Eiichiro Oda

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Template:Short description Template:Pp Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume. With more than 520 million Template:Tlit copies of One Piece in circulation worldwide, Oda is one of the best-selling fiction authors.Template:Efn The series' popularity resulted in Oda being named one of the artists who changed the history of manga.

Early life

Eiichiro Oda was born on January 1, 1975, in Kumamoto, Japan. At the age of four he resolved to become a manga artist in order to avoid having to get a "real job".<ref name="Blue interview">Template:Cite book</ref> His biggest influence was Akira Toriyama and his series Dragon Ball.<ref name="Blue interview" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

At the age of 17, Oda submitted his work Wanted! and won several awards, including second place in the coveted Tezuka Award. That got him into a job at the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, where he originally worked as assistant manga artist/assistant to Shinobu Kaitani's series Suizan Police Gang before moving to Masaya Tokuhiro on Jungle King Tar-chan and Mizu no Tomodachi Kappaman,<ref name="Blue interview" /> which gave him an unexpected influence on his artistic style. At the age of 19, he began working as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki on Rurouni Kenshin, before winning the Hop Step Award for new manga artists. Watsuki credits Oda for helping create the character Honjō Kamatari who appears in Rurouni Kenshin.<ref name="WatsukiInterview">Template:Cite web</ref>

During this time, Oda drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories called "Romance Dawn", which were published in Akamaru Jump and Weekly Shōnen Jump respectively in late 1996.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="wanted">Template:Cite book</ref> "Romance Dawn" featured Monkey D. Luffy as the protagonist, who then became the protagonist of One Piece.

In 1997, One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump and has become not only one of the most popular manga in Japan, but the best-selling manga series of all time. It sold 100 million collected Template:Tlit volumes by February 2005,<ref name="AsahiSales">Template:Cite web</ref> over 200 million by February 2011,<ref name="AsahiSales" /> had 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide by December 2014,<ref name="Anime News Network">Template:Cite web</ref> 430 million volumes in circulation worldwide as of October 2017,<ref name="430million">Template:Cite web</ref> 440Template:Nbspmillion copies sold as of May 2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and 450Template:Nbspmillion in print as of March 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Additionally, individual volumes of One Piece have broken publishing records in Japan. Volume 56 received the highest initial print run of any manga, 2.85 million copies, in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Volume 57's print of 3 million in 2010 was the highest first print for any book in Japan, not just manga. A record that was broken several times by subsequent volumes and currently held by 67's 4.05 million initial printing in 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2013, the series won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize, alongside Kimuchi Yokoyama's Nekodarake Nice.<ref name="jcaa">Template:Cite web</ref>

In a 2008 poll, conducted by marketing research firm Oricon, Oda was elected fifth most favorite manga artists of Japan. He shared the place with Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In their 2010 poll on the Mangaka that Changed the History of Manga, Oda came in fourth.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

For the tenth One Piece animated theatrical film, Strong World, Oda created the film's story, drew over 120 drawings for guidance and insisted Mr. Children provide the theme song.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Additionally, a special chapter of the manga was created and included in Template:Tlit volume 0, which was given free to attendees of the film and also contained his drawings for the film.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Following the particular success of this film, Oda also provided the character design for and executive produced the subsequent movies Z (2012), Gold (2016), Stampede (2019), and Red (2022).

Oda and Akira Toriyama created a 2007 crossover one-shot called Cross Epoch, that contains characters from Toriyama's Dragon Ball and Oda's One Piece. In 2013, they each designed a Gaist character for the video game Gaist Crusher.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2011, Oda and Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro created the One Piece and Toriko crossover one-shot Taste of the Devil Fruit. Shimabukuro stated that he came up with the bulk of the story while Oda gave suggestions.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Since 2004, Eiichiro Oda has been married to Chiaki Inaba, a former model, actress and tarento. Oda met her in December 2002 during a Jump Festa festival where Chiaki Inaba played the role of Nami during a One Piece stage show. Oda and Inaba have two daughters, one born in 2006 and the other in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Oda regarded many mangaka both as his friends and rivals. Among these were his fellow assistants under Nobuhiro Watsuki; Hiroyuki Takei, and Mikio Itō. Still many years later, they remained good friends.<ref name="kadenint">Template:Cite book</ref> For the title page illustration of One Piece chapter 766, which ran in 2014's 50th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump alongside the final two chapters of Kishimoto's Naruto, Oda included a hidden message and other tributes in the art.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Kishimoto himself also gave tribute in the ending of Naruto where the character Boruto Uzumaki makes a drawing of the Straw Hat Jolly Roger on a mountain.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> Upon the release of Chapter 1,000 of One Piece, several of Oda's fellow mangaka rivals paid tribute in the author's comment section of Weekly Shōnen Jump by congratulating Oda for achieving this milestone.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

