Thank you for the confirmation.🥺

I want to display this powerful Zoro figure in my room. The moment Sanji gently used him as a weapon to fight enemies was peak fiction.🥺🥺

Johnny Depp made an appearance onstage today at Tokyo Comic Convention 2025. Hiroaki Hirata, the VA for Sanji and Depp’s JP dub actor, appeared, “I have a friend who draws a certain manga about pirates..,” before presenting Depp with noren curtain of Jack Sparrow drawn by Oda!!😍

Oda (2023): I had my first solid talk with Gege Akutami-san, Jujutsu Kaisen author, at the Tezuka Manga Award judging meeting. He is a pretty decent person!🧡 In 2019, Oda praised Demon Slayer. He said he was glad to see young mangaka getting popular.🔥

What do you think about Nami's birth?🥺 Oda (2016): I had conceived the initial plot of Strong World to dig into the secret of Nami's birth. The movie staff was shocked to read the content. The story became too touching, so I revised it to be more exciting for the young audience.

Oda (2019): My wife participated in the One Piece musical in 2003 and she played the role of Nami, not that I copied her and drew Nami. Surprisingly, mangaka tend to marry people who look like the heroines.🥰

When Oda's former editor Habuta's daughter was born, Oda gave him a nice illustration to celebrate. Habuta recalled he appreciated it so much that it was the happiest moment ever since he became Shonen Jump editor.🥰

When Oda held a home party a few years ago, he prepared super-expensive meat from a famous steak restaurant Wolf Gang to entertain his guests. Below is Oda's house and Ace's VA.🍖🔥

Viz official translated it as “Empty Throne,” but that rendering is too weak. It fails to capture the religious, metaphysical, illusory, and deceptive connotations carried by Japanese word 虚. That is why I'd translate it as **Void Throne** as in Void Century.🔥

It’s intentional that Oda emphasized the same kanji Yui結 to describe the bond between Joy Boy Haki and Imu’s covenant. In JP, Yui carries a spiritual nuance; a sacred joining that brings a new reality into existence. Maybe the concept of Yui is tied to the true nature of Haki🔥

Oda (2019): *Eiichiro Oda* is the word I never search for on the internet! Because I am afraid of the results.😭 But thanks for the award for the most searched author!

Oda: I drew Gear 5 as a big joke, knowing that my readers would be disgusted by it. Battle manga becomes more serious when they follow readers' expectations. I hated that. I didn't want my manga to be too serious, so I had fun achieving it with the fight against Kaido.🔥

On July 13th, 2008, Oda drew this rare signed illustration board for the Straw Hats’ voice actors and wrote an impressive message that said: **I exist because you exist.😍**

Here is Oda's desk in summer, 2007.🧡 Akira Toriyama's autograph was displayed.

In 2020, Oda jokingly said he wanted to draw a manga called *Two Piece* after One Piece ends. Would you guys like to see a sequel with Luffy's son in action like Boruto?🔥

Oda loves One Piece smartphone apps and spends a lot of money on them. He pulls the gacha until he gets super-rare characters like Shanks. Oda sometimes wonders why he has to spend so much time and money to get these characters, which Oda created himself.🤣

Oda (2023): In the manga I read as a kid, the heroines were there just to be rescued. I hated that. I decided to depict women who know how to fight for themselves and don't need to be rescued.🔥 If they are in a bad situation, the crewmates will help them, and vice versa!🧡

Fake.🥰 Not *chapter*

Viz official version doesn’t include the editor blurb that appears in JP version. At the end of the chapter, Oda's editor wrote, “Is there any light on that path?”, raising a question about Harald’s choices. That line clearly hints that the next chapter is likely to grow dark.😭

🚨Viz official translated as “friends,” but that sounds too weak. In Japanese, Sengoku calls Garp explicitly his **best friend**, a term Oda uses only for important bonds, like Kizaru and Vegapunk or Zoro and Kuina. The nuance of closeness is lost when reduced to just *friends*.