Eiichiro Oda

EIICHIRO ODA was born January 1, 1975 in the city of Kumamoto (in the prefecture of Kumamoto). He decided to travel along a career as a a manga artist at the age of 4 (because they didnt keep back to work in companies as adults).Unlike many youth who give up this dream, he unploughed nurturing it as he grew up and at age 17, he received a Silver Honors (jun-nyuusen), the help highest honor available (thats why I translitersated jun, which usually means sub, as silver) from the forty-fourth semi-annual Tezuka Awards (a story manga artist picketing debate co-hosted by the editorial staffs of Weekly pop and Monthly Jump, this is the contest that many other familiar Weekly Jump faces, such as Yoshihiro Togashi, Hiroyuki Takei, Daisuke Higuchi, Takeshi Obata, Masanori Morita, Ryu Fujisaki, and even Masakazu Katsura got their big breaks) with his unawares story, WANTED. His pen-name back then was Getsu ka sui moku kin do, i. e. Moon Fire Water Wood metal(prenominal) Earth, or more commonly, Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat. ) His first work as a professional person was Kami Kara Mirai no Present (A Gift of the Future from God), published in the October 1993 issue of Jump Original (Monthly Jumps semimonthly spinoff). His talent was further noticed by the Weekly Jump staff when he got Gold Honors (nyuusen, i. e. he top honors much like a gold medal, which explains the transliteration once again) in the Hop-Step Awards (WJs monthly talent scout contest, now called the Tenkaichi Manga Awards) in 1993 with his work Ikki Yakou (One Devils Night Trip). In 1994, he decided to leave college after the decease of his freshman year to head out to Tokyo, and there, he studied as an assistant for three Jump authors Shinobu Kaitani (Midoriyama Police Gang), Masaya Tokuhiro (Jungle no Ouja Tar-chan and Mizu no Tomodachi Kapparman), and Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin). During his apprenticehood, Mr.Oda published two short stories Monsters in the 1994 Autumn Special (the seasonal worker spinoff magazine created by the Weekly Jump staff, now called Akamaru Jump) and the first of the two versions of love affair Dawn in the 1996 Summer Special. A few months later, he broke into the pages of Weekly Jump with the second incarnation of Romance Dawn, published in issue 41 of 1996. And as with any other short story that does nearly in Jump, the series ONE PIECE (yeah, the one that youre reading this website for) started in 34 of 1997 and the rest is history. =)