According to Oda himself and his manga editors, he is an ardent worker and perfectionist,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> sleeping only three hours per day during a typical work week.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He was hospitalized for a peritonsillar abscess in 2013 and later discharged from the hospital after two weeks. After a year, he underwent a tonsillectomy to completely cure his condition.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Oda gifted Kumamoto Prefecture ¥800 million (US$8M/£4.9M) in 2018 after it suffered a damaging earthquake in 2016 that had affected its iconic Kumamoto Castle. Oda's ¥800M donation was offered in two separate gifts, one for ¥500M under Luffy's name (Luffy's current bounty at the time) and a second donation of ¥300M. Eiichiro Oda has long been a supporter of earthquake-stricken areas, writing supportive messages, contributing art for local products, and participating in the ONE PIECE Kumamoto Revival Project.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

Eiichiro Oda has received several awards and titles. His Awards lists:

  • Second half of 1992: second place Tezuka Award for Wanted!
  • 1993: Hop☆Step Award for Ikki Yakō<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2000: Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize finalist for One Piece<ref name="tezukaprize">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2001: Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize finalist for One Piece<ref name="tezukaprize" />
  • 2002: Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize finalist for One Piece<ref name="tezukaprize" />
  • 2005: Sondermann Award in the International Manga category for One Piece<ref name="de:Sondermann Cartoon">de:Sondermann (Cartoon)</ref>
  • 2006: Japanese Media Arts Festival 100 Manga Selection for One Piece<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2008: Sondermann Award in the International Manga category for Volume 44 of One Piece<ref name="de:Sondermann Cartoon" /><ref name="sondermann">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2009: Sondermann Award in the International Manga category for Volume 48 of One Piece<ref name="de:Sondermann Cartoon" />
  • 2012: Received Grand Prize at 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award for One Piece
  • 2015: Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" with 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide up until December 2014.<ref name="Anime News Network" />
  • 2018: Kumamoto Prefecture Honorary Prize <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2019: Most Searched Author at The Yahoo! Japan Search Awards <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2019: Included in the list of Newsweek JapanTemplate:'s "100 Globally respected Japanese people."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2022: Special Lifetime Achievement Award at Napoli Comicon 2022 in Italy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2022: Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" with 516,566,000 copies in printed worldwide up until July 2022.<ref name="516M">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2023: 18th Shin Watanabe Award, an award for a producer or creator who has created a major movement in the entertainment business and made a significant contribution to the development of popular entertainment culture.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Works

Manga

One Piece

Art books

  • One Piece Color Walk 1
  • One Piece Color Walk 2
  • One Piece Color Walk 3 Lion
  • One Piece Color Walk 4 Eagle
  • One Piece Color Walk 5 Shark
  • One Piece Color Walk 6 Gorilla
  • One Piece Color Walk 7 Tyrannosaurus
  • One Piece Color Walk 8 Wolf
  • One Piece Color Walk 9 Tiger
  • One Piece Color Walk 10 Dragon

Films

  • One Piece Film: Strong World (2009) – costume design, creature design, story and executive producer
  • One Piece Film: Z (2012) – character design, costume design and executive producer
  • One Piece Film: Gold (2016) – character design (Straw Hat costume design, Carina, Tesoro, Dice and Baccarat character design) and executive producer
  • One Piece: Stampede (2019) – character design, costume design, creative supervisor and executive producer
  • One Piece Film: Red (2022) – executive producer, character design, and script reviewer

Other

See also

Explanatory notes

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References

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