Never doubt the World Economic News Agency's promotional power.
Their newspaper delivery network, spanning the entire world, allowed their propaganda to reach even the lowest depths of the sea.
How were they able to accomplish something like that?
Naturally, it was because they had branches in almost every country in the world.
They raised News Birds to deliver newspapers while collecting local news, and no one knew how many all-pervasive informants they had. That was how they became the world's leading newspaper giant.
And now, that giant of the news industry was making its move.
Every branch under the World Economic Society sprang into action.
What they had to do was quite simple: rent a venue, advertise in the local special-edition newspapers, then prepare to sell tickets.
The existence of Den Den Mushi made screening films remarkably simple.
They only needed to set up a screen and project the footage onto it.
And since the newspapers serving as the main promotional battleground were their own, the cost was practically zero.
And so, the film was finally about to premiere.
Across the world, a craze over Fish-Man Island began sweeping through the world for the first time on an unprecedented scale.
Many years later, whenever those who had lived through that craze recalled this film, they would sincerely remark that while the movie itself naturally paled compared to Tesoro's later works, it had indeed given them their first impression of Fish-Man Island.
The setting was the Goa Kingdom, in an immaculate town.
"Ace! Can we really see Fish-Man Island?!"
Inside the dimly lit room serving as a temporary theater, a little boy in a Straw Hat excitedly shook his older brother's arm.
"That's what the newspaper said!"
The black-haired, freckled boy was looking forward to it as well. "It shouldn't be