Yup. I'd provide sourcing but APForums is unfortunately down again for the 100th time in the last 5 years.
Hes effectively said this:
- Skypiea is halfway
- Water 7 is about halfway
- Fishman Island is 60%
- Punk Hazard is 65%
- Dressrosa is 70%
- During DR, he went back down to 65% lmao
- After WCI, he jumped back up to 80%
- During Wano, gave the 5 years left comments...2 years in a row.
Now, admittedly there is certainly some sort of trend or consistency here. While they are grossly wrong, clearly the percentage count has in fact gone up decently between FI and Wano.
However, there's also grounds to argue Oda's language. Everytime he's asked this question, he ALWAYS says in reference to Luffy's Journey and the actual plot, not literal time:
This especially was a hot topic last year when Oda mentioned in Volume 97's SBS that 5 years left specifically was referring to the end of Luffy's Journey to "becoming PK". He avoided saying it was the end of the manga, even though the question directly asked if the manga was ending in 5 years.
This means, there is complete grounds to argue that all this means is Luffy's Journey (road to Laugh Tale, PK, etc) will end in 5 years, and the "Great War" will span any number of years after this.
Currently all speculation, but even when you take into account how horribly long Wano is and it barely covers like 5% of the actual remaining important plot in the series...you start to question how "5 years left" is even possible when we are going to be stuck in Wano for at least another year and change.