Oda's Interviews
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It's Oda, so I'm fairly confident it'll get answered one day, even if it actually is one of the few things that doesn't demand an answer. Though I myself would lean towards it being another of Zunisha's species, rather than it being Zunisha itself. Either way, if it is a large elephant, I could see the mystery being solved when we presumably get Zunisha's flashback in this arc.
Also, it's not like nothing in Thriller Bark has absolutely anything to do with the Wano arc anyhow. It's where both Kaido and (technically) Big Mom were first named, among other things, so it'd be pretty fitting if it managed to get answered in this arc.
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I'm confused about Zunisha movements. It seems to be constantly walking and with that size you would expect it to cover great lengths in small time, but at the same time Law and his crew plans of meeting there and everything else seemed like they had an idea of the general area Zou would be, suggesting that Zunisha may not really wander everywhere.
I mean, how would all that work if Zunisha was near Raftel during Dressrosa? Or on East Blue?
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Special Talk between Oda and Horikoshi !
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I'm confused about Zunisha movements. It seems to be constantly walking and with that size you would expect it to cover great lengths in small time, but at the same time Law and his crew plans of meeting there and everything else seemed like they had an idea of the general area Zou would be, suggesting that Zunisha may not really wander everywhere.
I mean, how would all that work if Zunisha was near Raftel during Dressrosa? Or on East Blue?
As long as Law had a Vivre Card of Bepo, he would eventually find Zunisha.
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It's not about not being able to find it, but not being able to reach it. The Vivre Card points the direction, it doesn't give you a distance estimation, so when they decided to go there they probably had a general idea of where Zou would be (even if the general idea was simply "on the New World"), while a free moving Zunisha that can actually cross the Red Line could be on any sea at any given moment… if they could pick any place to meet, surely they wouldn't take one that unreliable that could be, say, on the Calm Belt.
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Special Talk between Oda and Horikoshi !
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https://image.ibb.co/k8zpOz/bc36b43eb13533fa231af0e8a4d3fd1f43345bb2.jpgI've been waiting for this since it was announced.
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I doubt that Zounisha's grounds ocupy a large part of the ocean to be honest. Is this the first (other than funkfreed) elephant that we seen in the story? Was there one on Long ring island? Or maybe an elephant sea beast? Or a small one in the island of strange animals? If Zou moved enough, there would be more stories, like there were of the Florian Triangle Monster.
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You can read Kohei Horikoshi X Eiichiro Oda Special Interview here, thanks Bomber D. Rufi for translation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/94i41l/
Kohei Horikoshi and Eiichiro Oda special interview.
Translation by Bomber D. Rufi
The man that Horikoshi looks up to –Eiichiro Oda. In 16 years the boy now walks shoulder to shoulder with his hero as a “serialized artist”. What kind of conversation will they have now that they're here?
Having an extreme formative experience in manga (comics):
In the illustration corner of “One Piece” Twenty Third Volume: Usopp Gallery Pirates, is where the two made first contact. Horikoshi-sensei, how did you feel about having your work published for the first time?
ODA: That was a good volume. It was the last for Alabasta, with the famous “Proof of Friendship” scene.
HORIKOSHI: I was shaken.
Shaken!?
HORIKOSHI: Yes. I believe that was when I was in high school, and to discover that one of my drawings was printed there on the page caused me to break out in the shakes. I was still shaken when I showed my mom the picture too.
ODA: It's good you're close to your family. (Laughs).
How many drawings had you contributed?
HORIKOSHI: Just the one.
Incredible! What made you decide to send it?
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(Side text- Young Horikoshi meets his hero.)
HORIKOSHI: My friend and I love One Piece so we both decided to send artwork in. We both drew incredible things, but only mine made it into the gallery.
ODA: It's as if you were the one to get the green light at an idol audition. (Laugh.)
HORIKOSHI: Are you the one who writes the commentary, Oda-sensei?
(Side text- My name has been engraved into “One Piece” for eternity!)
ODA: Yup, I do. I write it as Usopp.
HORIKOSHI: I'm so thankful….ahh, I mean overjoyed.
I think it's incredible you managed to make it in with just one submission. Did this experience affect your life as a mangaka? HORIKOSHI: To be honest I was quite satisfied with that drawing....(laughs).
ODA: Oh in a “My art was good enough to be published” way?
