 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today we are here to discuss Awakenings of the Devil Fruit variety, which is interesting because even though we've known about this concept since the glory days of Impel Down, Awakenings still have yet to be truly explored in the series and in fact, we can name the number of confirmed Awakenings of Devil Fruit users on one hand. Provided that hand has six fingers at his, otherwise, you know, we'd need a second hand and that just seems like such a waste account one more. Instead, that second hand could be used to press the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review, which would result in regular one piece content being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed and much more better use in my not at all biased opinion. But the idea of Awakenings at the moment very much takes a backseat to Haki and furthering that exploration. But considering the absurd power we've seen from Awaken Fruit users, it's only a matter of time before this whole concept takes the stage. And in fact, I would posit that we may very well have seen far more Awaken Devil Fruit users than you may think. Just as a brief recap though, the established kind of Awaken users we know of thus far, obviously Doflamingo and Kartakuri, two Paramecia wielders, well, one Paramecia and one special Paramecia, both of whom were able to expand their abilities to affect the environment around them, turning it into string and Monchi respectively. Although to be fair, they were both pretty subtle uses of what is in theory, a pretty monumental power. And of course, the other kind of Awaken users would be the Jailer Beast of Impel Down, all of whom were Awaken Zone users, which gives them access to these like super chunk forms with increased everything, power, speed, durability, recovery time, you name it and Awaken Zone has it, except for affecting their environment. Zone does not have that. But something I do feel is very, very important to highlight is Mino Chihuahua, which I know is not a sentence any of you expected to hear today, but post timescape, this little fellow was recruited as a Jailer Beast of Impel Down, and while it is not confirmed if he is indeed an Awaken Zone, he is absolutely going to be the first candidate that I submit here today as a potential Awakened Fruit user. I mean, I know he doesn't look like much of the whole Chihuahua devil fruit thing, but his form is in keeping with the rest of the Jailer Beast, and I do think that it would be reasonable to suggest that there is a certain standard that these beasts have to achieve in order to become employed at Impel Down. So in all seriousness, I am feeling pretty damn good about Mino Chihuahua being an Awaken Devil Fruit user. But moving on to someone who will probably be taken as less of a joke, the most obvious choice to have already awakened their devil fruit to me is Tony Tony Chopper. And even this deep into the realm of 2020, I am still flabbergasted that a lot of people simply don't see this, but Monster Point is 100% an awakening, even if it hasn't been referred to as such. The Monster Point form looks incredibly strikingly perfectly similar to the Jailer Beast, and it also comes equipped with most of the funky features of an Awaken Zone. But the main argument I see used against it is that the Jailer Beast were able to keep up their forms pretty much permanently whilst Chopper is only able to engage in Monster Point for brief bursts. But that also makes perfect sense because Chopper did artificially access this awakening through the rumble balls, so he didn't get there by whatever means you're supposed to, so feel free to call it like a partial awakening or an incomplete awakening, whatever. It is still an awakening. So if anything, that's a pretty exciting thought to see Chopper potentially push this further. But I do quite like the idea that the very first straw hat to awaken the devil fruit was this cotton candy loving lad. But let's move away from Zoans because other devil fruits do indeed exist, and these next two are going to go as a pair because Kuzan and Sakazuki present by far the best evidence for the existence of Awaken Logias that we have seen in the series. Primarily through the battle on Pankazard, which permanently altered the climate, which is my prime thought on what an Awaken Logia would actually do because it goes so far as to explain the entire One Piece world, really. For example, why is it perpetually daytime on any lobby? Well, perhaps that's thanks to an Awaken user of the Pika Pika No Mi. Or why is Raijin Island consistently bathed in lightning strikes? Well, that could simply be thanks to an Awaken user of the Gora Gora No Mi and so on and so forth. Which isn't to say that I think Kanel or Kuzaro are Awaken users themselves is really nothing to go by in that regard. However, Kuzan and Sakazuki are quite different because we have seen the demonstrable effects of their abilities in creating the natural phenomena of Pankazard. Because even though Logias are pretty insane right out of the box, this is just a whole new level. Two years later, Pankazard is still burning and freezing in equal measure. This is not your regular Logia use at work. And as such, it would be a fairly reasonable assumption to label both Sakazuki and Kuzan as potentially Awakened Devil Fruit users. Sticking with the Logia realm though, one name that's always bound to come up in this conversation is Crocodile. Mostly because of a statement he made during the alabaster arc when facing off against Sufi for the first time where allegedly Crocodile states something along the lines of having mastered his devil fruit to perfection. Thus implying an awakening in retrospect. However, this is one of those many, many situations where a fan translation has been taken far too literally for far too long. And in fact, if you look at the official English for either the anime or the manga, Crocodile doesn't even come close to stating anything like this. For example, in the manga, his dialogue is the following. I've worked hard to develop my devil fruit powers. I can use them to make any weapon I want. Unlike some fools who are satisfied with their powers as they are, I continually condition myself and improve my skills. Which whilst an admirable thought, Crocodile did still go on to lose to a pre-time skip, pre-year, pre-haki-loofy. So, hmm. But if anything, with this statement, Crocodile is implying the exact opposite of mastering his abilities to perfection, actually blatantly admitting that he still has progress to make. Meanwhile, in the anime, he doesn't even mention this at all. He just vaguely says, I am not like you other fools who are preoccupied with your abilities. And then we move on. Even without leaning on this internet open legend, though, Crocodile is still a reasonable thought because he can do a wide array of