Vicky the Viking

All right.

Do you remember a cartoon TV show when we were younger, right, when they used to do this with the nose, called Vicky the Viking.

Hey, Vicky, hey, Vicky the Viking, hey.

Now, can you describe to me Vicky the Viking? Oh, maybe he

just had one horn.

Yeah.

Chatted to our mate Emma the other day.

She turned round and told me it was a geezer, a bloke.

One Piece owes a great debt to the many series that inspired its existence.

Author Echiro Oda has cited Vicky the Viking, Captain Tsubasa, and of course, the Dragon's Balls as key sources for what began this epic-some journey.

However, arguably there is no series more responsible for the unprecedented success of One Piece than Naruto.

Which are not my words, these are Echiro Oda's words, as well as the author of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, who got together to conduct a series of interviews in 2015 to celebrate the end of Naruto.

Which could be foreshadowing for either one of them to become the second piece we need to start flipping the giants.

Colin is very directly inspired by Vicky the Viking, which is what directly inspired One Piece, so he is practically built to be a protagonist here.

However, Loki, I would say, is more directly relevant, as he is the specific emotional center at the moment.

Loki is very much the Bonnie of this arc, and he is also claimed to be the sun god himself.

So we're talking about a manga, which is a Japanese graphic novel series, that has been running nonstop since 1997.

And the anime counterpart has been running continuously since 1999.

Right.

And there are nearly 500 million copies in circulation globally.

So in an interview with Viz, Oda revealed that his specific inspiration wasn't some famous historical text on piracy.

No, not at all.

It was a 1974 anime called Vik: The Little Viking, or sometimes it's known as Vicky the Viking, depending on your region.

Right.