 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today for the glorious Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, we are going to be exploring one of the most deadly fruits within the entire series, wielded by a man who spends most of his time on the toilet, the Doku Doku No Mi. The Doku Doku No Mi is a Paramecia type fruit that allows its user to generate and manipulate various types of poison. And first and foremost, I want to dispel any confusion surrounding the classification of this fruit, and certain segments of the fan base do often mistake this for a low-gear fruit. However, the user of the Doku Doku No Mi cannot become poison. It just might get confusing because the user in the series just so happens to love covering himself in death goo, thus giving the impression that he becomes poison at times. Speaking of this fruit was consumed by the one-time warden of Impel Down Magellan, and given that, it should be fairly reasonable to assume that it made its first appearance during the Impel Down Arc. In terms of names and stuff, we have another fairly straightforward fruit here, as Doku is the Japanese word for poison. Although there is a little bit of a fun pun within the name of the devil fruit being Doku Doku, because that happens to be the Japanese onomatopoeia, meaning something along the lines of in a steady stream. Now, both Viz and Funimation are in agreement regarding the English translation of this fruit. However, it's not poison-poison, as you may suspect, and it is, in fact, the venom-venom fruit. The difference between poison and venom being that venom is a poisonous substance crafted within animals and injected into a target, whereas poison is more of a substance that is secreted and ingested. And it might seem like an odd choice at first, but many techniques used by Magellan actually have venom in their name, so I can see why they went down that venom road, although actually a lot of his techniques have poison in their name as well, but let's not think about that. But make no mistake, poison is what this fruit is really all about. And just another brief thing on etymology and semantics, it's worth noting that the Funimation dub differs considerably from the Vizmanga translation as they continue the venom naming scheme even when poison would be the more correct translation, both in terms of the little word Doku and in the pragmatic interpretation of the attack. All right, so when I said in the beginning that this was one of the most deadly fruits to have ever existed, I absolutely mean it. Everything about this fruit is designed to irritate, maim, or kill whoever just so happens to be around or targeted by it. And that really is up to the discretion of the user as they have complete control over what type of poison they emit as well as its potency. Now, as for the extent of poison typings, the most basic distinction that we're able to make is that the user can generate poison in the form of either liquid or gas, with both of them holding their respective advantages and disadvantages. However, it isn't necessarily that simple because within those two categories, not only can the user, as mentioned before, control the potency of the poison, but they also seem to have more advanced chemical control, and this was demonstrated in the series when Magellan was able to craft a liquid imbued with a heavily corrosive agent. Now, I point this out because it's a very common trope in media that the more potent the poison is, the more automatically corrosive or corrosive it all it is, and this simply is not the case. But as a result of this extreme control, the user of the Doku Doku and me can mimic a wide array of substances such as tear gas. With this in mind, I think it's fair to speculate that the user of this fruit would be able to mimic most known poisons within the world, provided they had an understanding of their chemical composition in order to generate them. And this also leaves a lot of potential to augment the fruit's output, as if the user were incapable of generating a substance needed to craft a particular type of poison, they would more than likely just be able to add that foreign agent to their body and wields temporary poisonous glory. However, this sort of usage would be best suited to a chemist rather than, you know, a jailer. So speaking of, let's examine how Mr. Magellan makes use of this fine, fine fruit, and for the most part, it is actually pretty incredible. Magellan is a man of very blunt needs and actions, and his use of the Doku Doku and me very much reflects that. For a start, Magellan has a tendency of coating himself in a layer of liquid poison, a sort of armor per se, which definitely doesn't protect him from being hit. However, it will make the person attempting to strike him think twice, because they'll immediately be exposed to what could potentially be deadly poison. Of course, Magellan is also a bit more direct than this, and he won't simply wait for someone to hit him, instead preferring to conjure a hydra out of poison, which has the same effect, only it is entirely offensive, putting any potential opponents in a very unenviable situation, of neither being able to strike the creature, nor be struck by the creature. And another wonderful innovation with the fruit that I quite enjoy is the Venom Road Technique, in which Magellan engulfs himself within said hydra, and uses it to move at high speed, because it should be said that Magellan can conjure an absolutely ridiculous amount of poison, so he can more or less use it like the tube transport system in future armor. Now as for a more questionable use of the fruit, this oddly hasn't been stated before now, but consuming the Doku Doku and me will make its user immune to the intended effects of external poisons, you know, like death and such. However, it does not, I repeat it does not, negate the effects of foreign poisons entirely, and to demonstrate this, we need only to focus on Magellan's unique appetite. Now Mr. X Warden eats almost exclusively poisoned food, and there is a big, big misconception out there that this food is poisoned through Magellan's own devil fruit powers, it is not. Instead, Magellan sources outside poisons for his food, which results in him spending up to 10 hours a day, in the bathroom, due to the intense diarrhea that consumption of external poisons causes him. Now equally as terrifying as spending 10 hours a day on the toilet is the idea of awakening this devil fruit, because even if the Doku Doku and me subscribes to the standard Paramesio awakening, meaning that its user would now be able to turn the environment around them into poison, then it could become apocalyptically devastating. But while we're here, there is also another misconception that Magellan is already an awakened Paramesio user, and it comes from the idea that Magellan's ultimate attack being the Venom Demon was shown influencing the environment, like the stone around Impel Down and Galdino's Whack, stuff like that. This is not an awakening, it's simply what happens when a hyper toxin comes into contact with, well, any substance, it goes on to make it toxic to some degree. An awakening would be more like Magellan waves his hands and transforms a portion of Impel Down into poison, which both Dolph Lamingo and Charlotte Cardicuri were shown to be capable of with their respective awakenings. And you know that isn't to say that Magellan isn't an awakened user, he just hasn't shown the standard signs of a Paramesio awakening, and thus we cannot classify him as such. Some other miscellaneous things to consider than becoming a poison human. While the Dokudokudomi does present some fairly fearsome power, its utility is questionable. There is no doubt that the natural tendency of this fruit leans towards destruction, and as such it may be difficult to apply to a peaceful existence, unless of course that existence is achieved through maintaining order with a particularly heavy hand. Although one thing you may be able to do is contribute to science by replicating various poisons in order to develop an antidote for them or to study them in some form. Or, and this is a radical idea, that perhaps true mastery of the awakening of this fruit would allow it to use its fraught non-poisonous substances that can actually benefit those around them. But admittedly I think that this is a bit of a stretch. But in the end, I can't help but come back to the sheer power contained within the Dokudokunomi. I mean if it simply generated one type of poison then that would be well one thing, but the user's ability to control the poison at minute levels is impossible to ignore. This fruit holds incredible potential. However, that potential exists primarily within one sector, which is combat and containment. And you know if that's your jam then this is 100% recommended because there are very, very few other fruits out there that will serve your purposes better. However, for those of you who are looking for something that will greatly assist day-to-day life, well there are many, many better options. And with that we are going to commit the Dokudokunomi to the devil fruit encyclopedia. Next week we'll be taking a side step from chronology. Well, not really because it was around this time that Chapter Zero came out I guess. But we are going to be setting our sights onto the incredibly floaty powers held by Golden Lion Shiki with the Fuwa Fuwa No Mi. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime and longer series, then please do check out my second channel New World Review for all of your wider needs. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis. 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