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Summer slowly heads to a close as we enter Fall and I begin to unwind after a lot of hard work across this year, but I've still got time to answer any and all questions you may have! Fire away!

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Anonymous

Simple Question i am sure we all thought about. What do you think will happen at Chapter 1000?

Anonymous

With the battle underway fukurokuju looks to have walked away. Think he's getting his Master?

thelibraryofohara

I've been thinking about Chapter 1000 for... years honestly. It's such a massive landmark that I've always felt Oda would do something big. And it does seem to be the case, because his recent chapters almost feel like they're building to some sort of climax, and the official OP account has even been hyping this up, doing a countdown to the chapter! Last time I recall them doing so was for Stampede so this is a big deal for them. I think in terms of results it can end one of three ways: either a) it's jut another chapter like any other and has nothing special and the celebrations were just for the milestone alone, b) it's an amazingly exciting chapter because it's chapter 1000, but not exciting enough to really be groundbreaking or c) Oda does it again and breaks the community in half. Personally I would love for him to do the latter, I get a feeling it might be option b, but god would I be so happy if he went with c. Imagine a chapter on the scale of something like Chapter 967, what a celebration of Chapter 1000 that would be! As for what will actually happen, that's hard to say, but I think generally we have two options: either a) it's entered around Onigashima, leading to a big climax in Onigashima or b) it's centered around the Reverie during an interlude. Imagine if Oda builds to a big epic moment in Onigashima, ends Act 3, and then goes back to the Reverie to showcase something so insane that it blows away the whole community and sets the stage for the endgame. There's even evidence to motivate this, in Jump Festa 2020 Oda mentioned that in this year we would be having a return to the Reverie in an interlude again and that we would see/hear about Sabo, Vivi, and Hancock, so (while it could be delayed because Oda is Oda) the timing just seems to line up! Really excited to see what that will result into. One Imu reveal please!

thelibraryofohara

Bit of a simple answer but... yeah, pretty much. I don't really think there's anything else he could be doing. I mean what other reason would he have to move somewhere if not for Orochi. After all, most people don't really expect Orochi to be dead, so it makes sense to lead into that. It's the perfect opportunity with all this chaos because none of the commanders of the Beasts Pirates would probably be paying attention. Plus, Fukurokuju did legitimately look distraught about Orochi dying, but I do wonder if he really is loyal enough to side with him over Kaido, considering how he backstabbed the Kouzuki clan when Orochi came into power. Though maybe that was because of Orochi and an allegiance to the Kurozumi all along or something. I do find it interesting that Hotei did notice him however. It makes me wonder if he'll actually join him to regroup with Orochi or if he'll betray Fukurokuju or something. If they do get Orochi back, I'm interested to think how the tides of battle will shift. Will the 10,000 of Orochi's men start fighting the Beasts Pirates? Is it going to be an all-out war between different factions? Was Kaido aware that he did not kill Orochi? I'm interested in all of these things