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In 1997, a cartoonist published a short manga about pirates, ROMANCE DAWN, in the well-known manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump---
This cartoon is the result of a compromise between the author and the editorial board. Because before that, the 22-year-old newcomer cartoonist had experienced two years of encountering a wall, and the editorial department believed that if the characters in a comic lacked serial power, they could not be listed in the weekly magazine.
Although the newcomer cartoonist was not convinced, he still desperately created this short comic and prepared story materials and characters that could meet the standards of serialization---
In the same year, the newcomer manga artist finally began serialization of the feature-length manga ONE PIECE (alias: One Piece).
Although the title of the first episode is "ROMANCE DAWN", the protagonist's name is also called "Luffy", but the personality judgment of the two people, the plot of the story is also very different, so the former can only be seen as the prototype of the latter, but also a inheritance relationship---
"One Piece" centers on Luffy's "Straw Hat Gang" and tells the story of people's treasure hunting and adventure in a "sea thief era".
The long-form serial provides a long-term stable stage for the shaping of characters and the composition of stories. In the more than 20 years of serialization, "One Piece" has attracted the attention of fans around the world with flesh and blood characters and gripping plots.
The manga became one of the top three migrant manga in Weekly Shonen Jump, won the manga sales championship in Japan for many years, brought in an annual income of up to 3.1 billion yen for the author, broke the Guinness Book of World Records, and won the title of "the world's most distributed series of manga by a single author---
The sales of "One Piece" comics have almost slaughtered since 1999, in addition to being surpassed by NANA in 2005 and the phenomenal explosion of "Devil's Blade" in the past two years, it is the absolute king in the long-form Japanese manga---
Now that "One Piece" has come to the end of the plot, Oda has repeatedly stressed in interviews that he "wants to finish in 5 years". It can be seen that the sales of this Japanese comic will only explode in the next few years, because no one in the house does not know the emotional value of "watching one less".
And sales rose by 100 million in 5 years, I believe it is not a difficult thing---
Each achievement shows that the comic is good, and just at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the American shot put player and the Greek long jumper also posed the iconic actions of French and Luffy in "One Piece" before the competition, once again showing the influence of this comic in the world---
I just don't know if you know that the beginning of this world-class comic actually originated from a cult.
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In 1984, a teenage fighting comic, Dragon Ball, began serialization, and at first, the manga was not very popular, even ranking 15 on the questionnaire.
In order to increase his popularity, editor Kazuhiko Torishima proposed to the author Akira Toriyama to weaken the combat strength of the supporting characters and set up the "World's First Martial Arts Conference" to highlight the protagonist Goku's protagonist status and combat prowess.
At this point, the popularity of this comic has soared to the point of being out of control---
Akira Toriyama originally planned to finish the story after drawing the "Bic Demon King Chapter", but due to the high popularity of the manga, Akira Toriyama could only continue to serialize it at the strong request of the editorial department and various stakeholders.
In the midst of compromise and effort, Dragon Ball became the hottest comic of the time with its excellent plot, and even established the history of the hegemony of Weekly Shonen JUMP.
"Dragon Ball" not only set the highest sales in Japan, but its adapted animation has also set a new ratings record in Europe and the United States, which can be said to be crazy for countless fans---
In Dragon Ball, the death of characters is a very common thing, although in the subsequent plot, these characters can be resurrected through "Dragon Ball", but before these characters are actually resurrected, when they die for friendship, or to save people and save the world, the emotions of fans will still be stimulated---
During the series, Goku's friend Kling died once, which caused a huge stir in the teenage circles at the time, and even ran in the hallway of the school to tell "Kling is dead!" ”---
The plot before Kling's death has been tugging at the hearts of fans, and everyone is expecting him to have a good ending at that time, and suddenly, such an important character is killed.
The author Akira Toriyama hangs the appetite of fans and abandons them fiercely, this ability to make fans' moods (emotions) rise and fall, so that a student has a yearning, he also wants to become a manga artist like Akira Toriyama, who is skilled in drawing skills and plot ups and downs---
This person's name is Eiichiro Oda, and in the future, he will sensationalize the entire manga industry with ONE PIECE---
Of course, "The Death of Klin" is just a small episode of Oda's worship of Akira Toriyama, but in fact, Oda has always been deeply attracted by Akira Toriyama's painting skills, and even remembers every character, every illustration, and every sentence in the interview.
