The part were Luffy says he's gonna become the Pirate King and Katakuri replies by saying "You are seeing quite far into the future" still gives me chills.
"Are you still going to target Big Mom?" to me sounds like "Will I get to fight you again". also Luffy placing his black hat on Katakuri's face is a nice touch.
Glad to see more and more TH-camrs who recognize the subtle brilliance of both characters in this exchange! Another cool detail is the name on Katakuri's back, it's not his name but the name of the Charlotte family. The name he dare not bring shame to by ever falling on his back. So just as he discards the scarf to reveal his true self, he also discards his jacket to release the burden of the Charlotte family he was carrying on his shoulders, he then allows himself to fall on his back.
You just put everything that was on my mind. Luffy vs. Katakuri is my favourite Luffy battle because of how much both characters grow at every blows they exchange. They learn from each other. They earn mutual respect. And Katakuri is not a villain that Luffy usually fights against. He is an honorable man who is strong because he has family that he needs to protect.
Yeah I agree too! But I really don't understand why people think that someone who is such a perfect person like Katakuri before his true personality reveal is boring. I mean, people hate Itachi because he's boring and I don't understand why... I like people like that but the majority just seems to think otherwise
Yeah that's what I feel and Ohara kinda missed it. Not at the beggining, but somewhere in the middle katakuri starts to admire luffy and trains him instead
You know whats more epic ? They are fighting on a mirror dimension. They mirror each other to the point that they are learning each other's traits, wisdom, and almost everything. Oda never missed this kind of details.
"I'll be the one to become the Pirate King" "You're seeing quite far into the future" I don't know why but I find it so powerful that Katakuri, a villain we've barely know for a minute, thinks Luffy got what it takes to reach his goal
That single exchange warps up the fight perfectly. not only does Katakuri think Luffy has what it takes, the tone of it also says as though Luffy has even bested him in Future Vision. Something along the line of "You're seeing much further into the future than i even dare to . I myself cant see myself be a pirate king yet"
The way Luffy put his hat on face of katakuri to hide his face is a such great way to show respect our opponent ...bcoz katakuri doesn't liked someone to see his face... that last hat scene after battle is just MASTERPIECE
After the battle concluded I instantly thought about Rayleigh asking luffy what he would do when he fought stronger opponents, and luffy responded saying it depends on what kind of person he fought.. Oda is truly masterful bringing things full circle
Brullee is one of my favorite characters in one piece! For the first time, Luffy is the invader that came to mess up with someone's home in the whole cake arc as well. Brulle shows such amazing widths of emotion and humour, her moments with her brother are my favorites overal!!! the fact that the "villain" wants to keep his family protected is what breaks the big mom pirates from the rest, since we see different notions from each of them as a crew.
nope naruto only changed neji and sasuke after beating them, he changed pain after beating him, he definitely didnt talk them into changing before the fight.
Things i want to see before the end of One Piece *Katakuri and Luffy eating meat together under a cherry blossom tree and luffy telling katakuri the true meaning of the D*
I feel like physically, Katakuri could've kept going, but mentally he accepted defeat like, "Luffy is not a man to be taken down", or something along those lines, so he ended up losing his will to fight.
More so he lost reason to even continue the fight, as well as will. If he won it would only hurt Luffy and end his dream, who he is starting to really admire, if he lost nothing would really happen except Luffy escaping as well as on a character level gaining everything discussed in the video.
@@timothyvillanueva1 It's not pity, it's respect. The fact of the matter is he was stronger than Luffy at the beginning of the fight and he was incredibly inspired seeing him get up over and over again. People say he lost will to fight as if Katakuri is weak willed and coulnd't have went on, but that wasn't really the point. It was a battle of ideals and Luffy was fighting to free Katakuri.
Katakuri lost because luffy knocked him off his fake throne luffy was always on a real throne no matter what katakuri faked who he was so when he got knocked on his back his whole make shift reality was destroyed and so he lost
@@chacesherrod6713 He never was knocked on his back he choose to fall on his back he choose to not continue the fight he could have continued he just respected luffy so much he gave him the win.
Something about Katakuri taking off his jacket with the name of the family to fight for real Luffy makes so much sense. It shows that it's not about him being part of the Big Mom crew/family anymore, it's a fight for himself.
Katakuri and Brulee were some of my favorites from the big mom pirates. It's especially cool when you consider that luffy and katakuri's battle was the man who never falls vs the man who always gets back up
Katakuri and Brulee's relationship also reflects the relationship of Sanji and Reiju, where he has protected her and created a persona and Reiju has a persona of heartlessness to protect Sanji but in reality both of them aren't like that. Both Reiju and Katakuri also find it impossible to break away from their parental figures (BM and Judge).
Katakuri doesn't want to escape from BM? Where did you get that from? Neither does Reiju. If either of them wanted that, they'd just leave, especially Katakuri. Everyone in that family knows he's the strongest of them and still respect him even after his defeat. He is also one of the successors of their "empire" if BM dies or "retires" lol
@@akirosakuragi9279 I didnt say he or Reiju wanted to escape. I only highlighted that they both developed personas while under the control of overbearing parental figures which they have to live up to certain expectations which has lead them to feeling obliged to serve them. Katakuri's righteous, unbeatable and undefeated self and Reijus heartlessness are for their parents and sibling both as the oldest. While in reality they are nothing like how their siblings see them except for brulee with katakuri and Sanji with reiju. Who both saw through these personas. I'm even pretty sure Sanji asked Reiju why she didn't leave for her to relpy saying its too late for her but not for him and to live his life. Unless I remember that wrong or is anime only I don't know but the parallels are there. I hope this cleared up my thoughts for you.
@@akirosakuragi9279 well their parents aren't their sole purpose. katakuri stays because he wants to protect his siblings he doesn't give a shit about big mom, reiju is literally under a trance where she can't disobey her dad
Nihilistic Pancakeface I wouldn’t say he doesn’t give a shit about her. I think he has a traditional outlook on her. She might be toxic but she’s still his momma, typical dysfunctional family stuff
@@coreydeluna5258 morals are weird in one piece. Luffy assaults people all the time. They stole all that treasure from the sky people even though they were gonna give it too them
sorry he is a villain he killed two old men he may be honorable when it comes to family and battle but in the end he is villainous which I like about him
they both won. luffy escaped with the poneglyth and katakuri no longer has the reponsibility of perfection that he had to maintain which clearly put a mental burden on him. their fight is a special occasion because katakuri is a respectible figher which luffy tallked about with rayleigh on ruskaina
I like how at certain points of the fight to show that luffy is learning how to see the future slightly, instead of doing the red line thing katakuri does, luffy just sometimes responds to katakuri before he even finishes asking his question.
One of my favorite details is the reason for Katakuri's bounty; Gomu = 5 6, Katakuri’s bounty is 1B 57M. 57>56. It's another way for Oda’s to say that he’s better than Luffy
@@niaou4903 5 in japanese is read as GO and likewise 6 is MU (one of the readings mind you). So 5 6 == GO MU == Rubber. That's why they're saying that 56 is luffy's number. tbh I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but it's cool nevertheless
I also like the fact that the longer the fight goes on, the mirrors shatter more and more, symbolizing Katakuri gradually freeing himself from the pressure of always being watched and having a certain kind of appearance expected of him.