things that we don't generally see displayed from Logio fruits. Crocodile has a lot of utility. With one specific example being that he can drain the moisture from things, which is nice, but not necessarily an awakening. Plus, he also hasn't demonstrated the more permanent climate effect, given that he needed to use the dance powder to plunge alabaster into a drought. Not that that is in any way the confirmed effect of a Logio awakening, but Crocodile is a bit of a tough one. To me, his ability seemed more like a natural evolution along the lines of Luffy's gears, rather than some sort of awakening. But at the same time, I would not be surprised to find out one day in the far future that he is an awakened user. And in which case, I will go on to shame him even more for losing to Luffy on alabaster. But another name that comes up in the Logio world would be Ace, who I would be even less inclined to believe than Crocodile actually. But the idea is that when Ace appeared on Drum Island, it was said to be a very strange day in that it did not snow. In that specific town, it is not the entirety of the island, which is a fairly relatively strong piece of evidence. However, we have quite recently in the grand scheme of things received an explanation for this through the Ace novels. The cononasy of which is debatable, and I really don't wanna go into this too deeply, but no, the story was not written by Oda. It was supervised by him. And it is different to the Oda supervised films in that the Ace novel is intended to fill a gap in the story, rather than take place in a what-if scenario that doesn't fit into the timeline. In any case, during the story, when Ace visits Shang, Ben Beckman states that Ace's haki is strong enough to melt away the snow while he was there, which you know you can choose to ignore if you'd like. And in the end, it probably doesn't even matter because Ace is, he's a little bit dead, isn't he? And speaking of dead, I wanna throw in a curveball now because going back to Paramecia's, I think it's entirely possible that Brooke of all people may also be an awakened Devil Fruit user. Brooke is a bit tough though because he's a very unique Paramecia and he certainly isn't a generation style like Dolphemingo or Karakuri. And as such, you really cannot compare it directly to their examples. But following the time skip, Brooke's soul-related abilities present a huge layer of escalation upon his Devil Fruit, which originally just allowed him to plonk his old soul back into his old bones. But nowadays, not only does he have free control over his own soul, but he is also able to exert influence over and even damage other soul-based existences, which we have seen repeatedly with big mum's homies and such. It is complete and utter 100% speculation, but Brooke is a pretty wild user of the Omiyomi No Mi. However, because it is unique to every other fruit, even the general Paramecia brands, it is impossible to come to a solid conclusion. But I must say, I am all on board with the idea of an awakened Brooke. Now, to quell some thoughts that I know some of you might be having right now, I should also touched on two other confirmed awakened users being Guild Tazora and Douglas Bullitt, the main antagonist of One Piece Film Gold and Stampede respectively. This does go back to the Ace novel conversation, but these two are definitely not canon, which is why I haven't been wildly, you get to mention them. But Tazora is the user of the Gorogoro No Mi, which allows him to manipulate, not generate gold, important distinction there. And his awakening basically just extends the range of that, which can cover the entirety of his casinoship complex. Meanwhile, Bullitt's double fruit is the Gashagashinomi, a Paramecia that allows him to create new things by combining inanimate objects as well as breaking them down. And his awakening is quite similar to Tazora's, in that it seemingly just increases the range of objects accessible to him, which is quite literally anything non-living. And I do think it's important to bring these two up because they show the potential for awakenings of a non-generator type Paramecia. A fantastic canon example of which would be used to skit actually, whose ability allows him to attract and repel objects with magnetism, so a potential awakening for him could follow the Tazora Bullitt standard by heavily increasing his range of magnetism. But when it comes to more speculated awakenings, that does also exist a whole area which I don't want to get too far into, but in many cases, it would be a natural assumption to consider the peak figures of one piece to be potential awakened users. And a good example of something I'm referring to here would be Dragon, who if indeed he does have a double fruit, which has not been confirmed. However, if he did his status and implied abilities in the world, well, that would lead us to giving him the benefit of the doubt of being an awakened user, which would not be the craziest thing in the world. And similar characters would also include someone like Kido, although to this point, we've really only seen two distinct forms. Although I personally think it would be quite fun for the standard form we know of as Kido to be his awakened level. And maybe that would even go on to explain the discrepancy with his legs and such in those really weird flashbacks. Although when he gets serious, he does seem to favor using the full dragon form. So who knows? I would find it really weird if he was not an awakened fruit user though. Weird and quite terrifying to think that there is further potential within someone like Kido. But also people like Whitebeard, whose Guruguru enemy is said to be a power that can quite literally destroy the world. That might be much less the Guruguru is doing and more Whitebeard being able to awaken it and increase the range of effect. Alar Bullet and Tazora. And once again though, the strongest man in the world, the look I'd lean towards believing that he was an awakened user. Otherwise, I feel like this whole practice might just seem a bit arbitrary if we have someone like Dolph Lamingo and others like Khadakuri who stumble upon their secret but not figures like Whitebeard. Then again, the difficulty of awakening may also very much scale depending on the fruit user. For example, chopper who used a very standard human fruit may have been able to accidentally fall into an awakening or as perhaps a mythical zone user would have a harder time pushing their already insane powers to that point. But this video really does only scratch the surface of potential. Awakenings are still quite new to us and heavily unknown in nature. Whatever the case though, I think it's very safe to say that we have already encountered all sorts of awakened users that have yet to be brought to light. But what do you guys think? 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