The One Piece Podcast presents an all new season of Fight Together: In this series we explore the major themes, stories, influences and ideas in One Piece, as well as the reverberations it has made in the real world. We do not shy away from the uncomfortable. We critique and criticize, and we explore topics that polarize. We hope you listen with open minds and open hearts.

On this first episode of our second season we have co-hosts Zach Logan, Shannon Strucci (video essayist, @struccimovies, @criticalbitcast & @strugglesesh) Bryan Newton (animation director for Rick & Morty & Teen Titans Go) with special guests @ZeroReq011 (writer for Anime Feminist, Anime News Network, Crunchyroll and more), @EdwardEOnePiece (co-host on The One Piece Podcast and curator at @WeebTrailers) and @PaulaGaetos (Library Generalist, founder of The Tokusatsu Network and co-host of The Comfort Society Podcast). 

This month we discuss Fascism & Tyranny — government and governance. How  real-life political figures, regimes, administrations, and nations have influenced Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece — and what characters/stories particularly resonate today.

Articles discussed on this episode:

* History and Momotaro in One Piece‘s Wano Country Arc (Anime News Network, ZeroReq011)* Pirates, Justice and Global Order in the Anime “One Piece” (Global Affairs)* Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (John Hopkins University)* Australian University in Censorship Row Over China’s Hong Kong Policy (Financial Times)* Momotaro’s Devil General (All The Anime)* Harvard Professor’s Paper Claiming ‘Comfort Women’ in Imperial Japan Were Voluntarily Employed Stokes International Controversy (The Harvard Crimson)* The Attractions of Fascism: Social Psychology and Aesthetics of the ‘Triumph of the Right’ (John Millful) – Chapter 16: The Ritual and Stage Management of National Socialism: Techniques of Domination in the Public Sphere* Towards a General Theory of Piracy (Shannon Lee Dawdy & Joe Bonni, University of Chicago)