HORIKOSHI: No, more like a “Wow it was published! Now my name will be carved into One Piece for eternity!!” Sort of thing. I was totally satisfied with just that.
Everyone laughs.
ODA: I wonder if it would have been better if you were more frustrated (laughs).
Might you have been more inspired if it had been rejected instead?
HORIKOSHI: No, no, it took a bit of time but I did believe that I should take manga more seriously.
You mean between the experience of success and the actual feeling of making it?
HORIKOSHI: Right.
ODA: At the time, social media hadn't yet become widespread, so there weren't as many opportunities to give people a place to display their artwork. So that's why having it published in print gives me a strange sense of happiness. Even I like to give as many opportunities as possible to show off people's artworks on that page I've created.
Inquiring about the confession five years into serialization.
Horikoshi-sensei, you were able to tell Oda-sensei about the artwork in 2015, after quite a bit of time had passed, right?
ODA: Even before “HeroAca” was serialized we met at New years parties, right? Although you hadn't yet had a “hit” right?
Oda-sensei at that point you were in volume 77 of One piece..
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And you wrote “You should have said something sooner!” (Laughs.)
ODA: That's right! You shouldn't have been so reserved!
HORIKOSHI: I was just too embarrassed. For me to speak up about something like that when my serializations were in the back of the magazine...even if I had the opportunity it just didn't feel right.
ODA: I see, that might have been the right decision. It'd be more helpful for me to cheer you on if you had a manga currently serialized. (laughs.) So you spoke up because now you had the pride of serializing a hit manga then?
Horikoshi: Hmmmm....
--Shouldn't you be more proud of your achievement? (Laugh.)
HORIKOSHI: Where you say pride, I more feel embarrassment.
(Side text- So you spoke up because now you had the pride of serializing a hit manga then?)
Any Oda-isms that have had a huge influences on you?
--Horikoshi-sensei has One Piece had any influences on you?
HORIKOSHI: How do I put this...I suppose having characters say things that I feel naturally is one influence I've taken from One Piece.
ODA: Well, when I first started serialization, things were different –a character saying things that Luffy does was seen as embarrassing.
HORIKOSHI: Ohh? But it feels like everyone in my age group was writing like that.
ODA: That makes me happy. Back then I was pretty young and it felt like I was rebelling against current fads. Back then it was pretty popular for girls hair to be braided inward, so I did the opposite when I drew.
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--So you proceeded by doing the opposite of the opposite?
ODA: It just didn't feel right to me unless it stood out. At the time I was told a lot that my art was really weird, so I didn't dare to dream that anyone would be influenced by me in later years.
HORIKOSHI: I was influenced by how your characters have very small eyes. However I couldn't quite draw it all that well and had a lot of trouble....So lately I've been drawing them a little bigger than before (laughs).
ODA: I've been doing the same thing (laughs).
--Horikoshi-sensei has One Piece influenced you in any other areas –aside from artwork?
HORIKOSHI: I love the Arlong Arc. Especially the exchange (between Luffy and Nami) “Help me...” and “Of course!!” I thought that part was especially cool, and I wanted to draw a Luffy like protagonist. Oh and this week's One Piece chapter was crazy good. (Jump has a scattered turnover)
--Lots of past characters showed up during the Reverie, huh?
ODA: It was pretty shocking huh? (Laughs) The serialization has gone for a long time so I'm able to have characters who appeared in the past show up again, but there are probably many readers of Jump who don't quite get what's going on. Maybe the people who read by volume are deeply familiar with what's going on, but those who read Jump probably haven't read everything...
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ODA: So I had to include the past events so they wouldn't miss anything.
HORIKOSHI: Huh? Does that happen?
ODA: Quite often, to a surprising extent. When they aren't doing the polls it's like “I'm so happy that this character is popular!” And then when I draw them people say “I don't know who this is.” (Laugh).
HORIKOSHI: Huh!!~
ODA: When the serialization runs long those things happen.
--The one who's easiest to draw is not surprising oneself.
Oda-sensei what are your impressions of Horikoshi-sensei?
ODA: As the face of the next generation of big hit hero artists.
HORIKOSHI: I can't believe that.
ODA: My daughter will happily sing the “HeroAca” anime theme songs on bus outings, and it'll get everyone in a good mood. At home she'll ask “Dad is your manga going to be okay” She's really worried about One Piece.
