One Piece is a popular Japanese manga work, the Guinness Book of World Records recorded as "the most distributed manga created by a single author", the work itself describes a wonderful fantasy one Piece world.
Anyone who has seen One Piece should know that Eiichiro Oda is a very positive author, and the plot criticizes and reflects on many problems in reality, including disgust for war crimes.
However, a while ago, after the release of volume 89 of the One Piece book, One Piece received a large number of bad reviews on Amazon for only one reason: Oda ridiculed the Japanese invaders Shoichi Yokoi in the opening words.
The picture above is the opening sentence of the 89 volume, to the effect that "when everyone eats together, there is often the last piece of fried chicken left on the plate, and we will name this piece of fried chicken 'Yokoi Cobia', quickly clean it up, and end this war!" ”。
Some people may feel confused, but in fact, Oda is talking about a Japanese soldier named Shoichi Yokoi in World War II. In 1944, during World War II, the Japanese army was defeated by the American army in Guam in the Pacific Theater, but the Japanese soldiers were afraid that they would be sentenced to death after surrendering, so they did not dare to surrender.
Shoichi Yokoi was one of them, and he saw that the situation was gone, and he did not dare to fight the American army, and did not dare to surrender, so he could only flee to the depths of the jungle, barely surviving by eating wild fruits, rats, and frogs, waiting for the Japanese to counterattack and meet him.
The war outside has long ended, Japan has surrendered, but Shoichi Yokoi in the deep mountains and wild forests did not know, and later a US plane sent a notice of Japanese surrender to Guam, but Shoichi Yokoi believed that this was a lie of the US military and never showed up. It wasn't until 28 years later, in 1972, that he was discovered by two Guam hunters and returned to Japan.
Therefore, the meaning of the first sentence of the Oda scroll is actually simple - a meal is eaten to the end, and the last piece of fried chicken that has not been eaten is Shoichi Yokoi, don't delay the time, eat it as soon as possible, and end the war (rice game)!
For Oda, who has always maintained an anti-war attitude, there is no problem with the opening words of this volume, but after the release of the single book, it caused dissatisfaction among some people with ulterior motives in Japan, who went to Amazon to brush bad reviews and sent letters to the Oda editorial office to express dissatisfaction, which once caused a lot of turmoil, and the One Piece score on Amazon reached the lowest score in history.
The editorial office's response to this was simple: We'll pay attention next time.
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