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Years ago, 15 young mangakas including Oda held a year-end party. Oda went home in the middle of it. When the party is over, they noticed Oda already finished having the check without saying any words.😋
source: Kazumata Oguri (mangaka) twitter.com/kazumata_oguri…
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Here is my translation of Oda's message about Tokyo ONE PIECE Tower having closed at the end of July. He implies COVID-19 is one of the reasons for this closing.🥲
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Today .@ochimusha108 kindly confirmed it is chapter 986 that editor Takano moved to tears about. Takano shedded tears maybe because he empathized with Red Scabbards attacking Kaido, which reminds me of Tsumegeri Guards in Alabasta who shedded tears when attacking Crocodile.😥
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How was the title of Film Z decided? Producer Nagamine suggested an idea that the title should be "Dream Crusher" or "Dream Smasher" since Z intends to crush pirates' dreams. But Oda opposed, "It's not catchy enough. Let's simply go with Film Z since villain's name is Z👍 #oldoda
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Oda’s new interview with Japanese vocal group called Arashi will be aired on TV show on 27th, August. His another interview in Color Walk 9 will be published on 16th, September. Oda already made a collaboration color spread with Aarashi in chapter 967😋
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Preview of Oda’s TV interview next week is released today. It says Oda has been eager to draw Wano since long ago. Oda says there remain a lot of super-entertaining stuffs he wants to draw. (Another interview before implied Oda wanted to draw Wano since the beginning of OP.) 😋
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3 days ago, Oda sent a message to the students of his hometown, Kumamoto. The purpose was to encourage students who are suffering from this current situation about COVID-19. Here is my translation of his message.👍
source: T1 Park Magazine (@T1park_office) and Mr. au
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Here is my translation of Oda's message yesterday about upcoming ONE PIECE books next month. By the way, Oda's TV interview will be aired in 7-9 hours.🥰
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Today Oda and 2 Japanese idols named Takuya Kimura and Kazuya Kamenashi make a collaboration drawings for LINE stamp in "Johnny's Smile Up! Project". The project is supposed to be a donation for health care workers regarding COVID-19. Here is my translation of Oda’s comment.😋
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Here is my summary of Oda’s TV interview today. Summary is divided to multiple tweets.👍
Oda said he would like to finish OP in 4-5 years (again). He rarely goes to Jump office where today he witnessed his manuscript of chapter 1 for the first time in 23 years.😆
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Here is another summary of the interview divided into 3 pages.😇
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Oda revealed his favorite scene in the show.
1 Opening scene of Wano
2 Robin puts Mangrove’s tree sap to Usopp. Oda says it helps audience to feel as if OP world is real.
3 Campfire scene in Skypiea arc. It was the scene where Oda wanted to draw most in that arc (end of summary😊
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Stealth Sanji blocked King's attack in the latest chapter. In 2015, Oda said his drawing style of invisible characters is inspired by Kishimoto, Naruto's author. Here is a translation of the interview. I'm glad both great mangakas respect each other.😊
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Oda told editor Kawashima in the first meeting, "Die for ONE PIECE". He was shocked but impressed at the same time, "Oda is really determined to die for OP." Oda keeps in mind taking 30 minute-walk every day as doctor warned him he'd have an early death unless improving health😅
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Oda blamed editor Onishi because his email address started with "gintama" as a previous Gintama editor. "Why the heck is your email address still related to Gintama!?" 5 seconds after Oda's words, Onishi quickly changed it into "ONE_PIECE_the_best" as OP editor.🤣
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Here is my translation of Oda’s heartwarming message in ONE PIECE Color Walk 9 released today.😋
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Here is my translation of Oda’s comments about his color spreads along with my summary of his interview in Color Walk 9. I'm surprised Oda kept in mind that he shouldn't make a girlfriend to focus on his work when the serialization started..😂
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OP chapter 1000 is approaching. Oda jokingly said he’d like to start a new manga called “Two Piece” after OP according to his editor in February😂 (youtu.be/NrpyQrfXCiA) Oda said in 2007 that he was longing for Akira Toriyama’s style who released a short manga once in a while.
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Both ONE PIECE color spreads and Jump cover pages for chapter 999 and 1000 can be combined. Current Jump mangakas draw many OP characters in the covers. The combined color spreads will be the "largest" in Jump history. Today's jump showed us a preview of the color spread.😍
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According to Oda's message in Jump Festa today, Shanks will begin to move in 2021. Oda also said he was impressed with Kimetsu no Yaiba getting super popular in Japan.😍
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Chapter 999 title "The Sake I Brewed to Drink with You" is based on Japanese literature called Manyoushu written 1200 years ago. It goes, "I wonder if I'll have to drink this sake alone although I brewed to drink it with you.." Yamato will never drink sake with Ace again..😥
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New interview of Luffy's VA (Mayumi Tanaka) will be published in the next Jump. In 2007, Oda described her as "my mother in Tokyo". She advised Oda to eat vegetables because Oda's craving for meat was as insane as Luffy.😂 Hopefully she will reveal some interesting OP tidbits.
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Here is my translation of Oda's message for chapter 1000 released 1 hour ago😍👍
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Luffy's new technique "Red Roc" reminds us of the origin of ONE PIECE story. Roc/Rukh is a legendary bird in Middle East. Oda already made it appear as "Mysterious Bird Rukh" in Romance Dawn known as a prototype of OP. Red Roc is a cool naming for this memorial chapter 1000.😍
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Red Roc is written as 業火拳銃 in Kanji in Japanese chapter, meaning "Hellfire Fist Pistol". Nice naming for Luffy to punish a villain like Kaido. By the way, 火拳銃 (Red Hawk) means "Fire Fist Pistol". Thus we know Red Roc is an upgraded version of Red Hawk.🔥
Translating One Piece news randomly. Big fan of Oda's interviews.😍 I'm native Japanese🇯🇵, but I usually tweet in English.