Strolling through the Akihabara district of Tokyo last month, it was impossible to escape.
But I can say that after chatting to Hiroyuki Kaneko, game designer at Spike Chunsoft in Japan, as well as Koji Nakajima, producer of the game based within Bandai Namco Entertainment, I’ve come out appreciating the franchise a whole lot more - it’s not just another manga series that’s struck gold overseas, it’s a total cultural phenomenon. Now? Well, now I know about just as little character names and story arcs as I did before playing One Piece: Burning Blood. I’d known of its existence, sure, but only simply as “that manga that everyone in Japan is obsessed with.” My only other contact with the series was a 10-minute demo of One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 at a previous Namco event, and not to mention the shrine-like One Piece merchandise store that sits at the foot of Tokyo Tower in Japan. One Piece: Burning Blood, before I played it, was a total enigma to me.
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