Flame-Flame Fruit

自然系「メラメラの実」

By Aine · Published 2026-07-21 · Updated 2026-07-21

The Mera Mera no Mi (メラメラの実) is the Logia-type Devil Fruit that lets Portgas D. Ace generate, control, and become fire itself, immune to any attack that isn't Haki or a Logia-piercing weapon. The corpus's clearest in-story line comes when Ace visits Luffy in Alabasta (Vol. 18, p.76): he's just calmly "handled" a Navy pursuit by himself, and explains why with a single understated line — この＂メラメラ＂の能力で ("I took care of them with my Flame-Flame powers"). VIZ locks the name to Flame-Flame Fruit in every corpus occurrence, including a reader Question Corner (Vol. 20, p.66) that spells out exactly what the power does: turn Ace's fists to fire rather than his whole body.

Japanese	メラメラの実
Reading	メラメラのみ
Romaji	Mera Mera no Mi
Official VIZ	Flame-Flame Fruit
Literal	Blaze-Blaze Fruit
Used by	Portgas D. Ace

Japanese

メラメラの実

Reading

メラメラのみ

Romaji

Mera Mera no Mi

Official VIZ

Flame-Flame Fruit

Literal

Blaze-Blaze Fruit

Used by

Portgas D. Ace

Kanji breakdown

メラメラ (meramera) is a Japanese ideophone (擬態語, gitaigo) for the flickering, crackling look of an open flame — the word Japanese uses for a fire visibly catching and spreading, distinct from じりじり (a slow smolder) or ボーボー (a roaring blaze). It has no kanji of its own; like most sound- and state-symbolic words it's written in katakana. Doubling it into メラメラの実 places Ace's fruit in the same purely-mimetic category as バラバラ or ゴロゴロ — no borrowed vocabulary, no ordinary noun repurposed, just a pre-existing ideophone promoted straight into a Devil Fruit name.

Japanese original Ace mentions handling the Navy with his Mera Mera powers while visiting the Going Merry, One Piece Vol. 18

ONE PIECE 第18巻 p.76 ©尾田栄一郎／集英社

VIZ English edition Ace mentions handling the Navy with his Flame-Flame powers while visiting the Going Merry, One Piece Vol. 18

Every appearance in the manga

Vol / page	Japanese line	VIZ English
Vol. 18 p.76	ああちゃんとマいて来たからなこの＂メラメラ＂の能力で	NOT LIKELY. I TOOK CARE OF THEM WITH MY FLAME-FLAME POWERS.
Vol. 20 p.66	一人、エースはメラメラの実を食べて	—
Vol. 40 p.120	メラメラの真の能力者で、能力さになる前からコムコムのＰＥカを持つルフィより強かったらしい。全てを燃やす火事は強力だぞッ！！	HE GOT HIS POWERS FROM THE FLAME-FLAME FRUIT, EVEN BEFORE THAT HE POSSESSED THE GUM-GUM FRUIT'S ABILITIES. AS THE FLAME-FLAME FRUIT USER, WHICH BURNS EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, IS INCREDIBLY POWERFUL!!

Lines are byte-exact captures from a 43,000-pair bilingual corpus of the Japanese tankōbon and official VIZ Media edition.

Ace's fruit sits at an odd angle in this dictionary: it's one of the series' most iconic powers, yet the reliable corpus range this dictionary draws from catches it almost entirely offstage. Ace debuts as a visiting older brother rather than a combatant in the scene this entry anchors on — he shows up at the Going Merry in Alabasta already having dealt with a Navy problem, and mentions his fire ability the way someone might mention having taken care of the dishes: この＂メラメラ＂の能力で, no exclamation points, no named attack. It's a deliberate contrast with how every other flagship fruit in this dictionary gets introduced — Luffy, Buggy, and Alvida all get a dedicated reveal panel with a proud declaration; Ace's power arrives as an aside inside a chat about family and Whitebeard.

That understatement is consistent with how VIZ handles the name everywhere else it surfaces in the corpus. A reader Question Corner at Vol. 20, p.66 asks Oda directly whether Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit "turns his body into flames" or "makes flames shoot out of his body," and Oda's answer splits the difference: technically option 1, but his signature Fire Fist move works like option 2 too, since it's really his whole Logia body reshaping around the strike. That's a rare case in this dictionary of the SBS column doing real explanatory work rather than just cataloguing the name — it's answering the exact ambiguity a first-time reader would have about what "becoming fire" means mechanically, something the main story never stops to explain directly in this corpus's covered range.

A later fan-favorites poll page (Vol. 40, p.120), ranking reader-voted techniques, casually drops the full formal name — "HE GOT HIS POWERS FROM THE FLAME-FLAME FRUIT... WHICH BURNS EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, IS INCREDIBLY POWERFUL!!" — confirming VIZ never wavers off "Flame-Flame" even in throwaway trivia captions. Between the three occurrences the corpus offers, the throughline is consistent: Ace's power is named plainly and named rarely, which fits a character introduced as already legendary rather than as someone discovering his own strength on the page.