Profile of Eiichiro Oda, One Piece Mangaka whose birthday is coming

One Piece is one of the manga series and anime most popular at the moment. This manga by Eiichiro Oda was first released in 1997.

Story from One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and other pirate crews in exploring the Grand Line and finding the whereabouts of "One Piece".

In this article we will discuss more about profile from Eiichiro Oda. For One Piece fans, let's get to know the creator!

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Eiichiro Oda's profile

Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist who was born in Kumamoto, Japan on January 1, 1975. Yes, this manga artist will have his birthday tomorrow.

At just 4 years old, he made the decision to become a manga artist to avoid real work.

Eiichiro Oda is famous as the creator of One Piece, which is the best-selling manga series in history. Thanks to this work, Oda received the title as one of the best-selling fiction authors.

His interest in pirates probably started to emerge after Oda watched the popular animated TV series entitled "Vicky the Viking".

One of Oda's inspirations for becoming a manga artist was Akira Toriyama, who is also known for his work, Dragon Ball.

Since November 7 2004, Oda has been officially married to Chiaki Inaba, who is a former model and actress. The two met at the end of 2003 at the Jump Festa 2004 festival.

From this marriage, they were both blessed with two daughters. The first child was born in mid-2006 while the Bermuda one was born in 2009.

On a interview, Oda and his manga editor think that he is a hard worker who is a perfectionist.

In one of the weekly One Piece magazines, it was also revealed that the creator only sleeps for three hours on weekdays.

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Eiichiro Oda's Career Journey

When he was 17 years old, Oda first made "Wanted!" and managed to win several awards including placing second in the Tezuka Award.

He then got a job at Weekly Shonen Jump magazine as Shinobu Kaitani's assistant for the manga "Suizan Police Gang".

At the age of 19, Oda began working as an assistant to mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki for "Rurouni Kenshin" before winning the Hop Step Award for new mangaka.

During this time, Oda drew stories one shot with a pirate theme entitled "Romance Dawn" with the character Luffy. The story was published by Akamaru Jump and Weekly Shonen Jump in late 1996.

In 1997, One Piece debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump and sold 100 million copies as of February 2005.

This number of sales continues to increase drastically until it reached 450 million copies in March 2019.

With this extraordinary achievement, Oda's One Piece manga is crowned as the best-selling manga of all time.

Not only his work, Oda also turns out to be very popular. In a vote conducted in 2008 by Oricon, he was chosen as the 5th most favorite manga artist in Japan.

Oda has also collaborated with Akira Toriyama on a song one shot entitled Cross Epoch featuring characters from One Piece and Dragon Ball in 2007.

The two of them met again to each design a character for the video game Gaist Crusher in 2013.

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So, that's a brief profile of the most popular manga One Piece. Are you also a fan of Oda Sensei's works?

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