Eiichiro Oda

Eiichiro Oda (born January 1, 1975) is a manga artist from Japan and the creator of the One Piece series (1997–present). With over 490 million tanks on copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume, making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors. Oda was considered one of the manga artists who impacted the history of comics because of the series' success.

One Piece debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 and has since grown to become not just one of Japan's most popular manga series, but also the best-selling manga series of all time. It had 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide by December 2014, 430 million volumes in circulation worldwide as of October 2017, 440 million copies sold as of May 2018, and 450 million in print as of March 2019. The series, together with Kimuchi Yokoyama's Nekodarake Nice, earned the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 2013.

Detailed Information:

Min. estimated sales: 490 million

Max. estimated sales: 490 million

Original language: Japanese

Genre and/or major works: Manga, One Piece

Number of books: 100