As a child, Oda practice drawing by sketching tons of characters from FUJIKO F. Fujio, he also inspired by vikings and aspired to become a manga artist since then. 135e10

He submitted a character named Pandaman for Kinnikuman, who was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works.

At the age of 17, he submitted his work One Piece appeared for the first time in the Weekly Shounen Jump magazine and promptly became one of the most popular manga in Japan.

His biggest influence is INOUE Takehiko for their autographs at Jump’s new year parties.

Good friends with ANZAI Nobuyuki's circle.

Among his assistants there were SHIBATA Yusaku.

He is married to Inaba Chiaki, who had played Nami during Jump Festa One Piece stage performances.