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Poll number 24!

Which of my favourites that didn't win their poll is your favourite?

Whiskey Peak Arc

Water 7 Arc

Bonus: ASL Flashback

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

Only three of the ones I chose didn't win. I know it doesn't hold up against Water 7, but man Whiskey Peak is one of my all time favourite parts of One Piece. Zoro is my favourite character and his segment of Whiskey Peak is just so damn fun, especially right at the start where he's standing on a building and then vanishes only to reappear among the Baroque Works goons with a shit eating grin and just goes 'wanna fight?'

Like look at that dork. I really miss pre-timeskip Zoro.

Hmm maybe I should run a 'favourite Zoro moment' poll. But one of him being silly and one of him being cool lol

And well, the bit where Vivi is trying to not say Crocodile's name and then says it and Nami explodes is also funny.

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Poll number 14!

I'm curious to know what everyone's favourite arcs are, but I'll be dividing the polls up by saga instead of choosing the more popular ones and only doing one poll. If you want to know which chapters/episodes each arc is, I'll include it below the read more.

Which Summit War Saga arc is your favourite?

Sabaody Archipelago Arc

Amazon Lily Arc

Impel Down Arc

Marineford Arc

Post-War Arc

Bonus: ASL Flashback

Voting ended onSep 18, 2024

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ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Luffy segment + conclusion)

ONE world - 3 PIECEs (introduction + Ace segment) ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Sabo segment) A three-part One Piece and ASL essay, mostly focused on Ace, Sabo, and Luffy’s flashback. Written for the ASL Bros Week (Day 7: “Day of ASLuffy”).

Luffy Luffy is the youngest of the ASL sibling trio: he is Ace and Sabo’s little brother, and the kind of brotherhood bond they share is one of the most represented in Japanese literature and narrative productions in general. There is a reason for this: fraternity among brothers is one of the main virtue of the Confucian philosophy, which deeply influenced Japanese culture as a whole. Before analysing the relationship between Luffy and his two older brothers though, I would like to talk about Luffy himself and about how I had initially perceived him when I started reading One Piece. I will confess it: back then I thought that Luffy was a superficial character (may I get struck by Enel’s lighting!) A two-dimensional, typical “shounen” protagonist. Of course, I now feel ashamed for the obviously wrong opinion I had of him… And yet, in a way I wasn’t so far from the “truth” (still a subjective truth of course). Luffy, in fact, is your typical “shounen” protagonist, but at the same time he is much more: he is the shounen protagonist. He believes he can fix all the problems he stumbles upon during his journey by becoming stronger, as he repeated obsessively after Sabo’s “death”. He believes he can overcome any obstacle, and he pursues his dream (a dream that is considered impossible by most people): finding the One Piece and becoming the Pirate King. Sure, Luffy is at least aware that he cannot do everything alone, and he must count on his companions—his crew—when he fails or just when there are things he can’t or isn’t able to do alone. And yet, he still believes in dreams in a childish way—until his certainties start to erode at Sabaody, and later completely crumble when he isn’t able to save the only brother he thought he had left. Ace dies to protect Luffy not the less, making the loss even more unbearable, in a scene that shocked most of the fandom. Oda managed to make the readers feel Ace’s death, as if he was the older brothers of us all and not just Luffy’s. But even before that, there is a scene that in my opinion is one of the most touching in the whole One Piece: Ace climbing the stairs to his scaffold while thinking back about the oath to live freer than anyone else. And not just for himself, but for Sabo too (since Ace would never know that his other brother is still alive). The contrast between Ace’s thoughts and his actual condition, shackled and walking to his death, is stark and terribly cruel: a punch in the gut for the readers. Most importantly, it is effective. Anyway, after Ace’s death, for the very first time in the manga we really enter Luffy’s mind and see the story from his point of view—no, we don’t just see it, we feel it. At that point, we also discover a side of Luffy’s personality that we might have not noticed before: we see his greatest fear, his weaknesses, and his desperation. Luffy did everything—even scarifying several years of his own life— to try and save that brother of his, and yet it all was for nothing. At Marineford, Oda showed us Luffy’s first, total defeat, and it was devastating. In One Piece, deaths in the current timeline are really rare, but distinctive. Dead characters aren’t just numbers, but their death actually impacts the narration and the readers. Ace’s death was such a huge event also because we experienced it from the main character’s point of view—not immediately, but when the ASL flashback started and shortly before, when we saw Luffy’s state of mind while he’s talking with Jinbe—and since up to that moment no relevant character had ever died outside of flashbacks (not considering the Merry at least). Oda finally allowed the readers to enter Luffy’s mind, and as Luffy we also felt incredulous, desperate, remorseful... We, too, saw flashbacks of Ace’s last moments. We, too, felt his blood on our hands—hands that failed to save him. And then, soon after that, we relived with Luffy moments of his childhood: a childhood that he shared with Ace and Sabo.

