Jump Finds No Piece With Eiichiro Oda’s “Sudden Illness”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 18, 2013 15:13 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Eiichiro Oda, Mangaka, One Piece, Shonen Jump, Shueisha
One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s “sudden illness” recently resulted in One Piece abruptly disappearing from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump – an absence they reassure readers will last only a week, although neither fans nor the industry will be happy to be reminded the world’s best selling mangaka is only mortal.
Details of what exactly happened to Oda are not clear and the earliest mention of his illness came only 5 days before the affected edition was to be published, but there is as yet no indication One Piece’s long term serialisation will be disrupted.
Shonen Jump claims the fact volume 16 (published on the 18th) includes One Piece on the cover and table of contents but not in the actual tome is because “the amendment missed its printing.”
They do say One Piece “will resume” in volume 17, but given the supposed short notice with which Oda’s illness knocked off its scheduling, this may not be wholly reassuring should his health be in any real difficulty.
In its 15 year serialisation, the longest One Piece has been on hiatus is 4 weeks, due to Oda going on vacation in Hawaii, and it has also had the odd 1 week break for such informative reasons as “gathering material,” but “sudden illness” has not hitherto impacted its run.
The 38-year-old mangaka is not known to be suffering from any health problems, but is said to work “from 5AM to 2AM” and to have no real respite due to the demanding weekly schedule he faces – although the billions of yen he rakes in may make up for this.
The nightmare scenario of Oda being unable to continue work is likely to terrify publishers Shueisha, as along with selling hundreds of millions of copies and spawning a vast anime, game and merchandising empire, One Piece underpins the sales of Jump – said to be their only magazine still turning a profit.
Amongst One Piece fans (practically the whole of Japan it would seem), concern has been accompanied by plenty of flagrant speculation:
“This guy needs a break.”
“What do you expect, the anime and manga industries have black working conditions.”
“He’s only 38?”
“3 hours of sleep… he’s going to die early.”
“It’s no surprise for a weekly mangaka to die suddenly. They apparently get made to work through flu or stomach bugs, and the editors treat them as expendable – just a moving tale and some juicy unpublished material to milk if they die.”
“Oda seriously needs a rest.”
“I bet he just got bored and took a break.”
“He could at least tone down those illustrations of his. He packs too much in, it’s hard to read now – it used to be more sparse and was better that way.”
“It’s only a week, why all the fuss…”
“This is the guy who pays the wages of all Shueisha’s employees.”
“It’s too harsh to hear Jump is the only magazine they have left which makes any money.”
“This is what you get for concentrating everything on One Piece. You’re out of luck if One Piece is gone.”
“This is what they get for not rearing any new mangaka. They are just using up the ones they raised in the nineties and haven’t invested in anyone new since, why do you think so many of the big Jump manga are past 50 volumes now?”
“Seeing how much influence Oda has now, it must put him in a difficult position.”
“Anyway, I hope he takes a rest and gets well soon.”
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He needs another vacation...
He deserves it.
You just want to steal his slot in the magazine. We know your tricks, Zura!
Zura ja nai. KATSURA DA!
It's not Zura! It's Katsurio!
Oda take a break, I would rather see a delay then get a cancellation notice because of over work aka death of the author =(. For the love of god
This sucks. I got to learn that certain "ninjutsu" to revive him if he died...not! Kidding aside One Piece is still the manga that converted me to this otaku world. So please don't die before me, I'll be lonely.
Or you can join him if he does, since there's nothing else worth it in this world.
One Piece SUCKS!
COME AT ME BRO!
No you.
no thanks, I'd rather cum on your face. you big gay bitch.
you want to cum on his face but he is the gay bitch? lol
The logic of a rageboner.
Apparently anyone is gay when you have a raging hard on and or desire to fuck someone vigorously out of rage.
If your a chick WEL i'll glady come on you.
I guess you like Hitomi & Old Man.
Huehuehehehehehe....
He needs to croak or something so the shit that is one piece will finally go away and die the death it needs to. Anime has some of the worse art and char designs I have seen, Main char looks like a fag, and the girls are just creepy.
You're right, but the story is still miles better than most the shit I've seen in the anime and manga industry now a days.
