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Arabasta

Please don't read this yet 🙏.

Baratie

The Baratie is a restaurant on a ship. Or rather: is a ship that is a restaurant.

Sanji 👨‍🍳

Let's look at Sanji, the third person to join the Strawhats. And there is something that I find very enlightening about Sanji. As a character, he is representing a very deep scientific truth that scientist did not discover until quite recently. And I really can't tell how deliberate this was. In other words: I don't know if Oda knew about these discoveries when he created Sanji, or wether it was his intuition who created such an impressive representation.

Sky pea

Please don't read this yet 🙏.

The need for stories

One Piece is, above all, a story. What does that mean? That its not a instruction manual. It's not a recipe with steps. It is not a description, like the ones you would find on a dictionary. It's a story, where people deal with things as things happen, just like your own existence.

The opening

Before going any further, let's watch some One Piece. And we are going to start from the very beginning, just like the author intended.

The utility of dreams

I'm going to reveal something very important. This is something that has caused me distress over the years, a suffering that could have been easily avoided if only I had known better. Suffering of a psychological nature, the type that you don't seek help for and you don't talk about, but torments you inside.

Zou 🐘

Zou is a useful conceptualization of what constitutes a country, a civilization.