Quote Originally Posted by neflight86 View Post
That said, I also hate the whole 'renaming' of the gum-gum fruit for a power up, even if Oda tried to shoehorn in a foreshadow. Oh well, gear fifth is here so that is indeed hype. I did completely forget that Luffy hadn't awakened his fruit yet, though. I wonder if all fruits are, eventually, people when awakened? Just another mystery we can ponder on the way to the retirement home.
Afaik, the renaming was part of the WG's attempt at downplaying the fruit, since if they can't have it, at least they can make it seem like a pointless power to seek.

Both Katakuri and Doflamingo awakened paramecia-type devil fruits. The main commonality is the ability to manipulate the surrounding environment into a material resembling their powers. Kinda like how Luffy can turn the rocky terrain into rubber, they were turning theirs into mochi and string. The plot twist of Luffy's fruit being a human-human ancient deity type fruit, however, makes his more comparable to Sengoku's Buddha fruit.

Also, for DarthEnderX:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/co..._pacing_audio/

An actually well-edited fix of the episode.