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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I think with title this big, this guy should have a whole fucking team of professionals:
- 20 men and woman caring for his every need including blowjobs
- 10 professional mangakas with outstanding drawing skills ready to cover for him if he gets ill
- A personal doctor, best in Japan
Whole title hanging on one man seems nonsense to me.
They really REALLY should start considering "guest" artists, so Oda can write the dialogues and a general outline of how he wants the chapter and turn it over to the guest "artists" to do te brunt work, also they really should always have a full ending arc outlined from wherever the manga is, tucked away safely somewhere in case of an accident, cause im getting quite sick from investing years upon years of my life on a manga to have it suddendly stop because illness, marriage or sometimes boredom of the creator.
Whole industry, in fact.
If you want him to have all that, you better start buying his bundled volumes kid.
Meh Oda can take break.
It'e puople like Togashi they gotta call bullshit on.
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.
Hey Zura!
Where were you when Gin-san was taking on the entire Bakufu?
One Piece SUCKS!
COME AT ME BRO!
Huehuehehehehehe....
No you.
I guess you like Hitomi & Old Man.
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
If your a chick WEL i'll glady come on you.
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.
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.
@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.
White people's problems...
Awww, why u so mad? :]
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.
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
50 is not a particularly old age in this era. God, I hope that doesn't happen.
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.
..actually that kind of ending would be great :x
"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.
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 Corpse!
How about his assistants?
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.
Workaholic.
He needs to take a break and enjoys more the life.
Eiichiro Oda needs a break. One Piece alone practically runs the manga industry profit-wise.
He needs a 6 month vacation twice a year...
ugh, clearly you've forgotten how much waiting for the next Berserk chapter blows. along with the disappointment each new chapter brings.
If he doesn't let up on that work schedule he's going to die.
Tis the life of a mangaka. Get more assistants & concentrate on writing only; problem solved.
Waiting for new chapters of Berserk?
I've actually forgotten I am waiting for Berserk.
every year! lol
Oda-sama, please hurry and recover. I need my One Piece fix. Bless your talent!!!
The poor guy is probably over-worked. They should let him take as much time as he needs to get well. A sick mangaka can't work for a while, but a dead one produces nothing.
So how can a fan send a message to support and tell him that he should take a break because he deserve it?
Buy his manga and stop pirating them online.
I know it's a manga about pirates but you get what i mean, hopefully.
eh wot?
working 2am til 5am would be reasonable, but 21h work/day?
not even billions of yen are worth that much.
What good is all that money if you have no time to enjoy it?
maybe Oda just enjoys what he does