It Started MUCH Earlier Than We Think!

Summary by Krater

The creator argues that the Holy Knights in One Piece were conceived retroactively rather than planned from the start, supported by analysis of early prototype manga and their structural introduction.

From the video

Answers: Were the Holy Knights planned from the beginning of One Piece?

• One Piece Holy Knights history
• Eiichiro Oda's prototype manga
• Kaitai Shinroku guidebook
• World Government and CP0 in One Piece

What it concludes

• The Holy Knights were not planned from the beginning of One Piece and were added retroactively.
• Early prototype works like Woody Woodman and Great Swordsman contained knight characters that Oda later recycled into One Piece.
• The World Government was not originally present in the beginning of One Piece and was incorporated later as the story expanded.
• Cipher Pol 9 was originally depicted as an ultra-secret organization before becoming widely known in the world.
• The Holy Knights function as a Cypher Pol reskin to match the world nobles' needs as the plot scaled up.