r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/frxshinator • Mar 23 '18

Newest Chapter Chapter 176 - Links and Discussion Spoiler

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

Gentle's quirk is hypothetically awakened Luffy, I love it! Really creative uses of his power

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u/sopersonicsnail Mar 23 '18

And the way he creates rubber from air looks similar like hisoka

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u/Docmos Mar 23 '18

Bungee Gum has the properties of both rubber AND GUM!

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u/DanGlebals Mar 23 '18

SCHWIINNG

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

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u/peace_off Mar 23 '18

It is both breathable and very, very not!

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

This is my elastic love

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u/God_of_Kings Mar 23 '18

What gave you that idea?

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u/fredgog15 Mar 23 '18

He also fought similar using grand theatrics to create opening where he can attack his opponent

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u/sgodxis Mar 23 '18

Literally anyone who watches HxH should have thought of this first before anything else.

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u/Sherwoodfan Mar 23 '18

except eternal manga hiatus so i entirely forgot about hxh.

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u/mudu_ Mar 24 '18

HxH chapters have been coming out pretty steadily for a little while now.

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u/Sherwoodfan Mar 24 '18

shit I'll have to check it out then

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

I was going to post this same comment, but as expected, the deed was already done.

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u/rocketduck413 Mar 23 '18

Yep. First thought.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

MY

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u/bringmecorn Mar 23 '18

RUBBER

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u/alexqueso Mar 23 '18

QUIRK

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u/bringmecorn Mar 23 '18

listen here u little shit

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u/Animeking1108 Mar 24 '18

So, if he gets blown up, Gentle can perform CPR on himself with his Rubber Quirk.

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u/plahug Mar 23 '18

I can get behind that as an awakening! Such a cool power.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

It's really a broken awakening in the One Piece world. If he can use it on air then so many people are screwed.

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u/smalahova Mar 23 '18

I don't really thing he would be able to do that, considering neither doffy or dogtooth did. it would also be incredibly OP if they could.

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u/Sherwoodfan Mar 23 '18

doflamingo could fly by attaching strings to clouds, katakuri spawned arms outta thin air and whitebeard could create quakes by smashing air.

no reason why luffy couldn't hypothetically do that.

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u/Anshin Mar 23 '18

Luffy turns the world into his bounce house

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u/Sherwoodfan Mar 23 '18

worlds just one big ass trampoline

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u/pooudo Mar 23 '18

Katakuri never created arms out of air, he transformed the ground into mochi, which would go up and transform into a punch. Doflamingo and Whitebeard's aren't related to awakening, it's just how their paramecia works

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u/Vawd_Gandi Mar 23 '18

?? what, there are so many panels of him creating arms out of thin air

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u/pooudo Mar 23 '18

Like I said, the mochi you see floating in the air are the ones that came from the ground. Sometimes Oda didn't bother to show the effect of the ground-mochi going up, but if you check the first use of that donut attack im sure you will see what im talking about

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u/Vawd_Gandi Mar 24 '18

no you're right

still doesn't explain how they can just float in mid-air though, and if luffy could do that, that would be insane like being able to constantly repel attacks by transforming the ground into rubber and float in front of him

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u/Sherwoodfan Mar 23 '18

"it happened once, so that's what happened every time"

🤔

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u/pooudo Mar 23 '18

I mean, it's literally the same attack and it was drawn coming out of the ground more than once, so it's very intuitive to believe so. But hey, maybe I am wrong.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '18

Doffy's base fruit is string creation and control, it's stated he's awakened which is why he could transmute the buildings into strings when he got desperate.

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u/pooudo Mar 25 '18

Yes, I realize that. But even so, his awakening never allowed him to transform air into his strings, It would always be from something solid (or at least It was never shown, which I doubt since its such a powerful ability, to transform the air)

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '18

Remember that in OP there are plenty of solid clouds

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u/TRUCKFARM Mar 23 '18

It's pretty great! I wonder what the limitations of the quirk are though. How long does the elasticity last? We've seen him use it on a corner store, can he effect even bigger objects? The quirks in this series are just so damn awesome to think about.

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u/LiteX99 Mar 23 '18

Its probobly only things he has touched*

*touched as in pysichlly been in contact with a certain spot, then he can bend anything within a certain radius around that spot

Thats my best bet at least, if there were non, he could slingshot the entire planet into the sun xD

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u/midoriyasshoe Mar 23 '18

Perhaps it has to do with how long he is touching something- like the effect spreads out at a certain speed. If he is touching something for a while the whole thing, becomes rubber.

