Questions & Mysteries The end really feels close now

[OykotsTreasure]

Honestly? The moment that made me think "Oda's really serious about ending this now!" actually didn't come from the manga. It was when he revealed that he dropped the real-life One Piece into the ocean. That's what felt like Oda mentally preparing himself to say goodbye to this story, to me, anyway. That feels like something you do when you're in the final stretch of a long journey.

Although, if you want a moment from the manga...just think about how many members of the "Silhouette Tribe" that Oda's revealed in this arc alone. When you really take a step back and think about it, he's revealed a LOT of the longtime mystery characters he's been teasing for YEARS!
https://worstgen.alwaysdata.net/forum/threads/silhouette-piece-never-ends.59710/page-3#post-5615964

Imu, Gunko, Shamrock, Scopper, Rocks, Loki, Franky's dad, most of the God's Knights...Oda's been revealing face after face after face, lately!

I mean, at this point, the only ones left are: Nika, Davy Jones, Joyboy, Binks, The Man Marked By Flames, Roger's Giant Mystery Egg, actual names for a lot of the God Valley God's Knights, the First Twenty, Imu's new(?) Intern, and MAYBE Big New's Morgan's Human form, if you want to count that. And most of those characters are going to be Void Century Flashback characters!

At this point, the "Silhouette Tribe" is slowly going extinct! Oda's finally introducing characters that he's teased for years, and it just kind of adds to the feeling that we're finishing things up, rather than expanding them.

I'm sure we'll get TONS of new characters introduced in the eventual Void Century Flashback. The First Twenty alone will take up a huge slot of new designs. But, we really are in the "crossing the T's and dotting the i's" phase of this manga, now.

 

[Welkin]

The SH not having that last road poneglyph still give me hope we are at least a little far from the end.

Cuz they need first to find the man marked by flames, somehow obtain the poneglyph... reaching Laughtale, Void Century flashback... and the final war.

And by Final War it could mean = 3+ years as any anime. Imagine an anime with so many characters like One Piece, that Final War is going to last a couple lf years for sure.

I say this is unlikely only because there’s a very real chance the man with the burn scar IS Gaban

If that’s the case then right after this arc the Strawhats will have access to the final road Poneglyph

Now that doesn’t necessarily mean the story is ending right then and there. When we get to Laugh Tale (assuming there isn’t an arc where battles FOR the One Piece take place) then we’ll spend at least 1-2 years on the Void Century flashback

Then the final war will likely stretch on for a few years minimum. I’d be very surprised if it was shorter than Onigashima

 

[Monkey D Theories]

Shueisha won’t ever let their cash cow die.

even once the main series ends, we will get “Two Piece”.

 

[Paperchampion23]

Oda spent the first 50 chapters of Wano introducing a fuck ton of new side characters.I honestly don’t think Oda is gonna introduce anymore significant players outside the Burn Scar man. What we see is what we get. Unless you have some ideas.

And maybe I’m underestimating Oda but I highly doubt he’s gonna be dedicating a full chapter on irrelevant bums like Kinemon. Even in Wano he had Denjiro dissapear for like 50 chapters before getting his single moment on Orochi.

200 chapters is like the bare minimum though if he wants to cover almost everything. If it ends up a bit longer (~250 chapters) that’s perfectly fine by me. But I honestly think Oda is trying to retire before his 60s lol.

It's less spending time on Wano citizens and more spending multiple chapters on unleashing Pluton for example. Stuff like that exists all over the series. Less character driven and more plot

 

[Paperchampion23]

I say this is unlikely only because there’s a very real chance the man with the burn scar IS Gaban

If that’s the case then right after this arc the Strawhats will have access to the final road Poneglyph

Now that doesn’t necessarily mean the story is ending right then and there. When we get to Laugh Tale (assuming there isn’t an arc where battles FOR the One Piece take place) then we’ll spend at least 1-2 years on the Void Century flashback

Then the final war will likely stretch on for a few years minimum. I’d be very surprised if it was shorter than Onigashima

Even then, IF Gaban is that person, they will be attacked before they get there. The other Yonko and Marines will act as roadblocks to that point.

