Wanted!

Wanted! is a manga short story drawn by Eiichirō Oda in 1992 .

Eiichiro Oda won the 44th Tezuka Prize of the manga magazine Shōnen Jump at the age of 17 . This was the beginning of his career as a mangaka . Wanted! was created under great stress. Three days before the deadline, Eiichiro Oda had to draw 7 pages. He had an accident on the way to school and had to be hospitalized for a day. When he was finally allowed to go home, he finished drawing the remaining pages with great pain on his nose. It later found that it was broken several times.

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In Wanted! is about a gunslinger in the wild west. His name is Gill Bastar and there is a high bounty on him because he has already killed many people. But he himself says he only kills to defend himself. Officially, however, he is known as a murderer.

The ghost of a gangster killed by Gill Bastar has found no rest because it cannot accept that Gill is stronger than him. He wants Gill Bastar to die immediately, so he does everything possible to kill him. In the form of a spirit, however, this is very difficult. His plan is to force Gill into a duel with the strongest bounty hunter in the area. That's why he slips into Gill Bastar's body and can manipulate him. He leads him to challenge the dreaded bounty hunter. Then he slips out of Gill's body again and hopes that the bounty hunter wins the duel. But when Gill Bastar can still win the duel, the ghost has to accept that Gill is the stronger and disappears.

Short story book

Wanted! is also the title of the short story volume in which the 5 best short stories by Eiichiro Oda are printed. This volume of short stories was published by Jump-Comics in Japan in 1998 and by Carlsen Comics in Germany in 2006 .

The following short stories are in Wanted! printed:

• Wanted! (1992)
• Kami kara mirai no present (1993)
• Itsuki yakou (1993)
• Monsters (1994)
• Romance Dawn (1994)