Yomi Yomi no Mi

The Yomi Yomi no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit which enhances the user's soul to the point where they resurrect after their first death, allowing them to live a second time and to use several other soul-based abilities, making the user a Reviving Human (復活人間). It was eaten by Brook.

Etymology

 * The name is derived from "Yomigaeru" (蘇る/甦る), meaning "to be revived/resurrected" in Japanese.
 * "Yomi" (黄泉) is the name of the Japanese underworld, also a reference to this fruit's powers.
 * In the VIZ Manga and FUNimation dub, it is called the Revive-Revive Fruit.

Appearance
The Yomi Yomi no Mi is a spherical-shaped golden fruit with a green stem. On its bottom, it has four stubby growths, making the shape resemble a skull. As with most Devil Fruits, it has swirl patterns throughout.

Strengths and Weaknesses


The major strength of the fruit, as demonstrated by Brook, is that it gives its user another chance at life after dying once before and thereby a literal second chance at living. After death, the user continues to exist in whatever state they were revived as and can even go as far as to grant a form of "immortality" that lasts until the user suffers a second death. However, since the main attribute of the fruit is resurrection, the Yomi Yomi no Mi's power will remain dormant until the time when the consumer suffers his or her first death. As a result, until such time, the only aspects the fruit bestows upon its eater are the typical Devil Fruit weaknesses.

While the Fruit allows the user's soul to once again return from the afterlife, it does not automatically return them to the physical body that it once resided in during its mortal life. Thus, it is then up to the disembodied soul to search for the corporeal body in order to once again reunite with it. Though the user gains another life, their body however will continue being a lifeless corpse and will continue rotting away until the user's soul can find its way back to the body. When the user's soul returns to their body, the powers of the Devil Fruit will fortunately support the user's well being in the case that their body may be in a condition unable to support life.

While the fruit can make the user an undead being of sorts, it however grants the user the ability to still feel pain as proof that they have been truly resurrected back to life, regardless of what physical condition they've been revived in. This is noteworthy because it separates the power of the Yomi Yomi no Mi from the zombies created by the Kage Kage no Mi because although both powers work to make the dead come "alive" again, the Kage Kage no Mi zombies do not feel pain because they are not truly "alive" at all. However, the susceptibility to sensation seems to be selective, since Brook was able to traverse Punk Hazard's frozen terrain without any signs of discomfort, while the rest of the Straw Hats were shivering in comparison. It may possibly be that Brook is immune to damage that is based on impacting one's tissue as he carried a petrified Kin'emon out of the new H2S compound without much incident, or before, when one of Smiley's blobs hissed gas on his face, he wasn't affected (he acted as his eyes were itching until he remembered he didn't have eyeballs anymore). Another case of this comes from Brook showcasing immunity towards electrocution at least in two different occasions.



After the two years of training, Brook has discovered new applications of his powers. He is able to make his soul leave his body, fly and pass through solid things, similar to a ghost. He also found out that unlike the soul of a human that died goes to the land of the dead and stay there, his soul emits a powerful energy that enables to stay in the land of the living. Therefore, the power that allows him to live in the human world is neither organs or muscles, but rather his soul. As long as his bones are not hurt, any attacks will not go to his core. When Zeo beheaded Brook, his soul managed to repair it and connect his bones together again. He has also displayed that he can transfer this energy to an object like his cane sword allowing him to freeze his opponent. Lastly, he has stated that he can feel the souls of others and, when mixed with his music, is able to move them.

This fruit also gives the user certain advantages over the user of the Soru Soru no Mi; Brook is capable of using the raw energy and presence of his own powerful soul to overwhelm the homies due to them being created from small pieces of souls that do not belong to them and while not able to do it with the Special Homies, he can still harm them.

Usage
While the fruit's only major bestowed power is only usable after death, its secondary powers however are rather useful in keeping Brook basically "alive". Through the fruit's powers, Brook is able to function without the presence of necessary and vital body parts that have decomposed long ago. He is able to interact with the environment around him without the presence of eye balls or any other sensory organ to aid him. He, in particular, retains his ability of speech despite his vocal cords and even his windpipe having long since rotted away. He is able to taste and digest food like any other normal living thing to sustain himself. Drinking milk in particular heals him as the calcium intake repairs any of Brook's bones that may have been broken in battle. Depending on the situation, Brook is also able to produce organic matter such as tears, fecal matter, and even blood from his nose despite not having any organs nor bodily liquids to produce such matter.

Brook is able to move and stand up without the presence of tissue and muscles to support him, as well as be capable of getting tired or worn down despite not having any of those factors to begin with. Due to the fruit's powers holding up and moving his light skeletal frame, Brook is given an extremely light body. He can perform seemingly superhuman feats such as jumping extremely high and running on water. These allow him to travel great distances and aid him in battle. However while his light body lets him be lighter than an average person, Brook is not immune from sinking. Brook will still sink like any other Devil Fruit user when placed in water. In fact, while Brook can run on water, he cannot stay above it too long.

