User blog:MrGenial11/Yoshihiro Togashi / Eiichiro Oda interview

Hey guys,so this is an interview of Yoshihiro Togashi and Eiichiro Oda (One Piece FTW!) from October 2011 that I found on a french forum

(The interview does not begin here) T: Yes, as a writer for the jump, sometimes I feel not to be much compared to you (I guess it refers to the fact that one piece is one of the flagship series of jump)

O: Mr. T is too humble. When I was attending, I had always loved your work for their originality.

T: I do not like stories that follow a predefined scheme. I always try to make things more interesting, more unexpected. I pay much attention to your work too. Your story is very emotional. (? I have my doubts about the last sentence so I translated literally)

O: Haha, usually I created the character first, and then I invent a story in keeping with this character. Mr.T and you?

T: Sometimes I'm out of ideas and it tires me. I generally watch western movies, martial arts series, short series of legends and history for ideas.

O: I see. It's a good idea. Your characters are great. The drawing must ask you a lot of effort, right?

T: Just a habit to take. Maybe I'm more influenced by the old school.

O: The arc of ants is almost finished? I think the second half of the arc ant is very special, and it inspired me a lot.

T: Thank you. I just drawn that way as if, as there were lots of breaks in between. It has been some changes in my style for the ant arc. I am impressed that OP always retains the same style.

O: There are times when I would like change my style, but it's risky. I'm sure Mr. T understand.

T: Yes, the editors were concerned with the style of HxH and they were worried that readers do not appreciate, but I still continued. I want to show clearly what I have in mind.

O: So where is HxH? At half?

T: Hard to say. I still have five or six stories in mind. If all goes as planned, there should be at least 3 or 4 stories after the ant arc. Course of time, unexpected events occur and fuck up your plans. therefore, OP is more than half?

O: Yes, I think I'm going a little fast. When a story is half over, I'm already thinking about the following story to my readers, so the story a bit rushed.

T: That means you do not miss imagination, which is a good thing.

O: The editing is very helpful. In general, I give them the story in outline, and they are the ones that help me work out the details.

T: Shonen Jump Magazie has a lot of good manga with wide range of topics. Everything seems that they can continue much longer. The new ones look promising.

O: One Piece once worked in collaboration with Toriko. I think the manga (Toriko) closely resembles the beginning of HxH. He must have been influenced by Mr. T.

T: I think the same thing, but my world is bigger than his. It's more like OP(One Piece). Haha.

O: I see Mr. T still has a sense of humor.