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

This last chapter gave me a real ending vibe.

Not because something huge happened alone, but because the whole chapter felt like Oda was speaking directly to us: “I’m not joking anymore, the end is near.” The tone, the way certain moments were framed, and that feeling that every scene now truly matters made it hit different.

For the first time in a while, it feels like we’re not just building toward another arc mystery, but toward the actual final stretch of the story. Almost like Oda wants readers to feel that sense of “this is it.”

Did anyone else get that feeling from this chapter?

What moment made you feel the most that we’re entering the endgame now?

Nah we have 3 years left.

 

[Wh1p]

I always believed that One Piece is written to reach Chapter 1300, no idea though whether it's rushed before it or continues little more past it,
For someone who wanted to finish East Blue Saga in exactly 100 Chapters, I'm sure He intends to End it in similar fashion,
I think Chapter 1200 will make it evident that We are in last 100.

Why 1300 specifically? I am also of the opinion that OP will be wrapping up faster than people imagine. 120-200 chapters at most. I do think many fans will be disappointed, since they have already visualized many more battles for our protagonists that just won't happen (i.e a fight against an admiral, gorosei, and blackbeard pirate). I think most characters only have 1 good fight left, I think many less important fights will be highlight reels, and I think only a few characters are going to have more than one 1v1 fight in this saga.

 

[FutureWarrior123]

It's less spending time on Wano citizens and more spending multiple chapters on unleashing Pluton for example. Stuff like that exists all over the series. Less character driven and more plot

True. I think it’s hard to predict how Oda is gonna pace things out from hereon. He could find a way to having several plot threads interconnect with each other. Like he did with having God Valley be the origin stories of several important figures like Dragon/Shanks/BB, instead of separate flashbacks.

 

[Paperchampion23]

Why 1300 specifically? I am also of the opinion that OP will be wrapping up faster than people imagine. 120-200 chapters at most. I do think many fans will be disappointed, since they have already visualized many more battles for our protagonists that just won't happen (i.e a fight against an admiral, gorosei, and blackbeard pirate). I think most characters only have 1 good fight left, I think many less important fights will be highlight reels, and I think only a few characters are going to have more than one 1v1 fight in this saga.

I think a lot of that is given. Outside of Luffy, Sanji, Zoro and Kid/Law together, virtually anyone else in Wano took part in often placement chapters to get them to their fights and then they proceeded to win within a chapter.

I think, fundamentally, theres at least an obligation to show us a characters endgame in the story (be it death, loss, or victory in battle). Even if thats a few pages or a chapter a most, its warranted. The issue is for Wano this took 85 chapters of pure battling. The endgame has 10x the characters. Im not expecting 800 chapters more obviously lol, but its going to be longer than 100 post Elbaph.

 

[Paperchampion23]

I always believed that One Piece is written to reach Chapter 1300, no idea though whether it's rushed before it or continues little more past it,
For someone who wanted to finish East Blue Saga in exactly 100 Chapters, I'm sure He intends to End it in similar fashion,
I think Chapter 1200 will make it evident that We are in last 100.

Didnt he want East Blue to last a year, grand line 3, and final arc another year? It took him 2 years for East Blue and he's...like 26 years over his GL estimate lol.

Series is going way past 1300 chapters at this rate. The final arc will eclipse original expectations and length because he has 26 years of characters and storylines to wrap up. Elbaph wont end before 1200 either.

 

[Wh1p]

I think a lot of that is given. Outside of Luffy, Sanji, Zoro and Kid/Law together, virtually anyone else in Wano took part in often placement chapters to get them to their fights and then they proceeded to win within a chapter.

I think, fundamentally, theres at least an obligation to show us a characters endgame in the story (be it death, loss, or victory in battle). Even if thats a few pages or a chapter a most, its warranted. The issue is for Wano this took 85 chapters of pure battling. The endgame has 10x the characters. Im not expecting 800 chapters more obviously lol, but its going to be longer than 100 post Elbaph.

