Oda might be trying to end it but
Jump has axed so much shit that any other magazine would have loved to have because it never reached their ridiculous standards of success so it's their own fault they are in this situation where a lot of new series are worse than things they have axed in the past.
Excuse me, what? Whaddya mean Oda didn't plan Elbaph and make it its own arc, literally makes no sense when it was first namedropped back in Little Garden 25 years ago when he had a different editor altogether.
I would go so far as to say Elbaf (none of this Viz translation “ph” horseshit) is what Oda wanted to write before he even wanted to write One Piece, since Vicky the Viking is what inspired him to tell adventure stories in the first place.
Oda’s breaks have been pretty consistently 1 out of every four issues or so, with larger breaks to figure out the time skip and the Throne War. I think we’re well past Oda adding elements that would impact the length of the series like the Shichibukai or Supernovas did. I also don’t think the actual war will take as long as Wano did, since a lot of the setup Wano had to do all at once is being carried by these current arcs. 2030 is generous; I used to believe 2027 to coincide with the 30yr anniversary, but that was before Egghead island took a year.
Fuck I’m getting old. I can remember when Chopper felt like a latecomer for being from the Grand Line and being the first new crew member with a Devil Fruit.
The rumor started because some Japanese celebrity jump hires as a presenter for official OP events mentioned that Oda only planned for the strawhats to go to Elbaf sometime in 2022-2023 (this would of been the start of egghead) and based on interviews from before egghead started, Oda was hinting that the next arc was gonna be the last (granted Oda has always been shit at guessing when One Piece will end).
Honestly it really did feel like Elbaf was right after Wano, though I wouldn't doubt some people back in the day thought the Straw Hats would go straight to Alabasta from Little Garden instead of diverging to Drum Island. There's a lot of smaller arcs that it's really not surprising Elbaf was held off a little bit longer than planned. Egghead being as long as it is just wasn't expected.
It's gotten that bad? And I see that the protagonist is another jewfro kike.
It's clear that Watanabe thinks he's making this inciteful social commentary on topics ranging from the opiod crisis, to climate change, soley because those things are vaguely alluded to in some of the exposition . Im probably not going to watch the rest of the show, but I guarantee that's what it will all be about at the end of it.
Even Watanabe's boxing anime fell off because of how much the plot veered wildly off kilter. Ask someone who still remembers Megalo Box. You'll have an easier time with Hajime no Ippo still being memorable because at least the protagonist is better developed.
They all are cheap copies of Ashita no Joe anyway.
So? There is beauty and charm in simplicity (not that Megalo Box and Hajime no Ippo are complex stories to begin with).
Watanabe wasn't involved with megalobox, some guy named Yo Moriyama directed it.
What happens if Oda dies and OP isn't done yet? Because that's what looks like, they are trying to create a Detective Conan-style anime where the story never moves forward so that it can be exploited endlessly.
At the end of the absolute shit that was Wano the secrets surrounding the world have started to come out and the various groups are all moving and doing things.
