・ルフィをどうしてゴム人間にしたんですか? 一番ふざけているからです。
僕は性格的に真面目な事を書き続けられないから、どんなに
真面目な戦いでもふざけたいんです。
ルフィは手足がビュンビュン伸びてその映像が面白いでしょ。
実はその為なんです。
・悪魔の実の能力はどうやって思いつくんですか? 読者がやってみたいと思う事をなるべく形にしています。
・食べてみたい悪魔の実は? ハナハナの実。
手がいっぱいあったらマンガをいっぱい書けますから。
・漫画家への道 4歳の頃に漫画家という職業がある事を知って目指し始めました。
中学生の頃には連載で海賊漫画を描きたいと思い、ノートに漫画
を書いていましたが、漫画賞に投稿するにはページ制限があって
(31ページ以内に書く)全然収まりませんでした。
今もワンピースは68巻まで出ていてまだ書き足りないのに、たった
31ページじゃ足りるわけがない(笑)
ワンピースのコミックスでは、ファンの質問やむちゃなリクエストにも、とても楽しげに答えています。読者はどんな存在ですか?
友達!
活字にすると生意気に見える事もあるかもしれませんが、はがき
に書いてある時は子供ですから可愛いですし、楽しいし、和みます。
もしお手紙を貰ってなければ漫画家はやめているかもしれないです。
本当にそれぐらいの支えになっています********。
・漫画家への思いは?******** 読者に元気になってもらいたいというのが一番強いです。
中学に入って漫画の話をしたらすぐに友達が出来ました。
同じマンガを読んている事で友達になれる。
これが漫画の仕事の中で一番凄いなと思いました。
みんなの共通の話題になりたいです。
Here's my version. I wasn't sure about some passages though. Why did you make Rufy a rubber-man?
Because he's the one who jokes around the most.
I didn't want to keep writing characters with serious personalities. How serious a fight could be I still want to insert jokes.
I find amusing the image of Rufy strechting his arms and legs.
The fruit is for that purpose.
How did you come up with the idea of the powers of the Devil Fruits? I thought about the things readers would love to do and I tried as much as possible to give form to them.
Which Devil Fruit would you like to eat? Hana Hana fruit.
If I had a lot of hands I could write a lot!
Your history as Mangaka. When I was about 4, I found out that there was such an occupation as a manga writer and that was when I set my eyes on becoming one myself.
During middle school I had the idea of writing a serial manga about pirates. I wrote my manga on a notebook, but in order to submit it to a manga contest a page limit was to be observed (31 pages) and I wasn't able to do it at all. Even now, 68 volumes of One Piece had been published and yet I'm not done writing, no way a 31 page limit could be enough to me (laughs)
It's funny how in the manga you answer to the fans that ask you questions and strange requests. Who are them for you? They're friends!
They might seem impertinent when you read them in the manga. However the postcards they send are really cute, enjoyable and they soften me up.
If I hadn't received so many letters I probably would have already gave up as mangaka.
Really, keep up this amount of support.
What do you think about being a mangaka?
I want to make the readers feel good, that's my strongest desire.
When I joined middle school, I immediately made friends talking about managas.
If someone reads the same manga you read he'll become your friend.
I thought that this was the most wonderful thing about this job.
I want to be the topic everyone has in common
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The one in the photo is the kid who interviewed Oda.(the article was published in "Elementary School Asahi Shinbun",so they had him interviewed by a kid) Law is his favorite character, and , as he said , that was the happiest moment of his life. (lucky bastard )