HORIKOSHI: I'm thankful to hear that, but it's a bit....(laughs).
(Side text- My daughter will happily sing the “HeroAca” anime theme songs on bus outings, and it'll get everyone in a good mood.)
ODA: But I am a little concerned since it's a manga with a lot of characters.
--Why's that?
ODA: When there are a lot of characters to draw it gets difficult to unify the work as a whole, and properly, but if you are able to properly establish and understand the characters then the work will be a hit. It can lead to a lot of needless anxiety. I will say this though, I've always been impressed by Horikoshi-sensei's comic covers. They look great, and the sense of style is on point –and you're able to come up with some very good ones.
HORIKOSHI: Thank you so much that makes me so ridiculously happy.
ODA: What do you use to color them?
HORIKOSHI: Photoshop.
ODA: Oh so you use computers?
HORIKOSHI: Yes, I did get a little tired of using them so for volume 18's cover I went back to using analog (hand painting) it was overwhelmingly fun.
ODA: You like American Comics right? Your style of artwork is influenced by them.
HORIKOSHI: Yeah. I've read all of “Spiderman” and “Deadpool”.
--And what about character personalities?
HORIKOSHI: Ah, for this Oda-sensei is a huge influence. I thought to myself “I really want to draw a lively character like Luffy!!” But in the end I ended up drawing a character nothing like him and more like myself –an otaku who has a penchant for over analysis.
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(Top text- A Shikishi that Oda-sensei drew ahead of time. To keep from dirtying Luffy, Horikoshi carefully draws beside him.)
HORIKOSHI: and at the end of that, just a bit of brightness added in for good measure which harmonizes into Deku the protagonist.
--The relationship between weekly manga artists and movies.
--How were you involved in this movie?
HORIKOSHI: I was involved and contributed to the script phase, and did the final character designs. If I had more time to, I would have done more.
ODA: If I said something like that (laughs) it would be endless. From the start, I said that the weekly serialization is most important to me, and I didn't want to do anything to disturb it.
HORIKOSHI: M—My stomach hurt. I thoughtlessly said “I want to do more”....
--This is the first movie for HeroAca. At the time it was confirmed how did you feel?
HORIKOSHI: I was really happy. I thought that getting an anime confirmed was the peak of my happiness –my dreams had come true. I really didn't think I'd get anymore than that so when they said the series would get a movie, I was like “Seriously?! No way!!”
ODA: I attended the screening on the morning of it's premiere and was moved by all the people lined up to see it.
HORIKOSHI: You were in the audience....
ODA: But I wasn't really able to talk to any of my readers live there.
(Side text- I was really happy. I thought that getting an anime confirmed was the peak of my happiness –my dreams had come true. I really didn't think I'd get anymore than that.)
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Thanks for providing the translation. Maybe I should give „My Hero“ a try^^
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Lol, even Oda knows Horikoshi draws too many characters without fleshing out enough the ones he already has.
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That's a pretty great interview, many thanks for the translation. I'm happy to see the relationship between these 2 artists whose works I like so much
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Last part of the interview:
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HORIKOSHI: Then I'll definitely have to do that.
–Lastly, please give the moviegoers a few words.
HORIKOSHI: It'll be a lot of fun for those who don't read my manga, and more fun still for those who do. It's a kind of work that anyone can come into and enjoy. The movie is the only way to see a fight where All Might and Deku fight side by side! So by all means come on down and have a good time!
--And now a shout from you both.
ODA: Let us keep fighting together for popularity in Jump from here on in too!
HORIKOSHI: Of course...ah, no....
ODA: How many volumes do you estimate the series will be?
HORIKOSHI: Honestly I thought about 30 or so would be about right, but I hadn't really been counting at all...
ODA: Then shoot for about 50.
HORIKOSHI: Can I really do ten years though...? (Laugh).
ODA: Rather than if you can, it's more like you'll end up doing it.
HORIKOSHI: Then you had already decided on how many volumes One Piece would have from the start?
ODA: Of course. Though it's gone about triple my original calculations.
HORIKOSHI: It it because while you were drawing the series the amount of things you wanted to portray multiplied?
ODA: They multiplied and broadened.
HORIKOSHI: Yeah, even for me the Sports festival arc was about twice longer than I had originally expected.
