Monkey D. Luffy is the rubber powered protagonist of One Piece, the manga by Eiichiro Oda that began in 1997 and became a long running anime series. His Gatling technique stretches the idea of a machine gun into hundreds of punches thrown so fast his arms blur. The version against CP9 assassin Rob Lucci during the Enies Lobby arc became iconic because Luffy pushed past exhaustion to protect his crew. Clips of the shout and barrage later spread on soundboards and in edits as a shorthand for relentless anime attacks.