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[One Piece] Oda’s comments about his characters’ birthdays are still interesting, even though they don’t really matter.

Here we go!! 👍 It’s decided. (S) and (K) here, please listen a little! SKCMK’s announcement~~!! Talking about birthdays, everyone tends to decide them however they like, right? That’s fine, but honestly, I don’t really care about the birthdays of characters. (I just said it.) However, once I rolled up my sleeves, I asked our team to look up the birthdays that have been decided so far. The “Birthday Calendar” is at the back. Please take a look. (P190) The readers overlap!! / Three months ago, I received a letter like this. “There are no characters with the same birthday as me.” I see. Let’s fill the calendar!! Let’s make it so that all readers can say they share a birthday with someone. I’ll say this, okay? I won’t check!! Please fill in the blanks so everyone can fill them in. Please skillfully propose birthdays for characters that fit well. Probably, as before, proposals will get approved easily. Because I don’t really care anyway!! (P190) The calendar is as of October 2015, and I dream of it increasing in the future!!

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I’m not too concerned about the day I was born (start) and the place I return to (goal).

It may be that the importance of the journey as an adventure is fundamentally consistent with the mentality of a weekly serialized format.

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>>1

Ah, yeah, that’s fine!

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Do you really need to read that deeply?

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I believe that the goal has always been important.

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In reality, a birthday is a setting that doesn’t really matter in creative works.

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I had the same birthday as Akainu.

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Zoro’s birthday on November 11 really gives off the feeling that it doesn’t matter at all.

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>>7

Isn’t this more like Grandpa Pinzoro’s birthday?

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Zoro’s father and grandfather could also just be born on November 11th.

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I’m not the type to enjoy thoroughly developing character settings, no matter how you look at it.

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In a romantic manga, celebrating anniversaries is important, but in an adventure tale, it’s not that significant, right?

At most, it would be nice to have an episode that celebrates a birthday.

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But after Zoro said he doesn’t eat the ice from drinks…

I was pointed out for eating ice and felt down about it…

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Conan also says that the chronological age of birthdays can all be considered noise.

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Characters don’t need birthdays, right?

Even if it has something to do with a mystery, it’s still…

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You’re randomly deciding things like your favorite foods and birthday, aren’t you?

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Shall we talk about the detailed setup of World Trigger, even to the point of creating fictional constellations?

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>>17

There are fans who would be happy about that.

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>>17

If you’re going to do it that thoroughly, then that’s just how it is.

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It’s probably because it’s not necessary for creating a story.

If you’re going to create a story using a birthday, you would cherish it, right?

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In World Trigger, most of the current readership is female, and that’s probably fine.

It’s strange to compare it with a dress.

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It’s a bit random that all the main characters of the Hunter have the same birthday with repeating digits.

I don’t know if you think it doesn’t matter or not.

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It doesn’t matter what day they were born when creating the character settings for an adventure story…

When it comes to school settings, the story changes a bit.

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If you’re going to create something, do it at the level of Prince of Tennis.

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>>24

My birthday is sometime in December (unspecified).

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Since there’s nothing significant in the story, it’s irrelevant to most readers as well.

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It would be nice to receive letters or presents addressed to that character for their birthday, but I would have trouble finding space for them.

I used to get them often too.

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I feel a strong sense of a female writer’s style in the way the character settings in World Trigger are developed.

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Oda doesn’t care, but there are definitely readers who do care.

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It’s not really the kind of manga that has birthday party episodes or anything like that.

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No matter how much I like a character, they exist only in the fictional world, so I don’t really understand the culture of celebrating things like birth festivals in reality.

That celebration won’t reach you.

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>>31

It’s not about whether it will reach or not, but because I want to celebrate it, that’s why I’m doing it.

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>>34

Isn’t it the day it first appeared in the work that we should celebrate?

I don’t know, though.

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It’s meant for people who want to celebrate someone’s birthday, so well, guys don’t really…

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>>32

This is it, right?

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If the date is not specified in the work, it is unlikely to be utilized.

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Is it about height and age? Just some information I want to know.

It’s fine whether I have weight or not, but I’d like it to be to the extent that it doesn’t feel uncomfortable.

The blood type on my birthday feels pretty unimportant.

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The calendar is quite an important element in a one-piece.

I don’t want to unnecessarily link that resolution to reality.

