News Former Editor Naito changed his mind regarding “5 years” issue

Uncle Van

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One Piece has 5 years left if Oda doesnt decide to add more stuff in between and given Oda's track record, that's the most likely outcome. Dressrosa and WCI were longer than he intended.
 
#27
From Sandman

- Editor Naito feels the popularity of OP is becoming much larger worldwide. For example, many French fans sang the song “We Are!” in a theater on the release date of Stampede. Chinese fan’s enthusiasm was so great that he has never seen.

- When Naito and another editor watched Stampede for the first time, they burst out crying since the film was awesome. In contrast, Oda was very cool after watching the screening. Oda said, “This film is the best OP film so far. However, final stages of my manga will be much more interesting.”

- Anime staffs consulted Oda several times regarding Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale.

- All successive OP editors had already heard from Oda about the spellings and meanings of Laugh Tale. Nato says it means important settings including Laugh Tale have never changed for these 20 years.

- According to Oda, Wano arc is a story which is heavily related to the final chapter of OP.
Naito says this flashbacks of Wano will handle the legendary adventure of Roger. Wano is the most important arc that will be related to the biggest secret about “What is ONE PIECE (as a treasure)?”

- The interviewer is shocked to hear those words and asks Naito if it would be OK to publish this interview on the internet. Naito replies that Oda already approved those words.

- Naito honestly says Wano is such an important arc that fans who already stopped reading OP should come back.

- Naito says it’d be disappointing if former fans get to know big news such as “Someone died!” “OP as a treasure turned out to be…!!” through SNS (Twitter, Facebook etc).

- Naito can’t help doubting that OP will end in 5 years from what he heard from Oda about future stories... But at the same time, he says now that Oda himself said it with certainty, he believes Oda will finish OP in 5 years. Naito feels the pacing in Wano arc is so rushed that OP can finish in 5 years.

(note: Oda said he would like to finish OP in 5 years in the interview with Japanese YouTubers in August, 2019.)

BTW, this pic below is a small spoiler about how many pages next chapter (963) will contain.

 
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