One Piece: The Pirate Story That May Have Inspired The Baratie Arc

One Piece early in its stories is already an incredibly unique story, largely grounded in the reality of pirate life with only brief extensions into the supernatural, as with devil fruit powers and fishmen. These extensions serve largely to create dramatic fights as opposed to creating the story itself. The baratie arc especially brings in elements of realism with its focus on how hunger and starvation affects humans. However keen-eyed, and well-read, fans may have noticed some subtle portions of this particular arc that are extremely similar to another classic pirate story. The least subtle of these references of course being the island that they stop at immediately before heading for the Baratie: Treasure Island.

Source: Gamerant