ONE PIECE GOLD
A Chinese net user uploaded a panel from what’s supposedly an old Dragon Ball manga. In it, you can see the back of a straw hat (kinda like Luffy’s) and a skinny character in a tank top (kinda like Luffy). This seems to be the only place that this character pops up.
Here’s the catch: the original Dragon Ball, where this was apparently discovered, ran until 1995. One Piece didn’t start until 1997.
So did this panel influence Oda? Not sure. Maybe. Or maybe it’s just a coincidence.
Oda wrote another mangabefore One Piece…it was Wanted!…and in there there was a character look alike Rufy …that manga was released in 1992!!!
Oda used to work for akira toriyama and he stated he drew luffy in the panel. He alrewdy had one piece planned back then.