One Piece: Heroines, Vol. 2

Jun Esaka was born February 13 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Blood type O. After graduating from Waseda University, he began working as a writer.

Sayaka Suwa was born in Kagoshima in 1980. She illustrates in pencil, ink, and watercolor. Her illustrations have been featured in a variety of books and magazines, including One Piece Magazine.

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.