Monkey D. Luffy, or Luffy for short, is the main protagonist in the anime manga series ‘One Piece’. One Piece originally was released as a manga, a Japanese comic book. One Piece began in 1997 and a year later they took the popular series to the big screen with a 30-minute film entitled ‘Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack!’. With 88 volumes of the comic released since the 90’s, they are still writing material for the manga as well as the television series which came out in 1999. Currently, since the release of the anime in 1999, they have produced over 828 episodes and counting. The story of Monkey D. Luffy starts out as Luffy being a young man with aspirations of sailing across the East Blue Sea to find a legendary treasure called ‘one piece’. With Luffy in possession of the one-piece treasure, he will then be proclaimed as the King of the Pirates. Doing this mission will not be easy however. Luffy then goes out to form his own gang that he can journey across the sea with to help him achieve his dream of finding the treasure. Once Luffy has a basic crew, they call themselves the ‘Straw Hat Pirates’ they set sail on an adventure, picking up and meeting new crew members and friends along the way. All together the crew consists of 9 other Straw Hat Pirates. Fans of this anime and comic have been seen sporting tattoos pertaining to the series and story.

Luffy Tattoo Designs

Monkey D. Luffy as a young boy acquired super human powers that enabled him to stretch and become as flexible as rubber. After eating the devil fruit, also known as the gum-gum fruit, Luffy was able to stretch and basically become rubber. Immune to electric shock and most blunt forces, Luffy’s biggest enemy is water. In the water, Luffy cannot swim and his strength diminishes. Which can be a problem considering he travels over seas as a pirate.