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Gold House, which describes itself as “a cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific leaders to power tomorrow for all” has released the names for its 2024 Most Impactful Asians A100 list. Included are some people definitely of interest to otaku. Writer …Read more »
GLAY is a major Japanese rock band, and 2024 marks a major milestone for them: 30 years since their major debut in 1994. As a result, GLAY is offering its GLAY EXPO this year. A big event like this needs a visual image to go …Read more »
Every otaku knows of One Piece, but do you know about creator Eiichiro Oda’s one-shot manga Monsters: Ippaku Sanjō Hiryū Jigoku, which was published in the 90s? It was in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1994, before Oda was the bestselling mangaka of all time. In …Read more »
Netflix’s live-action One Piece debuts today, and Eiichiro Oda, the mangaka behind the massively successful franchise, has been heavily involved with the project. How involved? Well, some of his notes to Netflix and Netflix’s response were made public to give an idea. Here’s Oda talking: …Read more »
With the premiere of Netflix’s live-action One Piece series days away, The New York Times spoke with creator Eiichiro Oda. Oda acknowledged that live-action adaptations of manga, particularly by Hollywood, has “a history of failure,” but he thinks this time might be different because of …Read more »
Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation will hit the streaming service at the end of the month, and many fans of the original manga and anime are anxious about how it will come together. Creator Eiichiro Oda is involved, and a report from Shueisha says that …Read more »
Matt Owens, the co-showrunner for Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation, has made it clear he’s a fan of the series. And he says that’s why he was terrified approaching One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda about doing an adaptation. “I don’t think I’ve ever been more …Read more »
Before One Piece, manga author Eiichiro Oda created a one-shot manga titled MONSTERS, and now that’s getting an anime of its own. The one-shot first debuted in the Shonen Jump Autumn Special of 1994, and follows a samurai named Ryuma whose situation gets complicated by …Read more »
If you’re behind on the One Piece manga, you have some more time to catch up, and if you’re current you’ll need to wait a bit because the series is about to go on a one-month hiatus. According to the official Twitter account for the …Read more »
The live-action One Piece series is supposed to launch on Netflix sometime this year, but with series creator Eiichiro Oda supervising, he has a lot of input on when it’s officially ready. Oda released a new statement about progress on the series, noting that the …Read more »
One Piece Film Red hasn’t stopped dominating in Japan, and it most recently sailed past the 17 billion yen milestone with 12.31 million tickets sold. That makes it the 11th highest-grossing film in Japan and puts it in sixth place for all-time anime films, which …Read more »
Eiichiro Oda has done many things. He’s created the world’s bestselling manga, One Piece, let fans make money doing One Piece art (under certain circumstances), and gave the French president a special One Piece illustration. What’s something he won’t do? Watch YouTube videos about One …Read more »
Last week, One Piece author Eiichiro Oda sent a special original illustration to French President Emmanuel Macron, with a note in French dedicating it to Macron and all the One Piece fans in France. One Piece is the world’s bestselling manga, and France has a …Read more »
Demon Slayer is breaking all sorts of records with sales. Yet in terms of bestselling manga, it’s still a long way from beating the numbers of One Piece. But it turns out that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has not only been reading Demon Slayer, …Read more »
We all know that Eiichiro Oda’s bestselling manga One Piece will be coming to an end in the next four or five years. But that leaves the question: what will Oda do next? Twitter user Sandman says that according to a recent Japanese interview with …Read more »
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