Eiichiro Oda
Eiichiro Oda is the Japanese manga artist who created One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series ever printed in volume form. He began serialising it in 1997 and has drawn it weekly ever since, building a world of islands, governments and impossible fruit that rewards twenty years of attention and still works if you start today. More than 600 million tankobon are in circulation worldwide, which makes him one of the best-selling fiction authors alive, and he is routinely named among the artists who changed the direction of manga.
Movies (1)
Books (26)
- ONE PIECE 22 (2001)
- ONE PIECE 66 (2012)
- ONE PIECE BLUE (2002)
- ONE PIECE 39 (2005)
- ONE PIECE 59 (2010)
- ONE PIECE 41 (2006)
- ONE PIECE 78 (2015)
- ONE PIECE 29 (2003)
- ONE PIECE 28 (2003)
- ONE PIECE novel LAW (2020)
- ONE PIECE 14 (2007)
- Shonen Jump (English) Volume 1, Issue 1 (2003)
- ONE PIECE 23 (2002)
- ONE PIECE 13 (2000)
- ONE PIECE 12 (2000)
- ONE PIECE 10 (1999)
- ONE PIECE 7 (1999)
- ONE PIECE 8 (1999)
- ONE PIECE 11 (1999)
- ONE PIECE 9 (1999)
- ONE PIECE 2 (1998)
- ONE PIECE 6 (1998)
- ONE PIECE 5 (1998)
- ONE PIECE 3 (1998)
- ONE PIECE 4 (1998)
- ONE PIECE 1 (1997)
Where to start with Eiichiro Oda
Start at ONE PIECE 1 and simply keep going: the early volumes are looser and funnier than the epic they turn into, and the payoffs are built decades in advance. ONE PIECE 11 is where most readers say it becomes unstoppable. ONE PIECE BLUE is the databook for anyone lost in the world-building, and One Piece: Dream Soccer King! is the oddity where Oda voices himself.
Starting One Piece from volume one
The opening arcs, before the world gets enormous. They are funnier and looser than the epic that follows, and almost everything paid off two decades later is planted here. Read them in order and the scale creeps up on you.
The stretch where it becomes unstoppable
Most long-time readers point at this run as the moment the series stops being an adventure comic and starts being the thing they never stopped reading. The stakes stop resetting between islands and the world starts answering back.
The later volumes, and the guides
Deep into the run, plus the material for anyone trying to hold the world in their head. One Piece Blue is the databook that maps it, and the novel spin-off takes a supporting character seriously enough to give him a book.
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- Companion guide: Battle Shonen: The Complete Guide to Fighting Anime