As Monkey D. Luffy tries to get the great liar Usopp into his crew, he discovers that he must face off against a former pirate captain in hiding, the diabolical Captain Kuro, and his men. Usopp tries to fight off the pirates by himself, showing that he is ready to sacrifice his life for his beloved Kaya. However, he is anything but alone. The seemingly naive pirate named Monkey D. Luffy is right beside him, and Luffy is furious that a pirate like Captain Kuro would let go of his dreams and hurt others.
However, Captain Kuro is a master swordsman, using customized cat-claw-gloves that he wears on both hands and able to move so silently that no one realizes he is there until he's upon them. What chance does Luffy have of stopping this man? Besides this series, Oda has also worked on Wanted!
One Piece has since been adapted into an award-winning anime series, several direct-to-video movies, and one animated movie which was released in theatres across Japan and the United States. Eiichiro Oda is a self-professed fan of the works of Akira Toriyama and considers Dragon Ball one of the inspirations for his series.
Plan While Oda's first statement on when One Piece would end was off, he's said a lot of intriguing stuff about the story over the years, including when he thinks it is going to reach its conclusion. Eiichiro Oda recently stated that Luffy's journey is coming close to an end and that he would like to end it in the next five years.
Whether Oda will actually be able to end the story in five years or not remains to be seen, however, his editors certainly believe that it is possible for Oda to wrap it up in that time.
Eiichiro Oda is known for his skill to plan things ahead and then display it in his manga. With regards to the end of the story, things are no different. Eiichiro Oda had long ago decided how he wants his story to end. Although hardly anyone knows what he has planned, knowing how Oda executes his ideas, fans have every reason to be excited for the end of the story.
While having a rough idea of how a story will end is somewhat normal, Oda has gone further by having the final panel of his manga already decided. What's even more surprising is that he had decided this long ago and made it public knowledge back in The only people who could possibly have any idea of what Oda is talking about are those working with Oda himself.
Often, fans wonder what the One Piece is going to be , and "the friends we made along the way," comes to the minds of many. However, in an interview with Momoko Sakura, Oda confirmed that the One Piece is, in fact, going to be a physical treasure.
According to him, it would be quite unfair to have the Straw Hat Pirates journey for this long and not get a reward at the end of it all. These - along with his father's oil-painting hobby - inspired his dream to become a mangaka, as he believed they made money for doing no "real" work.
His favorite television show was Vicky the Viking , a European-coproduced anime which began his lifelong fascination with pirates. In fifth grade, inspired by Weekly Shonen Jump bestseller Captain Tsubasa , he joined his school's soccer club.
Oda began drawing manga in earnest around his second year of junior high, developing ideas and sketches for a pirate serial that would, many years later, become One Piece. In , during his senior year of high school, the seventeen-year-old Oda took interest in Shueisha's prestigious Tezuka Awards. Having enjoyed Westerns since seeing Young Guns some time prior, he spent four months constructing his first full-length manga: Wanted!
Ultimately, Wanted! In spring of , Oda graduated high school and entered Kyushu Tokai University 's architecture program. Soon after, he began submitting more work to Shueisha, unaware that his Tezuka honors had qualified him not for Weekly Shonen Jump , but its Monthly offshoot. In early , encouraged by the honors his manga had received and dreading his freshman exams , Oda dropped out of Kyushu Tokai to pursue a mangaka career in Tokyo, under the authority of editor Kaoru Kushima.
Like most mangaka, Oda began his professional career as an assistant for established Shonen Jump creators. His first assistant work was for the last few chapters of Shinobu Kaitani 's Midoriyama Police Gang ; though only a month long, this tenure gave Oda his first experience with professional manga production, and he cited the sheer beauty of the final drafts always diminished by Jump 's cheap print as an important inspiration.
This was his longest tenure under any single mangaka, and he despite Tokuhiro's noted reluctance to leave any significant work to assistants developed much of his technique drafting backgrounds and crowds for both series. Simultaneously, Oda conceived many more drafts for his own manga, almost all of which were rejected by Kushima. Though their relationship remained civil, Oda did not take Kushima's many criticisms to heart until his one-shot Monsters was allowed publication in 's Shonen Jump Autumn Special.
