Hello and welcome to the Grandline Review, your source for everything one piece. Today we are going to be wandering back into the domain of the more quirky and unique fruits in the series. In order to examine the Manemane No Mi. The Manemane No Mi is a paramicia type fruit that allows its user to morph their body into a perfect physical copy of anybody whose face they have touched. It was eaten by Bentham, better known by his alias Bonclet, and was first showcased in all of its glory during the Alabaster Ark. The name of this fruit was conjured very simply as Mani is the Japanese word for mimicry or imitation. And continuing the trend of incredible simplicity, there is also a uniform translation that exists across viz, Funimation and Borkids, who have labeled it as the Clone Clone Fruit. So what we have here is a fairly simple concept. The user of the Manemane No Mi can take on the form of others that they have touched. However, there is one key restriction when invoking its powers, which is that the user must touch their target's face with their right hand. However, once that condition has been accomplished, then well, we're in business. And the user of the Manemane No Mi simply needs to touch their own face with their right hand, to become a copy of their target, and to revert back to their normal form, the user simply needs to touch their face with their left hand. But the resulting effect is becoming a perfect clone of the target. I mean, well perhaps not a perfect clone, because if the Manemane No Mi user touches another devil fruit user, then the resulting copy body will not inherit the devil fruit powers of the target. But that said, the user does inherit the raw speed and strength possessed by the target. Which can be quite advantageous if you choose to target a particularly powerful individual. But it can also be quite a drawback if you choose to target someone with more limited functionality than yourself. Furthermore, should that person have a specific physical weakness, then it's only natural to assume the user of this fruit would receive that as well. For example, let's say that a Manemane No Mi user wants to copy Joe Boring here. However, unbeknownst to the user, Joe Boring has crippling rheumatoid arthritis in his left knee. This makes imitating Joe Boring a highly undesirable task. So with all of the above in mind, the Manemane No Mi is not really a fruit geared towards combat. And in fact, even if the user were to copy an extremely strong person, there is a major disadvantage associated with instantly entering a new body, which is the general unfamiliarity with the simple functions of the target's fleshy vessel. It might sound weird, but we're all very familiar with our own bodies having spent our entire life in them. And after all of that time being thrust into a new one is not an easy transition, which we surprisingly have evidence of in the series. During the Punk Hazard arc, Pranks to King Trafalgar Law swapped an awful lot of bodies, resulting in beings that were barely able to function in their new human homes, despite some of those people being exceptionally strong in their own right. However, there is a very handy bonus that comes along with consuming the Manemane No Mi, which is the ability to permanently recall bodies of those the user has touched, which is very, very necessary because if this fruit was more like van der decons and had a target limit, then it may as well be in the garbage tier of devil fruits. So the main advantage of permanent access is that if you were to copy a particularly strong individual into your copy repertoire, then you could take the time to train yourself in the use of their body. This may take quite some time potentially years, but if you were dedicated, you could master the use of multiple bodies and whip them out when specific situations call for your anatomy to be stronger, faster, smaller, larger, whatever. Although there is a question regarding the memory aspect of the fruit, specifically as to whether or not the Manemane No Mi also grants a user-identic memory, more commonly known as photographic memory. In the series, Bonclet has an identity memory, and so is able to perfectly recall anybody he has ever touched. However, I think it's fair to point out that it is entirely possible that this is a trait belonging to Bonclet himself rather than the Manemane No Mi. Should this not be a property of the Manemane No Mi, then there are obviously strict limitations to your permanent clone bank, which would be entirely based on your own personal memory. The other thing we don't have any particular clarity on is the genetic extent of what the user of the Manemane No Mi can copy, and what I mean by that is is the user-restricted to only copying humans, or can they take on any life form? It's questionable because in the series, Bonclet was able to copy choppers body despite him only being partly human, so assumedly the user of the Manemane No Mi would be able to copy other partially human forms, like fishmen, mermaids, or even possibly giants. And that idea alone takes the Manemane No Mi from just an alright fruit to approaching kind of incredible actually. The thought of being able to transform into a giant at will is very appealing indeed, and being able to become other beings like fishmen would open up whole new worlds for you to explore. But it also makes you wonder if the clones have to be based on humanoid beings at all. I mean could the user of the Manemane No Mi pat an adorable golden retriever, and then use their power to become an adorable golden retriever