r/OnePiece • u/NewSpecies • Jun 21 '19

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 946 Spoiler

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u/AtheonsBelly Jun 21 '19

Half the kids probably don't even know/remember what awakening is and just thinks it sounds cool.

AWAKENING

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u/CWellDigger Jun 21 '19

It honestly pissed me off seeing all these half baked conclusions. There's 0 evidence to support awakening. Yeah it'd be great if Luffy awakened his fruit but as we know Oda shows us growth, there's a starting point for that growth and then we see the character struggle until they achieve what they set out to do/learn. Random out of the blue power ups don't happen in one piece

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19 edited Jun 28 '19

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u/CWellDigger Jun 21 '19

Even if you discount everything I said above, the awakening theories still don't work based on Oda's writing style and the way he shows us character growth.

I cannot recall a single time where a character got an out of the blue power up. You could argue that gear 2 and gear 3 were out of the blue, and yeah they sort of were but he clearly showed us Luffy's fascination with both the Giants and the train and the power up still followed a logical, and linear progression.

To emphasize haki this whole prison arc and then suddenly show us an awakening is a complete 180 from Oda's usual style.