A super hidden detail in Luffy’s Gear Five is discovered and it is not known if it is Goda or if it was just an accident

‘One Piece’ has one of the most celebrated moments in Eiichiro Oda’s work with the Gear Five, Luffy’s final transformation. A technique that is the result of the awakening of the Gomu Gomu no Mi, originally known as the Hito Hito no Mi: Nika model. This allows its user to transform into the incarnation of the legendary sun god Nika, and its appearance has a detail that may have gone unnoticed, but it is a tremendous tribute to one of the most popular characters in Asian popular culture.

Luffy’s eyebrows in Gear Five are a clear reference to the golden tiara of the Monkey King, known in China as Jin Gu Zhou 紧箍咒. An object of enormous power that once placed on Sun Wukong’s head could not be removed, and if the Monkey King deviated from his path, the monk Tang Seng only had to recite the mantra that Buddha had taught him, and the diadem would tighten around Sun Wukong’s head, causing him excruciating pain. An object that also serves as a metaphor in China for an object that binds someone to something.

Journey to the West and its influence on the entertainment industry

It has been a long time since ‘Journey to the West’ was published in China in 1592, a work that has had an enormous cultural impact over the decades in various industries, most recently in the video game with one of the most faithful and successful adaptations in Black Myth: Wukong. The most famous? Probably ‘Dragon Ball’, which was inspired in its beginnings in many aspects by the legendary Chinese work, and as we have seen, even Eiichiro Oda could not resist paying his tribute to the mythical Monkey King.

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