“Luffy freed not some people from the antagonist but freed the antagonist himself” “Katakuri saw in Luffy his potential of what could have been had he acted like his true self” These are beautiful points made and I didn’t realize them until now. Your video essays like these are fantastic I hope you do more of them!
I'm not going to lie, I almost died laughing the first time I heard Katakuri say "Did I do Elephant Gun right?" It was such an innocent question in such a strange manner.
It was something said from an air of confidence and mockery, but you can hear that child behind it like "wow... if I could be free to be myself I could come up with fun moves like that and fight earnestly... If I could be free to be myself." And over the course of the later parts of the fight he uses more and more fruity moves like the giant spiked mace arm. That was who he was the whole time... I'm gonna cry ;(
@maxinesenior596 now that you've mentioned it, I don't think Katakuri has any proper named attacks. Bro is really in a state of bondagery. Not only him but Pudding as well share the same fate
honestly for me i think the thing i loved the most of this fight was how much you could see that katakuri was really a product of those around him rather than a villain at heart and it makes me hopefully that at bare minimum, when big moms gets killed eventually that he will take the reigns of the big mom pirates and finally fix the problems that his mother caused for so many and more than that, it would be awesome if him and brulee ended up at wano to stop big mom and take her down the way he should have long ago and that he would do that so as to let luffy achieve his goal of taking down kaido and freeing the land of wano from his tyranny :D beyond all of that since i feel its almost a guarantee that katakuri will probably become the next leader of the big mom pirates, that he will actually become one of luffies rivals in the same way kid is or in the same way that it felt like rodger and whitebeard were where they are technically enemies but rather than fighting eachother out of hatred for one anohter, they fight eachother to prove themselves to each other :)
this was such an incredible and in-depth look at this fight while covering points i hadn’t even remotely thought of. Well done sir great work. Liked and followed
Yeah, freedom from strict, oppressive regimes. Freedom from society's expectations. Freedom to choose your true family--Sanji with Zeff and the Straw Hats and Katakuri with Brulee.
Ther is no freedom in current world and its just getting worse lik the taliban situation rn,mayb series like this wil b the hope of ppl later on when things get worse
Katakuri is my personal favorite character and honestly I can’t wait for his return. Hopefully it is on the side of luffy in battle against a common enemy like black beards crew.
et de stellis I always had the thought of Blackbeard going into the prison again and getting some new crew members including doflamingo. Then hopefully Katakuri and luffy somehow work together and beat them up
I disagree with one fact, of "Katakuri taking over as a leader" when Big Mom was in a frenzy. The one who showed LEADERSHIP is mostly Perospero. Katakuri did something important for the family, but the one who was "solving the problems" or at least trying was Perospero. He kept his cool and did not chase after small stuff, he focused on the bigger picture of calming down the Calamity that is his mother and keeping the damage as small as possible.
I think there are 2 fractions in the BM pirates: Those who would follow Perospero and those who would follow Katakuri. This was also made clear after they lost Big Mom in Wano
I agree but Perospero had to take on that role since he already was with her, Katakuri was busy fighting Luffy also Katakuri has color of the supreme king so imo he's more fit to be a leader.
@@barry01xd37 Yeah, but if we judge "leadership", we have to go by observable facts. In One Piece, we're used to seeing the strongest member as the natural leader, but Perospero was the MVP of the Big Mom Pirates in this battle. As good as the storytelling and fight between Luffy and Katakuri was, the real groundwork was done by Perospero, who even sacrificed an arm for his family and risked being killed by his own mother. He does not have Conquerers Haki, but Katakuri was not using it for the benefit of everyone either. He "went after the strongest intruder" while Perospero was "saving the kingdom". And nobody was questioning his authority at all, not even smoothy, who has a sizeable bigger bounty and is prolly a stronger fighter than him. Given, Perospero in the Wano Arc does not seem like the same thoughtful leader he was in the Totland Arc. Now he kinda seems vengeful and selfish.
"Did Katakuri actually loose against Luffy, or did he actually leave the mirror-world as a winner..." Everything Katakuri leaves, he leaves as a winner.
@@chriswentz5197 The shit gets flushed to be forgotten. Katakuri leaves with empty bowels, refreshed and ready to eat more donuts. #nevalost #100wins #0loses
I just finished watching whole cake island for the first time and man this fight was incredible. Katakuri is an incredible character and might even be my favorite op antagonist. Another thing I'll mention is that I had seen a clip of katakuri stabbing himself to make up for luffy's wound before watching the fight, but when it happened it still hit me really hard. Truly a goat antagonist and fight no doubt
Awesome video. I remember not appreciating this fight as much when I was reading it weekly. But then I went back a few months ago when one piece was on break and read it from beginning to end. I recommend everyone to do that. It really is one of the greatest fights in one piece and manga period.
I would say their is one other thing that no one really analyzed . Which is katakuri having advanced armament haki, that he stated him self to have . That blocked mochi was doing real work to Luffy on another level .
@@fallengrimes2595 it's not confirmed that Katakuri was using advanced armament haki. There was one line where he told Luffy there is a higher level of armament, but he didn't necessarily imply that's what he was using. Maybe, but I doubt it when you look at how advanced armament is being depicted these days.
Justin O'Malley With the riyuou in Wano nowadays it can get a bit confusing, but I think there are simply people who have fought with armament haki for, I don’t know 30 years and their experience with it is much more, therefore their color of arms is stronger than others, hence why Katakuri’s punches were hurting Luffy’s ELEPHANT GUNNED fists. Katakuri wasn’t using riyuou. Even if he did, i dont think we would have it mentioned, as the whole totland arc was based around observation.
yet nothing he said change the fact that he lost unequivocally. He did not leave a winner he lost Luffy won. No offense but he wasted entire video explaining something we already knew. For really no reason. None of his insight was new or special or really amazing just a whole bunch of over analyzation.
Katakuri takes over Big Mom Pirates to help Luffy later, Yamato takes over Beast Pirates to help Luffy later, and Shanks is already friendly. I'm curious what the final battle is going to be!
@@Gawesomeify Everybody Vs blackbeard, perhaps...I mean Teach has not only the full, concentrated power of WB's ability to literally destroy the planet, but anyone with a DF is going to have a hard time with his darkness fruit. He is an walking extinction level event who's also as smart as he is a tactician. Luffy is gonna need all the help he can
Our two favorite gluttons! One of my favorite concepts is how Haki evens the playing field tremendously. Pre-Time Skip it was all about the best devil fruit and your techniques you can accomplish. Post-Time Skip, it is all about training and how much better you can become through hard work.
Love how Luffy took inspiration from the abilities of his opponents in mirror matches. Future sight from Katakuri, obviously, but Gear Second is clearly at least partially inspired by Bellamy.
@@ayden7012 wooooosh. Sticky, gets pushed down and doesn't bounce back, there's no saying thats "I'm rubber you're mochi"... it's a thing that's meant to say they're both polymers but ones obviously stronger and sturdier while ones sticky and malleable. As we see in this fight, The malleable and sticky Katakuri *changes* and becomes *attached* to Luffy while the sturdy younger pirate comes out on top.
I love how even though the trope of “im you but stronger” has been done to death one piece as usual has made it its own. While villains seeing the error of their way a ton of times also again one piece does it so uniquely with literal mirrors all over the place keeping that metaphor. Oda is the king of world building and writing and it never ceases to amaze me.
