
His playful approach to his work has won him a lot of fans. Roger, the King of the Pirates.ĭespite having been in the industry for half his life, he is still known for having a fanboyish love of manga in general, especially Dragon Ball. His anxiousness over his son's birth is cited as the leading cause for supporting character Portgas D. In November 2004, Oda married actress Chiaki Inaba after dating for two years and he has two children. In 2017, Oda discussed plans to develop an American Live-Action Adaptation of One Piece.
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The success of this series led to Toei Animation creating an Animated Adaptation in 1999 as of 2021, it has aired nearly 1000 episodes. It sold over 440 million copies as of 2018.

One Piece, released in 1997, became a success in Shonen Jump. In 1996, he published Romance Dawn and with its success, began work on One Piece. After Wanted!, he studied at Kyushu Tokai University for one year before he dropped out to work as an assistant to various manga artists such as Shinobu Kaitani, Masaya Tokuhiro, and Nobuhiro Watsuki. While still in high school, Oda wrote and published his first work, Wanted! (1998) and won the Tezuka Award from Shonen Jump. During his last year as a high school student, Oda quit the soccer club and turned his passion to manga. At the time, Oda developed an interest in writing stories on pirates after watching Vicky the Viking. He began drawing manga during his second year there. In middle school, Oda became a soccer player, inspired by the manga Captain Tsubasa.

He got his start in drawing pictures from his father, who had a hobby as an oil painter. Noted for his unusual art style and eccentric and imaginative character designs. Eiichiro Oda (尾田 栄一郎, born January 1, 1975) is the creator of the long-running Shōnen Manga One Piece, which is over a thousand chapters in length and still going strong.