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Only otaku really celebrate birthdays, right…

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>>37

I’m an otaku, but I really don’t care about the characters’ birthdays…

Among otaku, aren’t there birthday otaku? Those who are happy about birthdays.

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Height is definitely important information when it comes to drawing and such, but in the case of one-shots, characters’ heights can fluctuate quite a bit based on the moment’s inspiration, so I think it’s not something to worry too much about.

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>>38

The breast sizes are the same.

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>>68

The same goes for nations!

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Setting a birthday is effective because it boosts merchandise sales.

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One Piece casually has characters that are 5 meters tall, so even if they write down numbers, it doesn’t register!

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I don’t think it’s that they don’t care about setting; rather, I think they just really don’t care about birthdays at all.

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>>43

It’s not like anything changes just because I set a birthday, right…?

Your personality or fortune is not determined by your birthday.

My parents prepared for this day! It’s not something to enjoy by calculating backwards.

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Isn’t Luffy getting smaller year by year?

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>>44

Others are big.

It’s 2m or 3m, you know, old man!

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How is the date setting in that world determined?

Is it the same as Earth?

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Isn’t height quite important for a dress?

Using perspective and magnification to create a match.

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In gag manga, birthday themes can be used, so they are important.

In the story, it doesn’t have any relevance, and if anything, since it’s not even Earth, the Earth calendar has no impact at all.

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>>48

No, not really…

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I understand why there’s a lack of interest in parts that would make female readers squeal.

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Luffy in Gear 4 becomes 3 meters tall and can face off against the boss character directly.

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The author of Fullmetal Alchemist mentioned that they don’t particularly have a decision on it.

It seems that Ed has a kind of winter-born image (considering that in northern countries, the winter period is long).

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Well, whether it’s an old man or a male elementary school student,

I’m not interested at all in finding out character compatibility based on their birthdays or their fate through birthstones or anything like that…

It feels like Oda is trying to avoid focusing on elementary school boys.

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>>54

It’s quite a big deal if a elementary school boy awakens to cross-dressing.

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Many female fans tend to think of characters as if they are real people.

That’s why I enjoy solidifying the settings and also pay attention to things like birthdays.

I was painfully aware when a female otaku asked me, “Why do guys draw erotic stuff while saying ‘my child’? Are they violating their own child? From whose perspective?”

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>>55

Why do you fall in love with underage male characters while making them gay and have them stick other characters’ d***s into a poop hole? When I asked that back,

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I only celebrated my birthday like Rinrin.

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Since I was asked, I thought about it casually and answered, but in this world, asking which country you are from can also be a dangerous topic.

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I don’t understand the meaning of trying to apply the dates from 1/1 to 12/31 over 365 days in a fantasy world.

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I found it amusing that you obviously have no interest in the personification of swords and similar topics.

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>>62

But it seems like they like TS.

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I thought it was silly that they put so much importance on the birthday of a character played by an actress.

But I’m using a personality chart based on each birthday.

I thought it was interesting that setting a birthday is part of the process of grasping a character’s image.

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If it exists, it’s a nuisance the moment I direct my attention to it.

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Zoro is just shocked because he mistakenly ate ice, even though he’s not interested in birthdays.

I thought about how many days apart I take a bath, and I’ve properly established my character settings.

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>>67

That area is related to the character’s personality and thoughts/actions, but a birthday doesn’t mean anything…

In modern theater, there might be something about being born early or whatnot.

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I’m concerned about the character image.

They probably don’t realize that the birthday relates to the character’s image.

In reality, I can’t think of anyone who would be like this on their birthday.

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In the Bobo-bo fanbook, it was said that the birthdays of about 500 characters were all decided.

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>>71

I don’t know, but it seems like the staff would handle that.

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>>71

Leader Patch

Birthday: Month 13, Day 0

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It’s not nice to think that everything is determined by where you’re born.

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If it doesn’t have any significance in the story, then any birthday is fine.

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There seems to be a tendency to mock Sanji’s leg hair and female readers.

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What I found interesting about birthday settings is the 13th month, day 0 of Chief Patch.

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I really think character birthdays are a completely pointless setting.

Those who want to turn it into a business seem to think it’s an important hook.

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It’s difficult for me because it suddenly becomes the Earth’s calendar just for the birthday, even though it has a unique worldview…

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If dates and seasons have meaning, then they’re important, but if not, then they don’t matter at all.

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I think blood type is unnecessary information.

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>>82

It was very important in One Piece…

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If the birthday is used to establish relationships between characters, then it’s definitely a meaningful setting.

