User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 810: Crucify and Chill/@comment-3075024-20151218024519/@comment-53507-20151218045454

"The whole world will be thrown into turmoil in the final arc." Asahi Evening Newspaper (26 November 1999)

Oda had already thought this up way back in 1999, just before the Game of Thrones took the world by force. He stated that in the final arc, the world is going to be thrown into chaos. And I was starting to worry that Oda would not make the New World a dark survival story