Has anyone seen the excellent anime that is One Piece? Well I just wanted to know which was made first, SoA or One piece because I think one cleary took inspiration from the other.

Well for a start they both star a cocky young lad who dreams of achieving greatness, they both feature bad tempered red heds, they both try and find crew members, both feature exaggerated characters, like you said they are both based around the theme of pirates, hell they both even feature the main character saving someone about to be executed! A lot of this is just what you get in anime but it doesn't stop the fact that there are similarities. As for the different moves, well I didn't say they were completely identical.

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All you've described is a bunch of clichés. SOAL does fit nicely along the anime/manga style, but consider where Overworks is based. Japan, the home of anime and manga.

It's not just One Piece. It's not just SOAL. Those clichés are present in many anime and RPGs (aside from the pirate theme).

I suppose your right. I did say that a lot of this is common in anime and that there are similarities regardless but my original point was that one may have been influenced by the other. As there are so many animes/ manga/ games based around these themes it was probably niave to say that the two are directly related.