One Piece Chapter 1191 was officially released on August 23, 2026, in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #39, and it continued the incredibly tense battle unfolding in Elbaf between Luffy and the King of the World, Nerona Imu.
While Imu is completely dominant in the battle in Elbaf, One Piece has now revealed Luffy's newest power stemming directly from the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika, and the power of imagination that comes with it. By using his power of imagination, Luffy has not only been able to avoid death itself but, at the same time, gained the ability to heal from any damage he sustains to a significant degree. This shows the true, fearsome potential of Luffy's power of imagination and paints it to be an ability even stronger than Devil Fruit and Haki.
Monkey D. Luffy's Hito Hito no Mi Model: Nika is quite a special Devil Fruit. This is because this Devil Fruit is a powerful Mythical Zoan with the name of a God. In other words, Luffy's Nika Fruit is a God Devil Fruit that grants immense strength to the wielder. In its base form, it only grants the power of rubber to Luffy, meaning he can shrink and stretch his body as he sees fit. However, the user is still bound by the laws of nature. The true power of this Devil Fruit is brought out by its awakening. In One Piece Chapter 1044, which was officially published on March 28, 2022, in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #17, Monkey D. Luffy awakened his Hito Hito no Mi Model: Nika. This gave him access to Gear 5. As put forward by the Gorosei, awakening improves the power of the Devil Fruit user significantly and gives them even more of a rubbery body. At the same time, the user can do just about whatever they can imagine, with their only limit in combat being their imagination itself.
"Awakening [the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika] further strengthens their rubber body and gives them even more freedom, limited only by their own imagination. It is allegedly the most ridiculous power to exist in the entire world!" — Gorosei explain Luffy's awakened Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika, One Piece Chapter #1044
This was put on display in Luffy vs. Kaido, and later down the line, in the Egghead Arc as well. Luffy's power of imagination has now been taken to a completely new level in One Piece Chapter 1191 on August 23, 2026. It goes without saying that Luffy's Devil Fruit Awakening gives him tremendous strength and the ability to fight at the top of his game. However, Luffy's true strongest weapon to wield in this form, which is greater than both Gear 5 as well as Haki, is the Power of Imagination. Luffy's Nika form is tied directly to Nika's fantasy, and this means anything that Nika imagines can be turned into reality. This was explained by Eiichiro Oda himself in One Piece magazine.
Q: When using Gear 5th, Luffy takes things like goggles or a baseball helmet out of his Hagoromo cloud scarf. Please tell us how that works!
A: It's a gateway to Nika's fantasy.
— Oda explains how Nika's power breaks logic.
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