A quarter of the year has passed in 2025, and the One Piece manga has been on a roll with the Elbaf arc, which took us to the home of the giants and introduced the God’s Knights. However, what all of you are here to know is whether the One Piece manga will end in 2025.
If you are active on social media platforms, then chances are high that you might have come across the rumor that the One Piece manga is ending in 2025. So, everyone in the One Piece community is concerned about whether the creator, Eiichiro Oda, plans to end his magnum opus within this year. While we do not have any recent statements from Oda, we do have a definite answer for you. So, let us find out if the One Piece manga will end in 2025 or not.
Eiichiro Oda’s Statements About When One Piece Will End
Eiichiro Oda has officially confirmed that we’ve entered the final saga of the One Piece manga starting with the Egghead arc. While this arc is still ongoing in the anime, the Elbaf arc is underway in the manga right now. We are yet to visit Laugh Tale to find the One Piece. So, fans who have been following the manga for years are aware that Oda needs a lot more time than a single year to wrap up his epic tale.
Hence, if you are wondering where this news of One Piece ending in 2025 stems from, it is from the creator’s statement back in 2019 and 2020. In an interview with Fischer in 2019, Oda revealed that he wants to wrap up the manga in 5 years. Even his former editor, Takuma Naito, reaffirmed Oda’s statement, saying, “If Oda says it will be 5 years, then it will surely end in five years.”
Oda didn’t stop there; in 2020, he stated twice that the One Piece manga has only 4-5 years left in an interview with Arashi TV and SBS Volume 97. These statements from the creator clearly made it seem like the One Piece series is nearing its finish line, but let’s take a look at the current state of the manga.
Is the One Piece Manga Ending in 2025?
The creator already warned fans in 2025 that the One Piece manga would end by 2025. However, I would like you to remember that Oda’s predictions have been a hit or miss (more miss than hit) most of the time.
If you take a look at the creator’s interview, he had plans to end the One Piece series by 2002 and 2022 as well. But his story and characters often take control of the author, resulting in unforeseen expansion of the tale. Therefore, we are 100% sure that the One Piece manga won’t end this year, i.e. in 2025.
Oda has just started to unravel the mysteries of the Giants, especially Loki, and is busy laying the foundation for the huge final war with the introduction of the God’s Knights and Shanks’ twin. Of course, the creator cannot possibly tie up all the plot points and shed light on the unanswered One Piece mysteries he has carefully built all this time in just a single year.
It’s been only six months since the start of the Elbaf arc, and it is expected to span over nearly two years, like the Egghead arc. After the Straw Hat Pirates leave Elbaf island, they still have two more islands to visit, which are the Lodestar Island and Laugh Tale. Along with the final war, there is a total of three arcs left to be explored in the future.
If you are worried about One Piece concluding later this year, fret not, my friend. We still have a long way to go. In the meantime, let us know your thoughts on the Elbaf arc ongoing in the One Piece manga right now.
Ajith Kumar
