This weekend marked the premiere of One Piece episode 1071, and it gave Gear 5 Luffy a proper introduction to the world. And as we all hoped, the episode took Luffy to the next level this weekend ...

By awakening the powers of his Devil Fruit, Luffy is now able to harness the powers of the sun god, Nika, and become the Warrior of Liberation. While in his Gear 5 state, Luffy is able to take on ...

but this high-tech take captures the epic scale of One Piece. Creator Eiichiro Oda has spent decades building up Luffy to his current power level. Gear 5 is a testament to Oda’s massive world ...

‘One Piece’ has one of the most celebrated moments in Eiichiro Oda’s work with the Gear Five, Luffy’s final transformation. A technique that is the result of the awakening of the Gomu Gomu ...

These things have also affected other aspects of One Piece, such as Luffy's infamy on the high seas ... which gave him access to Gear 5. All these powers combined eventually led to Luffy defeating ...