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Update
If you haven't noticed, I've missed the last two One Piece chapter responses. I have been preoccupied with other things -- revising, preparing for a trip, scouting for a potential move, and a revived interest in old fandoms -- and reading One Piece, and responding to it, have been on the lower end of priorities.
That said, I'm going off on a two week trip tomorrow and have filled up my queue in lieu of that.
I just wanted to let people what was up and what I'm doing.
September Summary
I know I've been very off at keeping up to date with these, but I wantd to let people know that this month is going to be a few days late because of traveling. That is, I'll be traveling. Much thanks and best wishes to all.
I've been meaning to write up my thoughts on a few of the Straw Hats since the time-skip, just to dissect if 1. They've grown, 2. How I feel about them, 3. If I do feel differently, why?
One Piece Projects: what's coming and what's going away
SO, last December I review all my unfinished One Piece projects: Philosophy of One Piece, Philosophy of Life in One Piece, and Disney/One Piece parallels.
I went through each of them (especially the last two) and highlighted examples for future essays and new (and some better) parallels. But then I realized that my motive behind Philosophy of Life in One Piece – to see if the life philosophies espoused in One Piece were viable and useful – has since dwindled. I don’t have the same quandary I did when I started.
While One Piece as an overarching medium is not perfect, the ways of life and living it proposes thematically are not bad. At least I don’t feel that way any more. I see the positives of what it says. I don’t need to analyze the life philosophies I see and figure out if they’re good ones to adhere to.
That said, it means I’m going to get back into my main Philosophy of One Piece, and in particular, the theme of justice and morality that I’ve wanted to get to for a few years now.
So, I’ll start working on that and make some headway into the Disney/One Piece parallels. (A few will wait until after March, to wait for Moana to be released worldwide.)
I was working on creating a new arrangement and/or page for essays and links, and when I edited some of my old essays, they posted here.
According to my schedule, the next monthly essay wouldn’t come out until next week, but since there’s no One Piece chapter this week and this essay is a topical one, I’ll be posting it a week earlier tomorrow.
