It has been many years since I started reading ONE PIECE. It’s been decades since I read the first story in Weekly Jump (about red-haired Shanks protecting Luffy and having his right arm bitten off by a shark) and thought it was great.
It’s been decades since I read it and thought it was great.
I often wonder how much people like ONE PIECE. I am sure that Eiichiro Oda must be very happy to be the author.
Compared to those ardent fans, I am much less passionate, but I always try to buy the book when it comes out. If you ask me who my favorite is, it would be Brooke, who people say has a similar feel to me.
The thing that caught my attention the most in this volume is that in the final battle with Kaidou, when Luffy is asked “What kind of world can you create? Luffy replies, “I want a world where my friends can eat a full meal.
At this moment, I realized that Luffy was no longer a pirate, but a savior. At the same time, I realized that the Four Emperors, wrong or not, lived their lives with their own view of the world and their ideal world in mind.
That is why he was a pirate among pirates, different from other ordinary pirates. A battle over one’s view of the world. As I have written before, it began with despair over reality. It is like Gundam, or Oni no Kurage.
I believe that this is the world that Eiichiro Oda dreams of, a world where his friends can eat a full meal, and in other words, the world that is connected to the treasure found by the pirate king Roger and the true identity of ONE PIECE (my own imagination).
By the way, there is one point that has been bothering me since I have been reading ONE PIECE. That is the question, “Isn’t Luffy a treasure hunter, not a pirate? I have a question.
Whenever Luffy shouts “I will be the Pirate King! I can’t help but be bothered by that question.
See you later.
