Monkey D Luffy
| Monkey D. Luffy | |
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| One Piece character | |
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| First appearance | One Piece chapter #1: "Romance Dawn" (Weekly Shōnen Jump No. 34, 1997) |
| Created by | Eiichiro Oda |
| Voiced by |
Japanese Mayumi Tanaka Urara Takano (1998 OVA) English Colleen Clinkenbeard |
| Profile | |
| Aliases | Straw Hat Luffy |
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| Affiliations |
Straw Hat Pirates (captain) Straw Hat Grand fleet (captain) Dadan Family (former) |
| Devil fruit | Gum-Gum Fruit (ゴムゴムの実 Gomu Gomu no Mi) |
Straw Hat Pirates (captain) Straw Hat Grand fleet (captain)
Monkey D. "Straw Hat"Luffy(Japanese: モンキー・D・ルフィ Hepburn: Monkī Dī Rufi) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the One Piece manga series, created by Eiichiro Oda. Luffy made his debut in One Piece chapter #1 as a young boy who acquires the properties of rubber after inadvertently eating the supernatural Gum-Gum fruit.
He sails from the East Blue Sea to the Grand Line in search of the legendary treasure, One Piece, to succeed Gol D. Roger as King of the Pirates. Luffy, captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, recruits crew members, fights antagonists, and aids and befriends the inhabitants of several islands during his journey. Usually cheerful, he becomes serious when he fights. Luffy uses his elasticity to concentrate his power, executing a range of attacks. In his signature attack, Gum-Gum Pistol, he slingshots punches at opponents from a distance.
Luffy appears in most of the episodes, films, television specials, and OVAs of the manga's anime adaptations and several of the franchise's video games. Due to the series' international popularity, Luffy has become one of the world's most recognizable anime characters. In addition to the One Piece franchise, the character has appeared in a number of manga and anime series and collaborative video games. His critical reception has been largely positive.
When Eiichiro Oda created Luffy, he strove for a "manliness" similar to that of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series. Oda said that he named his main character "Luffy" because he felt that the name suited him. When he later learned about the sailing term, "luffing", he was delighted by the coincidence. In his prototype one-shots, "Romance Dawn", Oda refined the artistic style and story elements before publishing the final product a year later as the first chapter of One Piece. In the second version of "Romance Dawn", Luffy resembled his design at the beginning of the series. To please his readers, Oda added rubberization to Luffy for comic effect and tries to make the character straightforward.
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