User blog comment:Ricizubi/How long will One Piece be?/@comment-2031609-20110619183123

I could see it lasting for a good while, maybe around the 1200 chapter mark. There are, indeed, a lot of things that still need to be explained, and I think it will ultimately be something that there will be fewer places visited, but more events and tying up loose ends. So rather than these 10-25 chapter long arcs like the Arlong Arc, Little Garden, Jaya, etc. we might get some more like Water 7/Enies Lobby, where Water 7 was 53 chapters and Enies Lobby was 56. So they'll go fewer places, but have more happen to them. Like one place would be a Yonkou territory and during that the Revolutionaries will be exposed a little more, or during a Marine fight, Roger's background may be revealed to an extent. And, if memory serves me, Oda said that he now has everything to complete One Piece. So there probably won't be anything else added, like there has been. It's a bad way of saying it, but essentially it's like Oda just has to cross off things in his to-do list and tie up the loose ends now.