ODA: That's what happens when lots of characters get together and act at once….it gets really difficult to predict how things will go. But I wish you luck on the battlefield that is Jump.
HORIKOSHI: Ah, yes...
ODA: How about a proper response with resolve?
HORIKOSHI: I'll do my best to to overcome even One Piece!!
ODA: I won't lose, you know.
HORIKOSHI: Ah, I said it. (laughs). Thank you very much.
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Deku is really Horikoshi, huh!? I had trouble not picturing Deku in my mind the whole time while reading it… years from now, if I try to recall this interview, the image of Deku and All Might in a room talking about their manga will probably be the first thing that will pop into my mind.
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I guess the day All Might die is the one piece end
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With how Oda doeshis designs I'd love to see his take on Deku, Bakugo, All Might and Uraraka.
Chapter 437 Discussion after franky decides to join the Strawhats:
So who think Usopp is inside that duffelbag?
H x H Chimera Ant Arc / OP Manga Spoiler
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With how Oda doeshis designs I'd love to see his take on Deku, Bakugo, All Might and Uraraka.
After that Luffy-faced Goku he drew, I'm not sure if I'm ready to see Oda draw anymore crossover art. And Uraraka with a Nami-figure would be surreal.
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After that Luffy-faced Goku he drew, I'm not sure if I'm ready to see Oda draw anymore crossover art. And Uraraka with a Nami-figure would be surreal.
I mean, he's drawn Goku perfectly fine before, he was clearly just having fun with his more recent one.
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Deku would probably look more like Coby than Luffy if Oda drew him.
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I think it's my first time reading Oda like a normal mature human being…
Quite a surprise. Horikoshi shocked about Oda being on the cinema's queue for his movie was just lol xD.
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There's always some chatter about the inaccuracy of Oda's predictions of the series' length when they come up in interviews. Here's a Reddit post (not mine) on the topic that offers some interesting insights, despite the slightly hyperbolic title. Oda's predictions are actually fairly consistently putting the end of the series between 1100 and 1200 chapters. While that is a two and a bit year window, which feels pretty broad, it's really not that much within the scope of such a huge series, and it feels pretty reasonable for the amount of content we have left. We give Oda shit, but as always he has things better planned out than anyone expects
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There's always some chatter about the inaccuracy of Oda's predictions of the series' length when they come up in interviews. Here's a Reddit post (not mine) on the topic that offers some interesting insights, despite the slightly hyperbolic title. Oda's predictions are actually fairly consistently putting the end of the series between 1100 and 1200 chapters. While that is a two and a bit year window, which feels pretty broad, it's really not that much within the scope of such a huge series, and it feels pretty reasonable for the amount of content we have left. We give Oda shit, but as always he has things better planned out than anyone expects
I estimate chapter 1050 should be about the end of the Wano arc. Can't see the manga ending before chapter 1400.
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
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I estimate chapter 1050 should be about the end of the Wano arc. Can't see the manga ending before chapter 1400.
That's a huge exaggeration lmao. My guess is that Wano won't even be Dressrosa long. It's a good arc to start the story accelerating towards the endgame, what with how much of the cast are established characters who've been built up all through the second half of the series as opposed to most of them being introduced in the arc the same way Dressrosa and Totland had it. This'll go faster than we expect.
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That's a huge exaggeration lmao. My guess is that Wano won't even be Dressrosa long. It's a good arc to start the story accelerating towards the endgame, what with how much of the cast are established characters who've been built up all through the second half of the series as opposed to most of them being introduced in the arc the same way Dressrosa and Totland had it. This'll go faster than we expect.
How do you know that we won't see tons of new characters and their development in this arc ?
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"1050" "1400" stop saying these scary numbers it's gonna lead to "I've been reading weekly for X hundred chapters" life crisis
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“Luffy is my ideal child,” says One Piece author Eiichiro Oda
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JULY 24, 2018 BY THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN. INTERVIEW BY YAYOI KAWATOKO.beautiful.
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Do you know what's funny? Wasn't Oda around Luffy's age when he first drew those One Piece one shots?
That's a huge exaggeration lmao. My guess is that Wano won't even be Dressrosa long. It's a good arc to start the story accelerating towards the endgame, what with how much of the cast are established characters who've been built up all through the second half of the series as opposed to most of them being introduced in the arc the same way Dressrosa and Totland had it. This'll go faster than we expect.
