He began serializing the One Piece manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump manga on July 19, 1997.
In an interview that Oricon News published on Thursday, One Piece manga editor Takuma Naitō reaffirmed the manga creator Eiichiro Oda’s September statement about wanting “to end [the One Piece story] in five years.”
Still, Natiō assured fans that “if Oda says it will be five years, then it will surely end in five years.”
Natiō acknowledged that just going by what Oda told him about the manga’s upcoming developments, Natiō was uncertain about finishing everything in five years.