This whole arc took don't judge a book by its cover to a whole new level with flampe looking nice and cute at first then turning out to be so toxic, brulee that looked like such a bad "witch", pudding with her acting to be a sweet girl when she is forced to be like that by her mom, with big mom that may appear a nice person when she wants to have a country with all races in the world and then she turns out to be an actual cannibal, even with Luffy who to us may felt like the strongest at that time but he also needed to surpass himself, also with the whole wedding it sounded and looked really nice with all the sweets and cake but then it's also just fake, even Totland itself may look like such a nice place to live in that its fully made with sweets and chocolate and everything that is nice but it still has such a deep darkness living in. This arc is one of my favorites tbh especially that we get to see more about Sanji
Luffy basically convinced a Guy who was known to never have been beaten to accept defeat. Even though he could have kept fighting. I Just love one piece
@@Joawlisdoingfine Yeah, that's very much the case as we see at the end. Katakuri's smiling. Smiling in this world is a sign of becoming the best person you can be and being carefree
In this fight Oda really hammered home the fact that Luffys biggest strength is not his physical power but the ability to pull people to his side. Its what Mihawk was saying about Luffy during Marineford.
Not just one of my favorite antagonists in OP, but seriously one of my favorites of all time through all of anime. Katakuri's character development as well as Luffy's development throughout their fight is better than I’ve seem in most story's!
WCI arc is all about façade. When they first arrive, everyone seemed happy and the place is filled with great things. But we discover that it is all because Big Mom pressure her people and family to act this way. Big mom herself is not the cruel tyrant we know, as a child she is extremelly sweet and caring about her family. She grew to be a monster by being manipulated and abandon she suffered through all her life. Katakuri embodies that façade too. He acts as the cool and ruthless protector of his family, but if he could he liked to be a lot more free and careless. Luffy, on the other hand, never compromised who he is for anyone, completely ignoring or beating other people who comes his way. In that sense, I like your analysis, but Luffy is still the moral winner of the fight. He showed Katakuri that he is able to sacrifice himself to this freedom to act his way, while Katakuri is forever tied to the family bonds he have, even if he changes a part of his personality.
I hate child Big mom, she wasn't manipulated, and when she got abandoned by her parents mama was there for her. Sure, mama was going to betray her, but Big mom ate her and everyone else first, it's disgusting. The hunger pangs are the most pure evil parts of her character
My word I'm new here and I have to say your a genius 😭. You even used their Devil Fruits to analyze their characters and that's where you got a subscriber. I never even thought about it that way, that Luffy's rubber represents his bouncing back no matter how many times his beaten and Katakuri's mochi, however flexible he may be stays the same after being beaten. You have my respect man amazing content as always.
It is possible. (Spoiler warning) Blackbeard have captured pudding. So a war is possible between big mom pirates & BB to get her back. Similarly luffy want to avenge Garp's defeat. It is possible that strawhats and katakuri will fight together ❤️
@@spaghetti2777 stamina isn’t winning you a fight when your opponent is stronger, faster, has better haki on both levels and better control over their df. “endurance” is just bull shit for plot armor
@@garoofx endurance in anime is different from endurance irl obviously. irl if you’re opponent is stronger on every level but endurance your opponent would fuck you up no???
Bro everything you said in this video is what I’ve been trying to explain to people since the fight. Thank you so much for this beautiful video and putting this perspective on such a huge platform for people to understand.
This was amazing and made a lot of sense. To hear this legit made me like katakuri more and made me love their dynamic. He really is the best antagonist
Just 1 thing Brulee did know about the truth about katakuri as it was for her that he adopted the cool persona. Just a minor correction. Amazing video!!
Would love to see a video breaking down the psychology behind the Enel fight. As his god complex is what made him decide to just leave. And it’s quite unique as it’s one of the few Luffy wasn’t able to change in some way.
Luffy covering kat’s mouth with his hat speaks volume to me. It’s luffy showing his respect Kat. I also love how kat apologizes for not noticing flampe interfering and luffy saying it was his fault for not dodging. If/when big mom gets out of the picture I can see them becoming allies because of their shared respect✊🏾
The one thing nobody really says about this fight is that in the beginning it’s the only fight he thought he might lose, and at the same time katakuri was sure he’d win until the end.
You know it's hilarious. Rogersbase literally asked this question about an article that came out after you left the Reverie because they needed somebody to translate. I am low-key thinking right now that you dropped out knowing he was going to ask it because it would spoil this video.
Dude this was an amazing video analysis. Thank you for putting so much effort into this video. It thoroughly enjoyed your evidence based arguments and honestly, I completely agree. I will definitely subscribe after this.
Katakuri definitely could have won very quick if you kept making sharp objects and punched holes in luffy. Instead, he used blunt, fist-shaped mochi attacks to mimic luffy and minimize the overall damage. Imagine if his power attacks and awakened abilities made spears? Game over, instantly
im actually rewatching one piece right now while i wait for more wano to come out. im so hyped for whole cake now. i never thought much about it but your 100% right.
this review literally brought out all the details that we possibly missed abt Katakuri. I hope someday, Katakuri will be one of the official allies of Luffy
He is he could’ve killed Luffy anytime he wanted during the battle but chose to tell Luffy to get back up. Before Luffy left, Katakuri asked Luffy will he come back to defeat Big Mom to free everyone from her control
I’m the only one that had goosebump frenzy during the WHOLE video from start to finish. My heart is still pounding after 10 minutes of watching the vid💪🏼
Not every character needs development either... what you are trying to say is if a character is not changed from how we saw him as first sucks as a character which is completely stupid.
@@Tensai1031 then why are you comparing Katakuri's development with straw hats development... Most of the straw hats did get character development only ones that didnt would be either Franky or Brook... and i think both are amazing characters nonetheless.
Stfu about that character develoupment shit, it isnt inherantly needed to make a story or a character good, and it also isnt inherantly good either, its mostly just reduced to a buzz word nowdays used to say «my character got a lvl 5 character develoupment while your character only has a level 2» Stop using the word if you arent really sure on what it means or does or is used for
@@belleelengu4825 In another really popular series called Hunter X Hunter (Highly recommended) one of the most dangerous characters is a killer clown called Hisoka. He lives to fight strong opponents and keeps reminding them that his power has the properties of both rubber and gum. It's become a meme in the fanbase to always make sure you know that it is both rubber and gum! The joke here is that Luffy is missing the gum part.
I rewatched this fight a second time, and honestly realised I've never been so intently focused on a specific fight like I was with this one. The slow progression of them both growing respect for each other throughout was a masterpiece. I can't wait to see a follow up on Katakuri now that Wano is over, or his reaction to that news. For me, he is the best antagonist that Luffy has fought in the series, because he's so unique and the situation is so different.
@Jordan Vance no...different words have different meanings and most "interchangeable" words are more nuanced than you think. A fight is not the *same* as a battle, it's just very close in meaning and thus people who don't know the full meaning of both words will use them interchangeably. To clarify I don't disagree that many people use them interchangeably, I'm saying *everyone* who does is wrong and the only example they are good for is: English as a language is probably the least understood by it's own native speakers. I don't mean that as an insult, but using words interchangeably is literally not giving a shit about the meaning of what you say
This was an amazing breakdown and video in general. I really missed a lot of this, simply reading the weekly releases really makes you miss so much if you don't go back to appreciate it in its entirety. Subbed and liked - phenomenal video Ohara :)
keep in mind that this fight took place around chapter 850. 20+ years after the first chapter and the series still offering compelling fights and character development scenes, the best in the series at that point. And even now in Wano its continuing to give us these amazing compelling fights 1000 chapters later.
