One Piece revealed a new Gum-Gum Fruit cake.
Japanese patissier Cake.JP is now taking orders on an officially licensed One Piece cake that is baked to look exactly like Luffy's Gum-Gum/Devil Fruit. The cake is actually baked inside of a hollowed out green melon and contains layers of sponge cake, strawberries, and melon slices suspended within a Japanese melon-flavored cream. The screen-accurate shell of the fruit is created using a type of purple-colored plastic chocolate, which is technically edible but the bakery recommends not actually eating it. The look is completed with unedible plastic stem.
Just like the fruit in One Piece, this perishable collectible is relatively hard to come by: Cake.JP will only ship the treat to customers located within Japan, and it costs a whopping 13,000 yen (about $100 USD at current exchange rates). Unlike the fruit in the anime and manga, it probably won't bestow super powers on whoever eats it.
The highly sought-after fruit was stolen by Red-Haired Shanks' pirate crew and is asbent-mindedly consumed by a young Monkey D. Luffy, which gives the aspiring Pirate King his trademark stretchy powers and rubber-like body. The World Government spent over 800 years trying to track the fruit down and put considerable effort into making sure no one else even knew it existed. While it was originally classified as a Devil Fruit, a recent chapter of the One Piece manga revealed that there was more to the fruit's true nature than previously believed.
One Piece was created by writer and artist Eiichiro Oda. Readers were first introduced to Luffy and the Devil Fruit's powers in 1998, and in the the 24 years since its debut, the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates have become the best-selling manga series of all time by a substantial margin, with about half-a-billion copies in circulation around the world. The entire anime series is available for streaming on Crunchyroll, while select seasons and several of the franchise's animated movies are now available for streaming on Netflix. The anime also recently returned to Toonami's newly refreshed late-night anime lineup.
The series will soon release its 15th movie, One Piece Film: Red, in Japan this August. A live-action adaptation of the series is currently being filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, and is being produced by Netflix and Tomorrow Pictures, the studio behind the short-lived Cowboy Bebop reboot. Oda is serving as the producer on both projects.
Source: Cake.JP via Crunchyroll