Eiichirō Oda

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Eiichirō Oda ( Japanese 尾 田 栄 一郎 , Oda Eiichirō ; born January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto , Kumamoto Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist . He became famous for his manga One Piece , which is by far the most successful manga with 455 million copies sold (as of January 2019).

Life

Eiichirō Oda began to draw at an early age. At the age of 17 he won with the short story Wanted! the 44th Tezuka Prize from the manga magazine Shōnen Jump . He finished school at the age of 19 and began working with Hiroyuki Takei ( Shaman King ) as Nobuhiro Watsuki's assistant on the manga Rurouni Kenshin . During this time he drew Romance Dawn , a short story on which his subsequent work One Piece is based. In 1997, One Piece was first published in the popular Shōnen Jump magazine. Between 2000 and 2002 he was nominated three times for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for this work .

Eiichirō Oda is married to Chiaki Inaba.

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Individual evidence

  1. 41st Japan Cartoonist Awards ( Memento from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )