 The Bukibukinomi is a pretty incredible fruit, allowing one to transform into all kinds of weapons from literal blades to projectiles and even explosives. However, its most profound weapon by far comes in the form of the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review, which will help you combat your boredom by granting you regular One Piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today for the Devil for Encyclopedia, we are having something of an arms race happening here as we will be examining the unparalleled weaponry fruit at work being the Bukibukinomi. The Bukibukinomi is a Paramecia-type fruit that allows the user to transform part of or even all of their body into what seems to be, quite literally, any weapon they so choose, whether that be a blade, a projectile or an explosive, or any combination of those. And there's an awful lot to consider with this one which was consumed in the series by the ever-charming Baby Five, whose name is actually spelled by using the numeral five rather than actual words, and this fruit was first showcased to us during the punk hazard arc. Now as one may be able to predict, this fruit takes its name directly from the Japanese word for weapon which is of course Buki. Very interestingly though, I'd like to note that in Japanese as well as in English I guess, the word weapon or Buki does not just mean a literal physical weapon, but it can also be used in other contexts. And another common reading of Buki is something to be used as a means of persuading or arguing, which in English we could say something similar like say having a secret weapon in a debate, something along those lines. However the reason why I take the time to highlight this is because its secondary meaning is very very well reflected in its user Baby Five albeit in a very ironic way, because as we all know she doesn't take an awful lot to persuade or convince in any form of discussion. So despite the fact that she embodies the physical meaning of the word Buki, she is the exact opposite of the secondary reading. And in fact she even gives you the ultimate feature to use against her in an argument, which is simply to state that she is needed. And that really seems to be more powerful than any weapon Baby Five is capable of conjuring. Moving to the English though, this one was probably a bit tricky to translate and it ended up being the arms arms fruit, which if you don't have weapons in mind would probably sound a bit off. However, given that there really aren't that many terms for general weaponry in English, that was probably the best possible result to remain in keeping with the snappy fruit names. Although to be perfectly honest, the weapon weapon fruit doesn't sound all that bad in my mind. Alright, as for details of how this maddening fruit works, I think this is certainly one of the most slept on fruits in the One Piece fan base, with people consistently underestimating its power, likely due to how easily manipulated its user is. But basically upon consuming the Buki Bukinomi, the user can turn any part of themselves into any weapon. Yes, any weapon, until then growing that for a moment, it's really difficult to determine what the limitations of the Buki Bukinomi are from that alone. And this is also one of those fruits that really makes you question how natural devil fruits could possibly be, because this gives the user access to clearly man-made and designed complex constructs. And it actually reminds me a fair bit of scratchmen of whose devil fruit, which allows him to do the exact same thing, except with instruments instead of weapons. And something I've been asking myself about these kinds of fruits is the possibility that they are limited purely by imagination and knowledge. So for example, can baby five only turn into weapons that she is aware of, or are all of her options innately programmed into her after consuming the fruit? Now the correct answer to a question like this is always going to be, stop thinking about it too deeply. It's just meant to be a fun thing for Oda to play with, but you know that doesn't really work for this kind of video. And the way I'd prefer it to go is that the weaponry available is entirely based on baby five's knowledge. So if she lived on an isolated island where people only had access to swords and bows, then baby five would only be able to transform into swords and bows because that's all she knows. Or likewise, if she grew up in a place like Karakuri Island, the homeland of Dr. Vagapunk, then perhaps she would be able to transform into a laser weaponry and all sorts of crazy vagapunk style innovations. That's just my personal preference though, that may not necessarily be the truth. But all of this comes under the provision of arms and it's really hard to know where to draw the line because the user of the Bukibukinumi can become super simple guns, however they can also transform into complex automatic weaponry like a gatling gun. Although the crowning feature that we've seen in the series is the ability to turn into explosives, which was demonstrated with the missile girl technique, which is exactly what it sounds like transforming into a missile and exploding upon impact with a target, which didn't have much effect on a technological marvel like Frankie Shogun, but this is a pretty maddening amount of damage to consider. And what's more interesting is that as part of becoming an explosive, the user's body becomes shattered and broken by said explosion, only to be capable of reforming itself afterwards. So in a very crazy abstract way, the Bukibukinumi comes with a bit of logia zest because this regeneration doesn't just apply to explosives either. If any weapon that the user turns their body into becomes broken, even if it's just a simple blade, then they are able to reform their body afterwards. So in theory, as long as one's whole body is a weapon, then this fruit does become an effect of logia in terms of that general sense of intangibility. Although obviously not intangibility, I would liken it more to Kuzan's Hiihiyonomi, which you can hit that you cannot hurt the user without Haki anyway. So with all of this in mind, let's now turn our attention to how exactly Baby Five makes use of the Bukibukinumi, which is primarily to act as the crew assassin of the Dofumiko Pirates. Because every pirate crew needs an assassin, it's one role that has yet to be filled on the straw hats, so Baby Five for Nakama, please. But as much as you may remember, otherwise Baby Five is actually an extraordinarily proficient user of the Bukibukinumi. She just happened to get very unlucky with her primary opponents in the series. However, Baby Five has an incredible mastery of how to use particular types of weapons to their