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ONE PIECE: WANO ARC
 Characters 

The list of characters involved during Wano Arc:

The Strawhats: (Luffy, Zoro Roronoa, Chopper, Nami, Usopp, Franky, Jimbey, Sanji, Brook, Nico Robin),

The Nine Red Scabbards: (Kinemon, Denjiro, Kikunojo, Raizo, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kawamatsu, Ashura Doji, Kanjuro)

The Beasts Pirates: (Kaido, King, Queen, Jack, Page One, Ulti, Who’s-Who, Black Maria, Sasaki, X Drake, Hawkins, Appo, Babanuki, Daifugo, Solitaire, Dobon, Speed, Holdem, Gifters, beast pirates)

Wano Government: (Orochi, Fukurokuju, Daikoku, Hanzou, Raijin, Fujin, Kyoushirou, Kaku, Kuni, Suke, Citizens of Flower Capital, villages from Ebisu Town, O-Tama, Hitetsu, Gorobe, O-Tsuru, Gyukimaru, Citizens of Wano)

Heart Pirates: Trafalgar D Law, Bepo, Schachi, Penguin, Heart Pirates

Kid Pirates: Kid, Killer, Kid Pirates.

Other: Yamato, Roger, Whitebeard, Marco, Oden, Momonosuke, Big Mom, Perospero, Carrot, Sicilian, Wanda, Zunisha, Hyougorou, Shinobu, Jibuemon, Oden’s Supporters, Komurasaki, O-Toko, Yasuie, Caribou.

History
As Luffy finally re-group his crew with Sanji, they decided to head towards the Land of Wano, a country in the new world with a difficult natural environment surrounding the entire area making the access to the land challenging. Nonetheless, the Straw hats find their ways into this mysterious state currently controlled by the Beast Pirates, specifically by their leader named Kaido, one of the four emperors of the sea.

At first Luffy and his friends find the nation quite typical but very quickly they will discover the Smile and weapon Factory destroying little by little the province and his territories. A long time ago, Kaido (chief of the Beast Pirates) and Orochi (Current Shogun of Wano) took the land of Wano for themselves by overthrowing the Kozuki family, this event change the whole country until now. For Kaido and Orochi to became more powerful and rich, they used the people of Wano as slaved by exploiting them to the bone to accelerate and generating more weapons via the factory.

Since then, the new shogun era directed by Orochi was characterised with oppression, tyranny, corruption. People start to starve as most of the pirates were keeping all the food that the country was generating. A disaster that will cause the death of many citizens. Wano, the land of samurai became even more less accessible to the outside world, frontiers were completely closed to strangers or travellers trying to get into the new kingdom. The hope of getting a prosperous and safe nation were disappearing from civilian eyes, only remains a totalitarian regime designed to profit the destruction of the transgressors and sinners all around the country. While the Smile manufactory were growing every single day, a new hope was rising, a prophecy spread among all villages and cities across Wano, announcing the revenge of the Kozuki family. This specific news begins to shake the regime in place, the Shogun ordered to arrest everyone too close or that were expanding the rumours of his enemies.

In the meantime, our main protagonists are moving forward into the samurai ground, getting information about the current situation of the country, observing, assessing, waiting for the right moment to react, and stopping the barbary that has been going on for 20 years. As every strawhats start to reunite, the confrontation approach between the Beast Pirates supporting by Orochi and on the other side, a new alliance of ninja-pirates-mink-samurai is forming joining the Nine Red Scabbards along Luffy and his crew. The rest of the story and remaining pieces of this arc will describe a furious battle between all characters, fighting for what they believed is right in each side, the war will suffer lot of casualties, survival instincts and strength will be the key for most of them to stay alive.

Location
This arc take place on the north side of the new world, northwest to Egghead, southwest to Winner Island. On the land of Samurai named “Wano”, a mysterious country composed by several island called: Kuri, Kibi, Flower Capital, Ringo, Hakumai and Onigashima location where the final assault between the strawhats and allies against Kaido and his crew will occur.

Timeline
The Wano arc take place after the whole cake island arc, which make it the eighth story arc of the second half of the series.

Real-World Themes
One piece is certainly Oda’s masterpiece, achieving success by success and reuniting millions of fans around the world. But not only, this manga-series has been collecting many awards, it is also considered by readers, critics, audiences as one of the best manga of all the time. One of the aspects that also make this sequence so entertaining and interesting is the fact that Eiichiro Oda, artist and creator of “One Piece”, has implanted lot of hidden messages, references to the real world.

The Wano Arc, expose a certain number of them, the fact that this land is tricky to access for outsiders, reflects Japan during the application of “Sakoku”, consist of isolating the country in term of commerce and foreign relation, this event took effect for 265 years during the “Edo period”. The reference of invader like Kaido trying to modernise and industrialising the nation via the production of weapon, called “Smile” in One piece, refer to the arriving of European forces getting on Japanese ground. Foreign pressure of opening swiftly each province, lead to unstable, doubt and differences between “partisan of Shogun era” and new “Industrial era”, bringing death and famines in an identical way as showed in the manga. The pursuit of imperialism came with a high cost for Japanese citizen as it did for Wano’s citizens.

Knowledge and strength were a vital point, notably in the battle between Oden (Daimyo) and Kaido, the fight between moral values and banditry, between “Bushido” and “Black powder”, Beast pirates using every malicious tactics to win such as the Americans did when they used their “black steam-powered gunboats” on Japan doorway and naval coast during “Perry expedition”. While Kaido was making sure that every rebellion will be suppressed if trying to go against his plans, example of martyr was set to make everyone understand, notably with Shimotsuki Yasuie sacrifice in the comic book. A parallel of the West power compelling Japan Shogunate to capitulate to their demands.