Sorry for translating out of order
Reader: Is it a coincidence that Kin’emon’s wife, Otsuru, and Tsuru from the Marine share the same name?
Oda: Oh you’re right—. They have the same name—.
However, do you guys know about “NANA”, that Shojo manga? In that manga, the two main female protagonists are both named “Nana”! They have the same name!! Even though it’s a famous manga!! So, it’s not really a bad thing, is it?
So if one day they met each other, the conversation would go like this:
“I’m also called Tsuru, Tsuru-chan.”
Reader: Oda sensei, do you still read all the postcards and letters yourself?
Oda: I read all of them! Of course I do! And I never dispose them over the course of 22 years(laugh). Because there’re way too many of them, I can’t store them in my house, so I borrowed a room, and all the letters that I’ve finished reading will be sent to that room.
There’re so much of them that one day the floor might fall off!
Thank you!! Those letters contain you guys’ feelings in them, so I won’t throw them away.