In 2013, the series won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize, alongside Kimuchi Yokoyama's Nekodarake Nice. A record that was broken several times by subsequent volumes and currently held by 67's 4.05 million initial printing in 2012. Volume 57's print of 3 million in 2010 was the highest first print for any book in Japan, not just manga. Volume 56 received the highest initial print run of any manga, 2.85 million copies, in 2009. Additionally, individual volumes of One Piece have broken publishing records in Japan. It sold 100 million collected tankōbon volumes by February 2005, over 200 million by February 2011, and had over 345 million volumes in circulation worldwide as of 2013. In 1997, One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump and has become not only one of the most popular manga in Japan, but the best-selling manga series of all time. Luffy as the protagonist, who then became the protagonist of One Piece. Watsuki credits Oda for helping create the character Honjō Kamatari who appears in Rurouni Kenshin.ĭuring this time, Oda drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories called "Romance Dawn", which were published in Akamaru Jump and Weekly Shōnen Jump respectively in late 1996. At the age of 19, he began working as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki on Rurouni Kenshin, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. That got him into a job at the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, where he originally worked as assistant to Shinobu Kaitani's series Suizan Police Gang before moving to Masaya Tokuhiro on Jungle King Tar-chan and Mizu no Tomodachi Kappaman, which gave him an unexpected influence on his artistic style. No wonder "One Piece’s" chapter count is at 803 and climbing.At the age of 17, Oda submitted his work Wanted! and won several awards, including second place in the coveted Tezuka Award. In other words, even when he’s not making manga, Oda is often spending time talking about manga. “I meet up with my old assistants, or with other manga artists or friends who have helped me out, and we catch up with each other and talk about what we’ve been up to.” Occasionally manga anthologies will combine two weeks’ issues into a single volume, which essentially gives Oda twice as much time as usual to get a chapter ready, which allows him to spend a rare day doing something other than work. Still, it’s not like Oda never gets a day off. Monday-Wednesday: Layout planning and character dialogue.To get a new chapter of "One Piece" ready each and every week for Weekly Shonen Jump, the anthology that carries the title, Oda’s day-by-day work breakdown is: And we literally mean throughout the year, since Oda says he rarely takes a day off, even on the weekend.
This isn’t just his schedule for especially busy stretches, either, but his regular routine throughout the year. In other words, the guy is working for six or seven times as long as he’s sleeping.
Oda was just 22 when "One Piece" debuted, which means the 40-year-old artist has now been drawing the pirate saga for nearly half his life. But even if you’re convinced you’ve got the skills to make it as a manga pro, before you go quitting your desk job you might want to check out the insane schedule of the most successful artist working in the industry today, "One Piece’s" Eiichiro Oda.
EICHIRO ODA PROFESSIONAL
Being a professional manga artist must be a great life, right? For passionate and artistic individuals, it’s hard to imagine a sweeter deal than making a living just by dreaming and drawing, thinking up new worlds and bringing them to life.Īnd things must be even better if you’re the creator of a hit series, since not only are you bringing joy to thousands, or even millions, of fans, you’re also getting paid handsomely to do it.
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