First Appearance: One Piece Episode 1, "I'm Gonna Be Pirate King," 1999
Some characters work for relatively complicated reasons. Other characters work because they hit people really hard. Luffy, most would agree, belongs to the latter category.
That might be selling the rubber man a little bit short, though. Plenty of tough-guy anime heroes can dish it out all day, but Luffy can take it, too, which is a somewhat rarer quality. Hit him as hard as you can and he'll just bounce right on back – in fact, it's hard to think of a meaner counter-puncher, not since Joe Yabuki from nigh on 50 years ago. He's done Shonen Jump proud for many years now, and there's no reason to expect he won't keep going for plenty of years more.
My favorite cartoon character :)
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