Awww, why u so mad? :]
White people's problems...
@Siveria
Why don't YOU croak and drop dead?
Anybody who's watched One Piece and don't get it is probably a worthless human being anyway.
Just because you don't like what I like, you should drop dead, according to your logic.
Nobody's forcing you to read/watch One Piece retard. Just because one manga is popular doesn't mean whatever you like is any less.
What you have is called the inferiority complex and that is what made you a sh1tty human being and say that stupid comment.
But I still wish you'd drop dead from being such a retard.
Ooh, we have a One Piece fluffer here.
Hey Zura!
Where were you when Gin-san was taking on the entire Bakufu?
“This is what they get for not rearing any new mangaka. They are just using up the ones they raised in the nineties and haven’t invested in anyone new since, why do you think so many of the big Jump manga are past 50 volumes now?”
The problem is most of the current Mangaka aren't worth investing in. They aren't original or imaginative because their minds have been over-saturated with other people's stories.
uh, wasn't Oda himself hugely inspired by Dragon Ball?
yep, and Hokuto no Ken
still is their own business and future to back them up.
"They aren't original or imaginative because their minds have been over saturated with other peoples' stories"
Assassination Classroom
a certain mad railgun finds his lack of cancer disturbing.
he should be happy he didnt got a TERMINAL ILLNESS.
oh noez i teleported again somewhere suschpischiouz.
OH YEAH! DIE ALL SATAN SHITS!
You guys are whining about a week? Try being a Berserk fan.
the next time you try to threat me.... try it for real..... little bitch of an author.
YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
You forgot to take your medicine today?
nah i took the battery.
have to get the medicine first for today
Who cares One Piece is total trash anyway, be better if he croaked so that trash can disappear forever. Same for the idiot keeping naruto going. Onepiece and naruto fags are the worse fanboys out there, and its to 2 of the worse shows out there, though One piece is alot worse than naruto.
He'll be 70 years old mangaka and they will be no way closer to finding One Piece then they are today. It's like how Ash is no way closer to becoming a Pokemon Master than when he started 15 something years ago.
In another 15 years they probably won't be any closer to finishing the story
Eiichiro Oda will probably die of old age first before they actually find One Piece
..actually that kind of ending would be great :x
No, it will be horrible...
When you refuse to give a serie a proper ending, it will only og downhill from that point onwards.
And One Piece should've had it's ending some time ago.
"One Piece should've had it's ending some time ago."
HECK NO, One Piece is only getting better and better. And Oda is such a master at story writing he had planned out little hidden plot lines from all those year ago just to have them resurface years later.
Those who don't like it just stop reading, but to wish the end of one of the most well written stories of modern times is a blasphemy.
I still say the 'one piece' an an alien artifact, something that can resurface the planet (maybe controls for an orbital satellite laser) or a space pirate ship.
A space pirate ship would be very fitting - given Luffy's simpleminded nature, space pirates in Enel's story and that Noah might be a space ship.
One Corpse!
How about his assistants?
50 is not a particularly old age in this era. God, I hope that doesn't happen.
Oda has actually stated himself that he'd planned the whole story out from start to finish and is currently in the second half, moving towards the end. He admitted that it just took a bit longer than he originally anticipated. It's not like Bleach and Naruto where the artists literally seem to pull shit out of their asses woth no prior planning.
yey!
MORE FILLER EPISODES!!!
A retard that now crap! Dopnt compare this with harutard and bleachtard!
Fillers have nothing to to with the manag and since you reference the anime, filler are almost non existent.
You must be a ignorant moetard
you must not notice the 3min intros and end credits and previews or the fact that you can skip every other episode if not more and literally not miss a thing they use to not be that bad in the beginning of the show
Lol, looks like two animetards that can't tell the difference between manga and anime.
Seriously I hope Oda takes a break, I'd rather wait than have him die and have no new chapters, ever.
If he survives till the end of One Piece he can retire like Akira Toriyama did and just reap in the royalties while doing a few one-off mangas.
"and since you reference the anime, filler are almost non existent"
Actually OP has a number of filler arcs too. You'd know this if you READ the manga.