Gorgeous color art from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece! Volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the Color Walk art books are collected into one beautiful compendium.
Color images and special illustrations from the world’s most popular manga, One Piece! This compendium features over 300 pages of beautiful color art as well as interviews between the creator and other famous manga artists.
Keep up with the colorful adventures of the One Piece gang! This next installment continues following the Straw Hats through their Paramount War adventures into the arc of the New World in vivid, vibrant detail, with special interviews and author commentary you don’t want to miss!
Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎, Oda Eiichirō) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece.
As a child, Oda was inspired by Akira Toriyama's works and aspired to become a manga artist. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking. He submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga Kinnikuman. Pandaman was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works.
Please also see: 尾田荣一郎 (Chinese, simplified) 尾田榮一郎 (Chinese, traditional)
When I was in early elementary school, I entered a prefectural art contest and won the top award: "Special Selection." The theme of the contest was "future dreams," so I drew myself riding on a gigantic stag beetle. Its eyes were shining as it flew through the city at night. It was totally awesome. When I stood on stage proudly receiving my award, I saw the other winning entries on the wall, and I was stunned. Everyone else had drawn things like,
"Myself as an office worker. "Myself as a nurse." "Myself as a police officer."
Was that the point?! Once I realized the theme, I felt embarrassed of my mistake. But all of the adults smiled and praised my drawing. Nowadays I remember their smiles more than I do my embarrassment.
notes: a smorgasbord of color and creativity. colorspreads i’ve seen before digitally take on new life on the page, many fantastic pieces of concept and promo art i’ve never seen before (just one highlight below — from the back cover of a one piece cookbook), and some terrific interviews between oda and artists/writers he admires.
A Special Thanks Goes to NetGalley and Viz Media for the opportunity to review this title.
Normally, I would review either Manga (Usually in the Shonen Genre) or Comic Books. But today’s review is special. The newest review takes us on a visual journey with Luffy and the Straw Hats in the Art Book titled One Piece Color Walk Compendium: New World to Wano. This Compendium collects Volumes 6,7, and 8, of the One Piece Color, Walk art books. It is packed with 300 pages filled with beautifully drawn illustrations. And it includes special interviews with Eiichiro Oda and other famous manga artists. It is certainly filled with wonder as the Straw Hats venture into a New World filled with beautiful, vibrant colors.
While we’re on the topic of artwork with beautiful vibrant colors, there are wonderful pencil sketches included in this compendium, which also included collaboration pieces. This volume follows Luffy’s departure from Amazon Lily, to their arrival in Wano.
In terms of publication, this book contains illustrations dating back to 2010, leading up to 2018. It is the perfect item to have for the One Piece fan in your life or for yourself. Each drawing helps fill the gaps for new or casual readers. One Piece Color Walk Compendium: New World to Wano is available now, where books are sold.
One Piece Color Walk Compendium: New World to Wano. By Eiichiro Oda. 2022. Viz Media (ARC eBook).
This volume of compiled colored panels picks up as Luffy leaves the Island of Women to met up with the gang after the two year separation of the Straw Hat Pirates. Publication years are 2010-2018, or thereabouts. Comments by Oda are included, as well as pencil sketches, collaboration pieces, and interviews. It’s nice to see everyone in color, especially Robin, who I don’t recognized very well in black and white after her makeover. This sort of volume will be great for big One Piece fans who never miss a publication, but also, there are enough details of characters, locations and themes in these drawings to help fill in the gaps for the more casual readers, such as myself, who am just now coming back to the story after mostly leaving following adult Ace’s departure and his childhood story arc.
If you are a One Piece fan or a fan of Eiichiro Oda this book is a MUST for your collection! This is the third volume of his colored pieces and it is another gem! I will start off by saying the only (ONLY) reason I found myself limited to 4 stars instead of 5, is because the art is beautifully reproduced in this book, but with binding some of it is still lost when trying to enjoy the many rich pieces. Over 300 pages and some amazing interviews in the back of the book make this a true treasury! This is a book I recommend looking through it in small doses....just enjoy the art and the different fun situations that Oda puts the Strawhat gang in. Many of these would make excellent puzzles or posters to adorn any fans walls. If you buy this book...you will wonder how you considered yourself a One Piece fan before actually having this in your collection! Excellent work!
As always, this was a beautiful compilation of Eiichiro Oda's colorspreads, this time from the New World to Wano arcs. It was great seeing how his art has changed over time, and being able to see all of it in full color. I finally got to a point where the color spreads that were featured in the book were ones that I saw as I was reading weekly, which brought up a wave of nostalgia.
As always, there are some cool interviews at the end of the book.
Love it! It's a dream come true for any One Piece fan to own this. I've been watching the anime for twenty years, so needless to say, this art album sparks childish joy. Super high-quality vibrant images, great addition with the big poster-like spreads. If you've been wondering if you should get it, it's worth every cent.
I didn't really enjoy the interviews with the other artists at the end, but that's personal. You can easily skip reading them, problem solved! :)
If you like one piece and you like Oda’s art style, you’ll love this book as it covers the later half of the one piece manga, showing color spreads from different chapters and the movies made at the time. I would say the only disappointment is, it doesn’t have a lot of interesting interviews compared to the other color, walk compendiums, but if you are here primarily for the art it delivers
The thing about Oda’s colour spreads is that they are a perfect blend of colour, whimsy and fun. This compendium really hits me right in the feels because it begins in 2010 and that was the year I started reading One Piece. If you are a fan of this series, this is such a gorgeous book to add to your collection.
Oda's work is always one of my favorites and I was expecting more of the insight the previous 2 volumes of Color Walk Compendium volumes offered. However, this volume pulls back the curtain less than the previous two. While I still enjoyed what was offered I would have enjoyed more.
Applies to compendium 1-3. Such beautiful artwork! During the anime, you'd have snippets of simple and nostalgic times at the end of each episode, softly paired with a wonderful song. The art in these compendiums are somehow new and familiar to me and add a snapshot of the development of the manga and show, as well as a snippet of what the artist was really thinking when capturing the essence of each piece.
A whole new realm of islands await Luffy and the gang, from an underwater mermaid kingdom to the hidden treasures within land of Samurai, as Eiichiro Oda shares the next wave of his illustrations and sketches, along with another selection of interviews with his mangaka and animator friends! Oda will keep fans riveted with this exciting flood of colour and personality, a loving addition to the Color Walk series to beguile again and again. Two years of training have the Straw Hat Pirates ready for anything the sea throws at them!