The reaction and sheer volume of One Piece news was so overwhelming that prominent One Piece YouTuber Rogersbase held an “emergency livestream.” (I’ll link to it here, but be warned there are some spoilers, at least in the little bits I caught, for the end of Wano.
And, as I said at the top of this piece, everyone began freaking out. This caused a lot of buzz throughout the fan community, but there’s something about having a date. In his letter, he said he would use the time off, in part, to prepare for the final saga. Plus, in a Japanese newspaper advertisement last year, which celebrated One Piece‘s 1000th chapter, Oda warned more soberly than usual that the end was in sight.Ī day or two ago (time isn’t real), Oda announced that he would take off for one month after wrapping up the Wano arc. Wano feels like a propulsion to a conclusion. But the tenor of these “warnings” has changed in the last year. One Piece is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and throughout those 25 years, Oda has changed the ending goal post enough times that Crunchyroll just published a whole piece about it. Oda has a sort of “boy who cried wolf” history with saying that One Piece is going to end. Even the new Oda-drawn poster for One Piece Red-which probably isn’t strict canon?-says, “Red hair leads to the finale.” A new promotional poster was also released (pictured above), which reads, “Saishuu shou e -.” This translates to, “Towards the final chapter.” And now I am actually crying. Just that name makes me want to cry a little bit. All of that was very exciting, to be sure.īut they saved some huge news for the end: the date of the beginning of the final saga, and a booklet of sketches from Oda called “The Road to Laugh Tale.” If you don’t know, Laugh Tale is the island where the One Piece is. The program doesn’t have English subtitles (yet?), but a decent roundup has been provided by fan-site Library of Ohara. Megumi Tanaka (the voice of Luffy and an international treasure) and Kappei Yamaguchi (the voice of Usopp) were among the presenters, and most of the news revolved around the upcoming film One Piece Red. On the evening of June 8th, Japan-time (it was like 7AM in the eastern U.S.), there was a livestreamed program on the official One Piece YouTube channel, which contained a ton of news. But that all hit very differently today, when it was officially announced that the final saga of One Piece would begin on July 25, 2022, with chapter 1054. Eiichiro Oda himself even announced a couple days ago that the final saga is coming. The end has clearly been coming into view. The scent of the sea breeze has been changing. Even for anime watchers like myself ( I’m in Dressrosa in the manga! I’m working on it!), Wano is clearly a crescendo point that all of One Piece has been building towards. Indeed, that is the state of One Piece internet today.
#ONE PIECE AUTHOR SERIES#
It says a lot about how beloved a series is when, after 25 years, the creator announces the final saga and everyone freaks the F out.
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