Oda's writing is genius... I never thought a guy made of rubber and guy made of mochi would be this good. I have never seen such a good win win fight and I just live it
Such an incredible video! I always knew katakuri was different and he my favourite antagonist so far! And now I sub'ed to the channel thanks to this video!
I loved this fight and the fact that Luffy upgraded his skills and how he uses them. He use to be straight into the fight. But after that fight he uses Haki to get rid of the trash and send off welcome punches then stares you down and welcomes the fight. You can really see how he is maturing.
One of my favourite moments is when Luffy tells him doesn't care what he looks like after seeing his mouth without the scarf and you see in Katakuri's face that he was surprised. It was a nice to see.
This always felt really strange to me. Half the characters in One Piece look extremely abnormal in some way. And yet, Katakuri's mouth is the straw that breaks the camel's back? What about Usopp's nose? What about all the modification Franky has done to his body? What about Crocodile's hand being replaced with a hook? What about Ivankoff's massive freakin' head? Hell, Katakuri's sister (the one watching him and Luffy fight) looks more abnormal than him, wearing an egg as pants. Even Oven and Perospero look more abnormal than him, with the former's weird hair and Perospero's massive freakin' tongue! Even with his mouth, he looks incredibly normal. Only when he eats doughnuts and expands his mouth to look like a frog does it seem weird. Anyway, I just felt that One Piece is just a really weird show to have its characters judge others by appearance
I never thought of their fight like this before. Huh. This really puts a new perspective. Tbh, I'm on the fence with which fight I liked better: Lucci vs Luffy or Katakuri vs Luffy.
Do you feel more presure now knowing the writing staf of the live action series watch your analysis videos??
still processing that fact haha, kinda surreal
Really?
Is there like an article or a video I could witness. I must confirm this, please!!!
@@teddysam9307
He said so during the reverie
WTF
The part were Luffy says he's gonna become the Pirate King and Katakuri replies by saying "You are seeing quite far into the future" still gives me chills.
Ah man. Luffy with that op observation haki. Speaking it into existence
I can see Katakuri becoming the Emperor to replace Big Mom in the future of the series. He’s basically the leader already.
Usopp's future sight is above Katakuri's
"Are you still going to target Big Mom?" to me sounds like "Will I get to fight you again". also Luffy placing his black hat on Katakuri's face is a nice touch.
Wanna know smt its not posdible to see the future he can only see ppls next move
Reminder that luffy stood up 9 times for the strawhats
and katakuri stood up once for brulee and then he didn’t have nobody else to fight for🤷🏾♂️
That is such a cool detail!
1 time for each of his crew :)
True
Fantastic detail
This is actually a wonderful detail
Wow, this is an amazing detail!
Glad to see more and more TH-camrs who recognize the subtle brilliance of both characters in this exchange! Another cool detail is the name on Katakuri's back, it's not his name but the name of the Charlotte family. The name he dare not bring shame to by ever falling on his back. So just as he discards the scarf to reveal his true self, he also discards his jacket to release the burden of the Charlotte family he was carrying on his shoulders, he then allows himself to fall on his back.
That's a nice take
You just put everything that was on my mind. Luffy vs. Katakuri is my favourite Luffy battle because of how much both characters grow at every blows they exchange. They learn from each other. They earn mutual respect. And Katakuri is not a villain that Luffy usually fights against. He is an honorable man who is strong because he has family that he needs to protect.
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@@sknowfall who told you to comment
@@user-fq3lk5se6p ik ur just tryna rick roll me so im not gonna respond lol 😹👎
This was simply the best analysis of Katakuri as a character, I've ever seen.
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Yeah I agree too! But I really don't understand why people think that someone who is such a perfect person like Katakuri before his true personality reveal is boring. I mean, people hate Itachi because he's boring and I don't understand why... I like people like that but the majority just seems to think otherwise
Hehe only 46 likes
@@kalebgarcia2733 same 😂😂
How you hacked youtube comments to make ur comments always be in the top for everyone see.. 🤣😂
When you realise Katakuri was training luffy and Luffy was teaching Katakuri.
This fight was the epitome of Ying and Yang. ☯️
Yeah that's what I feel and Ohara kinda missed it. Not at the beggining, but somewhere in the middle katakuri starts to admire luffy and trains him instead
@@morfigasoulslayer thats just an interpretation. i wouldnt say he missed anything.
Katakuri taught Luffy how to use future sight and Luffy taught Katakuri that he should be himself instead of some perfect man
You know whats more epic ? They are fighting on a mirror dimension. They mirror each other to the point that they are learning each other's traits, wisdom, and almost everything. Oda never missed this kind of details.
@@dillonyoung5502 it is not an interpretation, katakuri literally said that he is not fighting as BM pirate anymore
"I'll be the one to become the Pirate King"
"You're seeing quite far into the future"
I don't know why but I find it so powerful that Katakuri, a villain we've barely know for a minute, thinks Luffy got what it takes to reach his goal
That single exchange warps up the fight perfectly.
not only does Katakuri think Luffy has what it takes, the tone of it also says as though Luffy has even bested him in Future Vision. Something along the line of "You're seeing much further into the future than i even dare to . I myself cant see myself be a pirate king yet"
Not a villain but an antagonist.
@@orion7881 It was in the translation i read. i never watched the anime to begin with
you find that line so powerful because you don't have that much of life experience
@@ajesh151 Lmao, he’s killed innocent people before. He’s a villain.
Ohara 'sips coffee'
Matt from the one piece live action netflix adaptation: "Yo, write that down"
Man, you killed me. Ahahahahha
The way Luffy put his hat on face of katakuri to hide his face is a such great way to show respect our opponent ...bcoz katakuri doesn't liked someone to see his face... that last hat scene after battle is just MASTERPIECE
Luffy saw his face,didn’t care and judged him from what he looks like without the scarf like most of his brothers, sisters, and mother
the whole fight was a masterpiece
I want to like your comment but its 420!
@@mc8029 kizaru time baby
After the battle concluded I instantly thought about Rayleigh asking luffy what he would do when he fought stronger opponents, and luffy responded saying it depends on what kind of person he fought.. Oda is truly masterful bringing things full circle
Brullee is one of my favorite characters in one piece! For the first time, Luffy is the invader that came to mess up with someone's home in the whole cake arc as well. Brulle shows such amazing widths of emotion and humour, her moments with her brother are my favorites overal!!! the fact that the "villain" wants to keep his family protected is what breaks the big mom pirates from the rest, since we see different notions from each of them as a crew.
Honestly, I found her annoying at first. But the scene whit Katakuri made her so awesome!
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Love ma gurl Branch.
@@redgunnit It's Brulee!
@@misslady2639 Wrong *Whacks you with a branch*
Naruto talks his opponents into changing, Luffy beats the change into them.
I was about to write the same
Have you watched Naruto??
nope naruto only changed neji and sasuke after beating them, he changed pain after beating him, he definitely didnt talk them into changing before the fight.
Wisdom king alright
Idk why I laughed so much at this lol
Things i want to see before the end of One Piece
*Katakuri and Luffy eating meat together under a cherry blossom tree and luffy telling katakuri the true meaning of the D*
Luffy yucking at sweets and katakuri brings out a ‘meat flavored donut’
I don't like parallelism but i want this to happen
Wink wink
GODDAMN THAT WOULD BE SO GOOD TO ADD TO THE END STORY
Just like Roger and Whitebeard
I feel like physically, Katakuri could've kept going, but mentally he accepted defeat like, "Luffy is not a man to be taken down", or something along those lines, so he ended up losing his will to fight.
