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It's not "shredded ice" it's a unique phenomenon that happens in specific conditions, resulting in ice crystals unlike any other. Snow is unique enough to be it's own thing, separate from just ice (Aokiji).
- Overview
- Etymology
- Appearance
- Transformations
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Usage
- History
- Trivia
The Uo Uo no Mi, Model: Seiryu is a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows its user to transform into a hybrid and full Azure Dragon at will. Described as the "strongest class of Devil Fruit", it was once a World Noble treasure before being eaten by Kaidou, after Big Mom had stolen it during the God Valley Incident 38 years ago.
At some point, Dr. Vegapunk extracted a sample from a captive Kaidou's Lineage Factor and, with it, successfully created an artificial replica of this Devil Fruit. However, the given transformation was not of the same color as the original, and so solely for this reason the result was deemed a failure by Vegapunk. Said replica was eventually consumed by Kozuki Momonosuke, who gained a dragon transformation similar to Kaidou's (albeit pink rather than blue).
•Uo (魚?) is Japanese for "fish".
•Seiryū (青龍?) is the Japanese name of the Azure Dragon.
The fruit is spherical and slightly oblong in shape, somewhat resembling a pinecone. Its blue exterior gives the appearance of having overlapping scales: each "scale" has a small, dark-blue oval in the middle that bears a signature Devil Fruit spiral at the bottom, while the scales' outer portions are of a lighter-blue shade. On its top, the fruit possesses orange leaves and two identical, separate stems, with one being purple and the other a lighter pink shade.
The artificial version of this fruit takes the form of a blue apple with double ring patterns throughout the fruit, the outer rings being darker green than the inner ones' lighter.
This fruit enables the user to turn into a giant, serpentine, blue-scaled dragon: a type of Eastern dragon (龍, Ryū?) called "Azure Dragon". Additionally, as with all Zoans they can access a Human-Beast Form, becoming a smaller half-dragon humanoid. Apart from scales, acquired dragon features include horns (a second pair in Kaidou's case), sharp fangs, and limbs with clawed hands and feet. In his full Beast Form, Kaidou grows to rival a small town in size, making this the largest yet-seen Zoan transformation. His Human-Beast Form, while not as colossal, is still very large and, in shape, comes closer to his Human Form, with scales on his arms, outer torso, back, and legs as well as six horns on his head, claws on the hands and feet, and a long tail.
In addition to his standard Human-Beast Form, Kaidou has on several occasions showcased an alternate hybrid form. This form appears slightly bulkier and has different facial features: a full set of fangs, a wider nose, and eyebrows similar to his full Beast form. In the anime, it also has a darker and more vibrant blue color compared to Kaidou's other forms. These characteristics may give a possible indication of the Emperor drawing on more power from his Devil Fruit.
With this being one of the strongest Zoan fruits whose mythical transformation is based on a gigantic dragon, the user's physical prowess immensely improves in their dragon form, to an extent far greater than most other Zoan types. The full dragon form's strength befits its size, as the user can severely damage structures like houses merely by brushing by them. When Kaidou flew around Okobore Town in a drunken stupor, it was believed that if he continued wreaking havoc senselessly, not just the town but Kuri itself would be wiped out. The user's arms, while thinner compared to the rest of their dragon body, are still very strong, a single swipe of which can send large fish-men flying through rock formations with great force and rip apart houses with ease, even when drunk. In the anime, the full dragon form's power is further exemplified, with Kaidou seen causing intense, gusty shockwaves simply by moving through the air or being thrown around, as well as with a mere puff or burp. He was able to send Monkey D. Luffy flying with immense force using a tail swipe and easily overpowered Luffy's Haki-imbued use of Gear 3 with one of his dragon hands, as well as by thrusting his head forward. Two decades ago, in his fight with Kozuki Oden, Kaidou in his Beast Form repeatedly clashed with the samurai on even terms, including matching the force of Oden's Tougen Shirataki with his head, countering his blades with his claws and fangs, and even using one of his mustache tendrils to ensnare and toss Oden away.
Apart from raw strength, the user's size as a dragon belies their mobility, as they can move about at great speeds while keeping pace with significantly fast, human-sized foes.
The scales covering the user's dragon body are noted to be extraordinarily durable. Blows of incredible power, including ones strengthened by regular Busoshoku Haki, have proven utterly ineffective at hurting Kaidou—e.g., when in full dragon form, he shrugged off a nonstop pummeling by Luffy's strongest Gear 3 attacks, without being scathed in the slightest. Nonetheless, as with Kaidou's extremely tough human skin, his dragon scales can be penetrated, and blood drawn from him, using attacks that bypass external defenses, like advanced-grade Busoshoku Haki.
