#ch279

Luffy has a specific face he makes whenever he accidentally no-sells an attack

Haha, yes, give me more of that thematic paralleling 

Can we talk for a moment how brilliant the execution behind this reveal is? Anyone with a basic knowledge of science knows that rubber is an insulator, and I feel like it would be pretty easy for the reader to guess that Luffy will be immune to Enel’s power (though I have seen several blind reviewers get blindsided by it, kudos to Oda hyping Enel as an undefeatable powerhouse). 

But Enel. Enel--the genius behind a literal flying ship, who knows enough about electromagnetic waves to spy on an entire island, who studies ancient legends and knows more about haki than our protagonists will for another 300 chapters--has no idea. Enel, who to this point has been built around many of the Western concepts of God--omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent--gets shown in the space of two chapters to be none of those things. 

God be gracious to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us