More so he lost reason to even continue the fight, as well as will. If he won it would only hurt Luffy and end his dream, who he is starting to really admire, if he lost nothing would really happen except Luffy escaping as well as on a character level gaining everything discussed in the video.
@@FlappyCat-ef6oq I don't think Katakuri would pity Luffy and give him the win. Katakuri lost the will to fight and Luffy didn't.
@@timothyvillanueva1 It's not pity, it's respect. The fact of the matter is he was stronger than Luffy at the beginning of the fight and he was incredibly inspired seeing him get up over and over again. People say he lost will to fight as if Katakuri is weak willed and coulnd't have went on, but that wasn't really the point. It was a battle of ideals and Luffy was fighting to free Katakuri.
Katakuri lost because luffy knocked him off his fake throne luffy was always on a real throne no matter what katakuri faked who he was so when he got knocked on his back his whole make shift reality was destroyed and so he lost
@@chacesherrod6713 He never was knocked on his back he choose to fall on his back he choose to not continue the fight he could have continued he just respected luffy so much he gave him the win.
Something about Katakuri taking off his jacket with the name of the family to fight for real Luffy makes so much sense. It shows that it's not about him being part of the Big Mom crew/family anymore, it's a fight for himself.
Katakuri and Brulee were some of my favorites from the big mom pirates. It's especially cool when you consider that luffy and katakuri's battle was the man who never falls vs the man who always gets back up
Katakuri and Brulee's relationship also reflects the relationship of Sanji and Reiju, where he has protected her and created a persona and Reiju has a persona of heartlessness to protect Sanji but in reality both of them aren't like that. Both Reiju and Katakuri also find it impossible to break away from their parental figures (BM and Judge).
Katakuri doesn't want to escape from BM? Where did you get that from? Neither does Reiju. If either of them wanted that, they'd just leave, especially Katakuri. Everyone in that family knows he's the strongest of them and still respect him even after his defeat. He is also one of the successors of their "empire" if BM dies or "retires" lol
@@akirosakuragi9279 I didnt say he or Reiju wanted to escape. I only highlighted that they both developed personas while under the control of overbearing parental figures which they have to live up to certain expectations which has lead them to feeling obliged to serve them. Katakuri's righteous, unbeatable and undefeated self and Reijus heartlessness are for their parents and sibling both as the oldest. While in reality they are nothing like how their siblings see them except for brulee with katakuri and Sanji with reiju. Who both saw through these personas. I'm even pretty sure Sanji asked Reiju why she didn't leave for her to relpy saying its too late for her but not for him and to live his life. Unless I remember that wrong or is anime only I don't know but the parallels are there. I hope this cleared up my thoughts for you.
@@akirosakuragi9279 well their parents aren't their sole purpose. katakuri stays because he wants to protect his siblings he doesn't give a shit about big mom, reiju is literally under a trance where she can't disobey her dad
Nihilistic Pancakeface I wouldn’t say he doesn’t give a shit about her. I think he has a traditional outlook on her. She might be toxic but she’s still his momma, typical dysfunctional family stuff
oh shit the catch !
kayakuri is no villain. all his doing was in order to protect his family. nothing to be considered villainous.
he definitely is a villain he killed 3 small cooks just because they saw him
@@coreydeluna5258 morals are weird in one piece. Luffy assaults people all the time. They stole all that treasure from the sky people even though they were gonna give it too them
sorry he is a villain he killed two old men he may be honorable when it comes to family and battle but in the end he is villainous which I like about him
@@gnarrcan108 you cant compare that to big Moms crew they are all psychotic killers
@@gnarrcan108 they are pirates
they both won. luffy escaped with the poneglyth and katakuri no longer has the reponsibility of perfection that he had to maintain which clearly put a mental burden on him. their fight is a special occasion because katakuri is a respectible figher which luffy tallked about with rayleigh on ruskaina
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@Hades Hades 🤡🤡🤡
Luffy got lucky, if Katakuri wasn't honorable he would have lost.
@@rogue8533 luffy made him
@Hades Hades Stop using buzzwords that make you look like an utter moron without a single clue what he is talking about.
I like how at certain points of the fight to show that luffy is learning how to see the future slightly, instead of doing the red line thing katakuri does, luffy just sometimes responds to katakuri before he even finishes asking his question.
One of my favorite details is the reason for Katakuri's bounty;
Gomu = 5 6, Katakuri’s bounty is 1B 57M. 57>56.
It's another way for Oda’s to say that he’s better than Luffy
Nice
What does that mean
@@niaou4903 Luffys number is 56 and since kata bounty is 1 b 57m 57 is greater than 56 meaning kata is better than Luffy
@@fredihernandez6235 how is luffys number 56 did oda say that or something?
@@niaou4903 5 in japanese is read as GO and likewise 6 is MU (one of the readings mind you). So 5 6 == GO MU == Rubber. That's why they're saying that 56 is luffy's number. tbh I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but it's cool nevertheless
I also like the fact that the longer the fight goes on, the mirrors shatter more and more, symbolizing Katakuri gradually freeing himself from the pressure of always being watched and having a certain kind of appearance expected of him.
i’m also vietnamese
@@1hunnet823 what
@@wodimeplscomeback3989 i share the same last name as him
“Luffy freed not some people from the antagonist but freed the antagonist himself”
“Katakuri saw in Luffy his potential of what could have been had he acted like his true self”
These are beautiful points made and I didn’t realize them until now. Your video essays like these are fantastic I hope you do more of them!
I'm not going to lie, I almost died laughing the first time I heard Katakuri say "Did I do Elephant Gun right?" It was such an innocent question in such a strange manner.
Katakuri is one of my faves
It was something said from an air of confidence and mockery, but you can hear that child behind it like "wow... if I could be free to be myself I could come up with fun moves like that and fight earnestly... If I could be free to be myself." And over the course of the later parts of the fight he uses more and more fruity moves like the giant spiked mace arm. That was who he was the whole time... I'm gonna cry ;(
@@maxinesenior596 agreed. Katakuri def one of the best characters in OP
@maxinesenior596 now that you've mentioned it, I don't think Katakuri has any proper named attacks. Bro is really in a state of bondagery. Not only him but Pudding as well share the same fate
honestly for me i think the thing i loved the most of this fight was how much you could see that katakuri was really a product of those around him rather than a villain at heart and it makes me hopefully that at bare minimum, when big moms gets killed eventually that he will take the reigns of the big mom pirates and finally fix the problems that his mother caused for so many and more than that, it would be awesome if him and brulee ended up at wano to stop big mom and take her down the way he should have long ago and that he would do that so as to let luffy achieve his goal of taking down kaido and freeing the land of wano from his tyranny :D beyond all of that since i feel its almost a guarantee that katakuri will probably become the next leader of the big mom pirates, that he will actually become one of luffies rivals in the same way kid is or in the same way that it felt like rodger and whitebeard were where they are technically enemies but rather than fighting eachother out of hatred for one anohter, they fight eachother to prove themselves to each other :)
I dont think Kata is strong enough to face BM.
