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Eiichiro Oda
One Piece. The voyage of Monkey D. Luffy and the crew who share his ambition has continued as a single story since its serialisation began in 1997. It has been certified by Guinness World Records as the comic series by a single author with the most copies published, and has spread from television anime and feature films to a live-action drama streamed worldwide. On 22 July 1997 the serial began in Weekly Shonen Jump. What overlapped in the author's spacetime on that day? Why has this story achieved a success that people call the greatest in the world? We read it against the phases of destiny and time, through the final saga now being drawn and on to 2027, when the starting point of his destiny comes round again.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1975–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 丁未 / Month 丙子 / Year 甲寅
- Void branches
- 寅卯 (Tiger–Rabbit)
- Destiny area
- 0.654 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny holds almost nothing that obstructs, and its most reliable strength stands in plain view — a destiny of the highest grade.
- The twenty years in which he established himself as an artist lay inside a special span of time in which the frame of fortune comes off.
- The serial began within that span, on a day that coincided with his own birth pillars.
- In the decade after the frame closed, he reached a world record.
- In 2027, the starting point of his destiny comes round again.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why has One Piece achieved a success called the greatest in the world?
- What overlapped on 22 July 1997?
- What does that success bring to the author's spacetime?
- What comes round in 2027?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1992 | 壬申 (天) | Runner-up for the Tezuka Award with Wanted! |
| 1996 | 丙子 (天) | Publishes the one-shot Romance Dawn |
| 1997 | 丁丑 (天) | 22 Jul — One Piece begins in Weekly Shonen Jump |
| 1999 | 己卯 (天天) | 20 Oct — The television anime begins |
| 2015 | 乙未 | Certified by Guinness World Records for most copies published by a single author |
| 2022 | 壬寅 (天) | The final saga begins; 6 Aug — One Piece Film Red opens |
| 2023 | 癸卯 (天) | 31 Aug — The live-action series streams worldwide on Netflix |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The birth-year void and the Tiger–Rabbit void
- Setting sail in the great-cycle void
- A destiny of the highest grade, and 甲寅
- The wealth chakras
- The turning point of 2027
- The four layers of 22 July 1997
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii