i've been sinking into the recurring one piece hyperfixation that i've had since like age 6 when i watched and read it on and off with my older brother and i've been really into the revolutionary messaging within the show.
the world government are at first portrayed as the bad guys on account of the main character being a pirate and the world government/the marines hunt pirates. but there are officers in the marines that legitimately want to help people - hell, the first secondary character we meet in the story wants to be a marine and this is shown as a worthy ambition because he wants to do it to help people. pirates aren't all happy-go-lucky folks who go around overthrowing repressive governments like the main characters - pirates are pirates. they aren't, as a whole, good. and then again, the marines are still deeply corrupt as an institution - the navy's main function is protection of a system that is fundamentally oppressive - there's what amounts to state-sanctioned slavery for fuck's sake, the marines as an institution are, at the end of the day, defending this system.
and that means that another faction, unrelated to the pirates, forms to fight against the injustices that the system of the world government perpetuates: the revolutionary army. and this third group might be the one of the few undoubtedly moral groups that exists in this world, and is portrayed as such, and thats bitching. no "they might have a point but they're Too Extreme so they have to be stopped" bullshit like you see in a lot of other lib media. here it's more of a "theres Individuals within the system that are moral try to behave morally but what is being perpetuated as a result of said system and what the system enables is unambiguously immoral and the use of violence is not shied away from because the system itself is violent and uses violence to subjugate the people" type situation.
as is i can't really see where else the story can go other than the overthrowing of the state and abolishment of the system that permits and is built upon the oppression of the people
and then the author is fucking terrible at drawing women and is so reliant on sexist tropes it ruins interesting characters. also on an individual-case basis (the individual islands/places the crew go to) there's still the perpetuation of governmental systems like fantasy monarchism. anime was a mistake
i've been sinking into the recurring one piece hyperfixation that i've had since like age 6 when i watched and read it on and off with my older brother and i've been really into the revolutionary messaging within the show.
the world government are at first portrayed as the bad guys on account of the main character being a pirate and the world government/the marines hunt pirates. but there are officers in the marines that legitimately want to help people - hell, the first secondary character we meet in the story wants to be a marine and this is shown as a worthy ambition because he wants to do it to help people. pirates aren't all happy-go-lucky folks who go around overthrowing repressive governments like the main characters - pirates are pirates. they aren't, as a whole, good. and then again, the marines are still deeply corrupt as an institution - the navy's main function is protection of a system that is fundamentally oppressive - there's what amounts to state-sanctioned slavery for fuck's sake, the marines as an institution are, at the end of the day, defending this system.
and that means that another faction, unrelated to the pirates, forms to fight against the injustices that the system of the world government perpetuates: the revolutionary army. and this third group might be the one of the few undoubtedly moral groups that exists in this world, and is portrayed as such, and thats bitching. no "they might have a point but they're Too Extreme so they have to be stopped" bullshit like you see in a lot of other lib media. here it's more of a "theres Individuals within the system that
are moraltry to behave morally but what is being perpetuated as a result of said system and what the system enables is unambiguously immoral and the use of violence is not shied away from because the system itself is violent and uses violence to subjugate the people" type situation.as is i can't really see where else the story can go other than the overthrowing of the state and abolishment of the system that permits and is built upon the oppression of the people
and then the author is fucking terrible at drawing women and is so reliant on sexist tropes it ruins interesting characters. also on an individual-case basis (the individual islands/places the crew go to) there's still the perpetuation of governmental systems like fantasy monarchism. anime was a mistake