greatest effect by instilling their properties into very specific body parts. And really if it wasn't for her glaring yet hilarious character flaw, Baby Five would probably be considered one of the more dangerous characters in the series, and we do actually have a surprisingly direct comparison to her to demonstrate that in the form of Dar's Bones, better known as Mr. One. Now Dar's Bones has a very similar fruit, the Supasupinumi, which allows him to transform his body into any blade, and quite notably the Bukibukinumi is officially recognized as the direct superior of the Supasupinumi. So Baby Five's fruit is more powerful in every way in its base form, however Dar's Bones unquestionably uses his ability to a far greater degree than Baby Five. And it's interesting because his primary profession was also that of an assassin. So it really does show how extremely deadly this fruit could be in more capable and maybe less comic reliefy hands. But once again, I do want to emphasize that Baby Five is a literal gun of a user, and I think that a lot of that can be attributed to being a member of the Don Quixote Pirates in most of her life because that would have given her a perfect opportunity to see and study an incredible array of weaponry that Dolphamingo would have been involved in trading and then adjusting and perfecting her own techniques as appropriate. But moving to the ever speculative Awakening section, the Bukibukinumi presents a particularly scary thought, especially if Awakening it allows the user to morph their environment into quite literally any weapon one can think of because that goes far beyond simply becoming missile yourself and you could effectively make infinite missiles, which in the long piece world is still a pretty unparalleled source of damage. But even more simple constructs like turning the entire battlefield into vicious gasling guns is a pretty absurdly powerful capability and one that would instantly elevate Baby Five into a highly infamous status within the one piece world, let alone the one man or one woman army that would be realized in the real world. That or maybe an Awakening just somehow results in more powerful weaponry being able to be produced, which sounds cool because I for one would love to see Baby Five literally become say a lightsaber or any variety of fictional weaponry, in fact while I stop at lightsabers. Let's have Baby Five become an entire death star, also does the infinity gauntlet count as a weapon or maybe even biological weapons, such as allowing the user to generate Caesar clown type existences of mass destruction. So look there are many options here. Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a full body weapon human. One other interesting point to consider is whether or not consuming this fruit results in its user becoming immune to general weaponry, which often happens with double fruits. You know for example, Ace consumes a fire fruit and thus he is immune to most brands of fire. So can Baby Five be hurt by other weapons? And the answer is certainly yes. Yes she can because she did go on to be harmed by Frankie, but not only is the user vulnerable to other weapons, but apparently the user is also selectively vulnerable to their own weapons, which was implied when Baby Five was about to kill herself when directed to by Psy. So basically it would seem that the user's body can be damaged but not destroyed in weapon form, but if the base body is damaged then that can result in some very real death. Also for some more explosive talk though, while Baby Five demonstrated the ability to transform into a missile, it also brings up the idea that she could transform into a more pure brand of explosive like grenades, landmines or C4, something along those lines, which would imbue her fruit with abilities, similar to that of Gladius and Mr. Five, at least in terms of their destructive potential. And speaking of DP, destructive potential, at the moment despite the lack of knowledge argument, I'm really not seeing a good reason as to why the user of Bukibukinomi would not be able to transform into something truly terrifying like a nuclear bomb. I mean maybe you could think of it as an explanation like the potency of the weaponry is determined by the strength or will of the user, but this fruit is just so incredibly open-ended, much more so than most. And things can even turn into a philosophical discussion regarding what is and isn't a weapon. I mean is a weapon just something to be used to violently achieve a goal? Like if you were to drop a piano on someone, is that piano your weapon? And could the user therefore transform into a piano? Or maybe even piano wire because that's the thing I've seen on TV, which could give the user adult flamingo style string effect at their disposal. There is just literally endless potential. But also could the user turn into very specific weapons? Like can baby five become a meito grade blade? If she for example saw Zoro's Waluichi Monji or Mihawk's Yoru could she replicate this quality and begin her journey to become the world's greatest swordsman? The questions that this fruit brings up are pretty endless because weaponry is far more vague of a category than I initially suspected it would be. So in the end this is a pretty heftily amazing fruit to consider actually. When people discuss the best devil fruits in the series, this one is most certainly only ever given the briefest of thoughts and then probably dismissed entirely because of how baby five uses it rather than the Bukibukinomi itself. However given that this fruit seems to have no real defined limitations on its use and the fact that under the right circumstances it can even mimic the qualities of a logia, I find it very very difficult not to recommend this one. I just don't really see the downside of it. Even if you don't have a need for weaponry in your life, such things can still be useful and applied in a ton of daily situations. And of course it is the ultimate get out jail free card if you do find yourself in a particularly desperate situation. So look if I were to stumble upon this one I am most certainly eating it on the spot and I would suggest that you all very much did the same. And with that we are going to commit the Bukibukinomi to the devil fruit encyclopedia. Next time on the devil fruit encyclopedia we are going to continue making our way through the Don Quixote pirates specifically with Mr. Buffalo who has an intriguing paramecia that involves lots and lots and lots of rotation and thus flight with the Guru Guru No Mi. 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 and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your YouTube feeds. But for now this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time.