“One Piece”, one of the most famous manga in the world, arrives at its chapter 1.000, its volume 100 ... and soon the end?

-

1997 Eiichiro Oda / SHUEISHA

  • One Piece

    1,000th Chapter Released

    Sunday, With Volume 100 Coming In 2021

  • The manga remains the best-selling of all time, but the

    Demon Slayer

    phenomenon is

    sweeping its path

  • Author Eiichiro Oda promises the end soon, in four or five, the announced end of an era and a model.

He's there.

Finally, he will be there on Monday in the first 2021 issue of

Weekly Shônen Jump

magazine

in Japan, and from Sunday on their international Manga Plus service, in English.

Who ?

Chapter 1.000 (!) Of

One Piece

, one of the most famous shônen with

Dragon Ball

and

Naruto

, and still the best-selling manga of all time.

This chapter is eagerly awaited by fans, necessarily, because the story reaches a peak (the clash against Emperors Big Mom and Kaido), and because it prepares the sequel, the year 2021 with the publication of the volume. 100 (!!), and maybe also… the end?

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Jump Fest online!


Here is a translation of Oda-san's message that was posted on the super stage on this occasion!



The 1000th chapter is near, get ready! # ONEPIECE1000LOGS pic.twitter.com/WjfcgxgUZl

- ONE PIECE ス タ ッ フ 【公式】 (@Eiichiro_Staff) December 27, 2020

The party in 2021 and the end in… 2026?

As its author Eiichiro Oda teased during the recent Jump Fest and like the 1000 logs countdown, “all kinds of projects are underway to celebrate the 1,000th chapter, expect some fun to begin with. next year 2021. The 100th volume is also being prepared in 2021, we are heading towards a year of thunder ”.

Impossible not to think of an announcement around the live adaptation of Netflix, or another animated film.

But all keep in mind the possible end of the manga.

Oda has been talking about it for several years, and has put it back: "Is this famous character going to finally move?"

This man with red hair… The story gets carried away as the end draws near.

"

He is of course talking about Shanks (the real ones know), who should play an important role in the end of the Four Emperors Saga (but not necessarily in chapter 1.000) and the end of the manga.

The end of One Piece really should not disappoint because unlike those of Naruto and Bleach for example it is much more important and teased in the narration.

Solve all the mysteries and do it well, that's your mission Oda, if it messes up I'm going to get mad.

pic.twitter.com/5lnBEx7inp

- Asodiᶠᶜ ᵈᵇ 🐉 (@ Asodi_23) December 31, 2020

Eiichiro Oda kills himself in the job

This end is not for now, the mangaka expects four or five years, but nothing is less certain.

With its soon 100 volumes,

One Piece

goes to the other side, the side of very long manga, perhaps too long for their own good.

As Satoko Inaba, editorial director of Glénat Manga, said, Eiichiro Oda eats, sleeps, lives

One Piece

 : "He sleeps three hours a night, has only taken two days of vacation in twenty years, has a house where he does not go. almost never, and only sees her children once a week.

he's already had to stop for a week, and has slowed down a bit, going from one volume every two months to every three months.

It happens that the publisher pushes its author, as in the 1990s, but there, it is he who pushes, it is his passion.

He originally planned for a total of 80 volumes, before going to 100 and now maybe 120 ”.

One Demon Slayer!

But above all,

One Piece

no longer reigns supreme over the manga.

7.7 million copies were sold in 2020 in Japan, against 8.2 million for

Kingdom

and… 82 million for Demon Slayer !!

Yes, the manga whose animated adaptation just overtook

Spirited Away

at the Japanese box office and became the biggest hit of all time.

The

Demon Slayer

phenomenon

is not about to end, even if the manga, it is finished after 23 volumes and could never catch up with the 470 million

One Piece

sold worldwide.

Unless there are new anime, which boost sales, or even derivative manga.

Still,

One Piece is

living its last hours, years, of glory hopefully, even as the shônen is making its small revolution, with a richer offer, shorter titles.

Leading publisher Shueisha has himself changed the way he builds and accompanies his hits (

Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family…

).

The

One Piece

model

, with more than 100 volumes, no longer exists.

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