Author's Notes

Author's Comments (作者コメント) or Author's Notes are short introductions that mangaka traditionally add to the dust jacket of each collected volume of their manga.

Overview
The Author's Notes that Eiichiro Oda writes for volumes of One Piece are usually irrelevant to the series itself, instead relaying bizarre daydreams, anecdotes, and/or jokes. Each Note is headed with an original drawing (more rarely, a photograph) that may or may not illustrate the topic at hand.

Similar Author's Notes can also be found on "unofficial" volumes, such as the databooks (where they are provided from the Straw Hat Pirates' in-universe perspective).

As manga is not sold with dust-jackets in the United States, the Viz localization of the volumes places the Author's Notes on the very first page.

Trivia

 * Volume 89's note attracted controversy in Japan, chiefly from right-wing groups that regarded Shoichi as a war hero; eventually, Shueisha apologized on Oda's behalf.

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