When one talks about big manga series, they can’t forget to mention the most successful one of all time, One Piece. One Piece, the creation of mangaka Eiichiro Oda, has become monumental and is beloved all around the world. The series has been ongoing for almost three decades, and even today, fans can't get enough of this story. If anything, fans keep coming back for more every week as new chapters drop.

One Piece: Oda Has Officially Revealed A Marine Above Yonko Level

The Yonko are powerful, and Oda reveals a Marine above them in One Piece.

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One Piece is definitely big, but there is still a lot that fans don’t know about its creator. Oda, however, recently had an interview, and fans got to learn more about what led him on this life path. Oda also revealed what made him pursue life as a mangaka, and it all started with The Monster Kid, a series most have probably never even heard of.

Oda Reveals Why He Became a Mangaka

The Monster Kid Was The Starting Point For Oda

Eiichiro Oda, the beloved creator of One Piece, recently had an interview published in Weekly Shonen Jump, and fans finally got the opportunity to learn more about his life, something he is usually more private about. This interview answered many interesting questions, such as Oda’s biggest inspiration or even his favorite manga, but most importantly, Oda revealed what made him decide that he would become a mangaka.

Oda reminisced a lot about his childhood, and one thing he remembers clearly is the moment he thought to himself, "I want to become a manga artist." For Oda, this moment happened when he was four years old, while reading Kaibutsu-kun, also known as The Monster Kid. Many fans have never even heard of this manga, and it is definitely a small and old series. It was created by Fujiko Fujio A, and ran for a few years between 1965 and 1969. Fans can definitely thank this series for starting Oda’s journey towards creating the biggest manga series ever.

One Piece Author Reveals How My Hero Academia And Jujutsu Kaisen Can Be Replaced

MHA and JJK ended last year, and Oda, the creator of One Piece, reveals how they can be replaced.

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“Even before Kinnikuman, I was already reading manga. Back then, there were two children's manga magazines: CoroCoro Comic (by Shogakukan) and Comic BonBon (by Kodansha). Pretty much everyone was either a CoroCoro fan or a BonBon fan. CoroCoro had many big-name veterans, with Fujiko Fujio-sensei leading the way, while BonBon had a fresher vibe to it. I was on the BonBon side, but I think my older sister owned some volumes, so I also read Fujiko’s works. When I read Kaibutsu-kun (The Monster Kid) at the age of four, I decided I would become a manga artist. I can still picture that moment clearly even now. I’m from Kumamoto, but due to my parents’ job transfers, I lived in Miyazaki for about five years starting from kindergarten. In that house in Miyazaki, when I learned that there was a profession called 'mangaka'” — Eiichiro Oda

Oda’s Inspiration That Made One Piece What It Is Today

The Monster Kid Started Oda’s Journey, But It Didn’t Inspire One Piece
Dragon Ball and Toriyama Are the Biggest Influences

While The Monster Kid made Oda want to start creating a manga, it wasn’t what really inspired his hit series One Piece. The person who actually inspired him was none other than Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball. Toriyama’s art and characters were a huge influence on Oda, even beyond Dragon Ball with other series like Dr. Slump. Oda wanted nothing more than to be in the same magazine side by side with Toriyama, and this is something he eventually achieved.

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Release Date: October 20, 1999
Network: Fuji TV
Directors: Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou