 So, uh, hmm, I hate to break this to you, but while you weren't looking, Vandedecken was able to tap you on the shoulder, and you are now a permanent target. Interestingly enough either, Vandedecken has chosen to assault you with nothing but YouTube's subscribe buttons. Comey into contact with which will result in regular lumpies content from this channel being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. So to be perfectly honest, if I were you, I would come to terms with your new subscriber destiny. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece. And today for the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, we have one of the more strange and niche fruits to evergrace the series, being the always on point, Mato Mato no Mi. The Mato Mato no Mi is a paramecia type fruit that makes its user capable of perfectly aiming at a chosen target, or the chosen object from seemingly any location. Weird but cool I guess, and in the series it was consumed by the bullhead shark Fishman Vandedecken the Ninth. And of course it made its first appearance during the Fishman Island Arc. This fruit takes its name directly from the Japanese word Mato, which means mark or target, which in this case is specifically a noun referring to a mark or target, which is very interesting because in English mark and target can also act as verbs, for example to target someone. But I only point that out because it's intended to immediately give us the impression that this fruit focuses far more on the acquisition of a target rather than the act of targeting, if that makes sense. And if it doesn't, well too bad. Although it should become apparent soon enough, but in regards to the realm of English, both Fizz and Funimation have decided to translate the Mato Mato no Mi very simply as the mark mark fruit. Now hopping straight into things, this is another one of those surprisingly simple fruits, as it basically allows a user to acquire a target by touching a living being with one of their hands, and from that moment on the user of the Mato Mato no Mi is able to target their mark with anything from anywhere at any time, or seemingly so anyway. So for example, if Zoro was the user of the Mato Mato no Mi and touched Sanji, then that would give him the ability to throw one of his swords whenever he saw fit, and the sword would then track down and collide with Sanji, provided that no other object or individual got in the way of it, and that is the simple gist of the fruit. So already the Mato Mato no Mi does present some similarities to another fruit that we've encountered, being the Mani Mani no Mi, currently possessed by Bon Clay, in that the powers of this fruit are only able to be activated by the hands of the user, as well as requiring the strict condition of touch. However, it should be noted that unlike the Mato Mato no Mi, the Mato Mato no Mi is able to memorize a target using either hand, which is a pretty big advantage. However, the flip side is that the Mato Mato no Mi user is not capable of retaining a permanent memory bank, which means at any given time, a user may only have a very limited amount of targets, unlike the Mato Mato no Mi, which can seemingly hold an infinite amount of memory, and all very easily and permanently accessible. And in regards to the target limit of the Mato Mato no Mi, well that will actually vary from user to user in this crazy crazy world, because it's entirely dependent on the number of hands one has. So in the case of its user in the series Vandedecken, and most characters in one piece are in the world at large, he can hold a maximum of two targets, because he has two hand things. However, someone like Hart-Shan were to have consumed the fruit, and he would be able to hold a grand total of six targets, at any given time. However, even with such extended capabilities, there is still a potential detriment in that the user of the Mato Mato no Mi is not able to select their targets per se. But if their bare hand touches someone, that person becomes the target of that hand, whether the user likes it or not, thus erasing any memory of the previous mark, which is why Vandedecken wears a glove on one of his hands to preserve the memory of a certain someone. However, with multiple marks recorded at once, the user is capable of differentiating which individual they wish to target, simply by using the appropriate hand to signal the desired outcome. Although it may be much more versatile than that, because Vandedecken has been shown using both of his hands and choosing a single target, which suggests that there is a degree of mental control and choice involved in regards to this power. Now rather terrifyingly, we are currently unaware of any restrictions on the Mato Mato no Mi in regards to the distance that its effects may cover. Although I do bring that up as an important point, because most Paramecia fruits do have some kind of limitation in this regard, even if they are often jokes by Oda. So for example, Luffy has an established distance that he can stretch, and Buggy has a defined spherical area where he can control separated limbs, and even Robin has a limit of how many limbs she can spawn. So I can only assume that the Mato Mato no Mi would be similar, however it is at the very least a distance long enough to cover an area greater than that of Fishman Island. And this is further terrifying because the longer the distance between the target and the object being thrown, the greater the acceleration the object will gain on its travels, thus resulting in the potential for great damage to be caused to said target. And if there were no distance limit in regards to this, then there would be nowhere safe in the world for a targeted individual to be. Interestingly enough though, it's not known if the user of the Mato Mato no Mi could target themselves. Although I don't see why it wouldn't be theoretically possible. Although at the same time, I also can't think of a fantastic use of that particular ability. If anything, it would just add an extra layer of complication because you would need to be super, super careful in regards to not wiping the memory of your target by performing simple actions like scratching your nose on something