Pop Art as Protest: How One Piece became Gen Z’s symbol of resistance

Since the mid-2020’s, the traditional political banners in street protests are surrounded by the drawing of a skull wearing a straw hat. This is the Jolly Roger – the ensign flown by a pirate ship – of Monkey D. Luffy, protagonist of Eiichiro Oda’s manga One Piece. What began in 1997 as a serialized manga Read more