Maybe he is now, who knows
this was such an incredible and in-depth look at this fight while covering points i hadn’t even remotely thought of. Well done sir great work. Liked and followed
Well he just worded what i had thought while watching. Maybe i should start my channel.
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This manga really is focused on freedom, even if it’s from your own family.
Yeah, freedom from strict, oppressive regimes. Freedom from society's expectations. Freedom to choose your true family--Sanji with Zeff and the Straw Hats and Katakuri with Brulee.
It's a powerful message that I wish could reach the ears of more people
Ther is no freedom in current world and its just getting worse lik the taliban situation rn,mayb series like this wil b the hope of ppl later on when things get worse
This sentence aged well
@@einfachsoeintyp6710 I literally never use this account. I just accidentally went in it and see this. Lol
Katakuri is my personal favorite character and honestly I can’t wait for his return. Hopefully it is on the side of luffy in battle against a common enemy like black beards crew.
et de stellis knowing oda if he did that it be off screen
He fights against the blackbeards by his own.
et de stellis I always had the thought of Blackbeard going into the prison again and getting some new crew members including doflamingo.
Then hopefully Katakuri and luffy somehow work together and beat them up
@et de stellis their is no reason for Katakuri fighting doffy Lol
I really wanted to see him in wano
All i gotta say is, if kata starts his own crew, "dogtooth pirates" would be the most badass name of all pirate crews
More like "Potato Starch" pirates.
Donut 🍩pirates
Pelican eel pirates
@Sins why Ace? ..... Oh! Oh.. Oh.
tooth de chay pirate crew
I have a feeling that after Luffy becomes Pirate King, Katakuri will be the only opponent who he considers equal like Whitebeard to Roger
shiki?
Nah Luffy is way stronger than him now. His rivals will always be Kid and Law
it would be awesome to see in the final arc Katakuri and Luffy having a friendship moment :,)
Koby?
@@punani_slayer4209 I also think Katakuri's fruit is already awakened.
I disagree with one fact, of "Katakuri taking over as a leader" when Big Mom was in a frenzy. The one who showed LEADERSHIP is mostly Perospero. Katakuri did something important for the family, but the one who was "solving the problems" or at least trying was Perospero. He kept his cool and did not chase after small stuff, he focused on the bigger picture of calming down the Calamity that is his mother and keeping the damage as small as possible.
I think there are 2 fractions in the BM pirates: Those who would follow Perospero and those who would follow Katakuri. This was also made clear after they lost Big Mom in Wano
Both Perospero and Katakuri showed extraordinary leadership in the battle on whole cake.
I agree but Perospero had to take on that role since he already was with her, Katakuri was busy fighting Luffy also Katakuri has color of the supreme king so imo he's more fit to be a leader.
@@barry01xd37 Yeah, but if we judge "leadership", we have to go by observable facts. In One Piece, we're used to seeing the strongest member as the natural leader, but Perospero was the MVP of the Big Mom Pirates in this battle. As good as the storytelling and fight between Luffy and Katakuri was, the real groundwork was done by Perospero, who even sacrificed an arm for his family and risked being killed by his own mother. He does not have Conquerers Haki, but Katakuri was not using it for the benefit of everyone either. He "went after the strongest intruder" while Perospero was "saving the kingdom". And nobody was questioning his authority at all, not even smoothy, who has a sizeable bigger bounty and is prolly a stronger fighter than him.
Given, Perospero in the Wano Arc does not seem like the same thoughtful leader he was in the Totland Arc. Now he kinda seems vengeful and selfish.
@@Shinimusha Good points!
"Did Katakuri actually loose against Luffy, or did he actually leave the mirror-world as a winner..."
Everything Katakuri leaves, he leaves as a winner.
So everytime he leaves the bathroom,he winned against what,The poop or the toilet??
@@chriswentz5197 Katakuri is above mortal concepts like pooping.
Waste just admits defeat and leaves his body on its own.
@@jinratensei8988 idk why but this made me chuckle
@@chriswentz5197 The shit gets flushed to be forgotten. Katakuri leaves with empty bowels, refreshed and ready to eat more donuts. #nevalost #100wins #0loses
I just finished watching whole cake island for the first time and man this fight was incredible. Katakuri is an incredible character and might even be my favorite op antagonist. Another thing I'll mention is that I had seen a clip of katakuri stabbing himself to make up for luffy's wound before watching the fight, but when it happened it still hit me really hard. Truly a goat antagonist and fight no doubt
this fight is waaaay too long,i dont like it very much
@-MR-PoPo- what did you think of the ongoing Wano arc then?
The Katakuri fight felt different, because Katakuri could’ve been the main character. It’s two main characters against each other
Comments like these are so satisfying thank u !
Just finished watching whole cake arc and I swore that was I going to watch a katakuri vs luffy analysis.
Sincerely, thank you for posting this video.
Awesome video. I remember not appreciating this fight as much when I was reading it weekly. But then I went back a few months ago when one piece was on break and read it from beginning to end. I recommend everyone to do that. It really is one of the greatest fights in one piece and manga period.
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Ive known about it since day one
Me: This fight scene was soo overrated and over analyzed. There’s no stone left unturned
Ohara: Hold my cup of coffee or your favorite beverage...
my man
I would say their is one other thing that no one really analyzed . Which is katakuri having advanced armament haki, that he stated him self to have . That blocked mochi was doing real work to Luffy on another level .
@@fallengrimes2595 it's not confirmed that Katakuri was using advanced armament haki. There was one line where he told Luffy there is a higher level of armament, but he didn't necessarily imply that's what he was using. Maybe, but I doubt it when you look at how advanced armament is being depicted these days.
Justin O'Malley With the riyuou in Wano nowadays it can get a bit confusing, but I think there are simply people who have fought with armament haki for, I don’t know 30 years and their experience with it is much more, therefore their color of arms is stronger than others, hence why Katakuri’s punches were hurting Luffy’s ELEPHANT GUNNED fists.
Katakuri wasn’t using riyuou. Even if he did, i dont think we would have it mentioned, as the whole totland arc was based around observation.
yet nothing he said change the fact that he lost unequivocally. He did not leave a winner he lost Luffy won. No offense but he wasted entire video explaining something we already knew. For really no reason. None of his insight was new or special or really amazing just a whole bunch of over analyzation.
I genuinely hope that Katakuri inherits the Big Mom Pirates and end up being allies with our future pirate king.
The Jimbei factor could be what makes or breaks it.
would be intrestingg to see the character of linlin and kaido after wano dunno why
@@justaotter2085 i dont think thats gonna happen
Katakuri takes over Big Mom Pirates to help Luffy later, Yamato takes over Beast Pirates to help Luffy later, and Shanks is already friendly. I'm curious what the final battle is going to be!
@@Gawesomeify Everybody Vs blackbeard, perhaps...I mean Teach has not only the full, concentrated power of WB's ability to literally destroy the planet, but anyone with a DF is going to have a hard time with his darkness fruit. He is an walking extinction level event who's also as smart as he is a tactician. Luffy is gonna need all the help he can
"You can see quite far into the future"
that stuck with me, what a badass character
Our two favorite gluttons!
One of my favorite concepts is how Haki evens the playing field tremendously. Pre-Time Skip it was all about the best devil fruit and your techniques you can accomplish.
Post-Time Skip, it is all about training and how much better you can become through hard work.
Love how Luffy took inspiration from the abilities of his opponents in mirror matches. Future sight from Katakuri, obviously, but Gear Second is clearly at least partially inspired by Bellamy.
