Eiichiro Oda is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on January 1, 1975 in Kumamoto, Japan. Popular Japanese manga artist who was best known for his work on the One Piece series, which became the highest-selling manga series of all time, with 345 million copies sold. He was voted the fifth most popular manga artist in Japan.
His series was turned into a long-running anime series featuring Caitlin Glass as a voice actor in the American dubs.
Eiichiro Oda (Japanese: 尾田 栄一郎 , Hepburn: Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist known as the creator of the series One Piece (1997–present). With more than 473 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga and the best-selling comic series of all time, in turn making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors. The series’ popularity resulted in Oda being named one of the manga artists that changed the history of manga.
During this time, Oda drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories called “Romance Dawn”, which were published in Akamaru Jump and Weekly Shōnen Jump respectively in late 1996. “Romance Dawn” featured Monkey D. Luffy as the protagonist, who then became the protagonist of One Piece.
He stated that he knew he wanted to become a manga artist from the age of four. He married Chiaki Inaba in 2005.
