I want to write a letter to him asking if you can survive eating two devil fruits if you eat one then eat Brook's fruit after that one but I know he'd pass it up for a question about whether or not Lilith was wearing a bra during Egghead
Exactly.
He's a horny trolling evasive bait loving egotistical man-child.
He hates people predicting his story and will change it if they do (exposes his multiple plagiarisms) so he keeps throwing out breadcrumbs as a distraction and trying to change the topic or run away.
Given how much be loves to milk the story despite promising for over a decade that it's near the end/5 years or now 3 years left, he keeps adding tons of new characters, mysteries, fillers, distractions etc.
We won't get any real answers until the story is over and even then it will probably be in SBS/vivre cards/novels etc mostly at this point.
I've had 20 plus years of "being patient", 27 freaking years long this story is too. The longest running story in shonen jump and thus manga is 40 years old (kochikame IIRC). I'm certain Oda's ego won't let him stop until he surpasses that and has the longest and biggest PP I mean OP manga in the end.
Ironically jojo is still going 40 years after it started and so is the Dragonball series, but unfortunately we lost Toriyama now ofc so the series can never truly be finished and thus end anymore either. Not on his terms, by his hand especially ofc.
But yeah if Oda ends OP in the next few years, he will be outlasted by Jojo which started it's NINTH part this year or last year maybe and part 8 took 10 years to finish with its monthly schedule and has a r7dhed, forced ending too
Part 9 will probably be another 6-7 years minimum (that's only 66--77 chapters at most as Araki takes a break once a year at best) so probably more than 6-7 years too actually? 8-9 years minimum? Idk. Depends how concise the story is, part 8 had tons of issues with pacing and part 7 did too.
It would be hilarious if one piece ends whilst jojo is still going and we're just 4 balls deep in jojolands/part 9 still lmao.
BUT also bleach has yet to return and have its story truly finished. Kubo has 10 years of material left unused which he wanted for the final arc and beyond, some of it is being used in the TYBW anime and how its expanding and maybe even diverting from canon apparently (I heard it might not follow the mangas ending) and kubo said apparently he won't resume Bleach and thus do the immensely hyped and decades long awaited hell arc unless it's entirely on his terms and no editors breathing down his neck too.
Imagine if bleach came back but one piece was ending or had ended? Ultimate karmic, poetic irony? One Piece fans bullied and trolled bleach fans for over a decade amd still do, especially once bleach got axed and also when kubo needed that 6 week hiatus when he tore his tendons too.
Much like Kidd slander, us Bleach fans will get the most cathartic, vengeful laugh in the end. The phoenix will rise again.
Already experiencing it with admiral slander especially kizaru atm ofc!