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One Piece and it's monstrous worldbuilding!

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  SPOILERS FOR ONE PIECE IF YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED  First paragraph should be fine if you're avoiding spoilers... I think?           One Piece and it’s amazing worldbuilding. What is One Piece, it is a shonen manga series created by Eiichiro Oda. Shonen means young boy, or teenage male. Shonen is a genre of story for manga or anime where the story is designed to appeal to that type of audience, these days we don’t think of it like “It’s a show for guys” more so we think of it like “Ripped dudes fighting each other while yelling!”. Now that’s the genre, but One Piece isn’t just that, and neither is the most famous Shonen arguably Dragon Ball. One Piece follows a Monkey D. Luffy after eating the Gum Gum fruit a Devil fruit that makes him into a rubber man. He sails the seas to find crewmates so that he can become the Pirate King. Some popular shonen series set the characters up with a big goal or dream that they are deadest on usually from a young age. Son Goku’s is to be the strongest