User blog comment:Guts!/Anime Depiction of Luffy's Gear Second/@comment-972068-20130528014001/@comment-5640399-20130529224627

I have answered your point about Vol 65's cover, I have it right here in front of me, the steam is behind Luffy in the path of the Red Hawk and there is no steam rising from any body part. In the panel which shows the Red Hawk, the steam you are trying to say is coming from his body is located solely at the bottom of the air bubble, indicating it's lack of heat which means it's likely lingering steam that sunk as it cooled. If his body is producing fresh steam it should be rising! So that's two of your three pieces of evidence that are questionable. As to your questions, Gear Second is a way for Luffy to fight at a higher level all the time, not throw punches at a higher level. In Film Z, how would having it in his arm help him against Z who was fast enough to keep up with Kizaru while hulking that massive arm around after him? He needed the full effect of Gear Second so he used it. Using it in an arm only helps with total damage output, it makes the punch stronger, it doesn't have the full effect of Gear Second. And why has no character said "Hey, look, Luffy's using G2 in only one arm instead of all over his body, wow, that's a new development he's made over the last two years!" Because it's a manga, if the mangaka shows us it in an image he doesn't need a character to point it out. That argument is as relevent as saying Chopper doesn't have a new hat since no one has said he has a new one. No one's even mentioned Zoro having one eye or Sanji's new hair style, it doesn't mean it hasn't happened.