- Oda enjoys talking with young assistants since they are familiar with trends.
- Oda loves film and documentaries. He analyzes why people enjoy each film.
- Oda himself doesn't know much about recent games. Instead, he tells his assistants to feel free to spend Oda's studio's money on buying new games
- Oda prefers collecting information to sleeping. He says he even wants to become a robot who doesn't need sleep.
- Oda takes care of his neck and back and via chiropractic .
- Oda is very confident that he will not die from overwork since he doesn't feel stressed at least when he is drawing manga. Oda also says he feels exhausted when there are many works other than manga.
- Oda has never experienced a callus caused by too much drawings.
- Oda tells his editors that he will take care of their family if the editor is down from illness or injury due to overwork.
- Oda has been encouraging victims from earthquakes via drawing illustrations, but at the same time, he feels it might be meaningless if the victims are hungry.
- Oda sometimes skips drawing trivial stuffs (ex. Pandaman) these days since his eyesight is getting weaker.
- Oda needs to consult his notebooks about the details of ONE PIECE world.
- Oda is glad that Shueisha allows him to take more breaks these days. He goes to foreign countries (Singapore, Hawaii, Guam etc) at least once in a year.
- Oda wants to go on a round-the-world trip when ONE PIECE is finished. He says he'd like to visit Asian countries such as India. He also says that he wants to take a break during his serialization to visit world heritages which require physical strength to go. He wants to visit various countries by 50 years old.
- What Oda wants most now is Floating Seahorse in Dubai since he can see fish outside the window.
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- Oda enjoys watching both old and new films, but he usually watches new films in order to catch up with the trends unless there is much free time.
- When asked if he is afraid that he can't come up with ideas about ONE PIECE some day in the future,
Oda denies and says he is confident that he can produce good ideas via final push near a deadline for chapters.
Oda appreciates deadlines since he considers he would not be able to draw an interesting manga if he had so much time to prepare.
- Many staffs are involved in ONE PIECE industry, but Oda himself doesn't feel pressured at all.
He says there is no responsibility for him about ONE PIECE other than manga although for example he has been getting along well with anime staffs.
Oda says it would not have a large impact even if ONE PIECE comes to an end due to his health.
- Oda considers manga is basically helpless in that it can't be of help for people who suffer from a large disaster.
Oda says manga doesn't produce food, house and clothes. (Oda has made drawings for the victims for large earthquakes in Japan.)
- When Oda was in his 20s, he thought he should spend time on manga rather than attending his parent's funeral even if they die.
Oda now calls it a crazy idea, but at the same time, he says this excessive seriousness toward manga made what ONE PIECE is today.
- Oda wants to entertain people ever since his childhood. He says he is happy to see others delighted.
- Oda says now that ONE PIECE is already the best manga in terms of volume sales he is wondering what to aim for next.
He also says he has already experienced most of what other popular manga artists have done in the past (anime, games etc?). Oda says he needs a big goal.
- Oda supports his assistants so that their mangas will become popular.
- ONE PIECE has more characters than before. He has to cram much information into one chapter to move forward with the story.
Oda says he would be able to draw really impressive fight scenes only if he could keep drawing the fight scene for 2 chapters in a row.
He feels ONE PIECE can now spend only 1 chapter at most on a fight scene.
- When asked where he wants to visit most, Oda laughs and says he doesn't want to visit space since it would be too dangerous.
- Oda is interested in diving since his wife loves it, but he is scared of sharks. (The restroom in Oda studio is full of sharks, though. lol)
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