User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/Sounds so alike !!!/@comment-173.32.102.83-20110530162052

remember the children story about a poor guy who found a magic seed and planted it. by night it grew in a huge tree that reached to the clouds. the guy climed the tree and reached a castle that was on the top of the clouds. I this it was this story that inspired the Skypiea Arc. but what happned in the arc was all creation of the Oda-dono. few weeks ago Zoro did a blog explaining the similarities between the One Piece and some India culture so it seems the Oda takes insprition from his surrounding and he potrays the real world conflicts in his manga to teach children what to do in those times. Oda-dono is a teacher to me.