One Piece fans react to monumental Gear 5 episode
This episode is one for the history books.
Episode 1,071 of One Piece was one that fans have been waiting for for a long, long time. This is because the anime was finally tackling Luffy's incredible Gear 5 transformation, widely believed to be his 'ultimate' form as a "Warrior of Liberation".
The episode followed Luffy's epic beatdown by Kaido as the citizens of Wano watched on in horror – only for Luffy to then get up as though nothing was wrong, powered up by the awakening of his brand new Gear 5 powers.
The episode itself broke numerous records on social media in the One Piece fandom, with #OnePiece1071 reaching over 260,000 tweets, making it the most tweeted about episodes of One Piece to date.
It's been hyped up for a long time now, which left some fans worried if the episode would be able to live up to their lofty expectations – there's no limit to what you can do on the page, but sometimes the screen is a different story.
Fans couldn't believe just how epic the episode was, which had been long in the making and required the work of animators all over the world.
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Many of the animators involved in the production of the now-iconic episode have taken to Twitter (now known as X) to spotlight which segments they worked on during the Luffy/Kaido fight, allowing fans to get a glimpse into just how much work went into making the Gear 5 episode perfect.
Episode 1,071 has quickly skyrocketed to become the most-talked about thing relating to One Piece on social media, even beating Chapter 1044, when Gear 5 was revealed.
With the Kaido/Luffy fight set to continue over the next few episodes, including the promise from animators that 1,071 was merely the prologue to an even more epic fight, this could be the beginning of an unbelievable run of episodes for One Piece.
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