Being a skeleton animated by the fruit's powers also allows Brook to do things that most other people cannot do due to their need of tangible living tissue. Not only is he able to use his light weight to execute fast attacks, but his lack of flesh also allows him to execute attacks that would otherwise be harmful, such as shocking himself with electricity and becoming an electrically charged projectile. Having no flesh and organs gives Brook a great advantage against carnivores, even though it will still make him angry, such as a dragon at Punk Hazard, the dragon was chasing Brook, but since he was only bones, the dragon ignored him and Brook got really mad. On the contrary, canine minks who love to gnaw on bones tend to chase after him due to his physiology. Due to the lack of organs, Brook is able to withstand some deadly attacks to a certain degree. For instance, he was able to withstand his skull being shattered and several of his ribs broken. Also, due to the Devil Fruit powers allowing it, Brook has the ability to store objects in his skull by opening it along its crack.

While Brook is able to do these things because of his Devil Fruit supported form, he however can still feel pain, as well as fatigue. However, the fact that he lacks the actual organs means that Brook can fore-go most of the necessities required by humans (i.e. eating, breathing, etc.), having stayed up on his old ship for a long time with nothing to sustain himself with. Based on his own statements and comments from others, despite the lack of any muscles, it appears that he is able to grow stronger through normal training. Though Brook is able to repair broken bones, he believes that all growth functions have stopped. For this reason Brook puts a lot of effort into protecting his afro, since he would be unable to grow it again if it were cut. However, Brook's belief was incorrect, as he grew 11 cm during the two years he was separated from the crew.

After two years of training, Brook has mastered the use of this Devil Fruit to the extent of knowing its true nature. He reveals that in order for his soul to remain here in this world, it produces a unique and powerful energy that is almost physical in form. He has also mastered the energy his soul emits to the extent that he can reattach his bones by using this energy.

Techniques
After the two years of training, Brook has developed techniques involving the use of his newly discovered Devil Fruit powers.
 * Brook_Releases_His_Soul_From_His_Body.pngsi: Brook's soul that came back from the land of the dead to inhabit his skeleton is still able to leave the body, usually by exiting his mouth, similar to astral projection, and move it everywhere he wants to. It can even pass through walls, similar to Perona's own astral projection power. In the anime it was shown as Brook saying the word "bone" multiple times like a mantra of some sort and then his spectral form leaves through his mouth, leaving his body seemingly colorless. When Brook is in spectral form, it mostly resembles his skeletal face (complete with the omega letter-shaped crack across his forehead) and is engulfed in spiritual flames; it appears to be not only visible but also audible to both people and animals since Zoro and Usopp were seen being able to converse with Brook while in this form, and Pappag was shown scampering away from Brook in this state, mistaking the skeleton's soul as a ghost, therefore frightening the starfish. It is currently unknown as to how far the extent can Brook maintain this separation of his soul from his body, or if there are any limits about it at all (i.e. when Perona uses her own spectral form, she leaves her corporeal body dormant). However, the main weakness to this ability is that while Brook has his soul out of his body, he cannot use or move his physical body and has to have someone guard him so that Brook won't be harmed. A common use to Brook for this technique is to use the intangibility  to peek at women, as well as escape imprisonment of any kind while contacting other people for assistance and scouting out things. Brook stated that he discovered he had this ability during his Soul King world tour while trying to get over a slump on his record sales.This technique was named in the game Pirate Warriors 4. In the anime, when separating his soul from his body, Brook performs an eerie, ritualistic chant: first, he shouts "Dorororororo!" and then chants "bone" (骨 -ほね, hone-) over and over and ends it by shouting "Bang! Boom" (ドン! ボーント!, Don! Bohnto!).
 * Soul_Solid_Infobox.png no Reiki:  By using his soul energy, Brook can bring the very "chills of the underworld" and engulf his Soul Solid to make it gain freezing properties and augmenting the damage of his sword attacks. The freezing properties of this ability are such that they can even generate considerable amounts of solid ice and harm opponents with frostbite. Similar to Sanji's Diable Jambe, Brook uses this ability quite often when fighting after the two years time-skip.
 * Brook_Defeats_the_Chess_Soldiers.png King: By playing his guitar, Brook can release his soul energy and shape it into a demonic version of himself behind him. While it is unknown the effect this technique has over normal living beings, it was demonstrated to be devastating on Homies, rendering them unconscious and unmobile almost instantly, visually very similar to Haoshoku Haki. This advantage is decreased against homies made from Big Mom's own soul, as Brook cannot overwhelm them, but he is capable of injuring them as well. In the anime, the Soul King laughs with Brook's distinctive laughter style, but with a creepy tone.

Anime and Manga Differences
Brook's soul was originally yellow in the anime, instead of being white and light green as in the manga. The anime colors were later updated to match the manga.

Trivia

 * Brook's soul, upon returning to the mortal realm to search for his body, resembles a hitodama, a representation of the recently deceased commonly found in Japanese folklore and pop culture.
 * So far, this is the only known Devil Fruit that requires some sort of condition to fully "activate"; in this case, the user must die to trigger the effect.
 * In addition, this also the only Devil Fruit to not return to circulation immediately after the user's death.

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