• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates, a fictional group from One Piece, symbolizes freedom, friendship, and resistance to oppression in the anime.

    I know nothing about One Piece. Is this accurate?

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      They don’t explicitly say that in the show, but those are some of the core values the Straw Hat Pirates have. So yes.

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        13 days ago

        no they actually do explicitly say that in the show.

        it’s in drum island. it’s roughly what the old doctor told chopper it meant and then luffy agreed.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I recently started the anime. Yeah. Pretty accurate. Luffy (main character) wants to become king of the pirates but has an ethical code similar to a knight-errant. His crew is very much the same. In one arc, they all risk their lives (including one of them who was still recovering from near-fatal wounds), initially because one of the crew was enslaved as a child by pirates that murdered their mother.

      So, yeah. Pretty accurate.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        the association with social liberation politics and the straw hat jolly roger only gets stronger as the series goes on