Beside the transformation itself, the fruit bestows multiple supernatural abilities, the most out of any Mythical Zoan seen so far. The most prominent of these is the power to conjure Flame Clouds (焔雲, Homura-gumo?), with which the user can travel through the air by using them as footholds, effectively enabling flight; Kaidou's dragon arms tend to be continuously encircled by fiery rings, which may be said clouds helping him fly more effectively through the air. Also, the Flame Clouds can be used to lift other objects, including entire islands, into the air and move them, for extended periods even and while using their other powers simultaneously. Furthermore, there is no apparent need for the user to transform in order to manifest (or at least maintain) Flame Clouds.
In addition, the user can create and control various elements as a dragon, both in their full Beast and Human-Beast Form. The most commonly seen element used is fire, such as a concentrated scorching blast of fire that the user breathes out, which can travel many kilometers in the span of seconds and instantly decimate a large, earthen structure, as well as rapidly shooting fireballs in the anime. Aside from flames, the user can launch lightning bolts while roaring (Kaidou is able to summon lightning bolts from the sky without transforming as seen in the anime) and cutting blades of wind while blowing, on top of stirring up strong, fast-rotating tornados. It is also shown that Kaidou can summon large hails of ice in the video games.
The user's Human-Beast Form sees their draconic strength focused in significantly smaller frame, with this diminished size granting them a boost in agility and speed while seeming overall better adapted to close combat. The user also retains access to their elemental attacks, like their fire breath (though with a smaller range in accordance with their smaller body size, compared to their full dragon form).
Due to the massive amount of space the user takes up after entering their full Beast Form, their ability to move about in enclosed spaces is greatly hindered. Additionally, depending on how much care is given to their surroundings, the user's transformed body having a propensity for collateral damage may become a liability for allies. The user's massive body also leaves more openings, making them an easier target for attacks, especially multi-directional assault from more than one enemy.
While the user's dragon scales are immensely tough, the user remains vulnerable to attacks that, by their nature, can bypass external defenses. Usage of advanced, emitted Busoshoku Haki, in particular, can let opposing parties hurt the user's dragon form (even if used by enemies that are physically far weaker than the user), as can Haoshoku-infused attacks. Other examples of effective attacks reaching the target's insides are ones utilizing powerful soundwaves or the Ope Ope no Mi's "surgical" techniques.
Moreover, the user's signature ability to breathe fire can be countered by an opponent who knows how to cut flames. The Flame Clouds generated by the user will also weaken as the user is pushed to their physical limit (and can also be extinguished by water, like normal fire). If the user loses consciousness, their Flame Clouds will disappear completely.
Besides all these factors, the user is affected by the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.
After extracting Kaidou's Lineage Factor, Vegapunk attempted to create his own Artificial Devil Fruit, something that he succeeded in, but he then deemed the project a failure. Despite all this, having consumed it, Kozuki Momonosuke has shown certain abilities no different from Kaidou such as enhanced strength, breathing flames and conjuring clouds, more so after being matured by Shinobu's Juku Juku no Mi, though he has yet to master them. Vegapunk revealed that he deemed this Artificial Devil Fruit a failure simply because the user turned into a Pink Dragon, instead of an Azure Dragon.
Kaidou uses this fruit's power frequently in combat. He typically starts out battles in his full dragon form and transforms back into a human upon getting more serious, his base form seeming more suited for intense and up-close, one-on-one combat. If his adversaries prove strong enough to handle both his human and full dragon forms, Kaidou will enter his Human-Beast Form—quite possibly the strongest of his three basic forms, it is generally used in all out fights against stronger and faster enemies that his two other forms have trouble dealing with.
When engaging foes in his full dragon form, Kaidou frequently hovers a considerable distance away from them, out of melee range, so as to assault them with destructive, long-ranged attacks of various elements, like his fire breath. In actual close combat, he has been seen chomping down on opponents within reach or powerfully swiping at them with his claws.
When entering his Human-Beast Form, Kaidou takes to wielding his kanabo, Hassaikai, like he does in his Human Form. With the boost he gains in strength, he can swing the club with absolute destructive force, causing massive shockwaves and striking melee blows too dangerous for most enemies to take head on. Becoming far more agile than as a full dragon, Kaidou can move around by slithering through the air, using his dragon tail to propel himself forward or upwards, which aids his offensive moves. Moreover, his tail is prehensile and capable of capturing opponents off guard. Kaidou also demonstrates the ability to breath fire in his hybrid form, though with less force due to his decrease in size.
Once Kaidou acknowledges an opponent and gets drunk enough, he is able to engage in Shuron Hakke, a unique fighting style that takes advantage of Kaidou's drunken mood swings and allows him to quickly switch between his Zoan forms and employ more unpredictable techniques. During certain moods, Kaidou may even shift into completely unique forms outside his usual three. For example, while in a laughing or bloodthirsty mood, Kaidou manifests a bulkier version of his Human-Beast Form that can use stronger versions of his kanabo attacks, and while in a "thieving" mood, he turns into a smaller, slightly more humanoid variant of his Full Beast form that can swiftly fly around in sharp curves to dodge overwhelming enemy attacks.