I consider the amazing ASL flashback one of the most veritable depiction of childhood ever written: complex enough to be interesting, but simple enough to be universal. After all, who hasn’t ever desired to have siblings? Who hasn’t ever played in nature, dreamt of being a pirate (or a ninja, or a mage, or a Pokémon trainer... the limit was only the imagination)? Who hasn’t ever spent whole nights in the wilderness? Who hasn’t ever made plans for the future, when everything seemed possible? Who hasn’t ever asked themselves existential questions while looking at the horizon or at the stars? Who hasn’t ever expressed wishes or pulled pranks? Who hasn’t ever made impossible, egoistic requests as Luffy’s one to Ace, when he asked him not to die? Who hasn’t ever had a loving yet strict grandparent, suffocating parents, or people who—albeit not related by blood to us, still were or are our family?

All this considered, One Piece is still a shounen manga with action among its sub-genres, so when I originally wrote this analysis I didn’t have doubts that Oda would show Luffy getting stronger while fighting, too. And I’m thrilled at the thought of what is waiting ahead, because this manga is also a beautiful adventure in a fantastic world: a world where exaggerated battles, absurd islands to explore, and crazy characters who make us laugh, cry, or upset (and any other emotion you could think of) are the norm. I found it awesome that, even after all these years, One Piece has remained a manga that can make you dream; a spontaneous and straightforward story like its protagonist. Just like him, though, this manga also possesses a deeper layer that often emerges. It did during the Dressrosa arc, but my followers already know how much I appreciate this arc and I won’t talk about it now. Instead, I would like to tell you how much the fact that Luffy was hiding a tragedy in the bottom of his heart surprised me. How was it possible that such a carefree boy, so easily inclined to smile, had already lost another brother long before Ace? Back then I asked myself if Luffy’s smile was “just” spontaneous, or if it also was a continuous demonstration of courage and hope. Slowly, the respect and admiration for that captain figure, even if just a boy, grew in me. I realised what was Luffy’s “power”, the power that made him conquer Ace and Sabo first, and then Zoro, Usopp, Nami, Sanji, Chopper, Vivi, Robin, Franky, Brook (but also Shanks, Hancock, Bon Clay, Ivankov, Jinbe, Whitebeard, Marco, Bartolomeo and all the other allies known at Dressrosa, Law… the list could continue forever). Luffy has a power that Mihawk defined as “scary”, but that can also be perceived as “marvelous”. This is possible thanks to the fact that Oda loves to show things from different perspectives: in this case, two different sides of the same character, who can be the most formidable of opponents or the greatest of friends. Maybe, Luffy’s greatest power is his utter sincerity (I recently discovered that this is a concept of Chinese philosophy too, but I’m not an expert so I’ll just leave this hint here if you want to do your own research): an undoubtedly good quality that doesn’t clash at all with him being a pirate. After all, while reading One Piece it’s hard to settle for simplistic moral categories. Often, what we call “bad” and “good” are blurred and overlapping, and often it’s just a matter of perspectives. And so, it becomes easier to understand that a government isn’t necessarily just, and that someone going against the law isn’t necessarily wrong. I don’t want to begin a discourse on ethics here, since it’s extremely complex and I should properly study the matter first, but I think you get what I mean. Back to Luffy, his “power” manifests itself not really through his fighting strength, but more through his will to live and be happy. Luffy’s captivating charisma often influences others, and his longing for freedom—no, his consideration of freedom as a sine-qua-non condition for living—is so honest that it makes you wish you could meet people like him in real life. The better definition I can find to describe Monkey D. Luffy is that he’s an inspiring character… But what do I most like about him? Probably, it’s his eagerness to party at every good opportunity, and especially after a difficult fight, as if to say: this could be the last time we can do it, so let’s have fun! My late grandfather, who lived through World War II, once told me something that I still remember vividly: when he had to travel by airplane together with other military personnel, he always told them jokes in order to overcome a “fear that otherwise would have made our heart burst”, to directly quote him. In the end he was lucky and served as a cook in the army, never becoming an actual soldier. Anyway, I believe Luffy is really similar to him in that: they are ideal companions, who make you laugh and who enjoy having a good time, but they are also serious when the time calls for it. Not surprisingly, my grandfather had lots of friends and is still remembered with affections by countless people. Luffy also possesses many other qualities; for instance, he’s the kind of person who would never betray you. How surprised I was for that torture scene in the ASL flashback! Not only Oda chose to deal with such a sensitive topic, but he even picked one of the most horrible examples of it: torture inflicted to a child. Overall, Luffy is the kind of character who is able to influence people and draw them to him.

