One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda: 3-hour sleep nights for 15 years, 600M copies sold
floguo · x · 2026-11-10
Founders Podcast's episode on Eiichiro Oda is making the rounds: started One Piece at 22 and has shipped a chapter nearly every week for 29 years; 600M+ copies sold (Guinness record for a single author); slept 3 hours a night for 15 years; said he'd miss his parents' funeral for a deadline and tells new editors they must be willing to die for One Piece; hand-copied entire Disney movies frame by frame to learn emotion; so private he wears a giant fish avatar on camera.
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