Warning: Contains spoilers for One Piece chapter #1138.Ever since the early days of One Piece, the vast history of the world has been a major part of the setting. Between the mysterious Void Century and how so many conflicts have centuries worth of history to them, One Piece is very much a story about characters in the present having to fix the mistakes of the past, and it plays into that to an often extreme degree.
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Joshua Fox
Past vs Future: One Piece Sets Up Its Final World War With an Ominous History Lesson
The entire history of One Piece revealed.
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