10 – Eiichiro Oda’s Birthday
Let’s begin with the basics, Eiichiro Oda was born on January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.
09 – What Inspired Eiichiro Oda To Begin “One Piece”
08 – One Piece! Favorite Villain, Devil Fruit & Who He Would Want To Be
Fans have been very curious to know the authors thoughts on his own creation, who wouldn’t want to know who is his favorite character in his own creation? Several fans asked these questions and Eiichiro Oda has answered them:
-Favorite One Piece Villain: Buggy The Clown
-What Devil Fruit Would He Eat: Bara Bara No Mi / Chop-Chop Fruit
-Manga Character He Would Like To Be: Nico Robin (so that he could “sprout hands and draw manga twenty times as fast.”)
07 – Eiichiro Oda’s Family
Yes, although he dedicates most of his time to One Piece he does have a family! In 2002, he met Chiaki Inaba, who played Nami during the Shonen Jump Fiesta and the two started dating. In 2004, they got married, and in 2006, he and his wife had a daughter. He went for Nami eh… sorry all you Robin fans! We can only imagine what great talent their daughter will be born with, probably the best mangaka of the next generation?
06 – Eiichiro Oda’s Lifestyle
What does it take to be the best mangaka? Well, certainly it takes lot of dedication, wish to know more about how Oda lives out his everyday life? Do note, some of the information related to his lifestyle is from 2013, certain aspects of his lifestyle may have changed now!
- He is a smoker (in-fact, a chain smoker) and fans believe this is due to the “stress” involved in the profession
- He prefers to work with the least amount of assistants required, he prefers to draw majority of the chapters himself
- He has made it clear that he doesn’t like to copy and paste old art into new chapters, if a event or events have already been illustrated and needs to be re-used, he draws them all over again
- He wakes up at 5 am, works until 2 am (21 hours!) and sleeps from 2 am until 5 am (3 hours) on an average day
- He “lives” in his workplace, his family visits him at his workplace, and he spends an average of one day with them without having to work at the same time
- When asked “how does he blow of stress” Oda stated that he blows of stress by “writing an interesting manga.” When asked “when does he feel the happiest” he answered “while writing an interesting manga”
- He listens to “Soul” music at his workplace
- When asked what is his schedule for the week, he answered “three days of sketching and three days of working on the final piece”
- Eiichiro Oda dreams about products that can’t be made with present technology