Lmao what? Wano has been brewing since the dawn of time. It's literally the culmination of everything we've been building up to in the New World. Whole Cake Island was the 2nd longest "island" arc (since some get triggered when you don't consider Water 7/EL Lobby an arc, and he planned to finish that earlier. Wano will easily be the longest arc in One Piece.
Think about this way. We're 4 chapters in, and we're still getting shadowy appearance of lowly ranked crew members like Holdem. Imagine getting to Queen, King, the Shogun, Kaido, learning about Wano. We haven't even reunited the Straw Hats yet. It literally hurts to think how long Wano will be. Be strapped for the next 3-4 years minimum.
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That's a huge exaggeration lmao. My guess is that Wano won't even be Dressrosa long. It's a good arc to start the story accelerating towards the endgame, what with how much of the cast are established characters who've been built up all through the second half of the series as opposed to most of them being introduced in the arc the same way Dressrosa and Totland had it. This'll go faster than we expect.
Beside the fact that calling someone else's guess an exaggeration because it's not in line with your own is silly, it seemse sensible to think that the arc that every New World Arc has been building up to may be one of the longest thus far, unless most of the storytelling of Wano or about Kaido had already taken place, which I highly doubt.
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Beside the fact that calling someone else's guess an exaggeration because it's not in line with your own is silly, it seemse sensible to think that the arc that every New World Arc has been building up to may be one of the longest thus far, unless most of the storytelling of Wano or about Kaido had already taken place, which I highly doubt.
The exaggeration was more for the 1400 number than the 1050. 1400 is a lot, especially for a story that's 80% done at 900. I'll go a little further into why I think Wano will be short below.
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Lmao what? Wano has been brewing since the dawn of time. It's literally the culmination of everything we've been building up to in the New World. Whole Cake Island was the 2nd longest "island" arc (since some get triggered when you don't consider Water 7/EL Lobby an arc, and he planned to finish that earlier. Wano will easily be the longest arc in One Piece.
Think about this way. We're 4 chapters in, and we're still getting shadowy appearance of lowly ranked crew members like Holdem. Imagine getting to Queen, King, the Shogun, Kaido, learning about Wano. We haven't even reunited the Straw Hats yet. It literally hurts to think how long Wano will be. Be strapped for the next 3-4 years minimum.
How do you know that we won't see tons of new characters and their development in this arc ?
Wano is obviously the penultimate battle of the series, leading into the endgame, and the culmination of everything post timeskip so far. And that's why it's gonna be a bit shorter. The focus isn't on introducing a ton of new characters like Dressrosa's gladiators or Big Mom's kids, it's about Kinemon's samurai band, and the minks, and eight out of eleven Supernovas, and the return of the Whitebeard Pirates, and Jimbe finally coming back to fulfill his promise and join, and the grudges forged against Luffy in his previous encounters with the underlings of the Emperors. That's a lot, but it's all been set up in advance. Dressrosa and Totland spent nearly half their runtime each on setup and establishing their large new casts, and my thinking is that Wano is better equipped to streamline the setup phase and get right to the fighting than any arc that's come before it. Just look at how short the actual battle of Marineford was once the fighting started, and if you count up all the named Whitebeard captains and Navy officers and escapees involved there were more than 100 named characters present. And the rapid pace of the Reverie and how quickly we've seen three towns and the capitol of Wano in so few chapters makes it feel like the story's only going to keep accelerating. And at 80% plot/length complete, it's a good time to start speeding up, structurally.
I know it's easy to go on about how long-winded and slow paced the story is and complain about the amount of time spent on recent arcs, but taking a step back, I think a relatively quick, sub-100 chapter Wano makes a lot of sense, and I'll defend the idea until Oda proves it wrong.
since some get triggered when you don't consider Water 7/EL Lobby an arc That'd be me. It's a complete story. Divisions by geography are arbitrary and only work most of the time. The series' sagas are more important than its arcs.
And if geography is so important, why do so many people default to Whole Cake Island for an arc that spends nearly 40% of its runtime on Cacao Island, the Mirroworld and miscellaneous Totland Waters? Is it because despite the movements from one island to another, the events make up one larger storyline? Huh, how about that.
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@Kai:
Wano will easily be the longest arc in One Piece.