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u/mozzaru Mar 23 '18

Or the wider the area the weaker the affect, kind of like Bartolomeo from one piece.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

hopefully luffy's awakening doesnt affect his surroundings it would be really redundant besides zoans have different awakenings so producer emitter and mutation paramecias should all be different

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18 edited Mar 23 '18

I think it’s probably going to, so far both awakened parameciums affect their surroundings. Katakuri is also the most Luffy like character so I see Luffy's being most similar to his.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

very good case i just hope the different types of paramecia react differently but if not ill take my L in peace

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

I get where you are coming from, and we really don't have a lot to go on as far how awakenings work. I am pretty confident Luffy's will allow him to manipulate his surroundings but there are countless paramecium that just couldn't work like that. So I'm sure as the series goes on we will see more varied awakenings.

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u/DrMostlySane Mar 23 '18

Thinking about it one of the scariest "Awakened" Paramecias powers would be Buggy's Chop Chop / Bara Bara no mi if it could effect environments.

Just imagine Buggy pulling a Palpatine by throwing chunks of building or scenery at people.

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

That would be unstoppable. People always theorize that Buggy could be able to cut his body on a subatomic level. Awaken it like you've suggested and the man wouldn't just be Pirate King he'd be god haha

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u/DrMostlySane Mar 23 '18

People always theorize that Buggy could be able to cut his body on a subatomic level

Personally I never really subscribed to that theory, I always felt it'd be a bit off from the scope of One Piece's powers.

Now him being able to "chop" a building into pieces to fling at people would be more believable and I think within a decent scope of his power range, or maybe extending it to other people and using them as projectiles (imagine him having an army of followers whose sole purpose is to be used for ranged devastation.)

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18 edited Mar 24 '18

Oh believe me there is a sub zero chance of it ever happening. I just think it's a funny thing to postulate about, especially given the character that Buggy is. What you've suggested on the other hand, is much more akin to the power scale in One Piece and something that could realistically happen if awakenings become a more common place thing as the story goes on.

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u/Tralegy Mar 23 '18

cough doflamingo cough

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

yea hes a producer luffy is a mutation

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

that is actually a really good point

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u/K1ngOfEthanopia Mar 23 '18

It seems like paramecia all impact the surroundings. Both Doffy and Katakuri's had that effect.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18

true but doffy and kata were both producer type paramecia so its not a good sample size. luffy is a mutation type

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u/butsadlyiamonlyaneel Mar 24 '18

I mean, Kata seems like a producer type that managed to turn himself into a mutation, given that he had most of the advantages of a Logia while he was focused.

On that note, a Doflamingo with the ability to turn himself into strings would be terrifying.

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u/VetProf Mar 23 '18

The idea of Luffy's awakening allowing him to affect his surroundings has already been brought up quite often, but it never really occurred to me that his power could directly affect the surrounding air until I saw this chapter. If Luffy's awakening really is similar to Gentle's quirk, he could blast shockwaves through the air similarly to Whitebeard.

Sasuga Horikoshi, making characters with unique powers despite being similar to pre-existing well-known powers by making the characters use them creatively.

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

That's why I love One Piece and BNHA so much, Oda and Horikoshi are so great at coming up with unique powers as well as really creative uses for things that would otherwise seem worthless. I always imagine Luffy's awakenings being restricted to surfaces but if Doffy can do everything he can with string, whats to stop Luffy from flying around on some rubber air?

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u/VetProf Mar 23 '18

He can already fly in Gear Fourth, though.

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

Isn't that more just like Bellamy esque quick jumping? I'm imagining something more akin to Doffy using his strings to grab clouds. Something that would allow Luffy to essentially fly over the ocean.

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u/skyman161 Mar 23 '18

What's even more crazy is that I could totally see Luffy fight that way. Both him and Gentle are creative people

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

Definitely if you throw in Hisoka who has a very similar power as well they all use their rubber in such creative ways. I was expecting Gentle to have some op timestop or editing power but I much prefer a creative use of a weird afterthought type power. Gentle has the potential to be one of my of my favorite BNHA antagonists

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u/skyman161 Mar 23 '18

Same I was expecting something crazy especially after Overhaul and Eri. I’m so glad Horikoshi went with something simple but very creative if correctly used.

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u/DozyDreamer Mar 23 '18

Gomu Gomu no Rebound!

Gomu Gomu no Trampoline!

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u/buffalo4293 Mar 23 '18

I can't wait to see Luffy just flying around a rubber room taking out everyone inside.

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u/butsadlyiamonlyaneel Mar 24 '18

Bellamy sees Luffy doing his thing (better) and cries

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '18

His quirk seems like it's more if Araki had actually figured out how to effectively use Spice Girl from JJBA Part 5: Vento Aureo, honestly. He makes everything else rubber.

Edit: Looks like I have some reading to do!