Reading his own work at a remove allowed Oda to recognize many of his artistic inadequacies, spurring him to improve. However, despite enjoying the atmosphere - and making many new friends - at Watsuki's studio, Oda remained troubled by all the rejections his independent drafts were still facing.
Finally, in a "last-resort" bid for publication, he developed the pirate serial he had conceptualized since high school into a draft titled Romance Dawn. To his relief, Romance Dawn impressed Kushima enough to approve further development, and was soon published in that year's Shonen Jump Summer Special , to general praise from readers. Almost concurrent with Romance Dawn 's publication, Oda fell under the purview of a new editor, Takanori Asada, who arranged for him to fill an upcoming gap in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Seizing this extremely rare opportunity, Oda produced a second Romance Dawn draft within two weeks, and saw it published to renewed acclaim. Despite this, Asada's superiors remained skeptical of the concept and repeatedly refused to serialize it, forcing Asada to argue on Oda's behalf for several months.
In May of , One Piece was finally approved for serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump , and Oda formally resigned as Watsuki's assistant to begin his career as a full-fledged mangaka. For Oda, constructing the first chapters of One Piece was relatively straightforward.
Knowing Jump customarily gave any new serial around ten installments to gauge reader response, he with Asada's help refined the earlier portions of his concept material into eight chapters: seven for a largely self-contained "introduction" arc , and one beginning a second, more elaborate arc. To Oda's surprise - and delight - it ranked higher in fan response than any of its co-features, prefiguring the series' runaway success.
In following years, One Piece would expand into a considerable franchise, receiving its first animated adaptation in , a full-length anime series in , and its first video game in Oda with Chapter 's color-spread. In , Oda met Chiaki Inaba, a young model and actress who played Nami during the Shonen Jump Festa through a cosplay, and the two started going out, and in , they got married.
In , Chiaki Inaba give birth a baby girl, Oda's first daughter. Oda and Inaba become parents again when they welcomed a second daughter who was born in In April , Oda unexpectedly fell ill and One Piece was not released that week. However he recovered and resumed One Piece the next week. Because of his recent illness, Oda felt the fans needed to catch up so he created Grand Line Times.
He was also involved in writing and directing the tenth One Piece movie , the first movie that he actually wrote the script for, in honor of the tenth anniversary of One Piece.
Like many other mangaka, Eiichiro Oda uses his signature tools to draw his manga. To make sketches and starting steps of page-drawing, he uses like many other artists around the world, not only mangaka pencils in conjunction with erasers and an art gum eraser to fix errors. For making corrections after inking, he uses white ink.
To paint the color pages, Oda uses Copic markers, a brand of refillable color markers that several other mangaka use for that purpose. Although it was not confirmed, he has recently shown a tendency to use watercolors for painting, too. Like many other manga artists, Oda seems to not use digital methods. This is a characteristic he shares with many mangaka, in terms of making a manga the most handcrafted as possible. He commented in one of the first SBS sessions that he is usually a few approximately 5 chapters farther along than the Shonen Jump ongoing chapters, having a difference of time between when a chapter is finished and sent to Shueisha to be published in the magazine of about 5 weeks sometimes more, sometimes less.
He has also commented on other occasion that he has an average of 5 assistants that help him in the inking and penciling details or backgrounds and application of adhesive graytones. He has commented that he prefers painting black instead of using graytones, making his art almost black and white, with no gray colors. He uses graytones only to perform special effects like shadowing a character in a dramatic scene, to demonstrate an underwater panel, to show a scene in darkness or to separate planes , not to color the only exception of this is for Shanks' hair.
Since the manga focuses on the progress of the Straw Hat crew as it journeys through the Grand Line, it is not without a "format".
Some of these were standard elements Oda had used before. As witnessed in his other one-shots, Oda likes to put his characters in extreme situations that they must overcome.
While many of the situations are quite serious, he also enjoys placing a significant amount of humor into the series. Oda is renowned for over using the sound effect "Don" and for giving his characters their own unique Laughter Style. Oda also favors drawing animals, and is accountable for the numerous appearances of animals within the storyline. He has also been reported to enjoy drawing ships for the storyline.
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