Think about this way. We're 4 chapters in, and we're still getting shadowy appearance of lowly ranked crew members like Holdem. Imagine getting to Queen, King, the Shogun, Kaido, learning about Wano. We haven't even reunited the Straw Hats yet. It literally hurts to think how long Wano will be. Be strapped for the next 3-4 years minimum.
3-4 years, wtf? We get 40 chapters per year, that would be 120-160 chapters then. No way Wano is gonna be 160 chapters at a minimum… Hell, Dressrosa has 102 chapters and I think Wano is gonna be within that range (+- 20%, likely shorter than longer though). Oda spent years (since the timeskip) setting up the story/characters for Wano and Dressrosa was a part of that and he built a ton of characters there. But here in Wano we basically know everyone with the exception of Kaido (and his calamities) and the shogun. The way this was set up makes it so that Oda can jump straight to business in Wano, instead of having to spend a shit ton of chapters to introduce a shit ton of new characters like Dressrosa did
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3-4 years, wtf? We get 40 chapters per year, that would be 120-160 chapters then. No way Wano is gonna be 160 chapters at a minimum… Hell, Dressrosa has 102 chapters and I think Wano is gonna be within that range (+- 20%, likely shorter than longer though). Oda spent years (since the timeskip) setting up the story/characters for Wano and Dressrosa was a part of that and he built a ton of characters there. But here in Wano we basically know everyone with the exception of Kaido (and his calamities) and the shogun. The way this was set up makes it so that Oda can jump straight to business in Wano, instead of having to spend a shit ton of chapters to introduce a shit ton of new characters like Dressrosa did
This guy gets it.
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Full Eiichiro Oda interview in japanese and english for Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary, from Weekly Shonen Jump Ten Vol. 03 "Official Catalogue" book.
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You can see more pictures about One Piece from the book in this thread :happy:
http://www.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=44675&page=62&p=3924806&viewfull=1#post3924806
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thanks for sharing, Redon <3
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From Yasutaka Nakata, with Eiichiro Oda in BBQ
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Today Oda sent a message to farewell party of Momoko Sakura, who passed away at the age of 53 on August 15, 2018.
She is the author of famous manga/anime "Chibi Maruko-chan". Here is my translation of his message.Oda: "The more I talked with her, the more i was attracted by her personality. One day, she showed me a video of her funny dance at her house, which made me laugh.
I thought, "What the heck is she doing? Is she really that great author!? Her funny personality was exactly the same as Chibi Maruko-chan.She didn't allow me to treat her as senpai mangaka, saying it's just that she was born 10 years earlier than me. She is one of the few people who understand me.
"Chibi Maruko-chan" is the fruit of Sakura-sensei's hard work. Even if mangaka dies, his/her characters keep living instead. All of us will never forget you.Momo-chan. Since you didn't want to meet anybody during the fight against the disease, you are still smiling in my memory. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.”
_Oda said similar thing in author's comment in volume 25;"The cover page of chapter 233 is black as a mourning of Gin Shinga, my mangaka comrade.
Someone said that even if mangaka dies his/her characters keep living instead, which made me think mangaka may be a happy job."_ Oda and Momoko Sakura held an interesting interview at Sakura's house in 2014. Oda gave us a hint about the ending of ONE PIECE. You can read the summary by OnePiecePodcast.
http://www.onepiecepodcast.com/2014/07/27/oda-reveals-what-the-one-piece-isnt/
Not only Oda but also his wife and daughter(s) visited her house on that day. Sakura recalled their visit, "It felt like my house turned into rose color."
Momoko Sakura has been a big fan of ONE PIECE. When she heard that Oda's daughter was a fan of Chibi Maruko-chan,
she came up with an plan that Oda might give her his autograph if she sent her autograph to his daughter. This is how Oda and Sakura's friendship started.
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Oda made a drawing in August this year.
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Oh.. Sandman.. its been a while. welcome back.
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Welcome back Sandman :happy:
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Famous korean illustrator Kim Jung-Gi signed and sketched one of his sketchbooks for Oda.
