
The already critically acclaimed and multiple award winning series that is One Piece may have just surpassed even its most esteemed of accomplishments with its rather abrupt listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, achieving the world record for “most copies published for the same comic series by a single author”.
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One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda hospitalisation with a tonsil infection has caused the cancellation of at least two One Piece instalments, alarming many fans yet again.
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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.
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2ch is violently debating a putative ranking of mangaka by drawing ability, with the top spot proving particularly incendiary…
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The confession of a hostess that her first time was with an “ultra-famous” mangaka at age 15 has lately been raising eyebrows online, though not nearly as much as the purportedly huge size of what he was keeping in his trousers.
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One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda has given an interview explaining his dissatisfaction with the fact that there are no ranks amongst mangaka, and that there is no special title other than plain “mangaka” available to demonstrate he is no mere mangaka.
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A woman has been arrested for harassing and threatening to kill famed One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda.
The apparent stalker, an unemployed 27-year-old woman, was said to have repeatedly sent Oda threatening emails, admonishing him to “die!” and similar.
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