It was first serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, the weekly shonen magazine owned by Shueisha. In August 1997, Oda took many of his 'Romance Dawn' ideas and started using them in a weekly serial under the title 'One Piece'. Several concepts of the eventual serialization appeared in these stories, including Luffy's inspiration for being a pirate and a mysterious power he gained from eating a special fruit that turned his body into rubber (a prototype for the Devil Fruit). Luffy, a straw-hat wearing boy who set out to sea to become a legendary pirate. He wrote two separate one-shots in the mid-1990s, both of which were called 'Romance Dawn'. Oda had interest in making a pirate manga both from his obsession with vikings as a young man and inspired by various pirate events including the discovery of the pirate ship of Edward Teach (known by his pirate name of 'Blackbeard'). This got him noticed as a promising mangaka by the staff members of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and became an assistant under several established manga writers including Shinobu Kaitani, Masaya Tokuhiro and finally Nobuhiro Watsuki. In 1992, Oda at the age of 17, submitted the manga called Wanted!.

Later, he created Pandaman for Yudetamago's Kinnikuman.

As a child he was inspired by the animated series Vicky the Viking and wanted to draw a pirate manga series. Įiichiro Oda was inspired by Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball and Dr. One Piece is divided into two halves: Sea of Survival: Super Rookies Saga ( サバイバルの海超新星編, Sabaibaru no Umi: Chōshinsei-hen ?), and The Final Sea: The New World Saga ( 最後の海新世界編, Saigo no Umi: Shinsekai-hen ?). Since the late 2000s it has been recognized as Japan's most popular manga, even being commemorated by the Guinness World Records as the world's best-selling single-author comic book. Premiering in July 1997, One Piece has currently published over 1000 chapters (collected into 100 tankōbon volumes) and generated a massive franchise, including an anime adaptation from Toei Animation, many feature films, and countless other pieces of merchandise. Luffy, a headstrong young captain with the power to stretch like rubber. Set in a fantasy world dominated by pirates, it mainly depicts the adventures of Monkey D. Action, Adventure, Fantasy One Piece ( ワンピース, Wan Pīsu ?) is a Shonen action-adventure manga written and drawn by Eiichiro Oda, serialized in the anthology Weekly Shonen Jump.

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