Eiichiro Oda

HIS LIFE
Eiichiro Oda (尾田 栄一郎 Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for his manga series One Piece (1997–present). With 430 million copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is the best-selling manga series of all time. The series' popularity resulted in his being named one of the manga artists that changed the history of manga.

Eiichiro Oda claimed that at age four he resolved to become a manga artist in order to avoid having to get a "real job". His biggest influence is Akira Toriyama and his series Dragon Ball. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking. He submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga Kinnikuman. Pandaman was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works.
In 1997, One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump and has become not only one of the most popular manga in Japan, but the best-selling manga series of all time. It sold 100 million collected tankōbon volumes by February 2005,^[8] over 200 million by February 2011,^[8] and had 430 million volumes in circulation worldwide as of October 2017. Additionally, individual volumes of One Piece have broken publishing records in Japan. 

His mangas are:

• Wanted!
• God's Present for the Future 
• Ikki Yakō 
• Wanted! Eiichiro Oda Short Stories
• Romance Dawn
• Romance Dawn
• One Piece
• Cross Epoch
• Taste of the Devil Fruit