>>31563823Because buddha is mythological being in our world and when it's first introduced, i love it. But now?
The existence of Nika fruit implied that there used to be someone named buddha and buddhism is real on One Piece.
If you think Nika fruit is fine, then imagine when Mera Mera no Mi changed into Hito Hito no Mi type: Ace.
See how stupid it is? The property of the fruit is still the same.
Why bother changing the name and have the WG know about it(yet let luffi alive in the beginning), when you can just keep the name and let the WG speculate that luffi and nika have the same devil fruit?
It's because Oda still think that his audience are literal idiots that haven't grown for the past 24 years.