Eiichiro Oda's Profile

Birthday: Jan.1, 1975
Birth Place: The City of Kumamoto
Greek Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Chinese Astrological Sign: Rabbit
Blood Type: A
Favorite One Piece Character: Luffy
Second Favorite One Piece Character: Gaimon
Favorite One Piece Villan: Buggy the Clown
Favorite One Piece Ilustration: His "Be Happy/One Piece" work that features Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji on top of a polar bear (located on pages 83-84 of his Color Walk Book 1)
Favorite Manga Artist/Greatest Influence: Akira Toriyama
Favorite Animal: Big Gentle Dogs
Favorite Video Game: Puyo Puyo
Favorite Music: '70s soul music
Loves to Draw: Animals, espically creative ones
Hates: Cockroaches Hidden Talent: Makes good coffee
Places He's Been: Japan, America
Favorite Real-Life Pirate: Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
Interesting Possessions: Legos, Playmobiles, figures, swords, flintlocks, a cow skull o_O

Author/Artist Eiichiro Oda began his manga career in 1992, at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! won second place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. Oda went on to work as an assistant to some of the biggest manga artists in the industry, including Nobuhiro Watsuki, before winning the Hot Step Award for new manga artists. His pirate adventure, One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan with sales of over 65 million copies.

Oda's studio: (view picture)

1 - About 200 American & Europena music CDs
2 - Closet converted to magazine rack
3 - Ergonomic chair
4 - Dynamic drawing board
5 - About 300 more American & Europena music CDs
6 - A sketch, present from Akira Toriyama
7 - Air purifier
8 - Sound system
9 - Bookself with reference material
10 - Doll of Chopper
11 - One sock
12 - Antique weapons: Swords & flintlocks
13 - Coat thrown on the floor
14 - Radio/cassete player
15 - Heater for winter
16 - Weekly Shonen Jump and other magazines
17 - Fan letters