SBS

The SBS (short for 質問を募集するShitsumon o Boshū Suru, "I'm Taking Questions") is a question-and-answer column that began in volume 4 of the manga, in which Eiichiro Oda answers questions sent in by his fans, making jokes and sometimes telling useful information about the story and characters. It is here that the ages of the Straw Hat pirates were first revealed, as well as various facts about the story that are not immediately apparent (but nevertheless present) in the chapters themselves. Sometimes the information on the characters is just suggested in this section by the fans, to which Oda just agrees with them and makes it official; for example, Tashigi, Chopper and Robin's birthdays which were all fan suggestions. There are several running jokes throughout the SBS, including the fact that a reader always manages to start the SBS before the author can. The SBS was also where the author revealed the existence of the hidden characters Pandaman and Tomato Gang, who appear hidden in the background at many points during the series. Because of the nature of the SBS and the appeal of One Piece, Oda will get questions of all kinds of nature from the serious to silly and the 'mature'.

The following is a list of the volumes that included a SBS section in them.

Volumes
SBS Volume 4

SBS Volume 5

SBS Volume 6

SBS Volume 7

SBS Volume 8

SBS Volume 9

SBS Volume 10

SBS Volume 11

SBS Volume 12

SBS Volume 13

SBS Volume 14

SBS Volume 15

SBS Volume 16

SBS Volume 17

SBS Volume 18

SBS Volume 19

SBS Volume 20

SBS Volume 21

SBS Volume 22

SBS Volume 23

SBS Volume 24

SBS Volume 25

SBS Volume 26

SBS Volume 27

SBS Volume 28

SBS Volume 29

SBS Volume 30

SBS Volume 31

SBS Volume 32

SBS Volume 33

SBS Volume 34

SBS Volume 35

SBS Volume 36

SBS Volume 37

SBS Volume 38

SBS Volume 39

SBS Volume 40

SBS Volume 41

SBS Volume 42

SBS Volume 43

SBS Volume 44

SBS Volume 45

SBS Volume 46

SBS Volume 47

SBS Volume 48

SBS Volume 49

SBS Volume 50