Well, it has nothing to do with One Piece.

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If there is an opportunity to depict a modern school story, Mr. Oda might be particular about birthdays as well.

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The triviality of blood types.

It might be better to have a birthday just barely.

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Some people say that the character’s name and age aren’t important; what really matters is what emphasis is placed in the story.

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The character’s race was mostly matched in the live-action adaptation, right?

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It might be a good story to think that a fan has the opportunity to delve into the official setting of a famous work.

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Is the calendar in One Piece the same as the Earth’s calendar?

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If you’re in the business of selling characters, birthdays are a business opportunity! So…

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It seems like the official side is most troubled by Mihawk, Shanks, and Franky having the same day.

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In the case of One Piece, birthday goods are sold at Jump Shop and Straw Hat Store, so it’s better to have a birthday celebration even if it’s casual.

It will come out to this line.

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Isn’t it Hiroyuki Eito from Guruguru?

It’s fine to roughly just say which of the two characters is taller.

What I was telling Teacher Ushi was that it’s easier and more convenient not to decide on the details of items that aren’t immediately necessary, as this allows for more flexibility later on.

You can make it when you need it.

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>>95

I think that’s fine.

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Is blood type S (RH-) a unique setting?

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I certainly thought that the character’s birthday didn’t matter to me and searched for reasons, but…

When I think about it, I don’t remember the birthdays of my real friends and acquaintances at all, so it’s not about the characters; it really just doesn’t matter to me.

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Is it a setting for external purposes, rather than for the work itself, where fans celebrate and companies release merchandise?

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It’s not necessarily going to lead to an increase in content sales, the birthday setting.

Most of the time, it’s just female fans making requests, and when it comes to whether they will buy merchandise that day, it’s not necessarily so.

It’s just that things like cakes and chocolates are selling.

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If you easily set a birthdate of February 29 in modern times, it becomes complicated and bothersome because it ties you to a specific generation!

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If it’s about One Piece, aren’t the popular characters’ birthday goods selling quite well?

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Because they draw and share birthday illustrations, there should be a certain level of effectiveness.

The cost of setting a birthday is almost nothing.

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Is it Nobunaga who doesn’t know his own birthday?

You can create characters like that, right?

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I’m a guy, but I’m simple-minded, so I’m pretty happy when a character shares the same birthday as me.

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By the way, there are official new illustrations for main characters to some extent in the One Piece series.

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Aside from everything else, this is a bulletin board for both Rokus and such.

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Goods related to characters like Ace, Sabo, and Shanks really sell out quickly.

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Setting a birthday does not guarantee sales.

I think it’s beneficial to set it up if it’s a popular work.

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BLEACH seems to put a fair amount of importance on birthday settings, as Aizen mentioned in the story.

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>>110

It’s the glasses era, and I don’t know if it’s his true feelings, but Aizome is unusually not being condescending and is just explaining things to people in a normal way.

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The way they decided on things in “Twin Star Exorcists” is really great, isn’t it?

In fan letters, it comes in as “Please make this character’s ○○ △△!!”, and that’s how it gets decided and adopted.

It seems like a ton of really annoying letters have arrived.

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Otoshi Island’s birthday has to be on March 5th.

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The character doesn’t change just because the birthday is on 3/20 and 10/1, so from the author’s perspective, it’s probably fine to be casual about it.

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I want you to set a birthday, but don’t complain about setting the measurements…

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If the thread image is from 10 years ago, could it be that there are quite a few characters whose birthdays are every day now?

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It’s quite common to set the season of birth for a character as either summer or winter.

For example, the birth rate of cheerful and bright characters on August 1st is high.

It’s Urouge from One Piece.

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It feels like the protagonist or a character with equal charm was born in July.

It feels like the protagonist or a character with equal charm was born in July.

Can Badge HAPPY BIRTHDAY Celebration Gift

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Was the only helpful aspect of the story the blood type setting?

The only one who can give blood transfusions to Luffy is Jinbe.

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In idol-related works, there is basically a birthday setting, and you often see fans celebrating, so is it really something unique to female otaku as mentioned in this thread?

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For example, if there was a birthday party happening.

If it’s not something like it was summer last time but now it’s winter, I don’t think it’s something to be particularly particular about.

But I think there are people who take it seriously, like with horoscope readings.

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As a fan, I want to celebrate their birthday with a fervent desire.

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