With so many years of drawing, Eiichiro Oda has now stopped Luffy’s character design. Apart from some variations to allow the ONE PIECE protagonist to better immerse himself in the island environment, he is always presented with his straw hat, black hair, long-sleeved red jacket, blue shorts, yellow belt and sandals.
A virtually fixed design that rarely changes – as is the case with Luffy’s character design in ONE PIECE: RED – but with the recent upheavals of past chapters, Eiichiro Oda has made an important change to his protagonist. Activating the fifth gear will cause Luffy to change color. Or rather, not only he, but everything he wears changes radically.
As Yamato points out, Luffy turns completely white and the same happens with his clothes. Why did Oda choose to turn Luffy white during the fifth gear? The election can be traced must clearly confront Luffy Blackbeard, also in the chromatic domain. Marshall D. Teach has “black” in his name from his nickname, plus he has the darkness that is black, thus would create a sharp contrast between black and white in the final battle of ONE PIECE.
However, the possibility that Eiichiro Oda wanted it should not be underestimated emphasize a manga-style transformation, where the protagonist is all white, as is the case with the characters drawn on paper. Since comics are meant to entertain, the author wants to emphasize this connection and the need for laughter by turning his protagonist into a living comic caricature.
What do you think of Luffy’s transformation into ONE PIECE? Did you like the choice to make it all white?
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