Fics like "Her venerable bows looked bearded": One Piece, Intertextuality, and Moby Dick

Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is a decades-long, sprawling, occasionally unhinged serialized manga, and within that decades-long sprawl there are many, many references. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is another overly-long, sprawling, unhinged piece of fiction, thought by some to be the greatest novel in the American canon. Let's discuss. Or: 2.6k of meta essay analyzing and unpacking Oda's use of the Moby Dick allusion. Yes, really.

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