After 25 years of existence and 490 million copies sold worldwide, the manga phenomenon One piece is entering its final stages, its author, Japanese Eiichiro Oda, announced on Tuesday.
The manga, whose plot recently focused on the Wano saga centered on feudal Japan, will stop for a month starting at the end of June and resume on July 25th.
New pages are usually published every Monday in Japan on the popular manga weekly Shonen Jump from Shueisha publisher.
I want to rearrange the structure [de One Piece] to complete the last chapter as soon as possible. So … Forgive me, but let me rest first to prepare everything! Eiichiro Oda explained in a handwritten message posted on the manga team’s official Twitter account.
We have the information in a few weeks, but we are waiting for it to be official on the Japanese side.confirmed to Agence France-Presse Glénat, the publisher of the series in France, the second largest manga market in the world.
A longevity record for Oda
Since volume 1 was published in 1997 in Japan, the search for One piecea treasure sought after by all pirates and first of all, Monkey D. Luffy, hero of the series, now has over 100 volumes and 1000 chapters to his credit.
The adventures of the straw hat pirate do not cease to fascinate around the world: the manga has also established itself as one of the most popular animated series in the world.
Eiichiro Oda, 47, even received a mention in Guinness Book of Records in the category of maximum number of copies of the same comic published by one author.
The streaming platform Netflix, which is preparing for the upcoming release of a series adapted from the universe of One piecebroadcast on Monday the first photos of its live-action adaptation (living action), without disclosing the release date.
France Media Agency
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Source: Radio-Canada
