 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review Your Source for everything One Piece and today it's time to talk about dragons not that one not that one not that one but yes this one the one who looks the uh you know the least like a dragon and he even has monkey in his name which is suspicious but monkey the dragon is one of the more permanent question marks in this series today and I would like to explore the question of whether or not Mr. Dragon is a devil fruit user because almost 900 chapters after his official introduction to One Piece we still don't know making dragon a more mysterious character in this regard than even shanks who was confirmed to not be a devil fruit user although not in the actual series mind you but in an official article which is still far better than anything that we've had in regards to dragon then again you know shanks is a very popular boy having ranked in 11th place in the most recent character popularity poll whilst dragon came in at a very very sad 85th place which I find mind boggling because it means that Rika, Komashi and Penguin all got more votes than dragon no wonder he always has this very sad concerned look on his face but if you want to turn this sad dragon into a happy dragon then please do show him some love by subscribing to the ground line review which will also result in you receiving regular One Piece content uploaded straight into your youtube feed don't you dare leave dragon hanging but onwards with the actual video now this 900 chapter question mark of a man is something that is commonly speculated amongst the fanbase because despite the distinct lack of dragon related content in the series what we do have of him drops in some pretty powerful hints of the capabilities of this man so I'm going to go through these events and then we're going to attempt to determine what kind of devil fruit user dragon is or even if he is a devil fruit user at all so stepping into dragon's very first appearance in good old chapter 100 here dragon famously stops mocha from capturing the boy who we now know is dragon son but there's a wide variety of strange weather phenomena that seems to conveniently accompany dragons presence here but this event is very strange because it actually differs quite greatly between the anime and manga versions and not only that but there's even a mistake in the official english translation that can make things even more confusing than they need to be so starting with the manga dragon stops mocha and says the world is waiting for our answer and then we cut to this panel of like this huge gust of wind with dragon seemingly saying wind blast to accompany it which taken at face value seems like a fairly generic attack name however this was later recognized as a mistake with the original japanese line being topo de ar which more accurately translates into shouting something like a squall question mark and in retrospect it was almost certainly said by a random marine or perhaps even smoker rather than dragon so this is kind of a tricky thing because this mistake does for better or worse heavily imply that dragon is the individual controlling this wind which could still very much be the case and we'll add some evidence to that later but this particular instance is an error meanwhile the anime actually cut this line entirely dragon says the world is waiting for our answer and then the wind just kicks in without someone yelling about it which you would think might make the situation more ambiguous but the anime also did something very very interesting to say the least which is how it would depict this force of wind essentially the sky turned a very interesting shade of emerald green and we proceeded to see this super stylized gust of wind which looks to be very non-natural wind and the whole scene retains this greenish tinge to it which can be taken as a tangible cue connecting it to dragon because green is heavily associated with this man being his primary color scheme and all but fascinating enough this wind also proceeds to ravage the entirety of log town which i will emphasize did not happen in the manga in the manga it was just one short sharp gust around luffy's general area and it's hard to know how to reconcile that on the one hand this could have been the anime staff having special knowledge which they have certainly shown in the past or it could have been the staff taking some creative license and greatly expanding this scene for some filler material at this stage the only thing that's undeniable is that this sudden shift of weather occurred coinciding with dragon's physical presence and on its own that would be far too speculative for my liking however in chapter 587 we would see another such phenomenon and this was during the post war arc specifically in the time of luffy's flashback basically the nobility of the goa kingdom being the pricks they are set the great terminal on fire in an attempt to murder all of its lower class riffraff when suddenly a gust of wind opens up a path straight to dragon and his cohort of revolutionary forces and i think this removes any sense of ambiguity i once had because just as the original case of chapter 100 in the manga this is a very very controlled blast of wind and the anime doesn't add any strange stylization this time around and so while one instance is a coincidence two instances becomes a pattern and we can very comfortably tie the idea to wind and or weather control to either the presence of dragon or the revolutionaries in general and just to really hammer home this point about wind in other appearances wind is also a very emphasized element surrounding dragon such as during the return to water seven arc where we see him staring out into the wind on bolt ago or even cough short flashback claiming that dragon has a habit of staring out through the wind in the direction of east blue which is obviously where luffy would have been at the time so dragon is pretty intrinsically linked to wind in particular being a primary feature in most of his appearances throughout one piece which would obviously lead into our first general area of double fruit speculation which would be the logi realm now this idea has existed ever since i became a fan of one piece all those centuries and centuries ago and it almost certainly existed before that but a common thought is that dragon is the wielder of a wind based logia fruit this is a natural assumption because wind fits quite nicely into the elemental theming of logias and while we do have some basic stuff like fire and dice elemental fruits the logia class also dives pretty deeply into more abstract features of nature such as light and darkness so i personally see no reason why wind could be excluded as a possibility within the logia class the only thing it doesn't do which i should stress it doesn't necessarily need to is explain some of the other weather phenomena during the log town arc controlling wind is one thing but we also had a ton of other stuff involving storms and lightning especially the lightning strike that saved luffy from being executed by one buggy however this could all very much be simple fate at work throughout the entirety of one piece storms have been used for very fateful encounters like the ed war where the roger pirates were saved from shiki zamata by a fateful storm that destroyed his forces so i don't necessarily think that we have to connect dragon