During this time, Oda also hung a signed photo of Akira Toriyama on the wall to motivate himself to ---
In many interviews, Oda even used the power of "Nakaji" to hold Akira Toriyama to the sky, calling him a god and not a dimensional ---
Of course, with spiritual worship, there will naturally be physical expressions, such as the shaping of the role of Luffy, which is also largely influenced by Akira Toriyama's Sun Wukong (also naïve and also has a surprising appetite) ---
But this cult has another vignette.
Oda naively thought that Dragon Ball was all written by Akira Toriyama, but when he learned that there were many assistants to assist Akira Toriyama, he was depressed for a while. Therefore, after Oda became a manga artist, in order not to let readers be as devastated as he was, most of the drawing work of "One Piece" was done by himself, and the assistant only assisted with some simple work (which was also hotly discussed at the end of October last year) ---
Although this incident hit him a lot, Akira Toriyama's position in Oda's heart was still unshakable.
After becoming famous, Oda also often drew some manga linked to Dragon Ball, which shows that Akira Toriyama's influence on Oda is extremely far-reaching---
In addition, Oda, who aspires to become a manga artist, actually accumulated a lot of ideas in his mind as early as when he was watching "Dragon Ball", and began to prepare for the creation of subsequent manga, and now many of the plots in "One Piece" are following the ideas of that time.
Because Oda believed that these ideas were conceived by me as a reader at that time, that is, what readers wanted to see, it was from such an angle that Oda was able to create a plot that countless fans praised. ---
However, talent and brain holes are only one of the elements of success for cartoonists, which has never been an easy career, not only requires mature drawing skills, but also many times under the pressure of the editorial department, and successfully delivers manuscripts within the specified time, as a weekly cartoonist, this time has been compressed by a large part.
A variety show successfully entered Oda's studio and revealed his painting techniques and working environment to fans, and people found that Oda was not easy---
Due to the long-term high-intensity serial manga, Oda basically did not have time to move his body, and when he went to the hospital, he had been found to have signs of gout and diabetes, and even a doctor warned him that "if you don't exercise, you will die".
So that at a certain time, Oda was abruptly suspended for physical reasons or traveling with his family, and no reader was willing to scold the "wayward" manga artist, but was happy for him, and he finally knew how to relax himself---
However, these diseases are actually related to Oda's eating and sleeping habits. In order to catch up with the draft, Oda often did not eat for two or three days, relying only on sweets and chocolates; the daily sleep time was also compressed to only 3 hours;
During the creation process, Oda also specially adjusted the center of gravity of the chair to force his body to lean forward to prevent himself from dozing off; the light only shone on his workbench---
These insistences are all aimed at presenting the best parts of the manga to the readers, because in Oda's view, not doing so is like disrespecting the reader.
Readers, in response to his insistence, are now the historical position of One Piece in the history of comics, which is the best reward for this cartoonist---
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"One Piece", a comic that has been serialized for more than 20 years, has brought us too much blood and emotion. It makes us realize that comics are never just entertainment, it can be an indicator of the future, change a person's life, give people the courage and motivation to live---
At the beginning of the story of "One Piece", Luffy resolutely decided to take the road of Shanghai Thief because of Shanks's personality charm, and since then he has never wavered in the dream of "becoming a One Piece man", and after more than 20 years of hard work (real time), he finally came to the door of ONE PIECE with a group of powerful partners and became the fifth emperor of the sea---
In reality, Oda entered the ranks of manga artists because of his admiration for Akira Toriyama, and insisted on creating because of his own creed, and eventually reached the top and was noticed by the world.
Where is this comic drawing? This is simply writing an "autobiography", okay?
But the manga is still reality, and the lives of these two "protagonists" are also interpreting the words of the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka, in "Doctor Strange Black Jack": "Miracles will not fall on people without hope and faith" ---