- Oda used to say that all he needed was coffee and cola 4 years ago. But now Oda pays attention to his health.
He makes it a rule to drink water 2 liters a day. He thinks he can stay healthy if only he drinks much water. He sometimes exercise on fitness equipments in his studio.
- Oda usually sleeps for 3 hours a day. Oda doesn't want to spend much time on sleep since he is busy.
He can sleep as much as he wants only after the day he finishes drawing every week. But he can't sleep much recently due to aging.
- The interviewer asks Oda if he has some health issues now that he is in his 40s.
Oda answers that his health is not good, but he can come up with an interesting manga thanks to his short sleep and final push in his works.
Oda thinks it would be great if he can draw a good manga with 8-hours-sleep.
- Shueisha allows him to take more breaks these days. Oda wonders if this is because they are worried that ONE PIECE might come to an end due to his health problem.
Oda got hospitalized after he works in Film Z. He thought the staffs finally noticed that if he worked too hard he would be down, but after all he got involved in ONE PIECE Film again...
- There are too many things Oda wants to draw, so he merges the themes of islands. For example, Punk Hazard is originally consisted of fire island and ice island.
Dressrosa is originally consisted of dwarves island and passion island. But as opposed to his expectations, it took him twice the time than usual to draw these arcs.
- According to Oda, ONE PIECE is about 65% done. Oda says it is a fight between his lifetime and the ending of ONE PIECE. He says he needs to have the courage to reduce his ideas.
- After finishing ONE PIECE, Oda wants to go on trips like Buratamori.
(Buratamori is a popular TV show in Japan. In the show, an old man named Tamori, who was too busy to go on a trip for 30 years, visits various kinds of regions in Japan and introduces interesting information about it.)
- Interviewer asks Oda if he intends to draw manga again once a month after finishing ONE PIECE, but Oda instantly denies.
- Oda "I am happiest if kids enjoy reading my manga. But since my audience are getting older, it would be great if they read ONE PIECE with their kids."
- Oda "ONE PIECE is focusing on Sanji now. Be sure to look forward to the future story!"
- Oda "When Kaidou appeared for the first time, I said that Luffy can't defeat such a strong character yet. And I'm yet to know how Luffy would defeat Kaidou.
Probably my audience will not be satisfied if the reason for defeating Kaidou is just because Luffy's punch is so strong. Luffy and I have to find a solution somehow."
- Oda "ONE PIECE will be much more interesting in the future since I'm carefully selecting ideas these days.
Some people are seriously worried about my health, but don't be worried too much since I am quite tough."
[Some Trivias]
- Oda recently likes Ikumi Hisamatsu (久松郁実).
http://i.imgur.com/Ifc7mIz.jpg
- Oda sometimes plays turntables for DJing in his studio.
- Oda collects model figures made by Ashley Wood.
- Oda has 100 inch TV. It was too large to fit through the entrance, so some construction work was needed on the door.
- Oda defeated editor Asada in his studio via 3D fighting video game called "Bushido Blade" 20 times about 15 years ago. Oda doesn't cut corners even in games.
- Oda recently plays smartphone apps. He sometimes watches his assistants playing video games.
According to Oda, trendy games can stimulate his creativity. Oda says, "I'm loyal to new trends. I'm kind of a guy who can enjoy all new trends."
- Oda and editor Hattori got excited over talking about "Prison Break", especially about the scene in which
Brad Bellick, who had been a villain in Season 1, devoted his life to saving protagonists in Season 4.
Oda says, "That scene was exactly a Shounen manga-ish, right? As expected, Shounen manga might be the best medium to entertain people."
- Oda recommended some editors to watch "Young Gun".
- Oda rarely reads novels. Even after an editor recommends a novel to him, Oda reads only the page that the editor specified.
Editor Isaka wonders why Oda has so many vocabularies in manga despite not reading novels. Other editors answers that probably Oda's vocabularies are based on films, Rakugo and music.
- Oda basically loves soul music.
- Before a meeting, Oda often asks an editor, "Have you experienced anything interesting this week?"
- Editor Habuta compares Oda to Formula One car which keeps working hard.
- Before Oda started the serialization of ONE PIECE, he already drew many color spreads as training. He enjoyed it since he loves drawing.
- Oda says to editor Kawashima, "Die for ONE PIECE." Kawashima was shocked and moved to hear that, thinking "Oda is really determined to die for ONE PIECE."
- Editor Onishi had an email address that started "gintama-" since he was responsible for Gintama.
Oda asked him "Why is your email address about Gintama?" 5 seconds after hearing about it, Onishi changed it into "ONE PIECE 1ban-" (meaning "ONE PIECE is the best" in Japanese).
- After hearing about the finale of ONE PIECE from Oda, editor Hattori realized again that the story of ONE PIECE is awesome.
(All editors of ONE PIECE are supposed to be informed of the finale by Oda as an initiation.)
, aber was hat jimbei vor? Will er ihre Crew verlassen, nachdem er ruffy gesehen hat?
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