One Piece fans were just rocked by a huge revelation, as the manga reveals a major secret. However, it turns out creator Eiichiro Oda actually included a hint at the truth over 20 years ago when responding to fan questions.
The true nature of Luffy’s Devil Fruit abilities is a mind-blowing twist that recontextualizes much of what came before it, but One Piece’s creator Eiichiro Oda actually subtly hinted at this reveal over two decades before it happened. Oda is well known for foreshadowing events long before they happen within the story of One Piece itself. But in a question-and-answer section of the manga’s twentieth volume, Oda slyly gave his biggest piece of foreshadowing of all.
One Piece is a long-running manga in Shonen Jump following the adventures of the pirate Monkey D. Luffy and his crew. While it is serialized weekly in Jump, sets of around ten chapters each are also collected into Tankobon volumes. These volumes contain fun extras like fan art and a Q&A section with the author called the SBS. Oda generally answers questions in a humorous manner, but he occasionally provides key pieces of information that he doesn’t have time to include in the story.
In chapter 1044, it is revealed that Luffy’s Devil Fruit isn’t actually the Gum Gum Fruit, but the Mythical Human-Human Fruit: Model Nika. Given the shocking nature of this reveal and the incredible powers that the Fruit has given Luffy over the course of the series, it is clear that the question asked of Oda in that SBS was actually incredibly relevant. And the fact that Oda danced around answering the question should have raised flags that this was an integral part of the story.
This SBS question not only shows how good Oda is at subverting fan expectations, it also proves how far ahead the One Piece author plans out his story. If he didn’t already know that the Human-Human Fruit would play an important role later in the series, he likely would have given a much less cryptic answer. Instead by dodging the question in such a strange manner, Oda gave One Piece fans a subtle hint about Luffy’s true powers over 20 years before he revealed them in the main story.
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