Eiichiro Oda (尾田 栄一郎, Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto, Kumamoto) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece. He is married to Chiaki Inaba, who had played Nami during Jump Festa One Piece stage performances.
As a child, Oda was inspired by Dragon Ball and aspired to become a manga artist. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series title...
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Eiichiro Oda (尾田 栄一郎, Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto, Kumamoto) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece. He is married to Chiaki Inaba, who had played Nami during Jump Festa One Piece stage performances.
As a child, Oda was inspired by Dragon Ball and aspired to become a manga artist. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking he watched as a child. As a child, he submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga Kinnikuman. Pandaman 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! and won several awards, including second place in the coveted Tezuka Award. That got him into a job at the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, where he originally worked as assistant to Shinobu Kaitani's series Suizan Police Gang...
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