Why are the names of the characters in One Piece biased towards the European and American styles, while the names of the people in Naruto are almost all Japanese names? In fact, it is related to the source of inspiration for different authors when creating, which is explained below.
Oda created One Piece under the influence of a Japanese-German animation film, Little Heroes of the North Sea. It mainly depicts Vikings, so many of the character names in Oda's own works are in the European and American style.
One of the reasons why Oda created One Piece is that there is very little content about One Piece in the field of Japanese manga, and Oda is very fond of adventure exploration type anime, so he wants to expand the relatively small amount of One Piece content in Japanese anime.
The reason why Oda likes the pirate type of cartoons is that he watched the 1974 Japanese-German animation film "Little Heroes of the North Sea", which was based on a Swedish writer, and the North Sea refers to the North Sea in the Netherlands.
After seeing this work, Oda was deeply inspired and decided to create a pirate genre work based on the historical background of the Viking-like structure Ha.
In order to pay tribute to the Little Hero of the North Sea who inspired him to create One Piece, Oda's character name design in One Piece has adopted a large number of European names, because the character prototype of "Little Hero of the North Sea" is actually a Viking pirate, otherwise the pirates are not only In Northern Europe, but also in the world, but also in Japan.
The reason why Oda made most of the characters of One Piece adopt European names is mainly in tribute to the work "Little Heroes of the North Sea". It has to be Oh Oda's setting to make One Piece look more international, coupled with a good plot content design that makes One Piece's popularity in the world rapidly increase.
Kishimoto chose ninja as the main theme of his work, and the special class of ninja is only owned by Japan, and the natural character names are biased towards Japanese names.
Kishimoto's creative inspiration is obviously different from Oda's, Oda is looking at Viking, while Kishimoto's focus is on special professional ninjas that have appeared in the process of Japanese culture, so naturally they have their own emphasis on naming.
After all, the ninja profession covers much less than that of pirates, and the special class of ninja has not appeared in other countries and regions, but has only appeared briefly in Japan's modern development history.
Over time, ninjas gradually disappeared from the mainstream Japanese social framework, but various historical legends and stories about ninjas did not disappear but remained in Japanese culture.
Kishimoto creates anime content based on unique content in the development of Japanese history and culture, and the character names used are naturally mostly Japanese names, and ninjas and pirates are relatively narrow compared to each other in terms of influence.
In this case, kishimoto's characters in his works are mainly Japanese names, which are more in line with the process of historical development. After all, the vast majority of ninjas appear in various events in Japanese history.
There are no ninjas in Europe, neither in the Americas, nor in other countries in Asia, in this case, if Kishimoto designed the names of the characters in Naruto to be biased towards Europe and the United States, it is estimated that most anime fans will not recognize it, and the cultural heritage will be deeper after the ninja content retained by Japan is deeper.
Finally, the main reason why Naruto and One Piece character names are biased towards European and Japanese is that different authors have different sources of inspiration when creating works.
Oda's Pirates are based on Viking, and Kishimoto's Ninja is a special class unique to Japan, so it's easy to understand that One Piece and Naruto characters have a tendency to name them. Please forgive me for the place where the analysis is not in place, and if you have other ideas, please leave a message to discuss.