Eiichiro Oda Officially Reveals A Big Part Of One Piece’s Ending

One Piece is the world’s biggest manga ever, and its popularity has only soared over the last few years. Naturally, fans adore the story that they’ve been following for the past few years to bits, and as such, every single piece of information that they get about Oda excites them. This is precisely why the recent Eiichiro Oda interview, which was revealed to the fans just yesterday, got everyone extremely excited. Fans got a ton of new information on Oda’s personal life and at the same time, One Piece as well.

Specifically, Oda talked about Romance Dawn, One Piece’s blueprint, and revealed how he wanted his story to start and end. This might seem like a small, irrelevant detail, but this could actually be a major hint towards One Piece’s ending and the fate of the Straw Hat Pirates.

Oda Reveals a Huge Detail About One Piece’s Ending

• The Story of One Piece Will End On The Ship
• Oda Hints That The Straw Hat Pirates Will All Survive and Stick Together at the End

Eiichiro Oda recently had a major interview. Many fans were anticipating it, and it definitely didn’t disappoint. The majority of the interview focused on Oda’s life and his beginnings to life as a mangaka, to the point he became a full-fledged mangaka. But throughout all of this, Oda also sprinkled some interesting information that could reveal a lot about One Piece’s ending.

Oda already knows how he wants to end One Piece. Oda had planned this long ago, and he probably already had a major idea of how his series would turn out since his Romance Dawn one-shot. Romance Dawn is One Piece’s blueprint, as many fans know, and the series they know today is heavily based on it.

Oda revealed in this interview that he didn’t have much time to develop the story when he submitted his one-shot at first, but he did know one thing, and that’s that the story would begin and end on a ship.

“I finally unleashed my secret weapon: a pirate manga, and drew Romance Dawn (Ver. 1). Two years later, it was published in another special issue (1996 Summer Special) and ranked third in the reader survey. […] It gave me confidence, and I believe that recognition is what paved the way for my chance to be published in the main section of Jump. It was a harsh opportunity: ‘A spot opened up for a 45-page one-shot, so if you can draw it from scratch in two weeks, we will publish it.’ But I immediately said, ‘I’ll do it!’ Of course, I had my assistants help me out, and we worked like crazy for two weeks. That became another version of Romance Dawn (Ver. 2). Since there was no time to carefully develop a grand story, I decided from the start to make it a story that begins and ends solely on a ship.” — Eiichiro Oda

Some might think this has no impact on One Piece, but fans need to look at it beyond just the surface level. Oda has already planned the last panels of the story, and now, he’s told the fans that he plans for One Piece to end on a ship. This would be an amazing way to conclude it. This would hint at the story ending on the Sunny with all the Straw Hat Pirates sticking together and not disbanding, like many fans think they might. It would also seem to imply that there will be no Straw Hat deaths, which is great.

When Will One Piece End?

One Piece Could Go On For 10 More Years

One Piece has been ongoing for almost three decades now, and the story did indeed enter its Final Saga over two years ago with the Egghead Island arc. However, even though the story is indeed in its final saga, that doesn’t mean One Piece is ending anytime soon. Oda still has a lot to explore and reveal in One Piece, and with all the breaks he has been taking recently, it wouldn’t be surprising if One Piece still has 10 years or more to go. The ending of One Piece is still far away.

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)