Eiichiro Oda

- Oda defeated editor Asada in his studio via 3D fighting video game called "Bushido Blade" 20 times about 15 years ago. Oda doesn't cut corners even in games.

- Oda recently plays smartphone apps. He sometimes watches his assistants playing video games.
According to Oda, trendy games can stimulate his creativity. Oda says, "I'm loyal to new trends. I'm kind of a guy who can enjoy all new trends."

- Oda and editor Hattori got excited over talking about "Prison Break", especially about the scene in whichOda says, "That scene was exactly a Shounen manga-ish, right? As expected, Shounen manga might be the best medium to entertain people."

- Oda recommended some editors to watch "Young Gun".

- Oda rarely reads novels. Even after an editor recommends a novel to him, Oda reads only the page that the editor specified.
Editor Isaka wonders why Oda has so many vocabularies in manga despite not reading novels. Other editors answers that probably Oda's vocabularies are based on films, Rakugo and music.

- Oda basically loves soul music.

- Before a meeting, Oda often asks an editor, "Have you experienced anything interesting this week?"

- Editor Habuta compares Oda to Formula One car which keeps working hard.

- Before Oda started the serialization of ONE PIECE, he already drew many color spreads as training. He enjoyed it since he loves drawing.

- Oda says to editor Kawashima, "Die for ONE PIECE." Kawashima was shocked and moved to hear that, thinking "Oda is really determined to die for ONE PIECE."

- Editor Onishi had an email address that started "gintama-" since he was responsible for Gintama.
Oda asked him "Why is your email address about Gintama?" 5 seconds after hearing about it, Onishi changed it into "ONE PIECE 1ban-" (meaning "ONE PIECE is the best" in Japanese).

- After hearing about the finale of ONE PIECE from Oda, editor Hattori realized again that the story of ONE PIECE is awesome.
(All editors of ONE PIECE are supposed to be informed of the finale by Oda as an initiation.)