themselves? Although even if we continue to be restricted by humanoid forms, where exactly is that limit? For example, if the user of the fruit touches and becomes Frankie, do they receive a cyborg body? Or do they receive only the human portion of Frankie? Personally, I'd be inclined to say that it would be the latter, because the Manemane No Mi does not replicate items or clothing held by the target, so that more than likely extends to bodily modifications. So it's probably best not to target a cyborg, particularly if their arms are completely cybernetic, because essentially you transform into your target and you'd never be able to revolve back to your real self, because you have no left hand to touch your face. Come to think of it, this also applies to completely humanoid targets who have lost their limbs, like shanks for example. If the user of the Manemane No Mi chose to replicate shanks, then well, they'd be stuck as shanks for the rest of their life due to his missing left arm. Probably not a bad trait at all, considering he's one of the four emperors, however that would also paint a pretty big target on one's back. Basically, what I'm saying is, be careful whom you choose to doppelgang, because things have the potential to go very, very wrong. And with that we should probably examine exactly how Boncler uses the Manemane No Mi in the series, and the result is quite well actually. Despite his extraordinary flamboyant persona, Boncler was once employed as an agent of espionage for the organisation for Rokwerks, and the Manemane No Mi was a surprisingly crucial aspect of their plans. Using this Boncler was able to impersonate the King of Alabaster Nefertari Cobra and directly steer the Kingdom towards Civil War. There was also a very handy moment down the line in the series where he impersonated the head warden of Impel Down, allowing Luffy and the rest of the Jowlberg squad to escape the hellish compound. Other than that, I have to say that Boncler's use of the fruit is primarily for comic effect. He's a pretty up big guy and likes to have a lot of fun with his powers which school and all, but they're not particularly useful unless they're being put to work in some sort of plot that involves impersonating someone. Boncler is also heavily restricted by his combat style O'Cumma Kempo. This martial art requires a body perfectly sculpted to wield the true force of its techniques, which means that in any other body, Boncler is completely unable to use any form of the martial art he has painstakingly mastered. Due to his focus on O'Cumma Kempo, it's also highly unlikely that he would ever put in the time and effort to master another person's body for the use of combat. So the Manimana Nomey really isn't the most helpful afference in the hands of Boncler. The hilarious but largely ineffective. As for any potential awakening, here we have yet another example of a bit of a weird Paramecia. If we stick with the motif of an awakened Paramecia affecting the user's environment, we could hypothesize that perhaps this would result in the user being able to become copies of objects like trees, rocks or buildings, and somehow not requiring a hand to turn themselves back. Or perhaps they'd be able to do sort of the opposite. By turning environmental objects into clones of people, although I'm not entirely sure that that would be too useful. Well maybe if some benefit though, would potentially be the ability to create more than one clone body, similar to the multi-form technique from Dragon Ball, just without the decrease in power. Or like our Nika Robin is able to create clones for self. Well maybe we could go with an even simpler solution and say that the user is now capable of imitating people that they haven't touched, which would be pretty amazing. So Mother Miss Laney sings to consider when becoming an imitating human. One little extra feature of the Manimana Nomey is the capability for the user to change individual portions of their face. In the series Boncler uses power to create the world's funniest face, though it did end up just being his own face with who's upstairs. Furthermore, given this level of facial control, it may be entirely possible to apply that to the rest of the user's body, allowing them to Frankenstein themselves, by being particularly selective about what limbs or other parts they may wish to take, from their targets, and create an entirely new body. In closing, the Manimana Nomey is really more of a niche devil fruit. It holds an exceptional amount of potential within a single area of use, but not a whole lot of general utility. Although the permanent bodily memory bank is fantastic and it does open the doors for a truly dedicated individual to copy and master a wide variety of different vessels, but for the most part it's an okay fruit at best. I wouldn't be complaining if I'd eaten it, but there are certainly a legion of better choices out there, and with that we are going to commit the Manimana Nomey to the Devil Fruit in Cyclopedia. Next week we'll be cranking up the heat somewhat, in order to investigate one of the most popular devil fruits in the series, the Mer-a-mer-a Nomey. If you enjoyed this video and the content that channel produces in general, then please do consider donating to the Grandline View Patreon, because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also I've recently launched a tea spring store if your interest in shirts, hoodies and other miscellaneous items, with proceeds going directly to support the channel as well. 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