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The number of blades of Supreme Grade is 12, Excellent Grade is 21 and Fine Grade is 50. It is totally based on a book called Kaihou Kenjaku in 1797. It was revised later and *3 swords* were added as Supreme Grade. It may mean all of Zoro's swords will be Supreme Grade.😍
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Oda (2007): I'm working hard to draw fights with dramatic stories. If I had drawn a pure battle manga, it'd have been easily overwhelmed by Dragon Ball. I had to avoid competing with DB that was so entertaining that I myself was addicted to. (Oda called Toriyama "god" in 2001.😆)
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A new character named "Komurasaki" appears in ONE PIECE chapter 927. She might be based on a real life person in Japanese history. 😇
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Here is my translation for Oda's new comment about Rob Lucci and Water 7 arc. It is revealed in ONE PIECE 22nd Log today.😋
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Oda was depressed and wondered if he should quit One Piece when his daughter complained, "Dad, you're too busy to spend enough time with me.." A few years later, she started having a chihuahua dog.😋 (2012)
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Oda: If I focus on manga without fooling around in SBS, my fans might adore me, but that's not what I want. I just want to be someone like a friendly guy in their neighborhood. They must be thinking I'm an idiot.🤣 They even told me, "We didn't imagine you could marry a woman!"
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Here is my summary of spin-off novel "Episode Perona" in OP Magazine 11. 🤠
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Here is my translation for Oda's comment about his color spreads in Color Walk 8 today.☺️
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Taito Kubo, author of Bleach, revealed that he has been hating Oda ever since his debut manga was defeated by ONE PIECE in readers' popularity poll.😅(source: radio program on November 5th, 2017 j-cast.com/2017/11/133137…)
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Here is Oda's heartwarming comment in Shonen Jump today: My 77-year-old father has sent me a message via LINE app, "I shedded tears while watching Film Red.😭"
I underestimated you! So, you understand this amazing film? Thank you so much!🥰
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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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Oda's editors mustn't miss a phone call from Oda since otherwise he gets mad. They place their mobile phones on the chest when sleeping.😅 In 2017, editor confessed he had suffered from *phantom vibration syndrome* where it felt like his mobile phone was vibrating when it was not
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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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Here is my summary of Japanese TV show yesterday which looked back on the 50-year-history of Shonen Jump. The length of the show was 100 minutes.😍
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Five Elders called Shanks with the pronoun 君 (kimi), which indicates they have respect to Shanks to a certain extent. Instead, they call Akainu with the pronoun お前 (omae), which sounds rather impolite. In short, they respect Shanks more than Akainu.😍 twitter.com/Throneneo/stat…
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Oda must be glad to hear Luffy won in the poll.😄
1999: Glad Luffy won. I was worried he might get surpassed by Zoro or Shanks.
2012: I participated in Film Z since I wanted to protect Luffy.
2018: Luffy is an ideal kid for me.
Oda's email to Sanji's VA: Don't speak ill of Zoro.
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Some people might not be satisfied with Sanji in the latest chapter. Hirata, Sanji's VA said in OP Premiere show in 2018, "Oda looked me in the eye and said, 'Sanji will have no highlight scenes in the future.' (Hirata has complained about post-timeskip Sanji multiple times😅
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Oda celebrated Detective Conan reaching "volume 100" in the latest Jump comment. On the other hand, Gosho Aoyama, the author of Conan, said in 2019 that he'd like to have an interview with Oda. I hope their legendary interview will come true in the next Color Walk or something.😍 twitter.com/sandman_AP/sta…
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Here is my summary of chapter 2 in ONE PIECE Novel Ace volume 2. Ace meets Shanks in this chapter.😋
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The number of Togashi's followers has exceeded 2 million.🥰 In 2017, Oda showed his appreciation to Togashi in a message to young amateur mangakas. Here is my translation.😋
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Oda recently had a barbecue party with Shohei Ohtani, Major League baseball player. (source: sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/…)
BTW, Oda is said to have an interview in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.😍 The prince of Saudi is a big fan of OP and got Oda's autograph in 2016.🇸🇦
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Here is my translation for Oda's comment in "ONE PIECE The 24th Logs" released 1 hour ago☺️
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Oda hadn't planned to draw Señor Pink's backstory, but after Oda saw his editor was so moved by hearing about his past in the meeting, he decided to include it in the chapter. And the chapter became popular with fans according to Oda. 😊(2015)
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Luffy's VA predicted today it will take another 7-8 years until the ending of OP. She added she doesn't know how OP will end. (TOEI staff Shimizu knows it.) Tanaka wants to hand over her role as Luffy's VA to Goku's VA (85 years old) when she retires.🤣
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Got my ONE PIECE Magazine Volume 1 today. Here is my brief summary for Oda's long interview.🙂
Translating One Piece news randomly. Big fan of Oda's interviews.😍 I'm native Japanese🇯🇵, but I usually tweet in English.