- Finishing Wano (how long will it take)
- Rest of the Journey (will Oda shortchange the journey or properly have them find the 4th RP and reach Lodestar?)
- Laugh Tale (will Luffy find everything out before the final war? If so that makes the story even longer)
- Final War (how big will it be? When will Oda begin to escalate it? Will Luffy become involved right away? Will it start earlier between future arcs? Will Luffy join after becoming PK and finding One Piece?)
- Rest of the Journey (will Oda shortchange the journey or properly have them find the 4th RP and reach Lodestar?)
- Laugh Tale (will Luffy find everything out before the final war? If so that makes the story even longer)
- Final War (how big will it be? When will Oda begin to escalate it? Will Luffy become involved right away? Will it start earlier between future arcs? Will Luffy join after becoming PK and finding One Piece?)
- Finishing Wano will take another year and more (15-30-60-30-15 pattern still can happen).
- Rest of the journey will follow with a Zou-like island right after Wano, something refreshing with a lot of info thrown in (which combined with the post-war infos will make the story go a good step ahead).
My opinion: SHs visit the island Ace and WB were buried, Marco and Weevil will have big roles here. This will give the setup with the Shanks-Blackbeard saga (just like Kaido-Linlin up to now, yeah I think Linlin will fall in this war). Marco will 'officially retire' after this and Weevil will finally have a proper role.
Later, we gonna reach Elbaf. Main characters SH aside? Urouge, Enel return, Loki. We're gonna have some real focus on Shanks and RHP either them being on the island too and having a real confrontation with the SHs on the island too or indirectl), Usopp developement.
My opinion: Thanks to Urouge we gonna get deeper into BB Pirates too even without them being there, Urouge will be a great character with huge character insight. Vegapunk could be at least nominated here, we'll get more info about him thanks to the giants. High chances of Road Poneglyph being here.
Then, an Hachinosu/something else arc (WCI style, sort of a bite-and-run) in which we finally clash with the BB Pirates. Moria will be an important character and Crocodile will have his reintroduction together with Das Bornes. Is the most "vague" in my mind so not gonna dig into it.
At "last" comes Lodestar, here a lot of shit will go down with a last proper confrontation between Luffy and Kidd, huge focus on Nami, Shanks will fall under Blackbeard at the same time. This will reduce the competitors from 4 to 2, both will straight go to Laugh Tale.
My opinion: Strawhats vs Kidd Pirates will be the real thing, I think we'll see some of the best fights in the manga. While Luffy vs Kidd will be a battle for who goes ahead, Teach vs Shanks will be Shanks attempt to reach Laugh Tale but failing. Two different kind of battles.
- Laugh Tale will be obviously the One Piece arc. Last pirate confrontation between SHs and BBP. Our boys will win, find the One Piece and learn the truth. Triggering the whole word.
My opinion: Lot of focus on all the SHs but particular attention on Luffy (obvious reasons) and Robin since from this moment her role really assumes heavy weight. The biggest info boost of the whole story. Huge step ahead for the end.
- Final war... longest arc in the story, heavy focus on the Revolutionaries with Dragon and Sabo. Vegapunk will be revealed too (I think that he's allied with the Revos), SWORD, WG, Navy, CP0. We'll basically be out of the 'pirate game', big pirates will still be fundamental in it.
My opinion: Will break 200 chapters, it will really close the deals and give an ending. It's useless to say anything else cause it's so faraway...
- Real ending, the closure of each SHs path and, in general, of the whole OP world. Will not be long and still be satisfying as hell.
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