Both in and outside of battle, Kaidou can create his "Flame Clouds" to use primarily as footholds or to levitate himself in order to take flight; he can thus easily travel between islands by flying quickly and crossing the open sea, such as between Onigashima and the Wano mainland. He can also levitate objects, even gigantic ones, by creating enough of his clouds to surround whatever he wishes to float away. This was chiefly seen when Kaidou sent the entire island of Onigashima aloft to proceed with his New Onigashima Project, levitating the island toward Wano's Flower Capital.
38 years ago, the fruit, alongside the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi, was one of the prizes in the Native Hunting Competition on God Valley. Ginny considered them to be crucial to escaping the island and formed a plan to steal them. After a subsequent clash between the Rocks Pirates, Roger Pirates, and Marines, Emporio Ivankov and Bartholomew Kuma managed to steal the Devil Fruits. Ivankov prepared to eat the fruit while Kuma ate the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi, but then Charlotte Linlin assaulted Ivankov and snatched the fruit from him. She later gave this fruit to Kaidou for him to eat and considered it a lifetime debt from which he could not escape.
Sometime after eating the fruit, Kaidou came into Marine captivity, and the scientist Vegapunk was able to extract his Lineage Factor for the purpose of creating an Artificial Devil Fruit that would grant the same exact abilities. Despite the success in that area, however, Vegapunk deemed it a failure because he couldn't get the dragon's color right, and the fruit was stored away on Punk Hazard. 34 years later, it was eaten by Kozuki Momonosuke, thus granting him a dragon transformation much like Kaidou's, though Momonosuke's power was initially out of his control.
•This is the first and currently the only Devil Fruit whose name features double syllables as vowel sounds with no consonant: "Uo" (ウオ?). Thus, it is (minus the "Model" designation) one of the shortest Romanized Devil Fruit names.
•Ironically, despite a line of Zoan models being named after dragons (the Ryu Ryu no Mi) and this being the only known Devil Fruit ability to actually enable transformation into a dragon (the fruits of the Ryu Ryu no Mi series granting dinosaur/ancient reptilian transformations), this fruit is not named after dragons but fish.
•This fruit's "fish" designation is a reference to the connections present between dragons and fish in East Asian (especially Chinese) mythology. Particularly, the fruit may draw inspiration from the Chinese Dragon Gate myth, wherein the Dragon Gate is located atop a waterfall cascading from a legendary mountain, on the Yellow River. Many carp swim upstream against the river's strong current, but few are capable or brave enough for the final leap over the fall. If a carp successfully makes the jump, it is transformed into a majestic dragon; thus, a Chinese dragon's large, conspicuous scales indicate its origin from carp.
•Coincidentally, Wano, the country where Kaidou resided, is reached by ascending a high waterfall that giant koi known as dream koi regularly swim up, with those koi being said to dream about becoming dragons.
•The Azure Dragon, in Chinese and other East Asian mythologies, is a Dragon God and one of the Four Symbols (the "Four Guardians") among the Chinese constellations, representing the cardinal direction of the East. It is described as representing the Spring season, Easter, and the Wood Element, which includes lightning and wind.
•While this fruit is classed as Mythical Zoan, with dragons explicitly stated as having mythical status in the One Piece world, dragons have also been real existences in the series, although modeled after Western dragons.
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I think the magma fruit being stronger than fire makes sense. If you touched fire, you'd get burnt but if you touched magma, your whole hand would be melted. Ice is also harder than snow with ice being able to freeze people while snow wouldn't do much if it surrounded someone because they'd still be able to move.
However, the fruit's power over ice is one of the few known powers that allows its user to counteract the standard Devil Fruit weakness of falling into water, as they can simply freeze the liquid and create a surface to stand on, thus preventing sinking and drowning.
Aug 11, 2024 · The Atsu Atsu no Mi is undoubtedly the most impressive Non-Canon Devil Fruit that is related to fire. Its powers are wielded by Don Accino, the main antagonist of the Ice Hunter filler...
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Sep 1, 2024 · One Piece's devil fruits aren't always about offensive power, with a significant number of them also providing protective defense measures. The Alabasta saga upped the ante for Devil Fruits, adding a variety of powerful new Fruits to challenge the Straw Hats during their debut on the Grand Line.
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Jan 15, 2024 · This Devil Fruit allows him to turn himself into ice as well as create and manipulate ice at will. The powers of the fruit are so immense that it can freeze an entire ocean within a few seconds.