I think that Oda is going to gloss over a lot of the non-straw hat fights. and i think even Sanji may only have 1 fight left. Fans are gonna be disappointed.

 

[Paperchampion23]

I think that Oda is going to gloss over a lot of the non-straw hat fights. and i think even Sanji may only have 1 fight left. Fans are gonna be disappointed.

He will and he wont. Same as Kid and Law getting multiple chapters for Big Mom. It depends on how big the character is and how much Oda himself wants to draw it.

 

[HerreraIsBack]

Bruh... This doesn't feel anywhere close to the end. 10 years more of One Piece is what this feels like. We still have at least Lodestar Arc, Laugh Tale Arc, Mariejoia Arc.

 

[Juanpiz]

Bruh... This doesn't feel anywhere close to the end. 10 years more of One Piece is what this feels like. We still have at least Lodestar Arc, Laugh Tale Arc, Mariejoia Arc.

Flashbacks..,Maybe Look at strawhats when they got older..

 

[Paragorn]

Bruh... This doesn't feel anywhere close to the end. 10 years more of One Piece is what this feels like. We still have at least Lodestar Arc, Laugh Tale Arc, Mariejoia Arc.

It's kinda ironic reading this from the guy who claimed Elbaf arc wouldn't happen lol.

Imagine saying we ain't anywhere close to ending, even after Vegapunk reveal, Xebec reveal, and even Imu reveal. Extremely important characters who years ago, we thought they would only get revealed when the series reaches it end.

 

[Paperchampion23]

It's kinda ironic reading this from the guy who claimed Elbaf arc wouldn't happen lol.

Imagine saying we ain't anywhere close to ending, even after Vegapunk reveal, Xebec reveal, and even Imu reveal. Extremely important characters who years ago, we thought they would only get revealed when the series reaches it end.

As much as I like to rag on him for that, I just think to his point its one thing to introduce a bunch of hidden characters and be almost finished with that, but its another to utilize them effectively until they are gone.

Take Kaido. Teased about 400 chapters before he was shown. It takes another 250 chapters for him to actually lose.

It took Imu 300 chapters just to get an intro box, but the issue is Imu still has to share screentime inevitable with Yonko, Admirals, Gorosei Revolutionaries, etc. going forward.

Idk how Oda will reasonably do it all in good time. Maybe it wont be done well. Maybe it just keeps going for another decade and a half until its done and he draws everything he wants. Who honestly knows at this point.

 

[ShinichiMugi]

In part its true,but a big death would make this even more true

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

Why 1300 specifically? I am also of the opinion that OP will be wrapping up faster than people imagine. 120-200 chapters at most. I do think many fans will be disappointed, since they have already visualized many more battles for our protagonists that just won't happen (i.e a fight against an admiral, gorosei, and blackbeard pirate). I think most characters only have 1 good fight left, I think many less important fights will be highlight reels, and I think only a few characters are going to have more than one 1v1 fight in this saga.

Nope.
2037.

 

[gz89]

The only way the series will end in the next 150 chapters (5-6 years) is if Oda decides to do it with battle royal style and throw all the Emperors and the Navy into battle at once to get the OP.

As long as we continue to follow the SHs from island to island, meet countless new characters, numerous flashbacks etc etc, the story will continue until he dies.

There's no way he could wrap up the series with all these stuff left in less than 10 years without completely screwing it up.

 

[HerreraIsBack]

It's kinda ironic reading this from the guy who claimed Elbaf arc wouldn't happen lol.

Imagine saying we ain't anywhere close to ending, even after Vegapunk reveal, Xebec reveal, and even Imu reveal. Extremely important characters who years ago, we thought they would only get revealed when the series reaches it end.

We knew from them long time ago. Is no big deal. We only got their powers and designs revealed. Still no big deal.

We know all that about Teach. Still is not his arc yet. And we don't know a single named attack from Mihawk yet. Will he be final villain for that?