One Piece overflows with compelling and often symbolic characters: from the rebel child who dreams of travelling the world and writing a book, to the cool but attentive boy whom we all would like to have as older brother; from the ideal father who accepts you like he accepted other “children of the sea”, to the loyal companion who is willing to even sacrifice his own life and ambitions to protect his captain and his friends; from the coward who sometimes becomes the bravest of them all for the very reason he needs to overcome his fears, to the woman with a dark sense of humour but who actually likes cute things and who knows more than anyone else the importance of history; from the little doctor with a big and seemingly impossible dream, to the compassionate cyborg who once tried to stop a train for the person he admired and loved the most; from the apparently pragmatic girl whose longing for freedom takes the form of her dream to draw a “map of the world”, to the skeleton who knew real loneliness and ironically is one of the most lively characters in the story; from the gentleman cook who survived the horror of starvation and hides the scars of an abusive childhood while still pursuing his romantic dream, to the ship that was loved so much that it acquired a soul… The list of inspiring characters could go on for pages, so I’ll stop here. But above all them there is Luffy, with his piercing gaze that sometimes can be intimidating, but also with his beaming smile that changed and is changing the lives of many, and that in the end—I’m sure of it—will also change the world in which he lives. Conclusion One Piece is “just” a fictional story, but when a story touches so many real-world themes and stirs so many emotions; when it becomes such a source of inspiration; when it contains a more or less veiled criticism to some aspects of history, of society, and of the human nature; when a story does all of this, then it goes beyond fiction. It is too early to call it a masterpiece, since One Piece is still ongoing, but it has that “added value” and symbolic scope that could make it a classic for all ages. One Piece is the inspiring story of a boy growing into a man, but also a story about freedom: freedom that we sometimes take for granted. But if we have it now (and the same can’t be said for all people sadly), it means that someone in the past fought and died for this fundamental right to be recognised. We should never forget this. Sometimes, I see people complain about some aspects of One Piece, maybe forgetting that it’s the work of just one man and that its characters’ views and beliefs don’t necessarily correspond with the author’s. As a semi-professional writer, I can tell you one thing: while writing characters, you basically act. It’s disconcerting to see people expecting a “politically correct” story and characters, which would be boring and unrealistic on the long run. As far as I’m concerned, I have no intention of abandoning ship: the “king of mangaka” conquered me long ago, and I’ve hoisted the white flag at the sight of Luffy’s smile. Thanks to One Piece I rediscovered, as an adult—I started reading it in my twenties—that “sense of wonder” usually associated with science fiction (another genre I love) but that can be applied to this manga too. Thanks to One Piece, I found myself passionate about something when I was least expecting it. And through the ASL flashback, I recalled my own childhood.

