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Eiichiro Oda began his manga career at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! won second place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. Oda went on to work as an assistant to some of the biggest manga artists in the industry, including Nobuhiro Watsuki, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. His pirate adventure One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan. Shusei Sakagami is a literary writer whose work includes Ojibi no Alice, which was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. His piece Time Bound, Sugumoto Haruo Torn Apart earned him a spot as finalist for New Writer Prize for the Japanese literary magazine Gunzo. His other published work has appeared in the Japanese literary magazine Eureka.
