Biography

Eiichirô Oda

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As a kid, Oda was inspired by vikings and aspired to become a manga artist. He later submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga "Kinnikuman", who was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works. At the age of 17, he submitted his work "Wanted!" in 1992. And won several awards, including 2nd place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. At the age of 19, he worked as an assistant artist for Nobuhiro Watsuki on the manga "Rurouni Kenshin", before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. During this time, he drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories, called "Romance Dawn". In 1997, One Piece appeared for the 1st time in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine issue #34 and promptly became one of the most popular manga in Japan (after the "Dragon Ball" series). His biggest influence is Akira Toriyama. Also known as the creator of "Dragon Ball" and "Dr. Slump". Him and Toriyama have also made a one-shot manga called "Cross Epoch", a crossover containing characters from both Dragon Ball and One Piece.
- IMDb mini biography by: J LeGault

Always includes atleast one or a group of characters with strange behaviors or habits.
[emotional outbursts] Always has atleast one character giving out an emotional outburst with eyes bulging out and mouth hanging down longer than normally.

He is a fan of rapper Eminem, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, and Tim Burton, which is reflected in his work (Enel/Eneru's design is an homage to Eminem, and Spandam's design is a possible homage to WWE wrestler Mankind).
His favorite real pirate is Blackbeard (Edward Teach).
He originally planned the One Piece series to last for five years, and had already planned out the ending. But the story has continued far beyond his expectations, and its popularity has swelled to enormous proportions.
His 3 favorite movies are Seven Samurai, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Young Guns.
According to Oda in an interview for Shonen Jump, his favorite villain in One Piece is Buggy the Clown (he joked that he literally threw him together).

(When asked about his feelings towards Akira Toriyama) He's like a god to me, of course. He is in a different dimension. More than anything else, his drawing skills are too good to be true!
When I was a child, I was drawing for fun and received praise for a picture. I became overblown with confidence and declared that I was going to become a manga artist. At that time, I wanted to become the best in drawing pictures. I believed that the person who draws best is the best manga artist.
That's why I think people who draw stories set in a contemporary world faced more challenges.
Five consecutive weeks is too much! Two straight weeks is enough for me.
The appearance of design doesn't need to have a practical use.