That's interesting, I never thought about that
Nah gear second was from the shave technique which is from the cp9
Gear Second, if we are talking about just the gear second part, it's a Luffy original. His high-speed movement is thanks to Blueno.
It's from the movie, check it out
I think gear fourth bouceman is the one inspired by bellamy
Luffy v Katakuri: the most intense "I'm rubber and you're glue" fight ever penned.
Do you even watch the anime? Mochi. Not glue
Dough
@@ayden7012 wooooosh. Sticky, gets pushed down and doesn't bounce back, there's no saying thats "I'm rubber you're mochi"... it's a thing that's meant to say they're both polymers but ones obviously stronger and sturdier while ones sticky and malleable. As we see in this fight, The malleable and sticky Katakuri *changes* and becomes *attached* to Luffy while the sturdy younger pirate comes out on top.
@@ayden7012 Have you never heard the term "I'm rubber and you're glue." before?
I am SO happy that someone finally talked about this. It’s so obvious but nobody talked about it. Good job Ohara!
I love how even though the trope of “im you but stronger” has been done to death one piece as usual has made it its own. While villains seeing the error of their way a ton of times also again one piece does it so uniquely with literal mirrors all over the place keeping that metaphor. Oda is the king of world building and writing and it never ceases to amaze me.
This whole arc took don't judge a book by its cover to a whole new level with flampe looking nice and cute at first then turning out to be so toxic, brulee that looked like such a bad "witch", pudding with her acting to be a sweet girl when she is forced to be like that by her mom, with big mom that may appear a nice person when she wants to have a country with all races in the world and then she turns out to be an actual cannibal, even with Luffy who to us may felt like the strongest at that time but he also needed to surpass himself, also with the whole wedding it sounded and looked really nice with all the sweets and cake but then it's also just fake, even Totland itself may look like such a nice place to live in that its fully made with sweets and chocolate and everything that is nice but it still has such a deep darkness living in. This arc is one of my favorites tbh especially that we get to see more about Sanji
Great video. well done!
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Luffy basically convinced a Guy who was known to never have been beaten to accept defeat. Even though he could have kept fighting.
I Just love one piece
I mean if I’m fighting with someone and then i started loving that guy and know his true personality I will let him take the W
In a sense both of them won. Luffy gained a new understanding about Observation Haki, while Katakuri learned how to be himself.
@@Joawlisdoingfine Yeah, that's very much the case as we see at the end. Katakuri's smiling. Smiling in this world is a sign of becoming the best person you can be and being carefree
In this fight Oda really hammered home the fact that Luffys biggest strength is not his physical power but the ability to pull people to his side. Its what Mihawk was saying about Luffy during Marineford.
Not just one of my favorite antagonists in OP, but seriously one of my favorites of all time through all of anime. Katakuri's character development as well as Luffy's development throughout their fight is better than I’ve seem in most story's!
"A battle in which no one was a loser"
Everything about Katakuri is “reflected” in the mirrors
I see what you did there
Yeah, a great language usage
WCI arc is all about façade. When they first arrive, everyone seemed happy and the place is filled with great things. But we discover that it is all because Big Mom pressure her people and family to act this way.
Big mom herself is not the cruel tyrant we know, as a child she is extremelly sweet and caring about her family. She grew to be a monster by being manipulated and abandon she suffered through all her life.
Katakuri embodies that façade too. He acts as the cool and ruthless protector of his family, but if he could he liked to be a lot more free and careless. Luffy, on the other hand, never compromised who he is for anyone, completely ignoring or beating other people who comes his way. In that sense, I like your analysis, but Luffy is still the moral winner of the fight. He showed Katakuri that he is able to sacrifice himself to this freedom to act his way, while Katakuri is forever tied to the family bonds he have, even if he changes a part of his personality.
I hate child Big mom, she wasn't manipulated, and when she got abandoned by her parents mama was there for her. Sure, mama was going to betray her, but Big mom ate her and everyone else first, it's disgusting. The hunger pangs are the most pure evil parts of her character
My word I'm new here and I have to say your a genius 😭. You even used their Devil Fruits to analyze their characters and that's where you got a subscriber. I never even thought about it that way, that Luffy's rubber represents his bouncing back no matter how many times his beaten and Katakuri's mochi, however flexible he may be stays the same after being beaten. You have my respect man amazing content as always.
he took that from craftsdwarf's video
This was definitely by far the best fight in one piece. I have so much respect for Katakuri. Oda is a genius.
this fight is way too long for me,i find it very boring
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Read it instead.
Much more bearable
ass pull ,plot armor
I think somewhere in the future Katakuri will comeback in the story and he will be a friend of Luffy. I want him to be Luffy's Ally.
It is possible. (Spoiler warning)
Blackbeard have captured pudding. So a war is possible between big mom pirates & BB to get her back. Similarly luffy want to avenge Garp's defeat. It is possible that strawhats and katakuri will fight together ❤️
Wow this is an absolutely phenomenal analysis.
I agree with everything except for Luffy winning legitimately due to power. I think Katakuri was still much stronger but lost the mental battle
Luffy had more stamina, you could say that's mental but that's also a part of strength.
@@garoofx nah it was definitely his mental state that won it. katakuri found no reason to fight anymore because of luffys will.
@@spaghetti2777 stamina isn’t winning you a fight when your opponent is stronger, faster, has better haki on both levels and better control over their df. “endurance” is just bull shit for plot armor
@@garoofx endurance in anime is different from endurance irl obviously. irl if you’re opponent is stronger on every level but endurance your opponent would fuck you up no???
@@wockhardt7274 they'd just fuck you up longer
Must feel amazing to know your work is reaching the staff of the netflix adaptation. keep up the great work, very happy for you!
Thank you! Will do!
Netflix adaptation?
That's so sad.. Everyone's 100% sure it's gonna be a bad show. Guess Oda needed the money.
@@dsan17 I don't think that oda is needing money 😂😂 maby hi just wont to experimet with he's mastepiec a bit
@@dsan17 r u really guessing that? He is one of the most expensive writer🤣
Bro everything you said in this video is what I’ve been trying to explain to people since the fight. Thank you so much for this beautiful video and putting this perspective on such a huge platform for people to understand.
Katakuri is the highlight of whole cake, my respect for him constantly skyrockets
Probably your best video of this character analysis series. Congratulations.
This was amazing and made a lot of sense. To hear this legit made me like katakuri more and made me love their dynamic. He really is the best antagonist
Just 1 thing
Brulee did know about the truth about katakuri as it was for her that he adopted the cool persona. Just a minor correction. Amazing video!!
Would love to see a video breaking down the psychology behind the Enel fight.
As his god complex is what made him decide to just leave. And it’s quite unique as it’s one of the few Luffy wasn’t able to change in some way.
You have said *everything* that I could not put into words about what I love about the fight and how it was written and told to us.
Katakuri has the same values as Luffy but they are just on opposite sides. All others were simply villains that we hate for their cruelty
“He is his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children”
Ze mouzuuuuuu baby!!!
Luffy covering kat’s mouth with his hat speaks volume to me. It’s luffy showing his respect Kat. I also love how kat apologizes for not noticing flampe interfering and luffy saying it was his fault for not dodging. If/when big mom gets out of the picture I can see them becoming allies because of their shared respect✊🏾
This has to be the best video going over one piece that i ever watched its not click baited or anything its u just spitting facts love it
The one thing nobody really says about this fight is that in the beginning it’s the only fight he thought he might lose, and at the same time katakuri was sure he’d win until the end.
