I absolutely adore how much of living, breathing world One Piece is. This entire narrative has been so meticulously designed that it manages to feel like something beyond conventional storytelling.

This can be done wrong though. I hate when writers talk about completely irrelevant topics and claim it to be world-building. In One Piece, you are guaranteed that everything presented to you as the viewer is going to have massive implications for the Strawhats somewhere down the line. That understanding means that we have some stake in everything that happens around the world.