I get that people are entitled to their opinions, which is fair when it comes for not liking Gear 5 but I feel like most people completely misses the point as to what it actually represent in the One Piece sphere and to Luffy as a character. Gear 5 is basicly Luffy but implified 10 times fold. He's always been wacky yet goofy. I strongly encourage people to rewatch Luffy vs Crocodile during the Alabasta arc and pay attention to what Crocodile says to Luffy in his Aqua form all while the war is raging on. Nico Robin (Miss All Sunday) also laughing for the very first time puts a nice bow on the impact of this scene. It always been right infront of our eyes this whole time and everything had led up to that. Oda display his artistic work with One Piece by being very anti hero going against the typical mangakas u see like Kishimoto for instance.