In an announcement for the next volume 10 of One Piece Magazine on September 4, this year's 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump provoked on Monday that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga is "heading for the next final arc" . The announcement gave no further details.
The announcement made reference, as the 10th volume of One Piece Magazine will focus on a theme of re-reading the manga to "prepare for the climax" .
The magazine's tenth volume will also begin Boichi's adaptation of the One Piece: Ace's Story novels.
Oda reported in a YouTube video posted in September 2019 that "wants to finish [the One Piece story] in five years" .
While still in high school, Oda was runner-up to the Tezuka Award for new creators of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1992. He started serializing the One Piece manga on Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump on July 19, 1997. In April, the manga had 390 million copies printed in Japan and 80 million copies printed in more than 42 other countries and territories, totaling more of 470 million printed copies worldwide. The manga won the 41st Japan Cartoonist Awards in 2012 and set a Guinness world record in 2015 for "the largest number of copies published for the same comic series by a single author" .
And do you really think that One Piece is about to end, or that it was a translation/interpretation error and that the text refers to the climax of the Wano Country Arch?