The One Piece manga staff kicked off the twentieth year of the series’ serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump with a special message from author Eiichiro Oda on Twitter.

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m Eiichiro Oda, the author of One Piece. My editors are bugging me to send you all a message, since they have lots of stuff to do on Twitter. Since I don’t want to see them cry about it (just kidding) I have decided to make my first tweet. Happy New Year! One Piece is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, everyone!! 20th anniversary year? Yes, 20th anniversary. Twenty years. I’ll do my best. Well, there’s my message, and now they’re complaining that it has to be 140 characters. Like I care! Follow me please.

The message was posted on the brand-new Twitter account for the One Piece manga staff. The account also posted a video of a realistic live-drawing by Eiichiro Oda of Monkey D. Luffy and Red Haired Shanks as drawn on with an Apple Pencil. Author Eiichiro Oda also drew Nami with an Apple Pencil in late November 2016 for the Toei Animation YouTube account:

The new Twitter account for the One Piece manga staff is set to include pictures of author Eiichiro Oda’s studio, original drawings, comments and additional information about the manga. We featured a tour of Eiichiro Oda’s workspace in late 2015. Since its launch, the Twitter account has already included news about a shake-up with the One Piece manga and media staff. Keep an eye out to The One Piece Podcast for any updates from Eiichiro Oda and his team of editors!

SOURCE: Twitter; LiveDoor (via Sandman on AP)

Thanks to our own Stephen Paul for the translation of Oda’s comment!