One Piece has found its way into the real world in quite a few different ways in the past few years. Aside from the live-action Netflix series preparing to return for a second season, the shonen ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The hoisting of One Piece flag has become a public spotlight here in Indonesia. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia's independence on August 17, the flag of ...

Over the past month, a familiar skull-and-crossbones motif from a Japanese anime has appeared across Indonesia — not in cosplay conventions, but in the streets, on car windows, and painted on alley ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Amnesty International criticized the Indonesian government's stance on the display of the One Piece flag as a potentially divisive act. The phenomenon of displaying the flag ...

Along Indonesia’s city streets and country roads, the Southeast Asian nation’s red-and-white flag isn’t the only one you may see waving from cars, homes, and hands ahead of its Independence Day on ...

Somewhere far from the Grand Line, a pirate flag from Eiichiro Oda’s Japanese manga and anime series, One Piece, has been making a divisive kind of landfall. Across Indonesia, ahead of the country’s ...

The One Piece Straw Hat Jolly Roger has become the newest emblem of protest in the Philippines, following its appearances in Indonesia and Nepal. The anime’s skull-and-crossbones flag surfaced at mass ...

As Nepal’s famed Singha Durbar palace went up in flames last week, protesters determined to rattle the government hung a manga flag showing a skull wearing a straw hat against the building’s ornate ...