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In a 2008 poll, conducted by marketing research firm Oricon, Oda was elected fifth most favorite manga artists of Japan. Dragon Ball x One Piece: Cross Epoch (2007).Wanted! (1998, Collection of the short stories below).Oda and Toriyama have made a one shot called "Cross Epoch" containing characters from Toriyama's Dragon Ball and Oda's One Piece. In an interview with Shonen Jump, when asked what his three favorite manga by other authors were, he stated 'everything by Akira Toriyama'. His biggest influence is Akira Toriyama, who is the creator of Dragon Ball and Dr. In 1997, One Piece appeared for the first time in Weekly Shōnen Jump and promptly became one of the most popular manga in Japan. While Oda was an assistant of Watsuki, his colleague was Hiroyuki Takei, and the three of them are good friends. Luffy as the protagonist, who then became the protagonist of One Piece. During this time, he drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories, called "Romance Dawn", which would debut in Monthly and Weekly Jump in late 1996-early 1997. Watsuki also credits Oda for the creation of the character Honjō Kamatari who appears in Rurouni Kenshin. At the age of 19, he worked as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki on Rurouni Kenshin, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists.
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That got him into a job at the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, where he originally worked as assistant to Shinobu Kaitani's series Suizan Police Gang before moving to Masaya Tokuhiro on Jungle King Tar-chan and Mizu no Tomodachi Kappaman, which gave him an unexpected influence on his artistic style. At the age of 17, he submitted his work Wanted! and won several awards, including second place in the coveted Tezuka Award.