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When you hear kids these days say One piece is awesome and think there is still hoper for humanity
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It's a cartoon about a boy who is very stretchy because he ate a magic fruit who is determined to become the king of all pirates. To do that he has to have fistfights with other people who ate magic fruits which gave them different powers. Everyone shouts out the name of their special moves during the fights. There is a lot of shouting in general.
My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give for “there is a lot of shouting in general”
I think that's just anime and manga in general.
I say this as an extremely casual viewer who has only seen "basic" anime.
Death note, Bleach, My Hero Academia, FMA/+B, and (I had to look this one up) I think Clannad?
But every one has an abundance of yelling.
Also at least early on Luffy doesn't even know what a pirate is and think they are just funny adventurers
Very little stealing or plundering or what every tradition pirates do
It is a shonen, so fight is a core element. But overall also adress problems like: pathological system, slayvery; abuse of power, navy working just in intrest of government and rich, discrimination. It's not ideal for sure, but I am impressed how much values oda puts in such popular thing. Also in tactful way, show the fight with these problems as somenthing natural, right, just human. So you can easily identity with.
So i will not underestimate one piece, imo it can trigger a reflection in some people's minds or even stay there as subliminal message. No one borns with defined values or ideology. Finding them is a process and most people don't start from the radical ones or clear point. Thats why we need the communication on varied leveles, dedicated to people who are in different places on this way. Smuggles some part of ideas and values into pop-culture could be more effective than typical agitation; because not evereone can at this moment understand it. And incomprehension of step by step method is the global problem in activists community.