User blog comment:Guts!/Anime Depiction of Luffy's Gear Second/@comment-972068-20130528014001

There's nothing wrong with how the anime interprets Gear Second. The whole "he only activates in one area" is a complete misinterpretation.



In fact, if Oda wanted Luffy to activate Gear Second in one area, why didn't he incorporate that in Film Z? He's the executive producer of that movie. Anything he says goes. He even tells them what to animate and it has to go through him before anyone else. That's likely why Robin's eyes are brown. Film Z is supposed to represent (to an extent) how Oda visualizes his characters. So if he visualized his character to pump in only one area, why did he let it through his entire body?

Unless you're talking about pumping exclusively then...how can you tell Luffy isn't pumping? The manga isn't animated.