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ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Sabo segment)

ONE world - 3 PIECEs (introduction + Ace segment) ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Luffy segment + conclusion) A three-part One Piece and ASL essay, mostly focused on Ace, Sabo, and Luffy’s flashback. Written for the ASL Bros Week (Day 6: “ Day of ASaboL”).

Sabo

Sabo’s lines about freedom, but also Ace’s ones when he wondered why Sabo was “killed”, impressed me a lot. They deal with a universal matter like the desire of freedom, but Oda this time used the words of two ten-year-old children to reintroduce a theme that was present since at least chapter 100 of the manga, where Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionaries, remembers Roger’s words about it.

Sabo ran away from because he couldn’t stand the thought of living like a “noble”, his whole live already planned out for him by his parents, and by doing so he demonstrated an intelligence and a maturity out of the ordinary. Furthermore, Sabo’s words about the city he was born, which to him smelled worse than the landfill in which he chose to live, shows his high conception of human dignity: a conception that goes beyond appearances and material properties.

Rather than living in prosperity—but actually a slave of a society that feels alien to him, Sabo decided to live in the Gray Terminal, just outside the gates of his hometown: the capital of the Goa Kingdom. Incidentally, this landfill is the very place where everything unwelcomed by Goa’s upper classes is dumped. Sabo presumably met Ace there, and later became his and Luffy’s brother and sacrificed his precious freedom to save them. Finding himself back at his starting point, Sabo felt again like if he was locked in a cage: a cage that before being material was mostly a social one. When reading Sabo’s story, I reflected on the fact that if you erect walls to keep others out you also end up imprisoning yourself, and I recently used this concept in my One Piece fanfic “Waves” (please keep in mind that I originally wrote this analysis many years ago, in Italian, and I finally decided to translate and publish it for this event). In my opinion, said “walls”—I could make many historical examples, even contemporary ones—are a sign of failure on both parts, and not just on the one that is “kept out”.

At any case, once returned at “home”, within the walls of that luxury villa in the middle of a city that suffocated him, Sabo asked to himself those famous questions: “What is freedom? Where does it lie?” Two extremely complex questions, but as One Piece often does the narration presented them in a straightforward way, with simplicity but without being simplistic. And obviously, I—the reader—ended up asking to myself those same questions. The answer, or better, my personal answer wasn’t easy to find. My opinion is that freedom doesn’t actually exist as an absolute concept, and that all living beings—no matter how much sentient they are—are still subject to natural laws. We fight, more or less metaphorically, to obtain and keep our freedom every day, but actually we just obtain a partial freedom (or an illusionary one in the worst cases). However, at the same time I thought that everyone should be allowed to exist at least, which is the most fundamental of the human rights. But what does it really mean to “exist”? Do we really exist when we can realise ourselves without constrains and excessive conditionings (I wrote “excessive” since conditionings are inevitable)? Are we really free when we can express our thoughts and our very being? Even then, our freedom would end when others’ begins, or at least this is one of the most commonly accepted principle about it. That said, is there freedom—however you want to interpret it—in the One Piece world? Not so much. The One Piece world is a world that allows slavery (I could make many examples, from Hancock’s to Koala’s story), a world with xenophobia problems (towards fishmen, but also the other way around), and a world intolerant towards minorities (for example, non-binary people). We also have censorship: not only of the past, represented by a barely concealed historical revisionism, but also a widespread control of the media (interrupted transmissions, manipulation of the information on newspapers, and so on). And how can we forget about corruption? We have a perfect example of it in the ASL flashback, when Sabo’s father corrupted that guard with money, but I would like to mention what happened in Nami’s island too. What do we have, instead, in the real world? The same things, if not worse. I’m not surprised that Oda introduced a character like Issho/Fujitora, who “closed his own eyes”… After the Battle of Marineford, the population exulted for Ace and Whitebeard’s death; by doing so, they showed naivety and ignorance, both real world problems too as much as dishonesty (especially intellectual dishonesty) and hypocrisy. All things considered, I prefer people who don’t hide themselves behind a facade of rightfulness and instead call things as they are. In this sense, Doflamingo is one of the greatest characters in the manga; “Tarantinish” in his cynicism (after writing this analysis I discovered that Oda is “coincidentally” a fan of Tarantino’s movies), he frankly stated an often unspoken truth: winners are the ones who decide what is justice and what is not (and, by extension, what is “right and what is not). Doflamingo is also a character whose story offers many parallelisms—but also contrasts—with Sabo’s, and that is why I suspect they may be somewhat related... But I already wrote a post about this, so let’s go back to the ASL trio.