Kim Jung-Gi got famous for his particular style, his crazy perspective and speed and everything without an under-sketch. His fame mostly boosted through youtube in the past years, where famous western Artist took notice of him and kept inviting him to events to the west. He's well beloved by many fans, but even more by many artists. He's friends with Otomo Katsuhiro and Terada Katsuya (released a book with him, same guy who did a cover for the Acel Novel Vol. 1), and many people say Kim Jung-Gi reminds them of Moebius. His sketch for Oda was made at Kaigai Manga Festa in Tokyo - but I have no idea wether Oda went there in person or not. But it's still interesting to see that Oda seems to be a fan. Maybe KJG will do an illustration for one of the future novels.
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Kim Jung-Gi.
Thanks for all the info. Didn't know him by name but when I looked him up I did. He's super popular on instagram
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Oda wasn't there in person. The sketch is to be delivered to him :)
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Message from Eiichiro Oda for the display of Luffy's statue on Kumamoto prefecture office next 30th November.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mugiwara_23
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Good work, redon!
Here is my translation of the text.Oda: Luffy's statue will be displayed!!
I'm super-excited about this news! I thought such an honorable opportunity would be given
to only those legendary national mangakas around the age of 70 who have a 50-year-serialization.Actually I was recently awarded Prefecture Honor Award from Kumamoto, my hometown.
The prize winners are supposed to plant a tree in front of Prefecture Office, but since I'm a mangaka,
they kindly decided to build Luffy's statue. I guess it will take about an hour to arrive there by car from Kumamoto Airport.OMG!! A celebration statue!! The statue will be publicly displayed at the unveiling ceremony on November 30th.
An event will be held as well. The quality of the statue is awesome! It will be proudly displayed in a promenade in front of Kumamoto Prefectural Office.It's not common that someone has a kindness to build a statue for you. I'm thankful to my hometown.
If you travel Kumamoto, be sure to take a pic with Luffy's statue!!2 years have passed since the large earthquake hit Kumamoto. In the meantime, another disasters hit some areas in Japan.
We need to do what we can to help those victims. It would be great if the number of tourists to Kumamoto will increase through this Luffy's statue!Finally, Luffy's statue will be displayed! I'd appreciate it if you enjoy it for a long time!!
*Luffy says, "My statue? Really!? Thank you !!"
*Sadly some Kumamoto citizens were against the idea of spending $0.1 2 million prefecture money on this statue,
but after the fact that Oda made a donation of about $7 million (800 million yen) to Kumamoto was revealed, the naysayers became silent. -
Did Oda ever say this? I can't remember at all, it was given as a fresh news on an Italian site
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Since IORI_17 brought it up, there's this "rumor" about Oda betraying the readers' predictions that has always bugged me.
I very vaguely remember Oda mentioned that if he happened to hear some prediction then he would intentionally develop the story to let the prediction miss what turned out to be. Does anyone know a definite source where Oda said things like that?
Also my understanding is that Oda would do it only if he happened to hear some prediction (by accident). BUT by no means would Oda purposely go to fan sites on a regular basis to browse what people predicts, right?
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You should know that's false since everyone predicts most of the story we get anyway.
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Since IORI_17 brought it up, there's this "rumor" about Oda betraying the readers' predictions that has always bugged me.
I very vaguely remember Oda mentioned that if he happened to hear some prediction then he would intentionally develop the story to let the prediction miss what turned out to be. Does anyone know a definite source where Oda said things like that?
Also my understanding is that Oda would do it only if he happened to hear some prediction (by accident). BUT by no means would Oda purposely go to fan sites on a regular basis to browse what people predicts, right?
this is how it will happen, if i was in Oda shoes
i will hire permanent team to foresee the fans community and their prediction
in advance, they will know the story flow, if just happen the prediction are hit on spot
the team will inform me about it and i will came out with another flow that blow fans mind even morejust saying…
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Did Oda ever say this? I can't remember at all, it was given as a fresh news on an Italian site
By the way … the translation above in your post actaully it is English translation based on my Arabic language they took it from my Twitter here :
but there is a mistake in the translation … Oda did not plan to make Shanks arrive to the war or Ace being Roger's son until later , but killing Ace is something already planned from the start of the story .
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By the way … the translation above in your post actaully it is English translation based on my Arabic language they took it from my Twitter here :
but there is a mistake in the translation … Oda did not plan to make Shanks arrive to the war or Ace being Roger's son until later , but killing Ace is something already planned from the start of the story .
Thank you for clarification, now I remember about Sandman's first tweet (and I even have the magazine, shame on me not being able to read it :sad:)
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