I got to split it up.
I guess the last thing I should say about, uh, the water thing is there is one guy named
crocodile who can, uh, uh, morph into sand.
He's pretty basically sand man.
Yeah.
He's got the same sand, but he laughs like to count from a Sesame Street.
Ah, ah, ah.
It reminded me of that family guy episode.
Why?
When he's asked me like, one nipple, ah, ah, ah, two nipple, ah, ah, three.
Oh hell no.
I remember he, uh, there was one where, uh, Peter asked, uh, Brian like, and Brian's like,
Brian, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll show you Brian's, uh, end of his conversation.
So you're asking me if the vampire from Sesame Street, uh, kills and drinks the blood of
people on Sesame Street.
And Peter's like, yeah.
He's like, no, no, he doesn't.
Basically wanted to know if the cow from Sesame Street, yeah.
It kind of makes you wonder.
But a crocodile is his name and, uh, he was, he's the only who devil fruit user that I've
seen that gets affected by regular water too.
Really?
Yeah.
So regular water, because he can turn into sand, he can become intangible.
And he could tank hits.
They just, they don't hate them.
Cause he, Luffy found out that if he covered himself in water, he can hit him and it would
hurt him.
Huh.
So he's like the only one I've seen so far.
Like he turns himself to sand on a beach, then he's fucked.
Basically if he gets stuck in the fucking, uh, next to the ocean and the high tide, the
waves.
Yeah.
But I've seen Luffy take a bath.
I mean, and if I've seen him covered in freshwater, not affect him.
So it must just be, it must be like though he's like a twofer.
So he can't even take a bath.
So he's double fucked.
Basically it's like, well, I can't take a shower.
So I smell like shit.
Well, he's made of sand.
So they do say they bathe in sand.
I've heard that people bathe in sand in the desert.
Yeah.
You can, but I mean, it's like trusting that bidet.
Oh, oh yeah.
I don't know if it'll wipe everything.
All this shit off.
I'm trusting you here today.
You fucking can't see back.
You said that you, you go about your, you, you used a bidet, right?
You go about your day.
You come home, you get undressed, take a shower right before you go to bed.
And there's just a fucking waff of fucking shit coming at you.
Like damn it, but then you're fucked.
You took a quarter of the shit off.
Like the guys that we've talked about in some of these stories where it's just a massive
error.
Man.
So yeah, so he can't take a bath.
That sucks.
Yeah.
Even blood hurts him.
Like any liquid.
Really?
Yeah.
Any liquid.
So just any liquid then?
Yeah.
Huh.
Because he, Luffy had lost their first encounter.
So crocodile has his big ass hook in one hand, like captain hook.
And he just fucking completely skewered Luffy and Luffy grabbed his arm that the hook was
holding him from and he squeezed on crocodile's arm and crocodile winced.
He's like, ah, that hurts.
Luffy noticed that cause Luffy has an incredible intellect for battle.
He's dumb as bricks 99% of the time.
Like if you have a plan, right?
Yeah.
And then this is, no, this is Luffy's philosophy.
This is Luffy's philosophy.
A hundred percent.
They can't stop our plan if we don't have one.
That's basically Luffy.
It's a good idea.
But he has an incredible intellect for combat.
When he fought crocodile the second time, he was walking around with a fucking barrel
of water on his back.
He had a fucking hose that he was spraying himself with.
He's like, I learned your weakness now.
He lost again.
He lost the second time too.
That's for different reasons.
Got his ass whipped even though he had the kryptonite with him.
Basically he had to hit him three tries.
I'll give him credit.
He never gives up.
So that's it for Devil Fruits and we and whatever random stuff.
I guess you can write this episode will be chapter, episode 26, One Piece Devil Fruits
and Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous shit.
Sorry for the tangent people.
But hey, don't you guys worry.
This is what we're good for.
Just get a little information about a beloved series.
Learn some random stuff about us, some random stuff about the world, and we all can come
together and live one happily.
Damn it.
I fucked that up.
Trying to be all poignant and philosophical.
It didn't come out right?
At all.
I think that is everything for this episode and we will see you guys on the next one.
All right.
Thanks so much.