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ONE world - 3 PIECEs (introduction + Ace segment)

ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Sabo segment) ONE world - 3 PIECEs (Luffy segment + conclusion) A three-part One Piece and ASL essay, mostly focused on Ace, Sabo, and Luffy’s flashback. Written for the ASL Bros Week (Day 5: “Day of AceSL”).

Introduction I often say that my favourite arc is Dressrosa, but the part that I loved the most in One Piece so far is the ASL flashback. Unlike similar manga, the narrative point of view in One Piece is usually external regarding its main character, Monkey D. Luffy, and this is the reason I couldn’t relate with him much at first. His first flashback with Shanks wasn’t enough for me to really understand his character, so I didn’t get his motivations and where he came from. However, after the ASL flashback everything changed: finally, I understood the protagonist of this story. Something clicked, and I realised what Oda wanted to do with the protagonist of One Piece: Luffy is a main character who may seem similar to others, but he’s actually quite different—or better, he’s written and especially presented in a different way. And what Luffy is, mostly he is thanks to other two key characters in One Piece: Ace and Sabo. Their flashback plays a central role in the story, and that explains why Oda saved it for just before the time-skip.

I deem the ASL trio the pivot of One Piece. Sure, Shanks was a source of inspiration for Luffy—probably a father figure even—but his family was undoubtedly represented by the brotherly bond he shared with Ace and Sabo. While Shanks was the “cool, adult pirate” whom Luffy looked up to, his relationship with his brothers represents a more intimate part of him that he rarely shows to others, if anything at all. If you noticed, Luffy did not cry about Ace’s death in the presence of his companions, even because he is their captain (Jinbe, if he’ll really become part of his crew, will be an exception to this); however, Luffy did cry in front of Sabo when they met again in Dressrosa. The story of these three brothers touched most of the One Piece readers since it deals with feelings and emotions that most people have felt in their lives, and thus we can easily identify ourselves with at least one of them. Furthermore, as shown in their superb flashback, their story linked past, present, and future events together, adding additional layers to the already rich One Piece world. After the ASL flashback, my general perception of the story changed completely, and the whole first part of the manga felt even more meaningful than what it had at a first read. Ace Where to start when talking about the unforgettable Portgas D. Ace? About a great character living under the shadows of his father, whom he probably both hated and admired, being more similar to him than what he would have ever admitted? Where to start when talking about a character whose reactions had always been really spontaneous, like the ones of a child? Maybe, I could start from the fact that I think Ace actually became an adult only at Marineford, just before dying, when he smiled at Luffy as adults smile at children: reassuringly. Ace was a character that often hid his pain and who didn’t like to cry in front of other people, and he also influenced Luffy on this, to an extent.

Alternatively, I could start from the fact that Ace was an orphan because of the World Government, which killed his father and, indirectly, his mother too. Or I could talk about the Pirate King’s heavy heritage, which caused his son much suffering. When Ace was still a young child he wondered where he came from, and when asking information about his father people constantly replied that Roger was a demon, and that if he had children they would not even had the right to live.

