The Parallel Between Dante's Inferno and the Impel Down arc from One Piece
In the arc Impel Down, Luffy goes to the greatest prison on Earth and one of the World Governments 3 major facilities, Impel Down to rescue his older brother Ace before he is taken to Marineford and executed. Impel Down has six levels that go underground, and these six levels are the crimson hell, beast hell, starvation hell, blazing hell, freezing hell, and the sixth one is a secret level called the eternal hell.. And the criminals keep getting worse as the level gets deeper, and the punishment for the prisoners also. The most notorious prisoners are in the final level, level 6 of Impel down. This is where Fire Fist Portgas D. Ace was, and First Son of the Sea Jimbei. Dante’s Inferno is split up into 9 circles and they go in this order, Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery, and at the end there is the center of hell. First let me explain each individual level in Impel Down and how its a parallel to The inferno. The first level,...