You know it's hilarious. Rogersbase literally asked this question about an article that came out after you left the Reverie because they needed somebody to translate. I am low-key thinking right now that you dropped out knowing he was going to ask it because it would spoil this video.
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_Katakuri and Luffy are gonna be some binge buddies I tell ya that._
Dude this was an amazing video analysis. Thank you for putting so much effort into this video. It thoroughly enjoyed your evidence based arguments and honestly, I completely agree. I will definitely subscribe after this.
Katakuri definitely could have won very quick if you kept making sharp objects and punched holes in luffy. Instead, he used blunt, fist-shaped mochi attacks to mimic luffy and minimize the overall damage. Imagine if his power attacks and awakened abilities made spears? Game over, instantly
The man who never falls down versus the man who always gets up after falling
im actually rewatching one piece right now while i wait for more wano to come out. im so hyped for whole cake now. i never thought much about it but your 100% right.
this review literally brought out all the details that we possibly missed abt Katakuri. I hope someday, Katakuri will be one of the official allies of Luffy
He is he could’ve killed Luffy anytime he wanted during the battle but chose to tell Luffy to get back up. Before Luffy left, Katakuri asked Luffy will he come back to defeat Big Mom to free everyone from her control
Luffy did win the fight and Katakuri might come to Wano to help Luffy since Big Mom’s in Wano with a majority of her crew
I’m the only one that had goosebump frenzy during the WHOLE video from start to finish. My heart is still pounding after 10 minutes of watching the vid💪🏼
me too
I thought I was the only one!!
Katakuri stepping on hus scarf and accepting himself for who he is more character development than some of the strawhats havw gotten👀
Not every character needs development either... what you are trying to say is if a character is not changed from how we saw him as first sucks as a character which is completely stupid.
DarksUper3DgeLord Toufiq never said that☠️☠️ goku barely changes and still goated
Yes. I believe you are mistaking “character development” with “character progression”
@@Tensai1031 then why are you comparing Katakuri's development with straw hats development... Most of the straw hats did get character development only ones that didnt would be either Franky or Brook... and i think both are amazing characters nonetheless.
Stfu about that character develoupment shit, it isnt inherantly needed to make a story or a character good, and it also isnt inherantly good either, its mostly just reduced to a buzz word nowdays used to say
«my character got a lvl 5 character develoupment while your character only has a level 2»
Stop using the word if you arent really sure on what it means or does or is used for
If Luffy had the properties of both rubber AND gum, he would easily be able to beat Katakuri.
hahahahah hisoka
Damnit this joke got me good! 🤣
@@JonoFunk I don't get the joke
@@belleelengu4825 In another really popular series called Hunter X Hunter (Highly recommended) one of the most dangerous characters is a killer clown called Hisoka. He lives to fight strong opponents and keeps reminding them that his power has the properties of both rubber and gum. It's become a meme in the fanbase to always make sure you know that it is both rubber and gum! The joke here is that Luffy is missing the gum part.
@@JonoFunk Thanks man, I always have hxh on my watch list but I never find the time
I rewatched this fight a second time, and honestly realised I've never been so intently focused on a specific fight like I was with this one. The slow progression of them both growing respect for each other throughout was a masterpiece. I can't wait to see a follow up on Katakuri now that Wano is over, or his reaction to that news. For me, he is the best antagonist that Luffy has fought in the series, because he's so unique and the situation is so different.
I can't wait to see Katakuri in the story again, I'm really curious how much his character will change
Katakuri is the new Whitebeard? Drive for family, befriends “hopeful” pirate king...
Noice
Both use long rod melee weapons lol
Nonsense .
Osoko Daniel why not?
Interesting... But then, who is Law?
Luffy won the fight, Katakuri won the battle.
And can we just take a moment to appreciate Sugita Tomokazu's performance as Katakuri, he is amazing.
@Jordan Vance no...different words have different meanings and most "interchangeable" words are more nuanced than you think. A fight is not the *same* as a battle, it's just very close in meaning and thus people who don't know the full meaning of both words will use them interchangeably. To clarify I don't disagree that many people use them interchangeably, I'm saying *everyone* who does is wrong and the only example they are good for is: English as a language is probably the least understood by it's own native speakers. I don't mean that as an insult, but using words interchangeably is literally not giving a shit about the meaning of what you say
Katakuri won both.......
@@rorozoro9703 oh, i see u zoro fans 🐒
This is definitely one of the best videos the internet has to offer, thank you very much for that :)
This was an amazing breakdown and video in general. I really missed a lot of this, simply reading the weekly releases really makes you miss so much if you don't go back to appreciate it in its entirety. Subbed and liked - phenomenal video Ohara :)
keep in mind that this fight took place around chapter 850. 20+ years after the first chapter and the series still offering compelling fights and character development scenes, the best in the series at that point. And even now in Wano its continuing to give us these amazing compelling fights 1000 chapters later.
Bruh you're just a genius I never would have gone this deep into the emotions/mental state of fiction characters
'^^^^ such a great video !
oda puts heart and soul into his work so we need these analysis to absorb the full quality of writing haha
Oda's writing is genius... I never thought a guy made of rubber and guy made of mochi would be this good. I have never seen such a good win win fight and I just live it
Fantastic video! Thanks for the informative breakdown :)
Such an incredible video! I always knew katakuri was different and he my favourite antagonist so far!
And now I sub'ed to the channel thanks to this video!
I loved this fight and the fact that Luffy upgraded his skills and how he uses them. He use to be straight into the fight. But after that fight he uses Haki to get rid of the trash and send off welcome punches then stares you down and welcomes the fight. You can really see how he is maturing.
One of my favourite moments is when Luffy tells him doesn't care what he looks like after seeing his mouth without the scarf and you see in Katakuri's face that he was surprised. It was a nice to see.
This always felt really strange to me. Half the characters in One Piece look extremely abnormal in some way. And yet, Katakuri's mouth is the straw that breaks the camel's back? What about Usopp's nose? What about all the modification Franky has done to his body? What about Crocodile's hand being replaced with a hook? What about Ivankoff's massive freakin' head? Hell, Katakuri's sister (the one watching him and Luffy fight) looks more abnormal than him, wearing an egg as pants. Even Oven and Perospero look more abnormal than him, with the former's weird hair and Perospero's massive freakin' tongue!
Even with his mouth, he looks incredibly normal. Only when he eats doughnuts and expands his mouth to look like a frog does it seem weird. Anyway, I just felt that One Piece is just a really weird show to have its characters judge others by appearance
I kinda wanna see them meet up again in the future, I feel like they'd be friends on opposing sides
Amazing Analysis Video. Usually I'm not a fan of analysis Videos, but I'm glad I clicked on this video anyway :)
I love this video. Best video I watched on youtube. It's heartwarming from start to finish.
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I never thought of their fight like this before. Huh. This really puts a new perspective. Tbh, I'm on the fence with which fight I liked better: Lucci vs Luffy or Katakuri vs Luffy.
That’s awesome. Try watching again now that you can see the deeper themes.
@@Retrognar I will. Someday soon. When I have some time.
PERFECT analysis!!!!! This is why it was the best fight in One Piece for me. Tons of action AND story telling melded together. GODA!
Definately worth like.
You did great job, man!
The guy who always gets up vs the guy who never fallen