to the greatest storm although it would be cleaner and i suppose there's always going to be an idea like say his control over wind is so great that he blew over some storm clouds from the ground line all the way to log town or something along those lines but a logia is not the only solid possibility and there are some great arguments to be made with the zoan class as well i'd say specifically within the mythical zoan subclass that is because there happens to be a whole ton of options available especially when it comes to the world of godlike figures because remember if sengoku can become a literal big Buddha then this sort of stuff is well and truly in play for one piece meaning that dragon could quite easily be say a mythical zoan model zoos or a similar god that was fabled to be able to control weather and all of that good stuff actually you know what even better than zoos much better actually let's go for fujin who is a literal japanese wind demon treated similarly to a god and his counterpart ryjin would be another potential choice whose powers comprise thunder lightning and storms which would wrap everything up in a neat little package although given how strongly dragon seems to be linked to wind if i had to bet i would say the former and furthermore the fact that both fujin and ryjin and demons would link in pretty well with dragon's position as a member of the decline being the natural enemy of the world nobles in the same way that demons would be the natural enemy of the gods and one other name to throw into the mythical zoan mix might also be susano the japanese god of storms and sea sea being particularly relevant in the lord of one piece and i could probably go on for over listing mythical figures who have been linked to having the power of wind or storms so let's just end that particular exploration by saying that the realm of zoans is wide open for dragon to fit rather comfortably into but another thought that's often brought up though is that dragon would be a literal dragon zoan fruit which is an idea that i'm personally not wildly keen on it's just a bit too on the nose given that his name is literally dragon and right now we're exploring that whole idea of dragons with the wanowarks kaito could very much be a dragon zoan fruit user albeit an eastern dragon although that still has very much yet to be confirmed but we also have mom and osuke whose artificial devil fruit was clearly based on an eastern dragon heavily resembling kaito so i guess there's room for dragon to be another type of dragon but really after wanow i'm hoping that we're kind of done with dragons not that my hopes have any bearing on the series whatsoever though which is why i do mention it here out of sheer obligation but let's also briefly touch on the paramecia class now though and i feel like we can dismiss this pretty easily low gears and zoans both make a decent degree of sense but you would really have to stretch your thinking to make a decent case for a paramecia these fruits tend to have very isolated effects when not awakened that is and are mainly focused on bodily augmentation and even when they're not like foxy's noran oranomy they still have a comparatively small area of effect but it's just so unlikely that with everything we've seen dragon could be lumped into the paramecia realm and i can't even think of a decent way in which i could argue it even if i was to take for granted that he was an awakened user so if you can please do say so in the comments below because i would be quite interested to hear your paramecia related ideas but we also need to ask the very necessary question of is dragon even a fruit user to begin with a lot of this video has taken many assumptions as something of a fact and that well that can be a very dangerous thing because here's the deal yes dragon has been associated with grand wind phenomena on two separate occasions but both of those cases could have been a different character such as another member of the revolutionary army well you've never seen dragon invoke this strange wind power and in fact in its very first demonstration the manga dragon actually looks like he's defending himself or bracing against the wind and it's difficult to imagine him engaging in this act if he were say a wind logia because why would you bother you are literally wind so it's not going to affect you and i'd also say something similar for a myth gozoan but it is very important to note that the anime not only admitted the line that accompanied this panel but also the winds effect on dragon we do not see his reaction to the wind which could be an instance of odor perhaps regretting depicting dragon that way and fully forming the idea of his powers at a later date because here's something that not a lot of people want to admit but one piece is much less planned than you would think it's really solidly done in general but odor does retroactively change earlier ideas after discovering better ones so it's hard to know how much stock to place in a piece of art that was drawn 21 years ago at this stage and if dragon is a double fruit user then maybe he wasn't intended to be at this point and maybe he still isn't intended to be one and of course there are always going to exist some more left field explanations like the idea that dragon and the revolutionary army might have control of the ancient weapon Uranus the most mysterious of the three to us at this point but one that is heavily hinted to have a sky based effect to match how pluton devastates land and Poseidon controls the sea and as such Uranus could have a powerful wind based effect that dragon is able to harness because who knows what form it takes not me that's who but my personal conclusion on the matter is less to do with these potential demonstrations of power and more about how dragon is depicted when at peace on bolt ago the situations with log town and the goer kingdom are what people tend to fixate on but there is just something so revealing about how dragon is depicted in his downtime because even in the most subtle and arguably boring points of his life wind is still a paramount feature it surrounds dragon in a very unique way especially when you consider that wind is hailed as one of the most unpredictable and destructive forces within the grand lion and the new world meanwhile in regards to dragon wind is startlingly predictable controllable and even calm so if I had to place a bet right now on if dragon was a devil fruit user then I would probably say yes just because with the old Occam's razor theory it's the simplest explanation regardless of whether it is a wind logiel or a mythical zone every other explanation very much requires a further leap of logic which is certainly not impossible to make by any means but I do find it difficult to invest too much stock into those thoughts when there is a much easier alternative to latch onto but even with that in mind that is the beauty of one piece because those stranger left field ideas can more often than not become reality and in fact ideas that absolutely no one predicted can take the stage and as such all I can really do is look forward to the inevitable day the dragon's powers are revealed but what do you guys think please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my discord server and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one-piece 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