I'm growing more and more convinced that One Piece's Eiichirou Oda isn't just telling a story. (Not even when that story is one of the best and most engaging every created!) Oda is changing the world. Or at least influencing a generation of young Japanese people, which might be the same thing. And the ways in which he's doing this are interesting . Recently he's gone all out with the gender thing - yeah, sure, there's still fanservice in One Piece, but there's also a society entirely without... read more