and then accidentally targeting yourself and then throwing a knife and then, oh, that's messy. But let's get into some banned Deccan-specific use now. And I have to say that, well, he is certainly not the best user that the Mato Mato no Mi could have ever dreamed of. Primarily because Deccan almost exclusively engaged its abilities to pursue his obsession with one princess Shirahoshi, whom he decided he would marry when Deccan first laid eyes upon her. And I'd like to note that Shirahoshi was, you know, six years old at the time, so that's a slightly creepy maneuver by Van Der Deccan there, but he would proceed to acquire her mark memory and target her with all sorts of love letters, proposals, deadly axes, you know, all the standard dating gifts which resulted in Shirahoshi being locked away for 10 years for her own safety. However, Van Der Deccan does use his power fairly decently outside of this obsession, and he uses its incredibly bizarre effects to catch people off guard. And I know that the One Piece world is pretty damn crazy, but even then, nobody expects a heat seeking knife to relentlessly track you down after being touched by a seemingly harmless pedophilic fisherman. Speaking of though, the fact that Van Der Deccan is a fisherman is very much at odds with consuming a devil fruit at all and makes him absurdly vulnerable given that he lives on the sea floor because he has lost all ability to swim and as such, he must remain inside a bubble at all times to continue the mere act of living. So just based on that alone, he is probably high up on the scale of the worst devil fruit users we've ever encountered. But to give him some credit, Van Der Deccan also used this incredibly weird devil fruit to craft a potentially apocalyptic event when he targeted Shirahoshi with the Noah and almost destroyed the entirety of Fishman Island. Which is also another nice benefit to lay out there in that the user of the Marta Martanumi does not necessarily need to be able to throw or even lift an object that they want to send towards their mark. Which means that in theory, Van Der Deccan could do this with almost any non-living object. And so just for an extreme example of that, I wonder how this fruit would play out if Van Der Deccan decided to target someone would say the entirety of the red line, aka the largest land mass and only continent of the one piece world. And then if the entire red line were to just lift up and float towards its target, then that would be pretty damn apocalyptic. Now, as for a glorious awakening, this fruit holds a couple of options, none of which are the stock standard Paramecia shenaniganry. And I think that this fruit could certainly be bettered by allowing its user to have a permanent memory bank just like the Marta Martanumi, which would mean that anybody who had been touched by them would need to live in perpetual fear. But another intriguing option would be to allow the user to make marks of non-living things, as well as target them or other individuals with living things, sort of do the old switcheroo. And this isn't quite as ridiculous as it sounds because going back to the question of whether or not Van Der Deccan could make himself a target, if this kind of awakening were possible, then he could make say an island a target and then he could launch himself towards it for super quick transportation, kind of like what Bartholomew Kuma can do, just significantly more crude and likely much more owie. Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a marking human. One very important thing to note is that this is another Paramecia whose effect cease to be as soon as its user reaches a certain level of unconsciousness. And as a user, that is very important to keep in mind because this may result in a complete memory wipe of your targets and leave you with a blank slate upon waking up. And also something intriguing to note is that because this fruit is so focused on the use of hands, it may be just plain useless to some other people or creatures. Like for example, if a snake were to accidentally consume the fruit, then it would gain absolutely no benefit whatsoever and just be cursed with being unable to swim. Meanwhile, figures out there like Shanks would see a very limited benefit from the Marta Martanumi due to the fact that he only has one hand to make use of and it also actually brings up the question of what this fruit actually considers a hand. And here I'm thinking about situations like Frankie because his hands are completely cybernetic. So would that count as a hand under the criteria of the Marta Martanumi? And if so, does that mean that any artificial limbs are acceptable? Like another extreme example, could Kumadori consume the Marta Martanumi and gain infinite amount of targets because he can turn his long hair into a billion hands? We just have so many questions. In the end though, this is a super strange fruit and I think that it does have very limited use, much of which would be for highly vindictive purposes as shown by Vandedecken. I suppose an argument could be made that this fruit would be amazing for transporting heavy things, but I don't think that's a great idea because yes, you can cover a great distance but in the end, whatever you're transporting is going to need to collide with someone or something, besides the damaging the goods in question or the poor, poor target. And it's strange because for something so specific, it is a surprisingly crude fruit and probably very difficult to implement well in most aspects of daily life. I mean, it does certainly have its uses, perhaps super mundane things like sending a handwritten letter without using a postal service, but yeah, I don't know. Look, if it was me, I would be steering clear of this one. And with that, we are going to commit the Marta Martanumi to the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia. Next time on the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, we are traversing back into the Zoan realm in order to discuss a bizarre situation about a turtle fruit being used by a lion with the kame kame, or me. 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. 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