"Red-Haired" Shanks (赤髪のシャンクスAkagami no Shankusu?) is a swordsman and pirate, capable of using the Supreme King color of Haki. After serving on Roger's ship as an apprentice, alongside Buggy,he founds his own crew, the Red-Haired Piratesand earns himself a place among the Four Emperors, after losing an arm while saving seven-year-old Luffy's life. In the original Japanese series, his voice actor is Shūichi Ikeda. In the 4Kids English adaptation, he is voiced by Tom Souhrada. In the Funimation English adaptation, his voice actor is Brandon Potter.
Portgas D. Ace
Portgas D. Ace,[10] born as Gol D. Ace[5] and nicknamed "Fire Fist Ace",[4] was the adopted older brother of Luffy [6] and Sabo, and son of the late Pirate King, Gol D. Roger and his lover, Portgas D. Rouge.[11] He was adopted by Monkey D. Garp as wished by Roger to him before his birth.[12] Ace was the 2nd division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates [2] and one-time captain of the Spade Pirates.[3] Hunted by the World Government for his lineage, Ace ultimately met his end two years before the timeskip after being captured and sentenced to death, which resulted in the Battle of Marineford in an all out clash of powers. Ace was freed,[13] but he sacrificed his life to protect his younger brother from Akainu, who was a Marine admiral at the time.[14]
Eiichiro Oda
In 1992, Oda at age 17 began his manga career starting as an assistant to three different mangakas for the weekly shonen manga magazine Shonen Jump. In the same year he submitted his first work called Wanted! for which he won second place at Tezuka Award. At first he worked with Masaya Tokuhiro on Jungle King Ta-Chan in 1992. In 1994, he briefly worked with Shinobu Kaitani with Suizan Police Gang before going back to Tokuhiro. In the same year he left college as a freshman. After Jungle King finished its run in 1995, he and Tokuhiro went on to create Mizu No Tomodachi Kappaman, it ran from 1995 to 1996. Also in the same year he moved on to work with Nobuhiro Watsuki on Rurouni Kenshin in 1996. During this time Oda met Hiroyuki Takei. Oda drew scenes in that manga with his own art style.
In late 1996, while still working with Watsuki, he created two one-shots for the upcoming manga artist showcase called Romance Dawn, Version 1 and Version 2, which would become the first chapter of One Piece. In 1997, he later quit working with Nobuhiro to begin working on One Piece, doing many early One Piece sketches that would appear in Color Walk 1. He planned out the early stage of One Piece (chapters 1-8) before he officially started it.
The bomb from Rurouni Kenshin.
However, he made many changes, such as changing Boogie to Buggy, changing Zoro from being Buggy's henchman to being a wandering swordsman, and changing Morgan's appearance (he was originally supposed to look like a Sumo but Oda's editors wanted him to change it, which he did). Later Nobuhiro Watsuki would pay a tribute to Oda by drawing the Straw Hat Pirates' jolly roger in one chapter of Rurouni Kenshin as a picture on a bomb used by Gein, one of Yukishiro Enishi'ssubordinates.
Finally in August, 1997, he created his signature work, One Piece. Having been inspired by pirates, he made One Piece a pirate series.
In 1998, Oda did designs for the first OVA and was happy to see One Piece getting animated. In 1999, Toei Animation adopted One Piece and the staff would often meet up with Oda to discuss how to handle the series.
In 2002, he met Chiaki Inaba, who played Nami during the Shonen Jump Fiesta, and the two started going out, and in 2004, they got married. In 2006, he and his wife had a daughter. In April 2006, Oda unexpectedly fell ill and One Piece was not released that week. However he recovered and resumed One Piece the next week. Because of his recent illness, Oda felt the fans needed to catch up so he created Grand Line Times.
In 2007, at the JUMP Fiesta 2008, in the absence of Shūichi Ikeda, when the voice actors acted out the Red-Hair of Class 3 - Sea Time short, he wore a hot pink wig for the part and explained he would only do this because One Piece was in its tenth year.[1] Later that year, he teamed up with Akira Toriyama to create a Dragon Ball/One Piece crossover calledCross Epoch.
He was also involved in writing and directing the tenth One Piece movie, the first movie that he actually wrote the script for, in honor of the tenth anniversary of One Piece.
Oda's message to the earthquake victims.
In 2011 after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster, Oda as well other mangaka drew messages to the victims.
Futur
Oda stated in an interview that he wanted to create a robot manga after he finished One Piece. Later, however, he stated that after he finishes One Piece, he would take the same path Toriyama did and create short-story manga.
BROOK "Dead Bones" (formerly "Humming") Brook (ブルックBurukku?), is a musician. Brook is a livingskeleton, resurrected by the Paramecia-type Revive-Revive Fruit (ヨミヨミの実Yomi Yomi no Mi?), which gives a second life to the user if they die. He is an excellent musician, who says that he can to play any instrument, although he is usually seen playing the violin. He is also a skilled fencer, who uses a shikomizue (a Japanese cane sword), in battle. Brook can hypnotize people with his music. His lightweight skeleton body allows him to jump extraordinarily high and to run across water. He has a very childish and energetic personality. When Brook's crew, the "Rumbar Pirates", enters the Grand Line, they leave their pet whale "Laboon" behind at Reverse Mountain, promising to return after sailing around the world. Fifty years later, Brook considers it his duty to fulfill his former crew's promise. He is voiced by Chō.Ian Sinclair provides his voice in the Funimation English adaptation.The idea of a skeleton musician was first conceived by Oda in 2000.
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