User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Mysterious Cities of Gold/@comment-53539-20091220144442

Ah thank you, Esteban was clouded by the wrong name it seems lol. I find that from time to time one name sticks in my mind and I can't get it out.

I wouldn't be surprised to be honest, thats why I brought it up along with in my previous blog entry Blue Sub no.6. Even in Japan this was quite a big hit with the audience. Trouble is we in the West don't have the same love of the old series as the Japanese do so its hard to tell. It depends on if Oda saw it. We're talking 1984 or something (I saw it in '89) and while its possible its also hard to know.

The term and myth behind "cities of gold" comes from the belief of Spanish coming back with stories of cities literally of gold. Lets put it this way on the gold the Aztecs had, one chieftain promised a Spanish commander (I think he was) that he would fill the room with gold. The Spanish guy didn't believe it, and was shocked when the chieftain pulled it off. Shows you the western belief on the cities of gold.