Summary
- The Book-Book Fruit is underrated but powerful, with abilities like creating illusions and trapping enemies in books.
- The fruit’s potential is limited only by the user’s creativity, making it a versatile and formidable power in battles.
- Despite the weak user in One Piece, the Book-Book Fruit can be a game-changer when paired with a powerful ally for support.
With hundreds of Devil Fruits scattered throughout the world of One Piece, one or two of these fantastical powers are bound to fly beneath the radar. With a laundry list of bizarre abilities that these Devil Fruits bestow on the consumer, it’s especially hard to tell just how strong a fruit can be just from the name. A fruit like the Paw-Paw Fruit, despite sounding incredibly weak and disappointing, is actually one of the strongest powers in all of One Piece.
One power that has flown under the One Piece community’s radar is the Book-Book Fruit. Wielded by the Big Mom Pirate, Charlotte Mont-d’Or, the Book-Book Fruit feels like it should be one of the weaker fruits in the series. However, this fruit is heavily underrated and may be one of the strongest fruits in the entire series. In fact, with a stronger One Piece character wielding it, it may make for an unstoppable character.
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One Piece: Charlotte Mont-d’Or And The Book-Book Fruit
An Underrated Ability
The Book-Book Fruit gives the user the ability to manipulate and control books. For example, Charlotte Mont-d’Or of the Big Mom Pirates can make books fly through the air, using them to give himself the ability to fly. However, this power can also both physically and mentally trap a victim inside a book. Strangely enough, the Book-Book Fruit can trap a character in an illusion based on the story of the book, or trap them inside an actual giant book, akin to a huge prison cell.
We’ll crush you like the piece of trash you are! – Charlotte Mont-d’Or to Luffy
On paper, it doesn’t seem to be anything too special. Plenty of One Piece Devil Fruits give the ability to trap enemies in some sort of borderline unbreakable way, like the Art-Art Fruit. However, this ability, when it was shown off in the Whole Cake Island Arc, was able to lead to Luffy’s initial defeat on the island fairly easily. Although Charlotte Mont-d’Or had a bit of help from his siblings, this ability was one of the main things to slow the Straw Hat Captain down.
The Book-Book Fruit Is Limited By The User’s Creativity
Apparently, Charlotte Mont-d’Or Isn’t Too Creative
Firstly, as the audience has seen in One Piece, any power that gives direct control over a substance is generally an amazingly powerful ability. For example, something like the Mochi-Mochi Fruit is incredibly powerful, despite the substance it’s controlling being weak. With enough books and a user that can utilize Haki, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to see the Book-Book Fruit user pummel their enemy with massive arms made out of books.
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On top of the potential for even greater physical strength, the underrated One Piece Devil Fruit’s other abilities shouldn’t be underestimated. The illusions and prisons that the Book-Book Fruit creates are extremely difficult to escape, with only extreme measures, like burning down the book they are trapped in. When trapped in the Book-Book Fruit, when under the proper surveillance, it’s virtually impossible to find a way out.
In a way, this makes the Book-Book Fruit the perfect One Piece Devil Fruit in terms of utility. The fruit also bestows a few other, largely undefined abilities, like communicating with books and summoning certain items and characters from books. These abilities, no matter how vague, are just the icing on the cake for an already busted Devil Fruit.
The Book-Book Fruit Doesn’t Need To Be On Its Own
The Ultimate Support Fruit
Additionally, based on the power set of the Book-Book Fruit, the Devil Fruit is also arguably one of the best “support” Devil Fruits as well. As Charlotte Mont-d’Or has shown, the user of the Book-Book Fruit does not need to be insanely powerful to make the Devil Fruit useful. When paired with a powerful ally that can incapacitate enemies after they’re trapped in an illusion, the Book-Book Fruit could be on a similar tier of power as Sugar’s Toy-Toy Fruit.
He has a varied power that can make things sufficiently interesting. – Oda on Charlotte Mont-d’Or
In the end, the Book-Book Fruit in One Piece is one of the most creative Devil Fruits in the show. The fruit itself, through the use of trapping people in various novels, seems to have a very high potential. However, due to its weak user, many fans fail to see the full potential of this amazing One Piece Devil Fruit.
