Mangaka oda obras

Oda started his journey as a manga author when he was only 17 years old, so it comes as no surprise that One Piece isn’t the only thing that he’s ever worked on. In fact, Oda has six distinct works that most fans know little about. With one of them now airing a Netflix anime adaptation, the iconic mangaka’s writing catalog is more relevant than ever before.

Updated on July 08, 2024, by Ajay Aravind: With well over 500 million volumes sold, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is easily the best-selling manga of all time. Although the mangaka has been globally famous since the late ’90s, Oda’s previous works have been getting more attention recently. As such, we’ve updated this article with some more relevant information.

Eiichiro Oda is one of the richest mangaka in the world, all thanks to One Piece. That said, he comes from relatively humble beginnings. Born in the mid-’70s, and Vicky the Viking, a seafaring animated TV show based on Vicke Viking, a 1963 Swedish novel. Oda’s first one-shot was Wanted!, which earned him numerous awards as well as the opportunity to work under big names in the manga industry.

One Piece is definitely big, but there is still a lot that fans don’t know about its creator. Oda, however, recently had an interview, and fans got to learn more about what led him on this life path. Oda also revealed what made him pursue life as a mangaka, and it all started with The Monster Kid, a series most have probably never even heard of.

“Even before Kinnikuman, I was already reading manga. Back then, there were two children’s manga magazines: CoroCoro Comic (by Shogakukan) and Comic BonBon (by Kodansha). Pretty much everyone was either a CoroCoro fan or a BonBon fan. CoroCoro had many big-name veterans, with Fujiko Fujio-sensei leading the way, while BonBon had a fresher vibe to it. I was on the BonBon side, but I think my older sister owned some volumes, so I also read Fujiko’s works. When I read Kaibutsu-kun (The Monster Kid) at the age of four, I decided I would become a manga artist. I can still picture that moment clearly even now. I’m from Kumamoto, but due to my parents’ job transfers, I lived in Miyazaki for about five years starting from kindergarten. In that house in Miyazaki, when I learned that there was a profession called ‘mangaka’” — Eiichiro Oda