Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece (1997–present). With more than 480 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga and the best-selling comic series of all time, in turn making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors.^[2][3] The series' popularity resulted in Oda being named one of the manga artists that changed the history of manga.