Obviously, an “abandoned” child—Ace had a grandfather figure, Monkey D. Garp, and a mother one, Dadan, but he still spent most of his time alone or with Sabo and, later, Luffy)—didn’t have the emotional stability nor the knowledge and experience necessary to understand that what was said about his father wasn’t necessarily true. Thus, Ace ended up hating him—or better, pouring upon him the hatred derived by people slandering Roger. However, I think Ace never really resented his father for what he represented, but only for the fact that Roger left his mother, Rouge, and consequently Ace himself defenseless and at the mercy of the world’s cruelty. Such feelings can be compared to Doflamingo’s hate towards Homing: this is one of the many parallelisms in One Piece, and I don’t think it was just a coincidence that only Ace and Doflamingo were shown awakening their Conqueror’s Haki/Ambition at just ten years old. Anyway, despite that dark aspect of Ace’s personality, he managed to forge a deep friendship with Sabo first—they had the same objective, becoming pirates—and then with Luffy. Ace was initially hostile to him, but Luffy would soon become the very one who gave him a reason to live: the moment Ace chose to consider Luffy his younger brother and someone whom he needed to protect, the one who was really saved was Ace. This feeling would grow even stronger later, after reading the letter that Sabo had sent to them before getting sail and apparently dying by a Celestial Dragon’s hand. From that moment onward, Ace decided that he would not only protect Luffy on his behalf too, but also live for Sabo, hence the crossed out “S” in his tattoo. (Did Oda decide its meaning from the very start? It is not really important to know, because the meaning he gave it works perfectly with what he wrote later anyway.) Then, while talking to Luffy, Ace told him that he doesn’t consider himself smart, and yet he grasped the core of what had caused Sabo’s incident. In a surprising demonstration of intuition and sensibility, Ace stated that Sabo had been killed by someone who had wanted to restrict his freedom, which was actually the truth. Ace, too, searched for freedom, but his motivations were different from the ones of a noble’s child. Ace didn’t want to be free from a suffocating lifestyle and unjust social norms, but from his father’s shadow: Roger’s overwhelming legacy was what Ace wanted to run away from. For his whole life, Ace carried with him the psychological and emotional scars derived from such crushing heritage, and as a child he was particularly sensitive and often reacted with violence.

Despite his surly personality, Ace still had many qualities as a child too: his purity, his pride, and his courage mixed with altruism that manifested themselves in his desire to protect at any cost the people he loved (a desire to protect even greater than Luffy’s, who instead told his companions to run away, and he ran away himself from their enemies, in at least one instance). But what happened to Ace, later in the story? Several things: he made a name for himself, and even found a place where he belonged. In the end, though, freedom was negated to him too. Ace was condemned to pay for his father’s crimes: crimes he had never committed himself, and yet he was judged by a group of “nobles” who, as Sabo understood as a child, were nothing short of insane. In the end, the World Government sentenced to death a youth of just twenty, barely an adult (in Japan people enter adulthood at the age of twenty), fearing what he might become. A bit like what happens with preventive wars. Ace’s story deeply affected me even because I am strongly against death penalty for a number of reasons, but I don’t want to talk about this now. Anyway, later in the story Oda will take a further step, showing that, whatever their origins, humans share the same, often cruel nature. Of course, I’m referring to that scene of Doflamingo and Rocinante’s flashback when that crowd of former slaves nearly lynched them. Once again, Oda showed people accusing others of crimes they didn’t personally commit, and once again we can notice a parallelism between Doflamingo and Ace; the ones with Sabo are more obvious (from Doflamingo’s logical intelligence to him living part of his life in a landfill), but there is a key parallelism between him and Ace too: being condemned for things they didn’t (yet) do and just because of who their parents were. One of the literary devices most used by Oda is the reversal of perspective, and the stories of these characters are perfect examples of how you can use it to outline the complexity of a world as multifaceted as the One Piece one. Ace’s story showed us that, generally, the World Government deals with people who have a “D” in their name in two distinct ways: they either ask the “Ds” to work for them, or they kill them. “Ds” not under their control are considered too dangerous to let them live. I have read countless comments about how what happened to Ace was extremely unfair, to use a euphemism. But the real world is often unfair too, and as any good story One Piece is based on it. And so, in this manga we have examples of the worst crimes of humanity, from discrimination (Oda described the Goa Kingdom as “the perfect example of a society founded on discrimination”) to genocide (the Ohara, Flevance, and probably the Ds’ one too), and everything in-between. At a superficial reading, One Piece may seems “just” a fantasy story, but it is actually deeply rooted in the real world. And it is for this reason that stories like Ace’s feel so painful and real. In the second part of this analysis, I’m going to talk more in-depth about Sabo. I hope you’ll keep reading, and if you want to add your comments feel free to do it!